scholarly journals Narratives of ethnic identity and language among young Pannonian Ruthenians in Serbia

Adeptus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Sakač
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Strategic Positioning ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The University

Narratives of ethnic identity and language among young Pannonian Ruthenians in SerbiaThis article offers a study of narratives of ethnic identity among young Ruthenians in Serbia. The analysed data comes from in-depth interviews and questionnaires conducted in 2016 with nine informants studying at the University of Novi Sad. The narrative approach has proven to be most suitable, especially when trying to understand the individual perspective of one’s ethnic and linguistic identity. In order to understand Ruthenians as an ethnic minority in Serbia, the study also provides a brief overview of the historical context, including information on Ruthenian migration from Transcarpathia to Vojvodina in the eighteenth century, their strategic positioning towards the nation states they have lived in, their Greek-Catholic denomination as a factor distinguishing them from other ethnic communities, as well as the intersubjective understanding of their ethnic identity. Vojvodina, the northern region of Serbia, where they live, is a multicultural and multi-confessional province, which has proven to be both an opportunity and a challenge for this community. The historical overview also presents how they have obtained their minority rights since their migration to the region. Narracje tożsamości etnicznej i języka wśród młodych Rusinów Panońskich w SerbiiNiniejszy artykuł poświęcony jest narracjom tożsamości etnicznej wśród młodych Rusinów w Serbii. Analizowane dane pochodzą z wywiadów pogłębionych i badań kwestionariuszowych przeprowadzonych w roku 2016 wśród dziewięciorga rozmówców studiujących na Uniwersytecie w Nowym Sadzie. Podejście narracyjne zostało wybrane jako najwygodniejsze do zbadania osobistych spojrzeń na własną tożsamość etniczną i językową. Aby pomóc w zrozumieniu położenia Rusinów jako mniejszości etnicznej w Serbii, praca przedstawia również w zwięzły sposób kontekst historyczny, w tym informacje o migracji Rusinów z Zakarpacia do Wojwodiny w XVIII wieku, strategie ich funkcjonowania w państwach narodowych, na obszarze których zamieszkiwali, grekokatolicką identyfikację religijną, stanowiącą czynnik odróżniający ich od innych miejscowych społeczności, oraz indywidualne sposoby rozumienia tożsamości etnicznej. Położona w północnej Serbii Wojwodina to region wielokulturowy i wielowyznaniowy, co przynosi rusińskiej wspólnocie zarówno trudności, jak i korzyści. Zawarte w artykule spojrzenie na historię ukazuje ponadto proces zdobywania praw mniejszości przez Rusinów po ich migracji do obecnego miejsca zamieszkania.

scholarly journals The Stateless Tai Lue in Chiang Kham

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasit Leepreecha ◽  
◽  
Songkran Jantakad ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
National Security ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
Nation States ◽  
External Relations ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The University

The Tai Lue in Chiang Kham have been of interest to scholars since the publications of Michael Moerman, an American anthropologist from the University of California in Los Angeles, in the 1960s. The most notable pieces concern ethnic identity since Moerman focused on both the internal and external relations of the Tai Lue. Later scholars and graduate students focused on tourism among the Tai Lue, due to the revival of their history and the construction of their ethnic identity. However, the issue of statelessness among them has still not been examined, even though countless numbers of Tai Lue still live without Thai citizenship. Therefore, this article deals with the issue of stateless Tai Lue in Chiang Kham, based on our fieldwork in 2013-2015. We find that the consequences of the creation of modern nation-states and Thailand’s strict national security policies have led to a lack of citizenship among countless numbers of Tai Lue in Chiang Kham, despite their exceptional service to Thailand’s national security during the Cold War. Keywords: Tai Lue, Stateless, Displaced Thai, Citizenship

scholarly journals Cooperative Learning Environment in Teaching Mobile Application Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Antonio Márcio Albuquerque Almeida ◽  
Leonardo Pires De Sousa Silva ◽  
Francisco Heitor Vasconcelos ◽  
Rômulo Nunes De Carvalho Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

The evolution in the formation of techniques in technological vocational education constitutes a series of pedagogical strategies that allow the learning, exercise, incentive and practice of students. The projects of interdisciplinary in the university aims to assist in learning the individual with the incentive of activities directed for collaborating with students in undergraduate. These projects are important for undergraduate courses in electrical engineering and computing engineering at the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Sobral campus. With the main objectives of the project is to encourage the student to learn to academic growth. This article presents a case study developed by the project called the cooperative learning cell for the development of android applications, applied in groups of engineering students in the first and second semesters, using recent teaching methods aimed at learning, occurring in the period from September to December 2016. The main objective of the project was to promote the learning and sharing of knowledge about the programming content for mobile devices, aimed at the android operating system. In addition, it seeks to stimulate the student with more interactive content, applying examples and activities related to mobile programming that were related with the content of the engineering course or the labor market. After the group of students was created, nine meetings took place in each of them, the cooperative learning methodology was applied to the group, where the knowledge was generated through the interaction between two or more people, resulting in an active participation of the educational process. The classes were designed with a focus on content exposure, challenges and small projects to solve group tasks. In addition, professionals working in engineering companies in the northern region of Ceará were invited to give lectures to show the current situation of the labor market, focused on mobile applications. Evaluating the result over the course of the project. Keywords: Educational incentive, Cooperation, Engineering Teaching, Android.

scholarly journals With Reverence for the Word

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-99
Author(s):  
Aisha Geissinger
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Faith Tradition ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Historical Issues ◽  
Exegetical Tradition

This ground-breaking work is a collection of papers originally given at anacademic conference on the interpretation of scripture in medieval Judaism,Christianity, and Islam, which was held at the University of Toronto in1997. Of equal interest to scholars and students of medieval Judaism,Christianity, and Islam, particularly those concerned with the place of thescriptures in these religious traditions, it demonstrates both the diversitywithin these three faiths’ exegetical traditions as well as their many crossculturalsimilarities.Following a short preface, which briefly outlines the work’s purposesand scope, the book is divided into three sections, each of which containsthe chapters related to each faith tradition. Each section begins with itsown introduction to the history and methods of the medieval exegesis ofthe relevant faith tradition, which provides the non-specialist reader witha historical context in which to place the individual chapters. The introductionsalso draw the reader’s attention to some parallel developmentsand possible interfaith influences among these exegetical traditions,while at the same time promoting a nuanced understanding in order toavoid facile comparisons. The book contains both a general subject indexand an index to citations from the Bible, Rabbinic literature, and theQur’an.Part 1, which contains 10 chapters on medieval Jewish exegesis, isarguably the most vibrant portion of this book. It conveys a sense of thedepth and breadth of this exegetical tradition, as well as the variety ofapproaches that are being used to study it, and the potential such studieshave for shedding light on a variety of historical issues ...

scholarly journals Environmental awareness of the students of agriculture at the University of Novi Sad: Testing the differences using NEP scale

2017 ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Jelena Karapandzin ◽  
Vesna Rodic
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
New Ecological Paradigm ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The University

In this paper, the NEP scale has been used for measurement of achieved level of environmental awareness of students of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Novi Sad. As they are future decision makers in the field of agribusiness, it is very important for them to accept the new ecological paradigm in order to be able to make decisions in the future that are consistent with sustainable development and environmental protection. The research has been conducted on a sample of 800 students. The average value of the environmental awareness of students measured by NEP scale is 3.47, which indicates that students have a pro-ecological worldviews, but still firmly believe in technological development which will provide comfortable and safe life for future generations, without major changes in behavior patterns. Special emphasis was put on understanding of the effects of certain demographic variables on students? ecological orientation. A statistically significant difference in terms of acceptance of new environmental paradigm has not been observed regarding these variables, but there is a statistically significant difference when it comes to the individual NEP scale statements.

Studying attitudes to English usage

English Today ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Keyword(s):  
Main Part ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
English Usage ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne ◽  
Time Subject ◽  
General Acceptability ◽  
As If

Attitudes to English Usageis the title of a book published in 1970 by W. H. Mittins, Mary Salu, Mary Edminson and Sheila Coyne from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne that reported on an enquiry held among some 450 informants concerning the acceptability of 55 usage items. These items had been selected because they were at the time ‘subject to variation in practice and dispute in theory’ (Mittins et al., 1970: 4), and they include sentences likeHe refused to even think about it,It looked like it will rainandEveryone has their off-days. In each case the offensive feature had been highlighted so that informants would know what they had to comment on:to even think(a split infinitive), the use oflikeforas if, and oftheirwith a singular antecedent (everyone). For fifty sentences the informants had to indicate acceptability in informal speech, informal writing, formal speech and formal writing, and for the remaining five only for informal and formal writing, since usage of these items was believed to be restricted to writing (1970: 4). The sentences were subsequently ranged from highest general acceptability (did not doaswell as) to lowest (veryunique), and correlations were calculated with the occupation of the informants (students, teachers, lecturers, examiners and non-educationists), while the items were also classified as colloquial (pretty reliable), etymological (data is), grammatical (did it quicker) and lexical/semantic (inferred/implied), or as language myths, ‘where the censorious tend to invoke a prescription of dubious authority’ (dangling participles) (1970: 15). The main part of the book dealt with the individual constructions, analysing the reasons for their status as debated usage items and providing further historical context in the process.

scholarly journals The Diversity of Immigrant Identity and the Aspects of the Design Thereof

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-81
Author(s):  
Elvira Küün
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Immigrant Identity ◽  
Long Time ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Time Awareness ◽  
Over Time

Summary The article provides an overview of the design of identities, predominantly based on the level of the individual. The purpose of this article was to identify the ethnic identity of informants, using the aspect of language choices as an instrument of linguistic identity, as well as to look at the causes of linguistic identity choices, the functions of ethnic identity from the point of view of the informant and the reasons for changing the identity over time or for consciously changing or maintaining it. It is well known that in today’s world of ever-weakening national borders, multiculturalism and multilingualism are a common phenomenon. There have been no arguments for a long time over whether one has to learn several languages, or any doubts whether we should be even a little bit familiar with the culture of people from other nationalities living next to us. At the same time, multiculturalism brings along challenges and sometimes also tensions (Muldma, 2009). Self-determination, or identity, can mean all aspects of oneself, such as appearance, personality, abilities, gender, and ethnic groups. In the case of ethnic identity, it has been observed along with growing, the perceptions of children change over time. Awareness of one’s nationality develops with awareness of others (Smith et al., 2008, p. 195). People’s attitudes and values are largely developed in childhood, and we need time to get adjusted to everything new, all changes need internal management of the person – and some major changes need the intervention of the society. The method used to conduct the research was written interviews.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF ETHNIC IDENTITY ON REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT INTERETHNIC INTEGRATION: TO STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-103
Author(s):  
Olga Persidskaya
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Dimensional Parameter ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Degree

The author fixes the main trends associated with the study of the phenomena of ethnic identity and interethnic integration in social philosophy and identifies gaps that could be filled by expanding of their interpretation. It is recorded that in a significant part of the research, the phenomena are considered separately. Thus, ethnic identity is expressed as a one-dimensional parameter, part of the “identification matrix” of an individual. Studies devoted to interethnic integration are often aimed at identifying mechanisms for achieving an abstract desired image – a multiethnic community with a high degree of integration of its members, who clearly and most often unambiguously realize their ethnic identity. Despite the obvious interrelation of the phenomena under consideration, there are very few studies, dedicated to the influence of ethnic identity on interethnic integration. It is shown that it is important to rethink the phenomenon of ethnic identity in terms of its fluidity, multiplicity, fragmentation, non-reflection, complexity as a basis for the formation of ideas about strategies and ideas about acceptable for the individual mechanisms of interethnic integration. It is also relevant to study the influence of ethnic identity on the ideas of interethnic integration in the multi-ethnic communities of modern large cities.

scholarly journals Towards Designing an Intercultural Curriculum: A Case Study from the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Time Factors ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

One of the challenges still to be met in the 21st century is that of genuinely embracing diversity. How can education help to overcome the barriers that continue to exist between people on the basis of language, culture and gender? This case study takes the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua as an example of a multilingual/multiethnic region and examines how the community university URACCAN is contributing to the development of interculturality. It describes participatory research that was carried out with university staff and students with the intention of defining an intercultural curriculum and appropriate strategies for delivering such. One model used as a basis for discussions was the Model for Community Understanding from the Wales Curriculum Council, which emphasises the belonging of the individual to different communities or cultures at the same time. Factors supporting the development of an intercultural curriculum include the university’s close involvement with the ethnic communities it serves. However, ethno-linguistic power relations within the region and the country as a whole, still militate against egalitarianism within the university. The research highlights the importance of participatory pedagogy as the basis for promoting interculturality and achieving lasting social transformation.

scholarly journals Personality Dimensions of Serbian Lifeguards

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 12927
Author(s):  
Goran Dimitrić ◽  
Nebojša Maksimović ◽  
Elena Tabakova ◽  
Milorad Jakšić ◽  
Dejan Orlić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Unintentional Injury ◽  
World Health ◽  
Injury Death ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Road ◽  
Negative Valence ◽  
Positive And Negative Valence ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The University

According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global drowning report (2017), drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide. Drowning can occur anywhere there is water: oceans, seas, lakes, pools, bathtubs, rivers or water collection on the side of the road, etc. In many countries, there are drowning prevention programs for children and adults. The two most commonly used strategiesagainst drowning are the presence of lifeguards in public places and the use of protected areas that could prevent most of the drownings. The main aim of the present study is to examine the individual differences in a Big Five plus Two (BF+2) personality traits in lifeguards and non-lifeguards (including students). The subsample of lifeguards represented 122 male respondents who were, at the time of the survey, licensed as lifeguards (60.9%) or were in training for lifeguards—candidates (39.1%). The subsample of students represented 138 male respondents who were studying at the University of Novi Sad. The results indicate that lifeguards in comparison to students are more extraverted, open to experience, and conscientious, less neurotic, and aggressive. Both positive and negative valence are higher in student subsample. All of the above traits are desirable traits for people working as lifeguards.

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Simone
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Existential Perspective

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.

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