scholarly journals Persiflages van “Jiskefet” als lesondersteuning

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 141-156
Author(s):  
Bas Hamers

The satirical television series Jiskefet ran from 1990 to 2005 at the VPRO channel. While the popular satirical television series Kooten & De Bie focused more on political parody, Jiskefet was more absurdist and mainly made parodies of certain subcultures. In this article, I want to look at how these timeless parodies can be used as course materials. Not only is Jiskefet itself part of Dutch culture, but the parodies also magnify typical Dutch cultural elements. Examples include student associations, the culture of voluntary work, nursing homes that often appear in the news, and the office culture with the inevitable lunch box and office humor. Furthermore, the parodies constitute interesting linguistic material in the form of neologisms, which have enriched the Dutch language and will also be discussed here. Finally, the fact that stereotypes and prejudices are used in parodies offers the possibility of discussing the subject with students.

Author(s):  
Andreas Follmann ◽  
Franziska Schollemann ◽  
Andrea Arnolds ◽  
Pauline Weismann ◽  
Thea Laurentius ◽  
...  

The bans on visiting nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, while intended to protect residents, also have the risk of increasing the loneliness and social isolation that already existed among the older generations before the pandemic. To combat loneliness and social isolation in nursing homes, this trial presents a study during which social networks of nursing home residents and elderly hospital patients were maintained through virtual encounters and robots, respectively. The observational trial included volunteers who were either residents of nursing homes or patients in a geriatric hospital. Each volunteer was asked to fill in a questionnaire containing three questions to measure loneliness. The questionnaire also documented whether video telephony via the robot, an alternative contact option (for example, a phone call), or no contact with relatives had taken place. The aim was to work out the general acceptance and the benefits of virtual encounters using robots for different roles (users, relatives, nursing staff, facilities). Seventy volunteers with three possible interventions (non-contact, virtual encounters by means of a robot, and any other contact) took part in this trial. The frequency of use of the robot increased steadily over the course of the study, and it was regularly used in all facilities during the weeks of visitor bans (n = 134 times). In the hospital, loneliness decreased significantly among patients for whom the robot was used to provide contact (F(1,25) = 7.783, p = 0.01). In the nursing homes, no demonstrable effect could be achieved in this way, although the subject feedback from the users was consistently positive.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Anindita Nova Ardhani ◽  
Yudi Kurniawan

The aim of this study was to see the meaning of life in the elderly who live in the nursing home. The benefits that are expected to have in this research include theoretical benefits, which are expected to be a reference material for the development of developmental psychology, especially psychogerontology and practical benefits to be a reference material for psychologists, therapists, counselors, assistants, and readers in an effort to increase the meaning of life. in the elderly in general and in the elderly who live in nursing homes in particular. The subject criteria for the study were the elderly who were still able to communicate with and in good general condition. These criteria are determined on the basis of consideration because this study was conducted using interviews as a method of data collection. The results of this study indicate that the elderly who live in nursing homes have a good life meaning.Keywords: nursing homes, parents, the meaning of life,


1997 ◽  
Vol 77 (S1) ◽  
pp. S21-S28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matty Chiva

AbstractsThe present paper presents a certain number of cultural elements which interact in the determination of the frequency of food intake. Approaches from various perspectives (historical, ethnological, anthropological, sociological) draw attention to two major aspects relating to the periodicity of food intake: the extreme cultural diversity and the continual modifications which have occurred over time and space. The various cultural models change and are subject to multiple influences, for example, cross-cultural, economic and historical. In addition, there are interactions between the models. The definitions of food intake and frequency play a major role in building up consumers' perceptions. These various perceptions are multiple (perception of self, of food and its virtues, the rules and moral values of consumption) and finally influence behaviours. Finally, and taking into account the systems of beliefs, the very nature of feeding behaviours may carry feelings of guilt for the subject. The study of real behaviours and their relationship with health is still incomplete for reasons of methodology and also of conceptual definition. In future, data collection has to take into account real behaviour as well as subjective perceptions and value judgements. A specific effort has to be made in the future to develop methodology. This should allow the collection of reliable data and particularly comparisons between studies, without oversimplifying and distorting cultural specificities.


Author(s):  
Darijus Veteikis ◽  
Margarita Jankauskaitė

The aim of investigation was to discover territorial differences in landscape technosphere (structural imprint from cultural and technological processes). The main processes forming technosphere are related to technology‐bound areal changes that transform landscape through land use change and urbanization (the latter term taken in ‘building up’ sense). This specific layer can be divided horizontally into areas (1969 individual ones, in the Lithuanian case, averagely 33 km2 in size each) with a homogeneous land‐use structure and organically unbreakable techno‐structural elements (settlements with a road net), these areas being named techno‐morpho‐topes (TMTs). Complex classification of TMTs according to the largest urbocomplex (settlements and other built‐up complexes) inside them and dominating land‐use gave 10 types of areal technogenization that were mapped. Analysis of classified TMT mosaic allowed to distinguish 53 individual technosphere regions having a homogeneous, irregular or rhythmic mosaic texture of TMT types. Asymmetry of regions in regard to large cities seems to be a dominating rule (the largest city is usually in the peripheral part of the region). The obtained data could be applied in land management by finding the best way to relate the administrative and economic regional system and technosphere structure. Relations of the technosphere regions with relief was traced in few places. This implies further investigations on the subject of relations between landscape natural and cultural elements, structures and processes. Santrauka Tyrimo tikslas buvo atskleisti kraštovaizdžio technosferos (kultūrinių procesų struktūrinio įspaudo) teritorinius skirtumus Lietuvoje. Pagrindiniai kultūrinimo procesai susiję su plotiniais pokyčiais. Kraštovaizdžio transformavimasis vyksta dėl žemėnaudos pokyčių ir urbanizacijos (užstatymo plėtros prasme), įgyvendinamų technologijų. Sukultūrinimas lemia ypatingą sluoksnį ant gamtinių kraštovaizdžio komponentų. Horizontaliai šis sluoksnis gali būti suskaidytas į nedidelius plotus (Lietuvoje – 1969 vidutinio 33 km2 ploto individualius arealus), kuriuose homogeniška žemėnaudos struktūra ir organiškai vientisi technostruktūriniai elementai (gyvenvietės ir kelių tinklas). Šie teritoriniai vienetai pavadinti technomorfotopais (TMT). Remiantis kompleksine TMT klasifikacija, pagal didžiausią jų viduje esantį urbokompleksą (gyvenvietė arba kitas užstatytas plotas) ir vyraujančią naudmeną nustatyta 10 plotinės technogenizacijos tipų. Jie buvo kartografuoti. Analizuojant klasifikuotų TMT mozaikos žemėlapį išskirti 53 individualūs technosferos regionai. Vienų jų TMT plotinės technogenizacijos tipų mozaika, jos tekstūra vienalytė, kitų netvarkinga, trečių ritmiška. Paplitęs bruožas – daugelio regionų asimetrija didžiausio jiems priklausančio miesto atžvilgiu (didžiausias miestas paprastai yra regiono periferijoje, paribyje). Gauti duomenys gali būti pritaikyti kraštotvarkoje geriausiai sąsajai tarp administracinių bei ekonominių regionų ir technosferos struktūros rasti. Ryšys tarp technosferos regionų ir reljefo bruožų pastebimas tik dalyje Lietuvos teritorijos. Ryšiams tarp kraštovaizdžio gamtinių ir kultūrinių elementų, struktūrų ir procesų atskleisti būtini išsamesni tyrimai. Резюме Целью исследования было выявление территориальной неравномерности техносферы (структурного отпечатка культурных процессов) ландшафта в Литве. Главные процессы окультуривания связаны с площадными изменениями, которые осуществляются с помощью технических приспособлений, трансформирующих ландшафт через изменения земельных угодий и урбанизацию (распpостранения застроенных площадей). Слой техносферы, как бы надетый на природные компоненты ландшафта, горизонтально может быть расчленен на небольшие ареалы (в Литве – 1969 единиц со средней площадью 33 км2 ) с однородной структурой землеугодий и органически целостными техно-структурными элементами (населенными или другими застроенными местностями с дорожной сетью). Эти территориальные единицы названы техноморфотопами (ТМТ). Комплексная классификация ТМТ по двум признакам – доминирующему по площади типу застроенной территории (урбокомплекса) и доминирующих землеугодий – дала 10 типов площадной (ареальной) техногенизации, что было картографировано. Анализ типовой мозаики позволил выявить 53 индивидуальных района окультуривания с разными текстурными типами мозаики: однородным, беспорядочным или ритмичным. Наблюдается закономерная асимметрия многих районов, заключающих в себе большие и средние города: самая большая населенная местность находится на окраине, почти примыкающей к границе района. Полученные данные могут быть использованы в краеустройстве при нахождении оптимальной взаимосвязи между административной, а также экономической территориальными структурами и регионами техносферы. Территориальная связь между районами техносферы и рельефом наблюдается лишь местами. Поэтому необходимы более детальные исследования для выявления связей между природными и культурными элементами, структурами и процессами.


2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (5 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Kamila Tomaka

A striking change has recently occurred in the Dutch language, namely, that we are increasingly confronted with a sharp expansion of the use of hun in the subject position. The use of hun instead of ze or zij as the subject of the sentence is considered ungrammatical and a form of language degradation. This contribution discusses the origin of this phenomenon, its characteristics and possible explanations for its use. It also presents a critical overview of statements given by authoritative bodies, such as the Dutch Language Union, about the use of hun. The issue of hun in the practice of NT2 education is also discussed, and the question is asked whether this language change has a negative impact on Dutch. Is it acceptable? Where is the limit for tolerance?


Museum Worlds ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
Sercan Eklemezler

The primary motivation behind this study is assessing how successful “inclusive” urban museums really are in representing ethnic/religious minorities. The research site is Bursa City Museum, Turkey, where the Bursa Jewish Community used to be one of the key social and cultural elements of the city. In-depth interviews are the main method of study, since the opinions of this minority on the subject are the main focus. The main aim here is to reveal the ideas of the community (whose collective memories are threatened with extinction) about being represented in the museum, and from this analysis to make constructive suggestions for the institution. It seems that the community cares about being identified as part of the city, but is indifferent to the institution of the museum, partly due to problems in the ways in which they are represented.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Nikolai V. Belenov

Geographical vocabulary existing in ethno-linguistic environment, has a significant impact on the formation of its toponymic nomenclature. This influence is manifested both in the form of toponymic formants and in the basics of geographical names originating from this ethno-linguistic environment. The relevance of this work is definted by the fact that until now geographical vocabulary of the Tornovsky dialect of the Moksha-Mordovian language, as well as other Samara-Bends dialects, was not the subject of special study, and was not introduced into academic and research circulation. The purpose of this article is description and lexico-semantic and etymological analysis of geographical vocabulary of the Tornovsky dialect of the Moksha-Mordovian language. General theoretical and methodological basis of the research was made up of the works of Russian and international researchers on the toponymy and dialectology of the Mordovian languages. Vocabulary data is based on the materials of field research that the author conducted in the village Tornovoe of the Volga district of the Samara region during the field-work in 2017 and 2018. The main methods of linguistic research are descriptive and comparative methods. They were used in the collection and analysis of linguistic material. The results of the study showed that the geographical vocabulary of the Tornovsky dialect of the Moksha-Mordovian language fully reflects all the phonetic and accentual features of this dialect. It was also revealed that there is a fundamental difference between the composition of geographical vocabulary of the Tornovsky dialect and the same vocabulary of the neighboring dialects of the Moksha-Mordvin language, Shelehmetsky and Bahilovsky. A significant part of the geographical vocabulary in tthe Tornovsky dialect is borrowed from the Russian and Turkic Kipchak languages which reflects ethnolinguistic history of its speakers.


Author(s):  
Natal'ya Vladimirovna Knyazeva ◽  
Natal'ya Vladimirovna Kurkova

In the light of deliberate attention of modern linguistic science and a range of social disciplines to the problem of personality and language, the unresolved question of the nature of language game in the texts of different stylistic orientation remains relevant and polemical. Comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon at hand requires the study of linguistic material that would reflect the specific nature of language game, which represents the organic synthesis of genre-stylistic affiliation and creative uniqueness of linguistic personality. Therefore, the examination of language game in the authorial publicistic writing, namely publications of V. V. Nabokov draws particular interest. The subject of this research is the various manifestations of language play on the lexical-semantic level, which implies occasional alignment of semantic plans, change of the usual meaning of the linguistic unit. It is established that the publicistic heritage of V. V. Nabokov is notable for the artistry that is atypical for such genres; it can be traced in the choice of lexical means, their subsequent interaction and transformation. The usual linguistic units acquire the new plane of content, which largely determines the functional-pragmatic vector of publications and the authorial position that reflects the the tendentious suggestive intentions characteristic to the authorial publicistic writing: accusatory, critical, etc. Change of the usual plan of perception is achieved by various means; most typical is the reference to semantic invariant, which in the authorial context contravenes the known presuppositions. The observations indicate that the language game based on the partial or full change of usual meaning of the word is of syncretic nature: as a rule, the new metaphorical level is not limited by modification of a single lexeme, but extends to the entire structure and compositional volume of the sentence.


Author(s):  
Dolores Frias-Navarro ◽  
Hector Monterde-i-Bort ◽  
Nuria Navarro-Gonzalez ◽  
Olaya Molina-Palomero ◽  
Marcos Pascual-Soler ◽  
...  

Many students have feelings of state anxiety when exams, and these feelings probably affect their performance. Statistics courses have been identified as producing the most anxiety. The purpose of our study is to measure statistics anxiety throughout an academic course (pre-test and three assessments) in order to observe its change and analyze the relationship between statistics anxiety and academic achievement. The sample is composed of 30 Psychology students taking a course in research designs and statistics (26.7% men and 73.3% women) with a mean age of 20.31 years (SD = 3.76). The results show that the students begin with a high level of statistics anxiety that gradually declines as the course progresses and they study the course materials. Moreover, the final achievement in the subject maintains an inverse relationship with the level of statostics anxiety. The recommendation is to present the detailed contents of the teaching guide on the first day of the course in order to reduce students' anxiety and uncertainty when beginning a statistics course.


Author(s):  
Jonathan Deutsch ◽  
Jeffrey Miller

Three editions (2000, 2003, and 2010) of Teaching Food: Agriculture, Food and Society Syllabi and Course Materials Collection, colloquially known as the ASFS Syllabi Set, contain some 1,000 pages of food syllabi and assignments from the past decade. These documents suggest that the academic study of food, as it is practiced in the classroom, is either a monkish fast or a convoluted weight loss strategy. Despite the fact that food studies is a thriving curriculum on campuses across North America, students are required to read about the subject outside of class, discuss it in class, and write about it in the form of term papers and projects. Food should not be taught not only as a subject for inquiry but also as a unique, multi-sensory tool for understanding history, culture, and society.


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