Factories for Learning

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christy Kulz
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Conveyor Belt ◽  
Culture Of Poverty ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Business Executive ◽  
Military Commander ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Teachers And Parents

This book draws on empirical research based at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary academy in a large English city, to explore how the heightened marketization and centralization of education instigated through academisation is reproducing raced, classed and gendered inequalities. Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies that receive funding directly from central government and operate as autonomous businesses. Academies’ impact on achievement levels has been hotly debated, but the social and cultural changes prompted by this model have received less scrutiny.Dreamfields’ ‘structure liberates’ ethos claims to free students from a culture of poverty through hard discipline. Its headteacher assumes the role of business executive, saviour, pioneering cowboy and military commander leading a redemptive troupe of teachers who act as ‘surrogate parents’ salvaging ‘urban children’. With its regimented routines and outstanding results, Dreamfields has received praise from across the political spectrum. This book examines the complex stories underlying the glossy veneer of success by exploring how persistent structural inequalities are concealed beneath the colour-blind rhetoric of aspirational citizenship. The book traces how students, teachers and parents navigate the everyday demands of Dreamfields’ results-driven conveyor belt as raced and classed inequalities are reshaped in new ways and spaces of democratic participation are foreclosed.The book explores how the hopes and dreams of students, parents and teachers are harnessed and mobilized to enact insidious forms of social control, as education develops new sites and discourses of surveillance.

Modern Means of Communication and Their Impact on the Social, Cultural and Intellectual Development of a Child

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Хосе Колома ◽  
Hose Koloma ◽  
Дебора Гарсия ◽  
Debora Garsiya
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Development Of Students

The article of American colleagues reveals the role of modern means of communication in the process of training and education of children of primary school and adolescence. Primary attention is paid to video games, the characteristics of their different types, including educational orientation. With concrete examples, the possible positive effect of the use of video games by teachers for the intellectual development of students, as well as the risks of uncontrolled use by children, are considered. Recommendations are given to teachers and parents to control the play activities of younger schoolchildren and adolescents in order to prevent the negative impact of video games on the health and mental state of a child.

scholarly journals PERUBAHAN PERAN PEMUKA ADAT PUNYIMBANG PADA MASYARAKAT ADAT PEPADUN

SOSIETAS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saras Sarita ◽  
Siti Nurbayani
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Village

This study is about the changing role of traditional leaders called punyimbang in pepadun community. This research was conducted in the village of Terbanggi Besar, Terbanggi Besar District of Central Lampung regency. This research was motivated by the social and cultural changes taking place in society. The research is a qualitative research method of case study that compares difference conditions punyimbang role ago and today. The results of this study are firstly the social and cultural changes that occurred in the community so that the role punyimbang the first switch and always involved in every aspect of community life is starting at left, second, the factors that cause changes in this role is the modernization that began touching indigenous peoples pepadun village Terbanggi great so that people began to leave things that are traditional, third, these changes have an impact on the conflict in the community, due to the people lost figure punyimbang that exemplifies the good things that people are starting to do a lot of irregularities such as conflict between villages, spoliation, and the conflict between generations, fourth, related to the changing role of public response punyimbang happens is people still assume the existence punyimbang needed as long as there customary held by the public but does not bind as before.

scholarly journals Pedagogical Fundamentalism versus Radical Pedagogy in Music

2017 ◽  
pp. 256-276
Author(s):  
Heidi Partti
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Radical Pedagogy ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face

Due to the increasing media influence in society, the systematic development of media literacy in music education is a matter of the utmost importance. This chapter engages in an exploration of the role of the school in the face of the social-cultural changes that new media technologies have brought about in the wider culture of music making and learning. It is argued that it is equally unhelpful to adopt the strategy of “pedagogical fundamentalism,” according to which students are passive victims of harmful and damaging media, as that of “pedagogical populism,” which uncritically buys into utopian fantasies about social change autonomously produced by technology. Instead, the chapter argues for the importance of radical pedagogy in music education by suggesting that schools should aim to build balanced approaches to new media that will contribute to the development of the cultural competencies required for students’ growth into digital citizenship.

scholarly journals Hubungan Antara Body Shaming Dan Citra Diri Dengan Kecemasan Sosial Pada Siswa SMP Ekasakti Semarang

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33
Author(s):  
Intan Ayu Setyorini
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Body ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
Teachers And Parents

Verbal speech can make people affected by body shaming become down, lazy to do anything, cry, and become sad. The role of teachers and parents is very important in terms of providing support to students who are victims of body shaming and need to take firm action from the school concerned. The population in this study were students of class VIII SD class IX SMP Ekasakti Semarang, totaling 210 female students. The data collection method used a questionnaire with a Likert scale instrument consisting of four options. The test results show that there is a positive and significant relationship between body shaming and social anxiety, so the higher the body shaming, the higher the social anxiety, conversely the lower the body shaming, the lower the social anxiety, the two variables are strongly correlated, meaning that the higher the image. The students themselves will have lower social anxiety, on the other hand, the lower their self-image, the higher their social anxiety, so the two variables have strong correlation.

How are emotions about COVID-19 impacting society? The role of the political elite and grassroots activism

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommaso Gravante ◽  
Alice Poma
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Grassroots Activism ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
The Uk

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the role of emotions in the polarization that emerged during the first months of the pandemic. So, the authors will analyze the social response of two opposing social actors: political elites that have minimized the risks of the pandemic and grassroots groups that have promoted mutual support for vulnerable people suffering from the various effects of the pandemic.Design/methodology/approachFor the analysis, the authors will primarily refer to Hochschild's proposal and the recent literature on emotions and protest. The method is to analyze official statements by politicians from the UK, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Spain and Italy and the social responses that have emerged from different mutual support groups and solidarity networks in those countries, as well as in Chile and Argentina.FindingsThe authors will show how the conflicting responses can exacerbate social polarization in our societies. This polarization goes beyond the political spectrum, and in some cases even social classes, and reaches into the realms of values, emotions and practices. The authors will also show how the response from grassroots activism makes it possible to overcome guilt, shame and other emotions of trauma, among other things.Originality/valueAn analysis of the emotional dimension of two opposing responses to the pandemic will show how these responses have a deep impact on society, ranging from demands for values and practices that legitimize a status quo, to discussing, breaking away from or overcoming social behavior based on individualism and social determinism.

scholarly journals Water Pollution Progress at Borders: The Role of Changes in China's Political Promotion Incentives

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Kahn ◽  
Pei Li ◽  
Daxuan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Regime Shift ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Metal Pollutants ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Heavy Metal Pollutants ◽  
Local Leaders

At political boundaries, local leaders have weak incentives to reduce polluting activity because the social costs are borne by downstream neighbors. This paper exploits a natural experiment set in China in which the central government changed the local political promotion criteria and thus incentivized local officials to reduce border pollution along specific criteria. We document evidence of pollution progress with respect to targeted criteria at province boundaries. Heavy metal pollutants, not targeted by the central government, have not decreased in concentration after the regime shift. Using data on the economic geography of key industrial water polluters, we explore possible mechanisms. (JEL D72, O13, O18, P25, P28, Q25, Q53)

scholarly journals The monthly magazine «Praca Kobiet» about the activities of organizations related to the Women’s International Democratic Federation (March – December 1946)

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Adam Miodowski
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Classical Method ◽  
Research Process ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Source ◽  
Methods Analytical

The research on women’s history presented in this publication supplements the gap existing in polish historiography. The gap includes not only knowledge about the activities of women's organizations associated in the Women’s International Democratic Federation (including the polish Social-Civic League of Women). The same applies to the assessment of the role of women in political, social and cultural changes taking place in Poland (and in the world) in the first years after the end of World War II. The main purpose of this publication is to show the historical conditions of the activities of the Social-Civic League of Women, as well as similar organizations in other European, African and North American countries. The basic source used in the research process is the monthly «Praca Kobiet» (and additionally the periodical «Nasza Praca»). The work uses a methodology typical for studies based on press sources. Their list includes the following methods: analytical-empirical, deductive-nomological, deductive-hypothetical and classical method of content analysis. The effect of the undertaken research is to establish that the information articles on the activities of organizations associated in the Women’s International Democratic Federation published on the pages of the «Praca Kobiet» monthly were in fact agitation and propaganda. The polish feminist press manipulated facts and thus influenced the formation of pro-communist and anti-Western views of women. The topic is not exhausted and needs to be continued. Further research will require a wider use of press sources not only from Poland, but also from other countries.

Cohering contradictions and manufacturing belief in Dreamfields’ ‘good empire’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christy Kulz
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Business Executive ◽  
Military Commander ◽  
Education Market ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Surrogate Parents

This chapter shows how Dreamfields’ rigid discipline is made palatable and even welcomed by promoting a belief in the institution, its methods and its benefits to individual, aspirational futures. Repetition and morality tales are used to smooth over the various contradictions and ambiguities inherent in Dreamfields’ approach. Principal Culford assumes the combined role of saviour, hero, military commander and business executive in this rigidly hierarchical operation, leading a redemptive troupe of teachers-as-surrogate parents who assiduously labour to redeem a twenty-first century 'urban residuum'. Crafting 'appropriate' aesthetic appearances and reiterating Dreamfields’ superior position in the education market are also facets of this indoctrination process, offering powerful proof of institutional validity and providing a sweetener allowing the often unpleasant, tiring medicine of discipline to go down smoothly.

scholarly journals The Makhaevists and the Russian Revolutionary Movement

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall S. Shatz
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
Political Condition ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Slow Moving ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Main Components

By the early years of the twentieth century, the two major socialist parties in Russia, the Social Democrats and the Socialist-Revolutionaries, had taken shape. But these two parties did not win the adherence of all of Russia's revolutionary activists. There existed in addition a series of small extremist groups that formed what might be called the “militant fringe” of the revolutionary movement. These groups differed among themselves on programs, methods and ultimate objectives, but they all rejected the leading parties as insufficiently committed to revolution or too slow-moving in their tactics to achieve it. Although they never attained the numerical or organizational strength of the SD's and SR's, they remained a significant element in the revolutionary movement and left their mark on Russia's political life. The three main components of the militant fringe were the anarchists, the SR Maximalists, and the Makhaevists. Of these the Makhaevists are almost unknown today, although they formed organizations in several cities and rivalled the Maximalists and anarchists for the allegiance of the revolutionary extremists. An account of their program and activities will help to shed light on a segment of the Russian political spectrum whose insight into Russia's social and political condition has been underestimated, and on the revolutionary role of its smallest but in many ways most original element.

scholarly journals Koncepcja self-television — refleksja nad statusem ponowoczesnej telewizji. Analiza metatelewizyjnej narracji oraz autoreferencyjnej natury telewizji

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-74
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Bogunia-Borowska
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Social

The new media and new technologies release and provoke socio-cultural changes not only in function of the old media but also in human existence. In the centre of the author’s interest is the concept of “self-television”. Although the role of television in contemporary world is still very significant, the evolution and modernization of television structure is essential. On one hand television structure very quickly reacts to very dynamic socio-cultural processes and challenges and on the other adapts to them. The concept of self-television emphasizes two processes which are responsible for the construction of modern television. One of them is meta-television narration and another is related to the autoreference nature of television. Both of them have caused a series of changes in the television structure which adjust to the cognitive structures of the television viewers. In this sense the television which tries to follow socio-cultural changes reproduces and popularizes the social mechanisms and social rules. In the context of the modern role of television in society it brings up also the problem of confusion of the public and private sphere and public and behind the scene actions which is analyzed in the article. Therefore the main purpose of the article is to research these two main processes which are observed in the construction and development of self-television.

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