scholarly journals Multicultural Approach to Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Anzhelina Koriakina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Contemporary Context

<p><em>The article discusses the definition of a multicultural approach to education. The views of foreign and Russian researchers on this problem are represented. Features of a </em><em>multicultural approach - dialogue of cultures in historical and contemporary context, </em><em>cultural pluralism, multi-ethnicity – are showed. It is concluded that in Russia the term </em>"multicultural approach to education" is used in the meaning "multi-ethnic".</p><p> </p>

Anger and Injustice

Shadow Sophia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 110-133
Author(s):  
Celia E. Deane-Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Psychological Data ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Evolutionary Aspects ◽  
Contemporary Context

Individual acts of violence are always situated in the context of a community of relationships with others. Anger, as a passion, can be used for good or ill and this chapter will explore ways in which anger can be expressed. This chapter will address two broad questions on biosocial capacities for anger and two theological questions. In what sense is the human capacity for anger shaped through biological or cultural influences? What specific contexts reduce the likelihood of anger and what are the evolutionary advantages? In what sense might anger become sinful in theological terms? How might God’s anger be perceived in Augustine and contemporary theology? This chapter will begin by exploring evolutionary aspects of aggression and how these are related to social psychological categories. In philosophical terms, Aristotle’s definition of anger and the specific criteria for its presence are important, but so is the difference between anger and hatred. Thomas Aquinas defines anger as one of the moral passions and works out in what circumstances it become sinful. Thomistic discussion is still relevant to contemporary analysis even though Aquinas did not have access to the evolutionary and psychological data that are available in a contemporary context.

““Beyond This World of Transiency and Impermanence””: Japanese Americans, Dharma Bums, and the Making of American Buddhism during the Early Cold War Years

2008 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K. Masatsugu
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
European American ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Buddhist Study ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Cold War

This article examines the growing interest in Buddhism in the United States during the Cold War, analyzing discussions and debates around the authenticity of various Buddhist teachings and practices that emerged in an interracial Buddhist study group and its related publications. Japanese American Buddhists had developed a modified form of Jōōdo Shinshūū devotional practice as a strategy for building ethnic community and countering racialization as religious and racial Others. The authenticity of these practices was challenged by European and European American scholars and artists, especially the Beats, who drew upon Orientalist representations of Buddhism as ancient, exotic, and mysterious. In response, Japanese American Buddhists crafted their own definition of ““tradition”” by drawing from institutional and devotional developments dating back to fourteenth-century Japan as well as more recent Japanese American history. The article contextualizes these debates within the broader discussion of cultural pluralism and race relations during the Cold War.

Conceptual and methodological questions in the study of collective identities

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Triandafyllidou ◽  
Ruth Wodak
Keyword(s):  
General Definition ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Sociological Discourse ◽  
Contemporary Context

Studying identity, be it ethnic, cultural, linguistic, national or regional, in the contemporary context becomes troublesome because the scholar is faced with a whole range of social and cultural forms that co-exist uncomfortably with existing definitions of social identity. Moreover, although identity has been a central concern in a number of disciplines during the past decades, there has been considerable disagreement regarding the methodological tools most suitable to study its formation and change. The aim of this Special Issue is to discuss the usefulness of the very concept as well as the main methodological tools suitable to analyse identity-related phenomena today. In this introductory chapter, we provide for a general definition of the concept and elaborate on recent theoretical and conceptual developments regarding the nature of identity in the sociological, discourse studies and social psychological literature. In the concluding section, we introduce the individual contributions presented in this issue.

scholarly journals La hipótesis del ovillo desmadejado

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merce Picornell
Keyword(s):  
Literary Research ◽  
Iberian Studies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Actual Configuration ◽  
Contemporary Context

This chapter explores some of the challenges posed by a ‘comparatist’ definition of Iberian Studies. These challenges relate to the reification of the genealogy of cultural, institutional or political links that often justify Iberian literary research. They are also characterised by the tendency to idealise the Iberian context as a net of relations ‘between equals’, which contributes to hide the heterogeneity and the hierarchies between the literary units under analysis. The case of Majorcan literature and culture – an often excluded node of the Iberian ‘peninsular’ network – will be used to argue that exploring this topic from its so-called peripheral ‘others’ offers some solutions to this ‘comparatist’ definition in the contemporary context. Specifically, this chapter focuses on two different aspects of relevance to Iberian Studies: the difficulty of defining the local or regional status of Majorcan literature, and the intersection of local and global synergies in its actual configuration.

The Language of Citizenship

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Bryce
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
German Language ◽  
National Council ◽  
Civic Knowledge ◽  
State Authority ◽  
Bilingual Schools ◽  
Definition Of

Drawing from Argentine governmental and German-language sources, this chapter argues that bilingual schools pushed for a pluralist definition of citizenship and, in so doing, undermined many of the assimilationist goals expressed by a small group of Argentine elites. This approach contributes to a broader discussion of education and state authority in Argentina by highlighting how state officials attempted to confront cultural pluralism and how immigrants embraced and modified these efforts. Through a series of policies, the National Council of Education ensured that bilingual schools taught the Spanish language and a number of Argentine subjects that would equip children with civic knowledge for Argentine society. Yet that same system of regulation allowed immigrant educators to teach children a second language and other topics related to their parents’ countries of origins.

scholarly journals What are traditions?

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-98
Author(s):  
Dragan Jakovljevic
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Phenomenological Description ◽  
Scientific Explanations ◽  
Definition Of

This essay, which combines methods of phenomenological description, definition, and scientific explanation, tries to look more comprehensively into the phenomenon of traditions. The author starts from social and scientific explanations of this phenomenon to problematize the challenging thesis of contingency as an inherent source of traditions. The next step is to formulate definition of tradition and explicate its components. The second part of the essay first specifies the socially significant roles of traditions, in order to finally raise the issue of their relation to cultural pluralism, the ways in which traditions are maintained and treated. With regard to the latter, the author advocates the practice of reformist traditionalism, highlighting its advantages over conservatism and the revolutionary deconstruction of traditions.

HARMONIOUS UNITY OF SPIRITUALITY, CULTURE,EDUCATION AND UPBRINGING

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
T. L. Antonenko ◽  
G. P. Shevchenko
Keyword(s):  
Personality Development ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Essential Characteristic ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Psychological Determinants ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Pedagogical Research ◽  
Culture Education

The article is devoted to the investigation of the problem of harmonious unity of spirituality, culture, education, and upbringing of a personality, which are the most important categories of pedagogical science and determine the tendencies and nature of personality development. The authors of the article provide an essential characteristic of these concepts. It is emphasized that in present day conditions, the state of spirituality of society, its decline "as a social phenomenon, as a critical state for the fate of mankind", is of particular concern. Therefore, the problems of the culture and spirituality of the personality are now the subject of attention of all the humanities. The authors of the article note that a growing person is at the center of pedagogical research. It is emphasized that nowadays it is necessary to take into account its energy and information essence, and peculiarities of its soul as an organic totality of all physical, energetic, conscious and unconscious psychophysiological and spiritual forces of a person. The need to consider the concepts of spirituality, culture, education, and upbringing in the context of formation of the value and sense sphere of personality is emphasized. In the article, the author's definition of this concept is presented and the psychological determinants of the formation of the value and sense sphere of a personality are identified. They include culture as a metasystem; spirituality as a vital determinant; ideals as meaningful factors; and modern information systems, spaces and practices. In the article, the concept of cultural personality development, worked out by D. Paul Shafer, is characterized. The shortcomings of modern education are described and the tasks of the new century education are defined. It is emphasized that education should perform an important culture-creative and human-creative function that promotes the cultivation of personality spirituality. It is emphasized that upbringing of a spiritually mature personality is ensured in the educational process by the readiness to co-operate in the context of cultural pluralism.

The Concept and Role of Culture in Socioscientific Systems

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-53
Author(s):  
Masudul Alam Choudhury
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
The World ◽  
Dialectical Process ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Causal Nexus

The term “culture” has two interesting connotations in social thought.Both carry important implications on the kind of social interrelationshipsthat are generated by the preferences formed at the level of the individual.Since culture is an intermediate course for generating interrelationships,which in turn reinforce and continue the very meaning of culture,a cause-effect relationship must exist between social transformation andculture. In this, the formative basis of culture, the individual and groupsmust play a determining role. Such a social-political-institutionalapproach to the study of culture, though not prevalent in common literature,has played a central role in two opposing schools. The first schoolwas generated from Ibn Khaldun’s concept of the “science of culture.”’The second was given life by the ontological status given to culture byHegel in his definition of the “world spirit,” which he associated with theheart of western civilization.2 (Weber, too, saw in culture the same characteristic?)These two perspectives have recently been invoked byFukuyama to expound his own theory of the “end of hi~tory.”H~e seesthe Hegelian dialectical process to be at the heart of an atomism of culture-the “isothymia,” as he calls it-and governing individualism.When viewed in light of a transmitting medium for social changeagainst the perspectives of different worldviews, the role of culture hasbeen construed in terms of “cultural pluralism.” But when this is takenup in the light of its transforming and cause-effect impact on social transformation,cultural pluralism is nothing less than the consequence of aparticular political philosophy. Thus, an important causal nexus of “global”interactions emerges: First, there is a worldview that establishes ameaning of culture. Second, the meaning of culture so formed creates a ...

Complexity, cultural pluralism and democracy: collective action in the public space

2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Melucci ◽  
Leonardo Avritzer
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right

This article is an attempt to show the political consequences of the forms of collective action introduced by social movements and their contribution to the formulation of a new conception of democratic practice. It is our contention that the current crisis faced by democracy is linked to the lack of a space capable of dealing with both social complexity and cultural pluralism. We argue that a public space for face-to-face interaction among citizens differentiated from the state allows us to consider this issue in a different light. Publicity allows the incorporation into democratic politics of demands for cultural integration by preserving a space for their direct presentation. Publicity also avoids a reductionist conception of political claims in which, in order for representation to take place, there is the need to reduce the plurality of the cultural demands through the aggregation of political majorities. In this article we show the tension between the public space and political representation, and argue that the definition of democracy in complex societies should include two further freedoms: the freedom not to belong as the right to withdraw from one's constituted identity in order to form a new one, and the freedom not to be represented. Such acts, which are non-aggregative par excellence, cannot be managed by the system of representation, but only through mechanisms of public presentation and acknowledgement of difference. In our view the tension between the political and the public should become part of the definition of democracy.

Introductory paper

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
W. W. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Line Intensity ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Spectral Classification ◽  
Dimensional Array ◽  
Rr Lyrae ◽  
Metallic Line ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
Parameter Varying ◽  
Definition Of

1. The definition of “normal” stars in spectral classification changes with time; at the time of the publication of theYerkes Spectral Atlasthe term “normal” was applied to stars whose spectra could be fitted smoothly into a two-dimensional array. Thus, at that time, weak-lined spectra (RR Lyrae and HD 140283) would have been considered peculiar. At the present time we would tend to classify such spectra as “normal”—in a more complicated classification scheme which would have a parameter varying with metallic-line intensity within a specific spectral subdivision.

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