Diaspora's identity “crises”

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Stella-Monica N. Mpande
Keyword(s):  
Identity Crises

How to Be an Alien: Cross-Cultural Transition of Russian-Speaking Youth in Israeli High Schools

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Niznik
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Cultural Transition ◽  
Educational Achievements ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Language Behavior ◽  
Identity Crises

This study focuses on adolescents who immigrated to Israel between 2000 and 2002. The aim of the survey on which the article is based was to investigate the determinants of cross-cultural transition, focusing on family problems, identity crises, educational achievements, and language behavior. Since the beginning of the mass immigration from the former Soviet Union, the Israeli educational system has not managed to reorient itself to accommodate the newcomers. Among the main reasons are differences in the Russian and Israeli educational systems and the changing character of the immigration itself. Despite existing problems, the younger generation of these recent immigrants wants to be integrated into Israeli society. It is the task of the formal education system to provide them with support and guide them on a path toward successful adjustment.

Muslim-Jewish Sexual Liaisons Remembered and Imagined in 20th-Century Yemen

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Mark S. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Similar Materials ◽  
Sexual Encounters ◽  
Identity Crises

AbstractDespite mutual taboos against exogamy, memoirs and similar materials written by Jews from Yemen contain a number of anecdotes describing love affairs and sexual encounters between Muslims and Jews prior to the mass migration of the vast majority of Yemen's Jews to Israel in 1949–50. These stories associate these liaisons with vulnerability, poverty, and marginalization. In them, sex and conversion to Islam are intrinsically connected, yet this interreligious intimacy leads not to resolution but to ongoing identity crises that persist beyond the community's realignment with a majority-Jewish society. The staging of the anecdotes in rural areas where shariʿa norms held only nominal sway, in watering places and hostels where strangers might interact, and at dusk, when identity is difficult to discern, heightened their ambiguity.

Vignettes: Identity Crises

Science ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 263 (5154) ◽  
pp. 1780-1780
Keyword(s):  
Identity Crises

Academic Library Leaders’ Challenges, Difficulties and Skills: An Analysis of Common Experiences

Libri ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murtaza Ashiq ◽  
Shafiq Ur Rehman ◽  
Syeda Hina Batool
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Identity Crises ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of academic library leaders of Pakistan about library leadership. Qualitative research design was used with phenomenology approach as the present study aims to investigate what library leaders commonly perceive to be challenges, fundamental difficulties and needed skills to be successful. Data were collected through in-depth interviews from 15 senior academic library leaders. Major challenges found were identity crises followed by communication issues, financial constraints, CPD and administrative issues. The most challenging aspects of being an academic library leader were identified as trying to create awareness, lack of self-development culture and technological issues. The required leadership skills were communication, vision, social interaction, team building, organisational understanding and knowledge sharing. The findings of the study are helpful for current, young and future chief librarians to understand the challenges they may face and to develop the leadership skills needed to cope with these challenges. The study will also be helpful to academic institutions during their recruitment processes; professional associations for training purposes; and library schools for arranging and offering leadership courses.

scholarly journals NÅR KULTUREN GÅR I KROPPEN: „Halve grønlændere" som begreb og fænomen

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Wagner Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Large Degree ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
False Consciousness ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Identity Crises ◽  
The Ideal

Bo Wagner Sørensen: When Culture Gets Embodied: The Notion and Phenomenon of Greenlandic “Halfies’’ The article tries to make sense of the notion of Greenlandic “halfies” by showing how the notion is part of a cultural discourse which is expressed in terms of “between two cultures”. This discourse points both to people being split between cultures and to the cultures having materialized themselves in individual bodies. In light of recent critique of the concept of culture in anthropology it is reasonable to question the essentialism underlying the expression “between two cultures”, and also to imagine that individuals who invoke it are suffering from “false consciousness”. However, it seems that the discourse causes real pain in actual bodies, and therefore it needs to be taken seriously. In the article, the discourse is put in a larger historical, social and political perspective, showing how the idea has been established that Greenlandic and Danish culture and identity are rather incompatible entities. The Greenlandic struggle for political independence has been fought to a large degree in the field of culture, which implies that people in general are informed by dichotomy thinking. Individuals who do not match up with the acknowledged criteria for Greenlandic culture and identity are inclined to be caught between cultures and loyalities, the result being that the political cultural war is reproduced and reflected in individual bodies. Due to the widespread identityhealth model according to which the ideal identity is a clear-cut and fixed ethnic identity, these individuals are often believed to experience identity crises. The article suggests that the “problem” may not be one of incompatible cultural essences, though it is widely thought so, but rather that culture and identity get politicized.  

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN FOSTERING CHARACTER EDUCATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS: KI HADJAR DEWANTARA’S PERSPECTIVES

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-236
Author(s):  
Heri Maria Zulfiati ◽  
Biya Ebi Praheto ◽  
Anselmus Sudirman
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Family System ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Cultural Behavior ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Identity Crises

To foster character education in Indonesia, research on the role of social capital has become an urgent issue because character crisis is one of the growing concerns and recent stunning news stakes. National identity crises have shown anti-cultural behavior, anti-character, and less use of domestic social capital blatantly. This research aims to describe the role of social capital that determines the implementation of character education through Ki Hadjar Dewantara’s perspectives. This qualitative research was designed as a case study using purposive sampling with individual resources such as headmaster, teacher, student representatives, school committee, parents, foundation management, and school supervisor. This research was conducted at Tamansiswa Primary School, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, from November 2017 to January 2018. The research result shows that the social capital role determines the implementation of character education, and in Ki Hadjar Dewantara’s perspective, character education has been applied in all learning processes. Both intra-curricular and extracurricular activities support the school culture, and the family system is an integral part of habituation and exemplary character inculcation at school, family, and societal levels through mutual love, respect, assistance, and help. The obliged elements of social capital in embodying character education are trust, norm, and network.

Towards a Mentoring Model That Enhances Academic, Social, and Cultural Capital in Turbulent Times

2021 ◽  
pp. 159-174
Author(s):  
M. Williams ◽  
C. Green
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
At Risk Students ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Identity Crises ◽  
Negative Messages ◽  
Mentoring Model ◽  
Academically At Risk

Academically at-risk students may doubt their ability to persist and succeed because of some or all of the following: socioeconomics, low self-esteem, identity crises, negative family histories, socio-emotional concerns, poor living situations, or negative messages about school and education. Currently, the aforementioned issues are further compounded by turbulent times, which include but are not limited to a pandemic that disproportionately affects people of color and the impoverished, along with continued civil unrest and demands for rapid societal change. Therefore, this population would benefit from the enhancement of its academic, social, and cultural capital. In order to accomplish those goals simultaneously, the authors propose a mentoring model that integrates aspects of advising, tutoring, mentoring, peer-to-peer interaction, metacognition, positive psychology, current events, and emotional wellness to support academically at-risk students in their pursuit of academic and personal excellence.

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