Truth-Telling as an Educational Practice of the Self [Not available separately]

2019 ◽  
pp. 26-45
Keyword(s):  
Educational Practice ◽  
The Self ◽  
Truth Telling

scholarly journals Working the Self: Truth-Telling in the Practice of Alcoholics Anonymous

Human Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik Palm
Keyword(s):  
Alcoholics Anonymous ◽  
The Self ◽  
Twelve Step ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Twelve Step Programs ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Care Of Self

AbstractThis article interrogates twelve step practice within Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) from the perspective of Foucault’s later work on governance, truth-telling and subjectivity. Recent critical studies of addiction tend to view self-help cultures like that of AA and related twelve step programs as integral parts of contemporary power/knowledge complexes, and thus as agents of the modern “will to knowledge” that Foucault often engages with. In line with the widespread Foucauldian critique of governmentality, addiction self-help culture is thus conceived as one that primarily reproduces abstract, neoliberal norms on health and subjectivity. The argument put forward in this article aims to upset this framework attending to a number of features of twelve step practice that, arguably, bear striking resemblances to Foucault’s later discussions of ethics, care of self and truth-telling. In this, it is suggested that a close study of AA practices, might interrupt assumptions about contemporary addiction discourse and its relationship to issues of truth and power often reproduced in Foucauldian critiques.

‘To thine own self be true’: The perceived meanings and functions of political consistency

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-113
Author(s):  
Elie Friedman ◽  
Zohar Kampf
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
External World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Character Trait ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Political Talk ◽  
Spatiotemporal Coordination

AbstractBeing perceived as consistent is a crucial concern for political actors’ in their efforts to mobilize public opinion. This study comprises an analysis of the self-reflexive performance of consistency by Israeli politicians, focusing on the definitions and types of ‘consistency’ in political talk and their consequences. Through an analysis of 194 meta-discursive statements between 2006 and 2017, we illustrate that consistency constitutes a spatiotemporal coordination among cognitions, actions (words and deeds), and the external world, while also being viewed as potentially transforming political reality. Perceived as a sought-after value indicative of truth-telling, determination, and clarity, political actors view consistency as an essential character trait, associated with ideological fortitude, and a basis for practical policy realization. (Consistency, ideology, political discourse, meta-discourse)*

Retrospective of Presentations and Analysis of Experience in the Implementation of Pedagogical Support for Children's Self-Development in Supplementary Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Ирина Иванова ◽  
Irina Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
The Self ◽  
Supplementary Education ◽  
Pedagogical Training ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Category Comparison ◽  
History Of ◽  
Additional Education

The article is devoted to the study of the essence of pedagogical support for self-development of an individual as an independent scientific category, comparison of its morphology with other methods of interaction between teachers and pupils that are close by nature (upbringing, pedagogical support). Attention is focused on the fact that the history of pedagogical thought and educational practice, using the term "pedagogical support of children's self-development," mostly resorts to demonstrating the accumulated pedagogical experience of implementing various educational approaches in conditions of additional education, extra-curricular activity, children's camps and profile shifts, that gives grounds to conclude that additional education is an environment that is optimal for the implementation of the ideas of pedagogical training of the self-development of the maturing personality. The results of empirical study of the problem are presented.

2011 Triennial Surveillance Review - External Commentary - Surveillance by the International Monetary Fund

Policy Papers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (62) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
Associate Editor ◽  
The Self ◽  
Fiscal Policies ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Many ◽  
The International Monetary Fund ◽  
The Imf

Commentary prepared by Martin Wolf, Associate Editor & Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times, London: "With countries naturally reluctant to cede any control over their own monetary and fiscal policies, it is likely that the IMF will have as instruments only the powers of analysis, persuasion, and, in Keynes" own favourite words, "ruthless truth-telling". That phrase does not conjure up many memories of any of the many international meetings I have attended. But unless the IMF has the self-confidence to play that role, its deliberations and statements will carry little weight. The Fund requires an independent, respected and clear voice." Mervyn King, 2006.

Truth‐telling: The self and the fictions of humor

1988 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 193-199
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Rorison Caws
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Truth Telling

scholarly journals Truth Telling, Credibility, and the Story of the Self in the Diário de Navegação of Pero Lopes de Sousa

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 159-182
Author(s):  
Maria João Dodman
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
El Dorado ◽  
Nouveau Monde

Cette étude se penche sur le Diário da Navegação de l’auteur portugais Pero Lopes de Sousa. Le Diário décrit un voyage de deux ans (1530–1532) et enregistre la tentative énergique du Portugal de consolider ses possessions brésiliennes. Tout comme d’autres documents portugais de voyage de l’époque, il présente un récit complexe et hybride qui emprunte à toute une gamme de styles d’écriture, de genres et de techniques littéraires. Au début, le Diário prétend être un journal de bord qui offre une information objective et fiable au sujet de plusieurs aspects du voyage : des vents aux courants, en passant par les habitants. Toutefois, je propose que le récit et l’ordre du jour du Diário est bien plus complexe. Au milieu des observations concrètes émerge un discours qui construit une image du héro portugais. De cette façon, le nouveau monde, ses habitants et les puissances européennes deviennent assujettis aux désirs portugais, et sont donc organisés en conséquence. Le narrateur, l’équipage et par extension tout l’empire, sont transformés en modèles exemplaires de protagonistes désintéressés, inventeurs d’un El Dorado brésilien.

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