scholarly journals The OECD as a Booster of National School Governance. The case of New Math in Sweden, 1950-1975

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Johan Prytz
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
School Administration ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
School Governance ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
National School ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Math ◽  
National Systems

New Math was an international reform movement aimed at thorough changes in school mathematics with respect to both content and teaching methods. This movement started to gain influence in the 1950s, and in the 1960s several countries prepared and implemented their own New Math reforms. This movement not only attracted prominent mathematicians and psychologists but also garnered support from the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The New Math reforms are examples of how OECD supported thorough and broad changes in national systems of education. In most countries, however, the influence of New Math on syllabi began to fade by the 1970s. In this paper, I discuss how the New Math in Sweden reform boosted national governance and changed power relations between the teachers, textbook producers, and the national school administration. I also suggest that OECD continued to support this power structure through the testing enterprises associated with PISA.

WACANA, KUASA DAN AGAMA DALAM KONTESTASI PILGUB JAKARTA

ALQALAM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Joko Priyanto
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Islamic Society

Religion Blasphemy addressed to Jakarta Governor who is also a candidate for Jakarta Governor Election 2017 is the beginning of a series of polemic along process of Jakarta Governor Election 2017. This case triggers friction between Islamic society as a civil society and government as authority. This research explored this case by using theory of power relations Foucault. The result shows that the mass movement of Islamic society is power from Islamic society knowledge. Power structure tries to discipline this movement by hegemony in form of discourse. However, hegemonic discourse from civil society (Islamic society) also tries to challenge. The fight of hegemonic in form of discourse becomes so viral in all media, element and institution. This research shows that the discourse of Leader and Diversity is a signifier empty which be contestation of giving meaning.   Keywords: knowledge, power, Foucoult, religion.

scholarly journals When research met policy: a history of innovation and a complicated relationship in three Swedish development projects in mathematics education, 1960–2018

ZDM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Prytz
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
School Governance ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Major Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Contemporary Development

AbstractThis paper concerns the relationship between research and governance policy in three Swedish major development projects in mathematics education: the New Math project (1960–1975), the PUMP project (1970–1980), and the Boost for Mathematics project in (2012–2016). All three projects were driven or financed by the Swedish central school authorities. Using a historical comparative method, this study deepens the understanding of how research co-exists with governance policy when preparing innovations in mathematics education. The main historical sources are official reports and governmental decisions concerning the three projects. The analysis is focused on the nature of the innovations of each project and the role of researchers in the process of creating the innovations. The analysis highlights the theories and the methods involved in those processes. The three projects are also positioned in a context of school governance policy. In Sweden, the prevailing school governing policy changed from a highly centralised governance in the 1960s to a highly decentralised governance in the 2010s. The paper concludes by discussing to what degree the researchers adhered to principles of research or school governance; in particular, the Boost for Mathematics project is considered in this regard. The relevance of the paper in relation to the emerging field of implementation research in mathematics education concerns how historical studies can give new insights about contemporary development projects in mathematics education.

Obstacles to Political Careers

1985 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeşslim Arat
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Political Careers ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Women’S Perceptions ◽  
Patriarchal Power

“Routine politics” becomes central to the study of the nature and limits of women's political aspirations in a context where women have not as yet chosen to organize a women's movement. This article is based on a series of indepth interviews with a group of female Turkish politicians. The skewed structure of power relations between men and women is aptly reflected in women's perceptions of women's problems in politics. Locating the problem at this level makes it more difficult to ameliorate the situation, short of there being a radical change in the patriarchal power structure of society.

Expressing the Modern: Barry Byrne in 1920s Europe

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent L. Michael
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Liturgical Reform ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Mies Van Der Rohe ◽  
The Catholic Church

The 1923 European trip undertaken by Francis Barry Byrne and his collaborator, the sculptor Alfonso Iannelli, is the subject of Expressing the Modern: Barry Byrne in 1920s Europe. As vividly recorded in the letters written by Byrne to his future wife, he and Iannelli visited the Weimar Bauhaus and met with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Erich Mendelsohn, J. J. P. Oud, T. H. Wijdeveld, and other leading modernists. Byrne, who trained in Frank Lloyd Wright's first studio, was especially drawn to the work of the expressionists, and Vincent L. Michael associates Byrne's distinctive architecture with that strain of modernism and with the liturgical reform movement that he helped to promote within the Catholic church, his most significant patron. In 1928 Byrne became the only Prairie School architect to build in Europe with the commission for Christ the King church in Cork, Ireland, and he continued to design modern churches into the 1960s.

Lessons from a Bygone Medical Ethics Program

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANONYMOUS
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
American Medical ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Medical Technologies ◽  
Ethics Program ◽  
Ethics Teaching ◽  
The 1960S

Ethicists in American medical schools feel increasingly discouraged these days. In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, society's enthusiasm for teaching about medical ethics flourished as new medical technologies posed new ethical perplexities. Americans eagerly sought ethics advice and looked to medical schools to provide it. As the sites where many of the new technologies were developed and future physicians were trained, medical schools were the logical place for medical ethicists to work and teach. A few schools recognized society's need and instituted explicit medical ethics teaching—allocating funds, hiring ethicists, creating departments, and trumpeting their accomplishments. But most schools responded to the need with indifference or even hostility. They distrusted outside “experts” and feared a zealous reform movement aimed at the character or practices of modern medicine. Yet even those schools were forced to create ethics programs to meet powerful accreditation requirements adopted around 1990. Complying reluctantly, these schools allocated few personnel and minimal budgets. The resulting programs struggled.

The power of translation

Babel ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-166
Author(s):  
Stefan Lukits
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Point Form

“The Power of Translation” examines the language phenomenon of translation in the context of power relations and the transcendence of power relations. The thesis of the article can be summarized in point form: *Translation is a player in the power structure of human relating from which it cannot be extracted and based on an objective and purely translative ground. *Translation, as much as language itself, is a force which results in separation, not in connection. At the same time, the ‘tools’ (technology, translation, language, eros) which separate us become connective where they retain the capacity of self-subversion and dialogue. *Subsequent to this dynamic, we discern the colonizing and eschatological plot inherent in translation. Translation is an ‘open’ phenomenon, always engaged in creating structures which are both oppressive and liberating. It is this openness which constitutes the power of translation.

Majimaji and the Millennium: Abrahamic Sources and the Creation of a Tanzanian Resistance Tradition

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 365-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaddeus Sunseri
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
German Colonialism ◽  
Historical Tradition ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Resistance Movement

Writing thirty years ago the historian of the Majimaji rebellion, Gilbert Gwassa, emphasized the purely Tanzanian nature of the uprising, as seen in the ideology which he believed was the inspiration for the widespread war against German colonialism. To Gwassa, southern Tanzanians created an innovative, secular ideology after the turn of the twentieth century which enabled Africans to resist German colonialism supra-ethnically rather than locally. Gwassa was adamant that the Majimaji ideology owed nothing to outside influences.Gwassa's contention has been largely unchallenged despite obvious paradoxes. Majimaji emerged in a region widely permeated with Islamic influences by 1905, the time of the rebellion. Moreover, the Christian colonial power structure had been present in the outbreak region for some twenty years by 1905, while Christian missionaries had been active in Tanzania for almost forty years. By the time the Majimaji historical tradition was being written in Tanzania in the 1960s, the nation included many Muslims and Christians, including many of Gwassa's research informants, who helped shape his interpretation of Majimaji. Aside from these circumstantial suggestions of the possibility of an externally-influenced Majimaji tradition, a close reading of archival sources from the German period, including several documents which have not been considered in the historiographical tradition, suggest that Christian and Islamic influences helped to shape the writing of Majimaji, if not the resistance movement itself. This paper will examine some of these “Abrahamic” sources of the Majimaji tradition, and consider how they might have been used to formulate a Majimaji epic which has become a standard icon of early African colonial history.

scholarly journals Cooperación técnico-científica internacional en la construcción de redes de monitoreo atmosférico. El caso de Bogotá (1960-2016)/ International Technical-Scientific Cooperation in the Construction of Atmospheric Monitoring Networks. The Case of Bogotá

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-167
Author(s):  
Mauricio Alberto Ángel Macías ◽  
Stefania Gallini
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Monitoring Networks ◽  
Scientific Cooperation ◽  
Atmospheric Monitoring ◽  
International Power ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S

Las redes para el monitoreo de la calidad del aire en las ciudades se han posicionado como la tecnología útil para hacer seguimiento e intervenir sobre el peligro que trae consigo la contaminación atmosférica. La necesidad de hacer vigilancia atmosférica a escala global se ha fundamentado en la importancia de este problema ambiental para la salud pública, especialmente después de la segunda posguerra. La tecnología de monitoreo apareció en América Latina en los años sesenta, en un momento en el cual la contaminación del aire no suponía un problema mayor en la región. Aun así, se inició la vigilancia atmosférica, mediada por intereses económicos y políticos propios de las relaciones de poder internacionales características de este periodo. Este artículo toma como caso de estudio la ciudad de Bogotá, para explicar cómo las relaciones desequilibradas de poder entre países del primero y tercer mundo, y luego entre países desarrollados y en vías de desarrollo, condujeron a la creación de sistemas técnico científicos y redes de monitoreo atmosférico. Estas resultaron al principio más problemáticas que útiles, pero con el paso del tiempo se tornaron muy importantes para la vigilancia sanitaria y ambiental del territorio. Abstract Networks for air quality monitoring in cities have been positioned as useful technology to monitor and intervene on the danger posed by air pollution. The need to carry out global atmospheric monitoring has been based on the importance of this environmental problem to public health, especially after the second post war period. Monitoring technology appeared in Latin America in the 1960s, at a time when air pollution was not a major problem in the region. Even so, atmospheric surveillance was initiated, mediated by economic and political interests in the international power relations characteristic of this period. This article takes as a case study the city of Bogota, to explain how the unbalanced power relations between first and third world countries, and then between developed and developing countries, led to the creation of scientific technical systems and networks of atmospheric monitoring. These were at first more problematic than useful, but with the passage of time they became very important for the sanitary and environmental surveillance of the territory.

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