scholarly journals Israel-Palestine: The pedagogical challenge

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Grayston ◽  
Dave Chang
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches ◽  
Pedagogical Challenge ◽  
The Way

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in a critical sense in 1948 and continues to this day.  An understanding of this continuing dispute requires knowledge of its historical, political, religious, demographic, emotional and geopolitical dimensions, and of the way anti-semitism figures in how people engage in discussions of the Middle-East.  After sketching out these realities, we consider how disagreement over the framing of the past generates disagreement over visions of the future.  Drawing on the work of Jakob Feldt and Ilan Gur-ze’ev, among others, we highlight the challenges posed to educators in regard to how each of the two major narratives, Israeli and Palestinian, compete with the Other’s account of their shared and fractured history.  Using an incident involving the British Columbia Ministry of Education as a reference point, we explore the way special interest groups engage with the realm of public education, as well as the challenge of deconstructing conflicting historical interpretations.  The paper suggests some pedagogical approaches for moving beyond the contesting of histories and for the development of better-grounded student involvement with this complex issue.

NASN Special Interest Groups: Their Growth and Development Through the Years

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-123
Author(s):  
Cheryl Blake ◽  
Shirley C. Gordon ◽  
Linda Kimel ◽  
Lindsey Minchella ◽  
Robin Adair Shannon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
School Nurses ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
School Settings ◽  
The Past ◽  
Specialized School

Over the past 25 years, the roles of school nurses have been both expanding and specializing in public and non–public school settings. To help meet the ever-changing and demanding challenges that specialized school nurses encounter in their unique settings, NASN embraced the idea that school nurses need a way to connect with colleagues working in similar practices. Thus, special interest groups (SIGs) were established, and the SIGs have become an integral part of NASN.

Algerian leadership will head off military threat

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Military Threat ◽  
The Media ◽  
Powerful Interest ◽  
The Way

Subject President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's grip on power in Algeria. Significance In the past three months, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has dismissed ten generals in the armed forces and police. The scale of the turnover is unusual, as is the way in which the changes have been effected. The media have advanced various explanations: a cocaine-smuggling scandal, corruption charges or a routine rotation of officers. Questions have also arisen about what impact the dismissal of powerful security figures might have on the presidency itself, as Bouteflika’s supporters prepare the ground for him to secure a fifth term in an election scheduled for April 2019. Impacts A fifth term for Bouteflika will not lay to rest rivalries among powerful interest groups over the eventual succession. Activists and civil society members will organise more protests to express discontent with the presidency. If the cocaine smuggling claim is true, it may point to mafia-style networks deep within the security establishment.

scholarly journals On the categorization of the Japanese honorific system Keigo

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivona Barešova
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Category System ◽  
The Past ◽  
New System ◽  
The Way ◽  
Polite Speech

Abstract The way the structure of the Japanese honorific system keigo is grasped and presented influences the understanding and appropriate use of the honorific forms this system includes. Functional categorization makes it easier to perceive principles that are not immediately evident. This paper argues for the superiority of the new 5-category division into sonkeigo (‘deferential speech’), kenjōgo (‘humble speech’), teichōgo (‘formal polite speech’), teineigo (‘polite speech’) and bikago (‘refined speech’), recently promulgated by the Ministry of Education, over the traditional and wide-spread 3-category division into sonkeigo, kenjōgo and teineigo. It proposes that the new system offers significant functional advantages in that it better captures the ways social relations are expressed within the Japanese honorific system and that it sets out more clear-cut categories which better reflect the differences between the forms available to the speaker. Through description and comparison of the more notable frameworks proposed by Japanese linguists over the past fifty years, the paper seeks to demonstrate that the 5-category system is not just another more extensive model but also represents a logical outcome of developments in this field of scholarship.

scholarly journals Educación patriótica y grupos sociales en Xalapa durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX

2012 ◽  
pp. 91-138
Author(s):  
Pablo Martínez Carmona
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
The Way

Desde la perspectiva de las discusiones teóricas y las perspectivas historiográficas contemporáneas de la historia social, la historia cultural y el análisis del discurso, el artículo muestra un análisis histórico de los artefactos culturales producidos durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX en Xalapa, Veracruz, vinculados con ideas, discursos y prácticas educativas cuya finalidad fue crear una sociedad de ciudadanos patriotas e instruidos que fueran morales, virtuosos y útiles a su Patria, a la cual debían conducir según las democracias modernas. Enfatiza la manera en que los diversos grupos sociales manipulaban o admitían los objetivos de la educación pública de la época. Concluye que el historiador es capaz de explorar contextos sociales, culturales y discursivos enteramente amplios dentro de espacios fragmentarios del pasado.AbstractFrom the perspective of theoretical discussions and contemporary historiographyc perspectives of social history, cultural history and analysis of the speech, the article shows an historical analysis of the produced cultural devices during first half of century XIX in Xalapa, Veracruz, tie with ideas, speeches and educative practices whose purpose was to create a society of patriotic and instructed citizens that were moral, virtuous and useful to their mother country to which to lead according to modern democracies. It emphasizes the way in which the diverse social groups manipulated or admited the objectives of the public education at the time. Conclude that the historian is able to explore social, cultural and discoursives contexts, entirely ample within fragmentary spaces of the past.

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