scholarly journals SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PRE-MODERN NATION IN MOROCCO

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 350-357
Author(s):  
Jamal Saidi ◽  
◽  
Khalid Lahlou ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
Social Studies Textbooks

This study investigates school textbooks with a focus on a pre-modern nation construction in Morocco. It seeks to detect the cultural symbols via which the pre-modern nation is formed. Using a deductive approach, social studies textbooks of middle school are analyzed.Drawing on the Ethno-Symbolist conceptual framework to nation formation which is developed by Anthony Smith, this study highlights the significant role of textbooks in nation-building.It suggests that the textbooks construct a pre-modern nation of Morocco out of an Arab-Muslim cultural repertoire. The research recommends changes to the content of the textbooks to adopt a multi-cultural approach, which would accommodate cultural funds of Amazigh and Jewish ethnic groups in the national narratives.

scholarly journals The Interaction of Metadiscourse and Anxiety in Determining Children's Learning of Social Studies Textbook Materials

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-268
Author(s):  
Avon Crismore ◽  
Kennedy T. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Opposite Effect ◽  
Sixth Graders ◽  
First Person ◽  
Student Anxiety ◽  
High Anxious ◽  
Social Studies Textbooks

The role of attitudinal, voice, and informational metadiscourse characteristics and level of student anxiety were studied as they affect learning from social studies textbooks for 120 sixth-graders. Analyses of covariance, controlling for reading ability, revealed significant interaction effects involving metadiscourse and anxiety. As expected, high anxious students showed their best performance with first person voice and no attitudinal metadiscourse while low anxious students showed the opposite effect. The importance of studying the joint effects of metadiscourse and anxiety as determinants of textbook reading is discussed.

scholarly journals State Anti-Robbery Squad operations and restructuring in Nigeria: Semiotics of the #EndSARS protests

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-113
Author(s):  
Nnennaya Uchendu Ola ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Surface Features ◽  
The Social ◽  
Systemic Level ◽  
Structural Imbalance

End State Anti-Robbery Squad (#EndSARS) protests represent symptoms of systemic issues in Nigeria. Those issues range from ideological differences of the various ethnic nationalities to the constitutional and structural imbalance in the political and economic equation. This paper attempts to put in perspective the implications of the over-centralisation of both political and economic powers. To do this, this research examines the events leading up to the #EndSARS protest, as well as the various signs and symbols emanating from the #EndSARS movement. Semiotics Theory is employed as conceptual framework and methodology to highlight the factors that ail Nigeria at the systemic level. Semioticians engage in a search for deep structures underlying the surface features of phenomena. With Semiotic theory as framework, this paper takes seriously the social conditions that led to the #EndSARS Protests, not neglecting the role of ideologies. The research has the potential to make useful contributions to both academic and socio-political cum economic knowledge for a meaningful national dialogue among contesting ethnic groups in Africa.

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