Nature and Perception of Sexist Humor at Great Zimbabwe University

Author(s):  
Roselyn Kanyemba ◽  
Maheshvari Naidu

For the majority of women, university represents a time of hopefulness and opportunities such that gendered incidences questioning their academic merit poses a serious setback. Sexist humor is one such incident which communicates a message that females are irrelevant and insignificant. This article discusses the nature and perceptions of sexist humor on University campuses. The views on how students on campus perceive sexist humor are crucial for understanding students’ response and offer a clear understanding of what justifies and normalizes sexist humor. The paper analyzes how the use of language can be connected to sexism and violence. Using a mixed methodology for data collection at Great Zimbabwe University, the paper attempts to link language, sexual violence, misogyny, and sexism as well as chronicle the overall pattern of exclusion and marginalization of women in higher education settings. The findings of the paper present evidence that the institutional and intellectual cultures of educational institutions are permeated with sexual and gender dynamics that have become embedded and naturalized in popular thought. Normalization of verbal harassment contributes to muting victimized women, thus perpetuating a culture in which violence against women becomes part of the social milieu. Thus, this study concludes that while one may consider higher education institutions in Africa as safer spaces for women, these are highly contested terrains as misogyny through sexist humor, among other hindrances, has created an obstacle for women’s equal participation in higher education.

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-65
Author(s):  
Iryna Grabovska ◽  
Larysa Nalyvaiko ◽  
Mykola Obushnyi

Ukraine's Euro-civilization choice, which took place as a result of the Revolution of Dignity, posed a number of challenges to Ukrainian society, without adequate answers to which EU accession will remain a ratherdistant prospect for Ukrainians. One of such challenges is the genderization of the social life of Ukrainians, in particular in the field of education, which presupposes, first of all, the formation of a gender-sensitive space for the existence of the country's citizens; mass involvement of Ukrainian women in all spheres of society on an equal footing with men and the creation of equal opportunities for this. The philosophy of this process is to recognize as the greatest value of human capital, existing in the form of two social sexes (gender) - female and male - with different life experiences, differences and personal strategies of self-realization. The article analyzes, among other, the issue of teaching feminist and (or) gender issues in higher educational institutions of modern Ukraine from the standpoint of philosophical and worldview approach. The author aim is to investigate the real state of gender education in Ukrainian higher education institutions, to analyze the existing problems and identify prospects for the development of this process in Ukraine. A group of political science students from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv was involved in an in-depth survey of the need / no need to teach feminist and gender issues in universities. It was concluded that exist the need of genderization higher education in Ukraine as an integral part of the Euro-integration process.


1980 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail E. Thomas

Office of Civil Rights data were used to examine how blacks and whites and males and females were distributed in different types of higher educational institutions and in academic major fields within higher educational institutions in the mid 1970’s. Findings show that black participation in higher education in 1976 remained largely concentrated in traditionally black Southern institutions and in four-year colleges. Also, black students as well as females remained severely underrepresented in graduate and professional institutions in 1976. In addition, examination of major field distributions indicates that in 1974 blacks and females were still greatly overrepresented in education and the social sciences and underrepresented in the technical sciences. Issues relevant to increasing the meaningful participation of blacks and females in higher education are raised for policy consideration.


Author(s):  
Irshad Hussain ◽  
Ozlem Cakir

Blockchain, which is also called a distributed ledger technology (DLT), is an emerging and ever advancing technology having flourishing potential for nourishing and revolutionizing higher education. It stems in decentralization and distributed learning with characteristics of permanence of records, pursuit and transfer of knowledge, authority of institutions, and reliability of teaching and learning. These characteristics of blockchain attract educational institutions particularly the higher education institutions to adopt it. However, in spite of all potential and benefits of blockchain technology, the higher education stakeholders currently seem to be less aware of the social benefits and educational/instructional potential of blockchain technology. It can be addressed through proper advocacy and campaign. The complete chapter will demonstrate possibilities of blockchain technologies in higher education along with its issues and challenges.


Author(s):  
Seyedali Ahrari ◽  
Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh ◽  
Bahaman Abu Samah

This book chapter introduces the debate on youth civic participation specifically looking at the benefits in the higher educational context. This chapter promotes the recent level and character of using the social networking sites and their possibility to admit for the growth of higher education towards student civic participation. The chapter also reviews the recent studies on the civic uses of the social networking sites and argues the learning methods and consequences that could be practiced by learners and instructors when using the social networking sites for civic participation. Hence, the Bandura's social cognitive theory and cognitive engagement theory will be applied to create the framework for exploring the influence of civic efficacy and knowledge, access to civic information on the social networking sites, and civic interest on the association between the social networking sites and youth civic participation. It helps in recognizing the motivation that inspires the youth online civic participation actions in the higher educational settings.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-393
Author(s):  
David Jeffery ◽  
David Johnson

This paper explores the argument that to widen participation in higher education, educational institutions should bear a greater responsibility for students’ learning. Central to this debate is the notion of ‘academic support’. There are many perspectives on what works to scaffold student participation and learning but rarely are the perspectives of those receiving support taken into account. This paper reports the findings of an exploratory ethnographic study in which students in a vocational college in South Africa reflected on the nature of academic support and access to it. Student narratives that underpin their understandings of how the support system ‘worked’, and what responsibilities they and the college respectively bore for their studies, are compared to the official prescript on student support services in South Africa – the so-called ‘Student Support Services Manual’ which was developed by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). The data indicate sharp incongruences in thinking. While the student support services manual maintains that students are a product of their disadvantaged contexts and therefore require an institutional form of academic support, students themselves placed much less responsibility for the provision of academic support on the colleges. Instead, they attributed their success or failure to ‘character’ and their own dispositions towards learning. This is an unexpected finding in the context of an often highly charged debate on the factors that constrain learning and learning outcomes. This paper argues that it is this ‘locus of control’ that undermines the idea that student success is dependent on prescription alone.


PMLA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Findeisen

Although many believe that “mass higher education” increased opportunity and egalitarianism in postwar American society, the reality has been quite different. While a greater proportion of students are enrolled in higher-educational institutions now than at any other point in history, economic inequality is at an all-time high. Postwar American campus novels largely misunderstand this historical development. While the genre represents the university as an institution that combats social inequality by expanding enrollment, these novels simultaneously obscure the social inequality that the university cannot combat and instead helps to legitimate. The symbolic work of American campus novels has thus been to imagine a system that stages social conflicts between the deserving and the elite when in fact the postwar meritocracy has made the two categories functionally indistinguishable.


2019 ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Evelyn Sosa-Larrainzar ◽  
Emma Biviano-Pérez ◽  
Avelina García-Sánchez ◽  
María de Lourdes Avelino-Tepanecatl

Interesting is the participation of education in the Social and Solidarity Economy (ESyS), fundamentally of the higher level, as a key piece of action with society. Mexico has a little more than 5,334 university schools, 6 states concentrate 42.8% of HEIs, Puebla is located as the third entity with the largest number of universities with just over 480 university campuses, after Mexico City and the Mexico state. The objective of this research work is to analyze that Higher Education Institutions (IES) of the public or private sphere, in Mexico, contemplate in their academic offer Study Programs (PE) to the ESyS, which emerges at local, regional, national level and global as the Third Sector, considering the cooperatives, whose presence in Mexico was in the year of 1873, when the first production cooperative emerged. The research is documentary theorist. Results: in Mexico, .14% of studies in ESyS or some variant are offered: four undergraduate degrees, one in open and distance mode; in postgraduates: three Masters and an Inter-institutional Doctorate (in which two HEIs participate). Therefore, the academic offer in Mexican territory in ESyS does not get 1%, insufficient to support cooperatives, some with state and national recognition. The proposal is that this type of educational offer be carried out in each federal entity of Mexico, to reinforce cooperatives, organizations with contributions in the economy of this country from the educational field.


2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-387
Author(s):  
Marcela Mandiola Cotroneo ◽  
Paula Ascorra Costa

The aim of this paper is to understand the character and the role of higher education in business in relation to the wider institutional and structural contexts within which they function. Being loyal to that widespread background, business schools in Chile have become efficient providers of appropriate goods and services for their respective clients and consumers, behaving more like corporations and businesses rather than educational institutions. From this perspective, business education's alignment with the wider political and socio-economic shifts associated with the developments of market economies and economic globalization is a necessary reflection. In this paper we will provide an account of our problematization of management education practices in Chile. This practice was pictured as one of the main characters at the forefront of the Chilean neo-liberal revolution during the final years of the last century. In particular, we will unravel more closely the chain of signifiers articulating the meaning of Chilean higher business education. This articulation is recuperated mainly around how those involved in the management education practice talk about (our)themselves. As well as specialised press writings, some academic accounts and fragments from our own 'ethnographic' involvement are used for this purpose. Particular attention is paid to the social, political and fantasmatic logics (GLYNOS; HOWARTH, 2007) as key elements of our own explanation of this practice, which in turn informs our critical standpoint.


2021 ◽  
pp. 124-141
Author(s):  
Luiz Paulo Ribeiro ◽  
Mariana Esteves da Costa ◽  
Isabella Campos Freitas D’Avila

La Educación es un derecho de todos y deber de la escuela, de la familia y de la sociedad sin embargo no siempre se muestra democrática cuando se trata de las minorías sexuales y de género. En Brasil las violencias y estigmatizaciones de estudiantes LGBTI ocasionan baja escolaridad y muchos otros desdoblamientos sociales. Pensando en ello, la población LGBTI, a través de movimientos políticos y sociales, ha procurado garantizar el derecho de acceso y permanencia en las escuelas. Así, este trabajo tiene como objetivo explicitar cómo las acciones del movimiento LGBTI han contribuido históricamente a las transformaciones en la educación. Consideramos que los cambios en la Educación suceden, entre otras, por medio de la influencia de esos sujetos, y por aquellos que entienden la importancia del respeto a la diversidad en las instituciones educativas, que se muestran como espacio hostil marcado, a veces, por la cisheteronormatividad. Por medio del concepto de minorías activas, buscamos comprender cómo los sujetos LGBTI se contraponen a las reglas y normas sociales impuestas por la mayoría e influyen en las transformaciones sociales. Entendemos que la reproducción de normas y patrones de comportamiento en el ambiente educativo tiende a una lógica antidemocrática, en la que los alumnos no son plenamente respetados cuando presentan identidades y sexualidades consideradas disidentes. Education is a right of all and a duty of school, family and society, however it is not always democratic when it comes to sexual and gender minorities. In Brazil, the violence and stigmatization of LGBTI students cause low schooling and many other social developments. Thinking about it, the LGBTI population has sought to guarantee the right of access and permanence in educational institutions through political and social movement. Thus, this work aims to clarify how the actions of the LGBTI movement has been contributing historically to the transformations in education. We consider that changes in Education happen, among others, through the influence of these subjects, and by those who understand the importance of respect for diversity in School, which shows itself as a hostile space marked, sometimes, by cis-heteronormativity. Through the concept of active minorities, we seek to understand how LGBTI individuals oppose the social rules and norms imposed by the majority and influence social transformations. We understand that the reproduction of rules and patterns of behavior in the educational environment tends to an anti-democratic logic, in which the students are not fully respected when they present identities and sexualities considered dissident. A Educação é um direito de todos e dever da escola, da família e da sociedade, entretanto nem sempre se mostra democrática quando se trata das minorias sexuais e de gênero. No Brasil, as violências e estigmatizações de estudantes LGBTI ocasionam baixa escolaridade e muitos outros desdobramentos sociais. Pensando nisso, a população LGBTI, através de movimentação política e social, tem buscado garantir o direito de acesso e permanência nas instituições de ensino. Assim, este trabalho tem como objetivo explicitar como as ações do movimento LGBTI têm contribuído historicamente para as transformações na educação. Consideramos que as mudanças na Educação acontecem, entre outros fatores, por meio da influência desses sujeitos, e por aqueles que entendem a importância do respeito à diversidade na Escola, que se mostra como um espaço hostil marcado, por vezes, pela cisheteronormatividade. Por meio do conceito de minorias ativas, buscamos compreender como os sujeitos LGBTI contrapõem-se às regras e normas sociais impostas pela maioria e influenciam as transformações sociais. Entendemos que a reprodução de regras e padrões de comportamento no ambiente educacional tendenciam uma lógica antidemocrática, na qual os educandos não são inteiramente respeitados quando apresentam identidades e sexualidades consideradas dissidentes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoria Babanina ◽  
Vitalii Kuznetsov ◽  
Nelia Lisova ◽  
Inna Vartyletska

The article examines the features of the protection of credit relations by the criminal law of Ukraine. The scope of the article is to study peculiarities of credit and financial relations in Ukraine, to reveal types of crimes in the field of credit relations and specifics of their subjects, to analyze qualifying features of crimes in the field of credit activity. To achieve the purpose of the article, formal-logical and dogmatic-legal research methods were used. Using the formal-logical and dogmatic methods, credit relations as an object of legal protection in criminal law were analyzed. The characteristic features of the personality of criminals who commit crimes in the field of credit relations have been studied. Their specific differences from other types of criminals are revealed, which are manifested in the fact that people who commit crimes in the field of credit relations, as a rule, have a high social status, higher education and are financially secure. Thanks to the research conducted in the article some important features of crimes in the field of credit activity were revealed, such as the fact, that among those who commit crimes in the field of lending, there is a high proportion of women. This fact has an important meaning for the social sciences, since it underlines inequality and gender discrimination.


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