How to Exit the Conspiracy of Silence?

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Conspiracy Of Silence ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way ◽  
New Millennium

On the subject of the Polish-Jewish postwar relations, this paper deals with the pathology of public discourse known as the “conspiracies of silence” phenomenon (see Eviatar Zerubavel, The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life , 2008). The concept in question may be applied to the Polish historic conditions. It helps to problematize the circumstances in which social conspiracies were accumulating around the Polish-Jewish relations in the postwar period so as to pave the way for analysis of the current difficulties in researching the title issues, particularly those that emerged while using a quantitative and qualitative approach to research Polish attitudes toward Jews. The resulting polemical analysis is made on the basis of a text by one of the most renowned Polish sociologists, Prof. Antoni Sułek. His lecture titled “Ordinary Poles Looking at Jews” was delivered at the University of Warsaw, Poland, on 17 December 2009, within the cycle “Ten Lectures for a New Millennium.” It summarises the Polish twenty-year poll-based researches of Poles’ attitudes towards Jews.

scholarly journals On Foucault and Wolff or from Law to Political Economy

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 627-645
Author(s):  
MATT CRAVEN
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
International Law ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Legal Thought ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Raison D’État ◽  
Historical Tradition ◽  
The Way

AbstractEven if Foucault was generally disposed to avoid the category of sovereignty in his genealogy of governmentality, his lectures on the subject nevertheless have much to offer for our understanding of the historical tradition of international legal thought. The purpose of this article is to try to situate Christian Wolff's account of the jus gentium within Foucault's work, focusing in particular upon the way in which Wolff might be seen to exemplify elements of the transition identified by Foucault from government according to raison d'état to a new art of government informed by the emergence of political economy. This, it is argued, not only makes legible certain elements of Wolff's work that have otherwise remained obscure, but points also to the place of international law in the fine-grained materiality of everyday life.

scholarly journals RETOS DE ENSEÑAR HISTORIA EN EL CONTEXTO UNIVERSITARIO

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Gustavo Josué López Ramírez ◽  
Adolfo Luis Rojas Tur
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
General Education ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

La Historia es una ciencia social y también una disciplina escolar, de ahí que sus principales problemas teóricos se reflejan en la manera de enseñar, lo que condiciona que las corrientes historiográficas influyan en la forma de concebir el curriculum de la asignatura. La teoría que sustenta a una determinada escuela histórica aporta su metodología, que redunda en el campo epistemológico, lo que supone cambios y afectaciones en los fundamentos científicos de la Historia y sus métodos. A la par, esa metodología de la ciencia llega de forma directa a la estructura didáctica de la asignatura, lo que tiene su explicación desde la relación de esta con la ciencia. En el contexto de la Educación Superior se suscita una interrogante de actualidad, ¿qué contenido histórico enseñar y aprender?, en tanto el estudiante ya ha transitado por el sistema de la educación general, en el que ha recibido diferentes contenidos históricos con diferentes niveles de gradación y corresponde a la universidad completar el ciclo de profundización en los contenidos históricos. En el artículo se reflexiona en torno a las problemáticas fundamentales que enfrenta la enseñanza de la Historia en el contexto universitario, desde la perspectiva de una Historia holística, multidimensional y pluricausal, protagonizada por actores individuales y colectivos, en una dimensión temporal y espacial específica.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Historia; enseñanza de la Historia; Educación Superior. CHALLENGES TO TEACH HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY CONTEXT ABSTRACT History is a social science and also a school discipline, hence its main theoretical problems are reflected in the way of teaching, which conditions the historiographical influence the way of conceiving the curriculum of the subject. The theory behind a particular historical school provides its methodology, resulting in the epistemological field, representing changes and effects on the scientific basis of history and its methods. At the same time, the methodology of science comes directly to the educational structure of the subject form, which can be explained from the relation of this science. In the context of the Higher Education questioningly current arises, what to teach and learn historical content ?, while the student has already gone through the general education system, which has received different historical content with different levels gradation and corresponds to the university to complete the cycle of deepening the historical contents. In the article it reflects on the fundamental issues facing the teaching of history in the university context, from the perspective of a holistic, multidimensional and pluricausal story featuring individual and collective actors in a specific temporal and spatial dimension. KEYWORDS: History; history teaching; Higher Education.

Antennas Up! Laura Nader’s Undergraduate Lecture Courses as Public Anthropology

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-231
Author(s):  
Erik Harms
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Nineteen Nineties ◽  
Public Anthropology ◽  
Vertical Slice ◽  
Lecture Courses ◽  
The Right ◽  
Controlling Processes ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Abstract While teaching lecture courses at the University of California, Berkeley, Laura Nader taught generations of students to raise their anthropological antennae. This article uses an autoethnographic approach to describe the author’s exposure to anthropology at Berkeley in the nineteen-nineties, gesturing towards the way undergraduate lecture courses play an important but largely underrecognized role in fostering public anthropology. Nader’s lecture courses were particularly effective at this because their focus on pushing students to question dogma and analyze controlling processes offered students a sense of how anthropology could foster critical public discourse. Nader stressed the importance of asking good questions designed to challenge assumptions, finding the right methods to answer those questions, and paying attention to pathways of power. While always questioning received wisdom, ideological assumptions, and Western categories of knowledge, Nader continued to stress the importance of developing straightforward, highly-accessible concepts that captured the attention of students—like Harmony Ideology, trustanoia, controlling processes, and the vertical slice.

The Subject of Metaphysics and the Way of its Determination

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-242
Author(s):  
Jarosław Paszyński ◽  
Jacek Poznański
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Fides Et Ratio ◽  
Intellectual Climate ◽  
The Way

On the 11th of January, 2001 the Philosophical Circle of the University School of Philosophy and of Education Ignatianum in Cracow organised a philosophical symposium on: The subject of metaphysics and the way of its determination. This problem seems important nowadays, although it has been discussed throughout the whole philosophical tradition. Solutions concerning basic philosophical problems have their impact on the understanding of reality, first of all the human being and the culture created by him which is expressed in knowledge, morality, arts and religion. Reflection on the foundations of philosophy is especially important in the contemporary intellectual climate which is dominated by relativism and nihilism. This is demonstrated by Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Fides et Ratio, which also proposes the way of overcoming the crisis through the return to the philosophy of being, that is metaphysics. The guests invited to the symposium belong to the above-mentioned philosophical trend.

scholarly journals Die teoloog as akademiese saboteur

1990 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
J. G. Du Plessis
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
World View ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
The University ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way ◽  
Christian Beliefs

The theologian as academical ‘agent provocateur’ Some thoughts on the relation between Biblical science and the role of traditional Christian beliefs in everyday life. What the Biblical scientist teaches in the university is - and should be seen to be - relevant to the way the Christian tradition is supposed to shape everyday life. The Biblical scientist should live in constant dialogue between classical Christianity and the modern secularist world view in which Biblical science shares to a lesser or larger extent. The essay argues that the Biblical scientist should take classical Christianity as his point of departure. This entails a "theology in exile" within the academic community.

scholarly journals REFLEXÕES DE PROJETO EXTENSIONISTA: A TRAJETÓRIA NEGRA CONTADA E CANTADA POR MEIO DO SAMBA

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-75
Author(s):  
Tatiane Kelly Pinto de Carvalho ◽  
Maraísa Inês de Assis Martins
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
State School ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Dialogical Relationship ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Brazilian Culture

Lawnº 10,639, sanctioned in 2003, provided a kind of stimulus for the accomplishment of projects and works that contemplate an educational character directed to the innumerable manifestations and expressions of the diverse Brazilian culture. Thus, through a dialogical relationship between the University and a state school of Divinópolis (MG), this project aimed, in the formation of high school graduates, to rescue the importance of black culture and the acceptance of diversity in Brazilian society. For this,the research focused on a qualitative approach andwe used as a method the literature review on the theme in question and the holding of meetings and workshops about samba and its historical-social context, seeking to elucidate the respective inheritances of slavery. From the discussions on the subject, it was possible to observe that a large part of the students was sensitized onsubjects that include prejudice, violence and racism still so prevalent in society. Moreover, it was clear that such debates and discussions can assist and collaborate in a reaffirmation of the students' attitude regarding black culture. It is concluded that the extension project collaborated so that high school graduates could constitute a different social perception of African descent and, at the same time, helped to rethink such expensive topics as the acceptance of the other and their respective differences.Keywoeds:Black culture.High school.Lawnº 10,639.Samba.

scholarly journals BIM methodology in Building Engineering degree: workshop in Graphical Expression of Technologies subject = Metodología BIM en el grado de edificación: modelo de taller en la asignatura Expresión Gráfica de Tecnologías

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Enrique Nieto ◽  
Daniel Antón ◽  
Fernando Rico ◽  
Juan José Moyano
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Technical Schools ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Integrator Model ◽  
The University ◽  
Building Engineering ◽  
The Way

The concept of BIM implies a radical change in the way of facing the architectural design and the life cycle process of the projects and the buildings. It is an efficient and open system of communication and cooperation between the different operators involved in the construction process and, therefore, it becomes in a suitable tool for its implementation in the Technical Schools of Engineering and Architecture. This paper defends the recognition of the BIM methodology as a collaborative and coordinated instrument for its application in the university teaching in degrees of this field of knowledge, so that the flow of interdisciplinary information is efficient. The experience of the implementation of this methodology in the Degree in Building is described. It is based on a workshop-integrator model in the subject called Graphic Expression of Technologies. Subsequently, educational enquiries derived from the innovation developed are collected, showing its benefits for the student body as regards learning, and also the limitations found. In conclusion, the outcomes obtained lead to continue supporting this technological integration. Finally, a series of recommendations for its improvement are provided, concerning the way to guide the students throughout the experience, and also related to the teaching organisation through the curriculum.ResumenEl concepto de BIM implica un cambio radical en la manera de afrontar el diseño arquitectónico y el proceso de ciclo de vida de los proyectos y de los edificios. Se trata de un sistema eficiente y abierto de comunicación y cooperación entre los distintos operadores que intervienen en el proceso constructivo y, por tanto, resulta ser una herramienta idónea para su implantación en las Escuelas Técnicas de Ingeniería y Arquitectura. Este artículo defiende el reconocimiento de la metodología BIM como instrumento de trabajo colaborativo y coordinado para su aplicación en la docencia universitaria en titulaciones de esta rama de conocimiento, a fin de que el flujo de información interdisciplinar sea eficiente. Se describe la experiencia de la implantación de esta metodología en el Grado de Edificación, a través de un modelo de taller-integrador en la asignatura de Expresión Gráfica de Tecnologías. Posteriormente, se recogen averiguaciones docentes derivadas de la innovación desarrollada, mostrando sus beneficios para el estudiantado a nivel de aprendizaje y las limitaciones halladas. Con todo, los resultados obtenidos llevan a seguir apostando por esta integración tecnológica. Finalmente, para la mejora de esta innovación, se aportan una serie de recomendaciones en lo relativo a la manera de guiar al alumnado en la experiencia y relacionadas con la organización de las enseñanzas a través de sus planes de estudios.

scholarly journals Innovating the architectures of university didactics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Panciroli
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
University Courses ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Didactic Strategies ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

University didactics can be defined as a field of reflection relating to some specific empirical categories of educational events. In this sense, the main aim of the research conducted was to identify, according to a quantitative and qualitative approach, the innovative elements of didactics in an ecosystemic perspective, analysing the way in which the context and the elements characterising it play a decisive role. Particular emphasis has been given to the use of mulitple languages (multimedia perspective), and to the possibility of activating several integrated fields of action (multimodal perspective) in order to elicit the creation of multiple and original viewpoints through activities of comparison and sharing. Specifically, the research was conducted through the testing of different didactic strategies according to a blended learning methodology within the scope of some university courses offered by the Department of Education Sciences of the University of Bologna

scholarly journals Subjectivity or?

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Dreier
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Psychology ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

The aim of the paper is to give a brief presentation of an approach to developing the conception of subjectivity in psychology. This conception is developed on the background of the science of the subject of critical psychology as founded by Holzkamp (1983) which considers subjectivity as a core concept in human psychology. In the conception presented in this paper, it is argued that human subjectivity must be grasped as grounded in a subject’s ongoing situated participation and conduct of everyday life in and across various, structurally arranged social practices. It is argued why such a conception of subjectivity is necessary and its main concepts are briefly presented. A critical identification of methodological and conceptual inadequacies in narrower notions of the psyche and subjectivity paves the way for the line of arguments leading to this broader conception of subjectivity.

scholarly journals The University as a 'Giant Newsroom': The Uses of Academic Knowledge Revisited

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Paper Form ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mainstream Press ◽  
Communication Policies ◽  
The University

Almost a decade ago I published an article (with Dr Kylie Brass) based on Australian Research Council-funded research1 about criticisms in the media and public sphere of ‘ivory tower’ academe, and how, under pressures of ‘relevance’, ‘accountability’, and ‘brand identity’, academic knowledge was being progressively and institutionally encouraged to engage with everyday media discourse. In this and other articles on universities and public communication policies, we explored the ways in which the products of university-based academic labour were being increasingly placed in the service of wider public discourse, with some perils both for that knowledge and those who generate it. In the ensuing years, these pressures have intensified in tandem with the marketization of higher education and the often-remarked hegemony of neoliberal managerialism. The decline of the mainstream press (certainly in paper form) and the rise of user-generated, social and mobile media have produced a more intimate and volatile relationship between universities and the media/public sphere. In addressing the subject of publishing and mediatization, it is timely to re-assess the uses and trajectories of academic knowledge, the technologies that convey it, and the implications for its producers.

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