“Signature Pedagogies” on Assessment and Evaluation in Teacher Education
Author(s): Mihaela Voinea,Alina Turculeţ / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 1/2023
Keywords: signature pedagogies; pedagogical cliches; assessment and evaluation;
Our study identified the pedagogical routines regarding the assessment and evaluation of pre-service teachers. A document analysis, a questionnaire-based inquiry, and several interviews were conducted in order to investigate the surface structure of the signature pedagogies involved in teacher education and training. The findings highlight that pre-service teachers have a traditional mindset regarding assessment, as a result of signature pedagogies imprinted in their formation, patterns of industrial school from the beginning of the 20th century.
"Metaverse" is not a Silicon Valley utopianism. It is a meaningful descriptor for an increasingly embodied and more deeply integrated internet. Nowhere is it more profound than in China, whose first forays into the metaverse have sent ripples the world over. This ethnography of China-based Hoyoverse, and a subsequent discussion, suggest the meaningful contributions ethnography can make to understanding the metaverse. And how the metaverse will in turn transform the discipline. All of this is articulated through the example of a cyborg catgirl, who may or may not be a mirage.
Social Learning Reflected in Younger Generations’ Lives. Case Study: The Bobo Clown Experiment and The Famous Youtuber Og Mcskillet
Author(s): V. Bătrânu-Pințea,Claudiu Coman / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 1/2023
Keywords: social learning; virtual worlds; violent behavior; online media;
This paper aims to discuss and thoroughly analyze, aided using content analysis, and make use of certain theoretical support available regarding primary social learning, approximately how many and what certain events in a child’s life can affect his or her behavior. We discuss how Albert Bandura’s experiment involving the Bobo Clown doll revealed some troubling aspects no matter their age or even intellectual capacities. All these behaviors can, unfortunately, irreversibly affect a child’s harmonious development, both psychologically as well as emotionally. Virtual liberty also poses a threat in this case. This article proposes to take a deeper look into this phenomenon, constructing a base that starts early historically.
Forms of Community Participation in Creating Cultural Vitality. Insights from Drăguș, Romania
Author(s): Codrina Csesznek / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 1/2023
Keywords: cultural vitality; intangible cultural heritage; community development; community participation;
This paper highlights a series of forms of community participation in the case of a Romanian rural community that has a well-defined cultural identity and carries out numerous activities aimed at creating cultural vitality. The main purpose of the paper is to highlight a series of data and reflections derived from the field research carried out over the past years using the ethnographic method, as well as to interpret research data on the basis of a theoretical model developed by Mataritta-Cascante and Brennan (2012).
Beyond Ageism. The Redefinition of Social Categories to Account for Complexity
Author(s): L. Landolfi / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 1/2023
Keywords: ageing; third age; fourth age; literature review; mosaic of the seniority;
Given the need to assign categories while also fostering free thought when conducting research, the aim of this paper is to highlight how the third and fourth age categories are addressed risks inducing ageism in the current aging society. Considering the role that language plays in the construction of the world (Berger & Luckmann, 1966), this literature review aims to identify the ways that the third and fourth age categories have been applied in social science research. Therefore, the potential to avoid the dichotomization of old age necessarily lies in placing things in context so that we comprehend the complexity of old age, e.g., the third or fourth age.
In this paper, we will present the results of research whose main purpose was to analyze the associations between couple satisfaction and some predictors such as attachment, gender, age, marital status, and educational attainment. In the first part, we will briefly present the literature consulted and the most relevant ideas. The second section is devoted to the methodology. The results showed that people with a secure attachment style have high couple satisfaction, women are more satisfied in their relationship compared to men, adults have lower relationship satisfaction as they get older, people with higher education are more satisfied in the couple, and unmarried people are also more satisfied with the couple relationship.
Theoretical and Practical Aspects Regarding the Independence of the Romanian Ombudsman
Author(s): Oana Şaramet / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 1/2023
Keywords: ombudsman; appointment; dismissal from office; politicisation; objectivity; independent;
The Romanian Ombudsman (the Romanian People's Advocate) is an autonomous and independent public authority, as provided for by the law on the organization and functioning of this public institution, which is not part of any of the three powers in the state - legislative, executive and judicial. The decision of the constitutional legislator not to include this public institution in any of the three classic powers was determined, in our opinion, by the desire, but also the need, to configure an impartial institution that would exercise its constitutional and legal role with complete objectivity. In this context, through this paper, we propose to analyze, through specific research methods, such as the comparative, sociological, and teleological method, if the way of appointing and, respectively, revoking the head of this institution is one that does not affect this role, risking politicizing the institution of the Ombudsman.
Author(s): Jaime McCaffrey,Tore Levander / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 1/2023
Keywords: Nietzsche; Zarathustra; German; Lust;
Nietzsche’s Zarathustra–a book for all and none–champions a love of the world and an embrace of life. Zarathustra’s embrace of life and eternal becoming is, in German, Lust: taking pleasure in all that becomes–one’s own life and the entire world of existence–eternally. “...[Lust] wants the eternity of all things” (Z “Drunken Song” §11). It is an overflowing sort of love, too grand to be directed toward one person. In his love of all humans, all things, Zarathustra remains unable to acknowledge this Other. In order to love the Other as an equal, Zarathustra would have to forego his love of everyone. The other presents the Abgrund that can only be crossed with a tightrope. A love of everything and everyone is equally a love of no one: no one but oneself, but one’s own world. It is life on a mountain peak. In its wanting eternity, Lust has no room to accommodate an Other. Is it possible, then, for Zarathustra to love another as an equal? Is there an Other that can exist for Zarathustra at all–or in order to love everything and everyone, must he remain alone? Drawing from a number of specific sections in Zarathustra, we will explore the possibility of loving the Other as an equal, considering the risks and dangers that a mutual love between Zararthustra and an Other might entail. Equal love–sharing in becoming–means relinquishing the solidity of one’s ground in order to experience the Other’s world.
How should we evaluate the modern day use and abuse of pornography? Modern day video pornography has the hallmarks of film and cinema industry (lights, cameras, sets, actors, etc), but common sentiment is that it doesn’t deserve the status of being called "Art". An exploitative media that gets a bad review may get labeled as “trauma” or “torture porn.” Calling something pornographic indicates that the creators of a media had poor taste. In the section titled “On the Sublime ones” of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Z II), Nietzsche states “But all life is disputing of taste and tasting!” Nietzsche concerns over taste are directly related to his effort to maximize the role of aesthetic judgments in all parts of life. As the early Nietzsche states in the Birth of Tragedy (BT §5) “…the existence of the world is justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon.” A Nietzschean investigation into the purpose of modern pornography requires a perspectivist and not a moral assessment. Kant’s Critique of Judgement reflected on the topics of both aesthetics and teleology, suggesting the question of aesthetics must include a concern over purposiveness. Thus, what is the purpose of pornography? How does it juxtapose to the actual act of sex itself? To Erotic art? Is it akin to the violent Ancient Greek Doric Frieze? Lastly, in a civilization where pornography is of easy access to all, does this take away the prevalence of sex itself? This paper attempts a Nietzschean investigation on the subject and will touch on the themes of gender, domination, sublimation, and the consumption of media.
Thomas Brobjer: Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo and the Revaluation of All Values: Dionysian Versus Christian Values
Author(s): Thomas A. Steinbuch / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 1/2023
Keywords: Thomas Brobjer; Nietzsche; Ecce Homo; Revaluation; Values; Dionysian; Christian
Review of:
Thomas Brobjer: Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo and the Revaluation
of All Values: Dionysian Versus Christian Values, Bloomsbury
Academic, 26 August 2021, 210 pages. ISBN-10 1350193747; ISBN13 978-1350193741
Blogging Albania: Reconstructing images in the eye of the beholder
Author(s): Armela Panajoti / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 2/2022
Keywords: beholder; blog narratives; discourse analysis; travel writing;
In this article, I discuss blog narratives written in English by visitors to Albania during the second decade of the twenty-first century, a time when information and communication technologies had shaped communication and connection in the online mode, and Albania was already in its third decade after the fall of communism. I will discuss the stories published on Yomadic, a blog started by a passionate traveller, Nate Robert, about little-explored places. I will read them as travel narratives with the intention of pointing out how Albania, often clichély deemed an underexplored country, is reconstructed through the eyes of what I call “the beholder.” In referring to the visitor as the beholder, I try to avoid particular references made to the traveller-writer in the literature about travel writing and focus instead on the spirit of observation that permeates these narratives. I will read them through the lens of discourse analysis, which I believe is more appropriate for analysing the retelling of personal experiences of visits to Albania.
Challenging metanarratives: A postmodern reading of Ana Castillo’s So Far from God
Author(s): Mamoun F. I. ALZOUBI,Mohammed Ahmed AL-ABDULRAZAQ / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 2/2022
Keywords: metanarratives; Ana Castillo; feminism; identity; mestiza heritage;
The current study argues that even though Castillo’s So Far from God bears different features of a postmodern literary text, the novel challenges turning the characters into postmodern subjectivity or mestizo consciousness. The defiance of singular metanarrative logic in Castillo’s novel reflects the characters’ alienation from dominant forms of reasoning. Her novel advocates a practical, flexible politics as an antidote to totalizing, rigid value systems, which Castillo identifies much more strongly with dominant culture than with regional and ethnic identity. Her characters prioritize their own communities’ needs and goals through their willingness to incorporate new ideas. This fluid use of identity contradicts the common critiques of identity politics as essentialist, reductive, or prescriptive. This use of identity as a flexible strategy of resistance inverts the common idea that identity politics are rigid and limiting while general, dominant politics are universal and therefore unlimited. It also questions all handed-down wisdom—does not necessarily reject it, but questions it— encouraging people and communities to draw their own conclusions about which aspects are valid or useful for them and which are not. This perception, therefore, forms a type of double consciousness in which the characters base their view of their home town on the assumptions of the dominant culture rather than on their own experiences and values.
Keywords: the church; capital; field of religion; symbolic capital; Pierre Bourdieu;
Writing in the context of an increasingly godless age, Philip Larkin and Thom Gunn poignantly reflect on the experience of going to church in modern times. Focusing on Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of capital, habitus, and distinction, this article offers a sociological reading of “In Santa Maria del Popolo” by Thom Gunn and “Church Going” by Philip Larkin. Larkin concludes that despite its terminal decline, the church still socio-culturally matters and will continue to matter, whereas the speaker in Gunn’s poem offers a cynical take on the very viability and relevance of faith in modern times. At issue in both poems is the symbolic and cultural cachet of the church in relation to art. The poems address the religious affordances and the socio-cultural relevance of art differently. While Gunn’s poem puts on display the decline of religious sensibility in modern times through the decline of the symbolic capital of religious art, Larkin’s poem intimates that the church continues to matter, if only symbolically.
Immigration defines the world today. According to the IOM World Migration Report 2020, as of June 2019, the number of international migrants was estimated to be almost 272 million globally, 51 million more than in 2010 . With the new wave of migration around the world, migrants and issues around immigration have been the focus of media and research studies from different perspectives: economic, political, social, linguistic, etc. A common topic of research around the world has been the representation of migrants in the media.As one of the countries with the highest numbers of immigrants, Albania has also been at the center of foreign media attention in recent years. The number of immigrants to the United Kingdom increased, especially in 2022, and while the situation is widely reported in the British media, a comprehensive study of the situation has not been conducted yet. In this study, we explore the representation of Albanians in the British media based on qualitative analysis using critical discourse analysis (CDA) and quantitative analysis based on Corpus Linguistics (CL). Data was collected from the websites of the daily newspaper The Guardian and the British tabloid The Sun for a one-year period (2022). This period was chosen due to the heightened attention that Albanian immigrants received during this year in the British media. This paper discusses some of the issues with the ways Albanians are represented in the British media, and the results show that the media plays an important role in constructing the positive or negative image of immigrants.
Author(s): Viacheslav Shevchenko,Ekaterina SHEVCHENKO / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 2/2022
Keywords: media discourse; indexes; polydiscursivity; interdiscursivity; interaction of discourses; combined situation; combined discourse;
A multifaceted representation of an event is accomplished in media discourse as a result of interaction between other discourses, which is promoted by signs and is crucial for persuading the audience. This paper aims to investigate the semiotic underpinnings of how different discourses interact within media discourse. For this research, text from articles that were posted on the The Guardian newspaper’s website was chosen and gathered. Discourse analysis, semiotic analysis, observational techniques and descriptive techniques were all used. It was discovered as a result that the use of signs from other discourses in media discourse to depict a particular event causes discourses to interact, which takes the forms of interdiscursivity and polydiscursivity. The situation depicted in the media text is presented and analysed in a variety of ways as a result of the media discourse’s polydiscursivity; this is because the media discourse represents a combined situation by combining signs from various discourses. The interaction of discourses in media discourse shows how different spheres of human life interact and affect one another in how this process is represented in media discourse.
This study mainly analyses the power relations between native Turks and Syrian students in the public spaces of Turkey. The bulk of the literature sees migrants as passive victims who face exclusion and discrimination. However, this research not only sees migrants as active agents in power relations, but also examines both present and future constructions of migrants. Drawing on in-depth interviews and participant observation of 30 Syrian students in Istanbul, I show how these students produce immediate and future-oriented tactics. While immediate tactics exist to provide temporary protection in daily relations, the migrants also have long-term solutions for the future with their “make a difference” capacity based on the resources they have. In this regard, “future-oriented tactics” not only protect against discrimination but also offer a means of long-term integration into society. This is an important contribution to migration studies in terms of power relations.
Israeli Government Policy on Non-Israeli Construction Workers
Author(s): Yoram Ida,Gal Talit / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 1/2023
Keywords: Construction industry; Migrant workers; Palestinian workers; Construction wet works; Housing shortage;
In Israel, there has been a severe shortage of housing units for several decades, due, among other things, to a shortage of skilled construction workers. The industry employs Palestinian labourers (since 1967) and migrant workers, mainly from Eastern Europe and China (since the 1990s). The Israeli government has changed its policy on the employment of non-Israeli workers several times. This article reviews these changes and discusses their successes and failures. The findings show that the shortage of workers in the construction industry in Israel might justify an increase in the quota of non-Israeli workers in the short term. However, in the medium and long term, measures must be taken to ensure implementation of planned reforms to reduce Israel's dependence on non-Israelis and encourage the integration of Israeli workers in the industry. This should be achieved mainly through technological improvements and a transition to industrialized construction.
Effect of Private Employment Agencies Recruitment Strategies on Organizational Effectiveness in the Hospitality Industry: A Study of Selected Hotels in Nigeria
Author(s): University Ovuokeroye Edih,Enaikpobomene Mina Irejeh,Kennedy Asinedu Nwafili,Derek Agilobeni Edih / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 1/2023
The hospitality industry has become very competitive these days due to global creativity and innovations deployed in the delivery of services to teeming customers. To meet up with these tasking demands of remaining afloat in business, managers of hotels are considering the best or appropriate recruitment strategies to woo competent and amenable personnel who can apply these new methods of rendering the required services. Hence, this study examined the effect of private employment agencies recruitment strategies on organizational effectiveness in the hospitality industry, a study of selected hotels in Nigeria. A 10-item validated structured questionnaire served as the research instrument to 350 staff of the selected hotels in Delta, Enugu and Ekiti States, Nigeria. Out of the 350 sets of questionnaire administered, a total number of 345 (98%) were retrieved and five (2%) were rejected. Analytical tool used was multiple regression analysis. It was found that private employment agencies had significant effect on organizational effectiveness. The study therefore concludes that, private employment agencies have a positive and significant effect on organizational effectiveness of selected hotels. In other words, the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization largely rely on the composi tion (resourcefulness, core competencies) of its manpower. Hence, the study recommends that there is the need for managers of hotels to contract the job of recruitment to private employment agencies as this will lead to the employment of competent and resourceful manpower for organizational effectiveness and sustenance.
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