Kindergarten children’s perceptions of the social unrest in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
pp. 1476718X2110627
Author(s):  
Caroline Cohrssen ◽  
Nirmala Rao ◽  
Puja Kapai ◽  
Priya Goel La Londe
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Children's Perceptions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
The World

Hong Kong experienced a period of significant social unrest, marked by protests, from June 2019 to February 2020. Media coverage was pervasive. In July 2020, children aged from 5 to 6 years attending kindergartens in areas both directly and less directly impacted by the protests were asked to draw and talk about what had taken place during the social unrest. Thematic analysis of children’s drawings demonstrates the extent of their awareness and understanding and suggests that children perceived both protestors and police as angry and demonstrating aggression. Many children were critical of police conduct and saw protestors as needing protection from the police. Children around the world have been exposed to protest movements in recent times. The implications for parents, teachers and schools are discussed.

Navigating Theory and Practice Through Evaluation Fieldwork

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Anne Chouinard ◽  
Ayesha S. Boyce ◽  
Juanita Hicks ◽  
Jennie Jones ◽  
Justin Long ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Evaluation Theory ◽  
Evaluation Practice ◽  
Reflective Journals ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

To explore the relationship between theory and practice in evaluation, we focus on the perspectives and experiences of student evaluators, as they move from the classroom to an engagement with the social, political, and cultural dynamics of evaluation in the field. Through reflective journals, postcourse interviews, and facilitated group discussions, we involve students in critical thinking around the relationship between evaluation theory and practice, which for many was unexpectedly tumultuous and contextually dynamic and complex. In our exploration, we are guided by the following questions: How do novice practitioners navigate between the world of the classroom and the world of practice? What informs their evaluation practice? More specifically, how can we understand the relationship between theory and practice in evaluation? A thematic analysis leads to three interconnected themes. We conclude with implications for thinking about the relationship between theory and practice in evaluation.

scholarly journals RACISM ISSUES IN NIKE BRAND ADVERTISEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-36
Author(s):  
Muhammad Abyan Rafi ◽  
Elda Franzia Jasjfi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Visual Object ◽  
Speaking Up ◽  
Advertising Campaign ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
The World

ABSTRACT  Racialism is a social issue that has become a culture in major countries. Many protest movements against social issues, starting from the community, an organization, to a well-known brand, one of which is Nike. Nike is one of the most well-known and successful sports brands in terms of products and athletes in all sports. This is one of the keys to the success of the Nike brand in awakening the world to the issue of racism, which is widely shown through its visual campaign in the form of an official Nike poster advertisement entitled “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything "Colin Kaepernick," Speaking up doesn't always make life easier. But easy never changed anything "Raheem Sterling, and George Floyd's official video ad" For once, Don't do it ". The three controversial official Nike advertisements are an interesting topic to discuss in this journal. The method used is a descriptive qualitative method that aims to find out what visual forms the Nike brand is trying to raise in raising the issue of racism by describing the context surrounding the event, describing how the process happened to become an official advertising campaign in the form of a visual object using the technique. semiotics in describing it. The results of this study are to find out how the visual form of Nike's official brand advertisements in conveying the current issue of racism and with a semiotic approach we can find out how Nike is in delivering campaigns about the issue of racism in order to form understanding and sensitivity to the social issues of racism around us.   Keywords: racism, advertisement, poster, video, brand, Nike

scholarly journals Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372110370
Author(s):  
Avi Marciano ◽  
Aya Yadlin
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Israeli Society ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
The World ◽  
State Surveillance ◽  
Medical Crisis

Israel, traditionally known as a nation-in-arms, has been undergoing processes of securitization and militarization from its inception to the present day. While several countries have employed surveillance technologies to tackle the spread of coronavirus, Israel was the only country in the world to authorize its internal security agency to track citizens’ cellphones to deal with this civil-medical crisis. Employing a reflexive thematic analysis to news media outlets, this study examined coverage of Israel Security Agency (ISA) surveillance by four leading Israeli news sites, inquiring into the socio-cultural imageries, and motifs that informed their reports. While two of the sites were mostly supportive and the other two were critical, the coverage as a whole was informed by national security imageries reminiscent of Israel’s nation-in-arms tradition. Our discussion contextualizes these findings within a three-decade tension that has prevailed in Israeli society and culture between securitization/militarization and democratization/demilitarization.

Jordan's Media Strategy and Its Role in Combating Terrorism

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-74
Author(s):  
Hnai Al Badri ◽  
Hanan Al-Sheikh
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Arab World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Arab Media ◽  
Strategic Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Major Player ◽  
The World

There is no doubt that media plays a key role in modern societies, as it has become the main source for the formation of collective awareness among citizens around the world. In light of the real vile war the Arab world has been witnessing against terrorism, media has become a major player in the confrontation. Today, the Arab world is facing terrorist and fanatic attacks that take religion as a cover for its atrocities and hideous actions, disturbing the peace and amity in communities, and causing a lot of harm to innocent people, destruction of infrastructure, and devastating impact on economy and the social structure. Unfortunately, Jordan's media—as is the case with other Arab media—seems to have issues with their adopted strategies to deal with terrorism, its causes, and influencing factors. The chapter provides the details and findings of a study that attempts to characterize the approach adopted by Jordan's media coverage of terrorism and to investigate and appraise the strategic value of such approach, leading to the recommendation for a more effective strategy that is based on proper understanding of the political, social, and economic environment and other key factors.

Wydobyte z ciszy – dziecięce narracje o świecie. Polsko-ukraińskie studium porównawcze

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (4(250)) ◽  
pp. 245-262
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Nowak-Łojewska ◽  
Wojciech Siegień
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
The World ◽  
Children's Films

Brought out of silence is a category used by Smolińska-Theiss to present children’s narrations and dialogues about their everyday matters. They take the form of letters to God, to presidents, albums with children’s drawings, photos, children’s films, graffiti, posts and comments. Originally, they date back to Korczak’s studies. Our text is also an act of letting children speak and appreciating their comments and opinions. It is concerned with children’s understanding of the world. Defining the meaning of life by children is the key category here. We called it “a comparative study” due to the fact that we will present utterances by both Polish and Ukrainian children as the category “a meaning of life” may be interpreted differently in various cultural, political or social contexts. The research carried out both in Poland and abroad indicates that a child is a competent unit capable of making logical utterances with the content which shows deep understanding of the world. This text is based on the following theoretical studies: – thinking about a child originating in a postmodernist childhood paradigm as well as psychological constructivism; – the analysis of research material has been based on Judith Butler’s theory – Frames of War.

scholarly journals From NGOs’ accountability to social trust. The evidence from CEE countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 109 (165) ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Halina Waniak-Michalak ◽  
Ivana Perica ◽  
Sviesa Leitoniene
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Accounting Rules ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose: The paper aims to find a link between the level of NGO accountability and the social trust for non-governmental organisations (NGOs). We will investigate if the accounting regulations and transpa-rency rules for NGOs in particular countries influence the social trust for NGOs. We will follow the process of the creation of accounting law for NGOs in three CEE countries: Lithuania – one of the Baltic states, which is in last place in the World Giving Index ranking, and Poland, and Croatia – the two best post-communist countries in the World Giving Index ranking. We will analyse the change in social trust in these countries in line with the development of legal and accounting rules and norms for NGOs. Methodology/approach: The design and methodology approach includes a literature review and compa-rative analysis. We supported our findings with panel regression analysis. Research limitations include the selection of only a few countries for the analysis and only nine years of observation per country. Findings: The results of our research indicate that accounting regulations are of marginal importance for social trust. We conclude that accountability alone does not solve the social trust problems faced by non- -profit organisations. Other factors affect social trust, such as lack of institutional mechanisms, lack of anempathic society, and negative media coverage. Originality/value: The originality and value of this paperlie in the fact that we explain how NGOs’ accountability and revenues influence social trust in NGOs.Furthermore, we refer to CEE countries where – due to their historical heritage – both social trust andtransparency were deeply affected.

scholarly journals The effectiveness of using children’s drawings in social care House in producing Purposeful digital stories: فاعلية استخدام رسوم أطفال دور الرعاية الاجتماعية في إنتاج قصص رقمية هادفة

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (27) ◽  
pp. 20-1
Author(s):  
Shatha Brahim Al- Asqha, Ohood Mohammed Alqauimi Shatha Brahim Al- Asqha, Ohood Mohammed Alqauimi
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Digital Stories ◽  
Vision 2030

The present study aimed to confirm the importance of art technology in the digital age by discovering the psychological and social ‏characteristics of children’s drawings during the dawning realism stage (7- 9 years old), at the Social Care House. The study also aimed to confirm the efficacy of these drawings for analyzing children’s personalities, their emotional and psychological states and art’s role in delivering a sociocultural message a digital storytelling method, which is in line with the requirements of KSA Vision 2030. By following the descriptive. The study reached a number of results, including the effectiveness of using children’s drawings in the production of digital stories. In addition, the imagination, which the societal environment to which it belongs affects it, is able to integrate with the indicative relationships in digital anthropology with its problematic implications in the production of digital stories that reveal psychological facts and social relationships in the daily life of a child in social care homes.

Children’s art as document of the epoch

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Gurmidolova ◽  
◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Children's Art ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
The World ◽  
Source Of Information

The children’s art occupies an important place in the cultural space. Each child’s drawing reflects the culture of an epoch and therefore it can be investigated as a special document. Historical events, rituals, traditions, habits, clothing – everything is demonstrated in the children’s artwork. The children’s art language has specific features. It is generalized, spontaneous, expressive and schematic. All these characteristics give us reason to talk about children’s visual meta-language. In order to interpret children’s drawings correctly, we must know the principles of the meta-language. Each child’s drawing is a source of information about the tangible and spiritual culture of an epoch. Very often the children’s drawings possess some of the qualities of the works of art, created by mature artists. However, children’s art has its own principles, specific qualities and methods of creativity and therefore it is given a sovereign place in the world of fine arts.

South Asian Muslims in Hong Kong: Creation of a ‘Local Boy’ Identity

1991 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita M. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
British Empire ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Cultural Identification ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Substantial Change ◽  
Over Time

South Asian Muslims migrating throughout the world usually establish tight-knit communities in which most of their socioeconomic and religious activities occur. The social organization of South Asian Muslims in Hong Kong is unique in that their separation and isolation into a cohesive ethnic group is a relatively recent phenomenon. Communal orientations have undergone substantial change over time, often paralleling the kinds of changes occuring in Hong Kong as a result of its relationship to the British Empire. This paper seeks to understand the characteristics of the early South Asian Muslim community in Hong Kong and contrast these with social themes which are found in the contemporary community so as to discover the principles underlying social cohesion and cultural identification within this group.

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