“There is no magic whereby such qualities will be acquired at the voting age”: Teachers, curriculum, pedagogy and citizenship

Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation ◽

10.32316/hse/rhe.v22i2.2388 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Lorna McLean

Keyword(s):

International Development ◽

Democratic Education ◽

Status Quo ◽

Classroom Setting ◽

Curriculum And Pedagogy ◽

Societal Norms ◽

Modern Economy ◽

School Classroom ◽

The Status ◽

Voting Age

This study asks: What did it mean to be a Canadian citizen in the late forties and fifties? Who were considered good citizens, what were their qualities, and how did the teaching of citizenship relate to notions of identity, nation(alism), belonging and international development within a postwar liberal democracy? Finally, how did educational and policy materials as reflected in the curriculum and pedagogy of the day represent citizenship? Recent studies of this period emphasize diversity and dissent among educators who challenged the status quo, despite pressures to conform to societal norms and to produce workers with skills and attitudes that would benefit the modern economy. This research on citizenship, youth, and democratic education suggests reasons to re-evaluate our understanding of what is considered the legitimate domain and purpose of citizenship education along with the possibilities of teaching citizenship within a school/classroom setting.

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Performing Development

In Pursuit of Progress ◽

10.21313/hawaii/9780824858865.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Hannah C. M. Bulloch

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Local Government ◽

International Development ◽

Local Development ◽

Status Quo ◽

Parallel Structures ◽

The Status ◽

Political Economy Of Development ◽

Development Initiatives

This chapter focuses on development as a “civic project.” It explores local symbols of orchestrated community-wide development, including infrastructure, ceremony and signage. The chapter argues that a defining feature of such symbols is a concern with development as a performative display. Tied as they are to clientelist politics, local government-led development initiatives are largely about “branding” both projects and people in their patron’s name, (re)producing webs of utang kabubut-on(debt of obligation), intended to reinforce the status quo. Entangled in this local political economy of development, are international bilateral and multilateral agencies, equipped with the latest international development orthodoxy and a remit to work in “partnership” with the local government. The incommensurability of these approaches is revealed when “partnership” morphs into a system of largely separate and parallel structures for implementing local development.

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SymptomSpeak: Women’s Struggle for History and Health in Kosovo

Culture Medicine and Psychiatry ◽

10.1007/s11013-021-09746-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Hanna Kienzler

Keyword(s):

Status Quo ◽

Political Commentary ◽

Evil Eye ◽

Societal Norms ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

Dimensions Of Pain ◽

Communicative Power ◽

Political Realities

AbstractWhat are the linguistic dimensions of pain, and what kind of articulations arise from these painful experiences? How does the language of pain circulate, connect, and reach across histories, gendered realities, and social politics? In what ways might the language of pain act on and transform the world by shaping and changing socio-political agendas? I explored these questions among women in Kosovo and discovered a unique symptomatic language which I call SymptomSpeak. SymptomSpeak is a powerful language evoked, shared, and exchanged by women to articulate political, social, and economic grievances, to challenge societal norms, and to demand justice. The language itself consists of a detailed symptom vocabulary which is variously assembled into meaning complexes. Such assemblages shift depending on the social context in which they are conveyed and are referred to as nervoz (nervousness), mërzitna (worried, sad), mzysh (evil eye), and t’bone (spell). I describe in detail how women variously combine and exchange components of SymptomSpeak and, thereby, question dominant framings of reality. Thereby, my intention is to contribute to a new understanding of pain as language which straddles the fine line between socio-political commentary and illness; produces gendered political realities; and challenges the status quo through its communicative power.

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Didactic or Dialogical? The shifting nature of INGO development education programming in England and Canada

International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning ◽

10.18546/ijdegl.06.1.03 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 27-51

Author(s):

Nadya Weber

Keyword(s):

International Development ◽

Status Quo ◽

Development Education ◽

Governmental Organizations ◽

Documentary Analysis ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

The Status ◽

Development Agencies ◽

Save The Children ◽

Selection Of

This paper looks at the changing nature of international development non-governmental organizations' development education programming in England and Canada. A documentary analysis of the changes in Save the Children Canada and Save the Children UK's development education materials illuminates the shift in international development agencies' education programmes since the late 1990s. A review of a selection of materials produced by Save the Children UK and Save the Children Canada between 1999 and 2007 illustrates the trend of international development agencies moving away from programming that is longer-term, participatory, and dialogical with an emphasis on collective social change towards programming that is shorter-term, individualistic, and didactic, and which reinforces the status quo.

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Heterotopic Proliferation in E. S. Thomson’s Jem Flockhart Series

Humanities ◽

10.3390/h11010015 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 15

Author(s):

Marie-Luise Kohlke

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Status Quo ◽

First Person ◽

Power Structures ◽

Victorian Fiction ◽

Societal Norms ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Status ◽

Cross Dressing ◽

Vast Network

This article explores the convergence, inversion, and collapse of heterotopic spaces in E. S. Thomson’s neo-Victorian Jem Flockhart series about a cross-dressing female apothecary in mid-nineteenth-century London. The eponymous first-person narrator becomes embroiled in the detection of horrific murder cases, with the action traversing a wide range of Michel Foucault’s exemplary Other spaces, including hospitals, graveyards, brothels, prisons, asylums, and colonies, with the series substituting the garden for Foucault’s ship as the paradigmatic heterotopia. These myriad juxtaposed sites, which facilitate divergence from societal norms while seemingly sequestering forms of alterity and resistance, repeatedly merge into one another in Thomson’s novels, destabilising distinct kinds of heterotopias and heterotopic functions. Jem’s doubled queerness as a cross-dressing lesbian beloved by their Watsonean side-kick, the junior architect William Quartermain, complicates the protagonist’s role in helping readers negotiate the re-imagined Victorian metropolis and its unequal power structures. Simultaneously defending/reaffirming and contesting/subverting the status quo, Jem’s body itself becomes a microcosmic heterotopia, problematising the elision of agency in Foucault’s conceptualisation of the term. The proliferation of heterotopias in Thomson’s series suggests that neo-Victorian fiction reconfigures the nineteenth century into a vast network of confining, contested, and liberating Other spaces.

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