scholarly journals Experiencing Transformative Learning: An Autoethnographic Journey through Ethical Dilemma Story Pedagogy (EDSP)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 227-244
Author(s):  
Kashiraj Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Ethical Dilemma ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The Self ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
The Subject

I believe our cultural heritage has so much potential for creating new forms of knowing about the self, others, community, and environment while also revealing the interconnected spaces and realities that reside between cultures and people. The Nepalese heritage encompasses through a rich tradition of narratives in storying. For the purpose of present research, I composed two ethical dilemma stories and discussed them in classrooms with a critically reflective understanding of the subject matter where I utilised the local, lived contexts and characters from the Nepalese society. The results have shown that this study, with the use of ethical dilemma stories as a key tool to interact with the research participants, gave sufficient challenges and possibilities for transformative learning. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore the unification of my personal, professional, and cultural spheres that are focused on the importance of transformative learning using an autoethnographic methodology. The paper also tries to document my lived experiences through stories as the understanding of my own self, other selves, and cultures around me.

scholarly journals O is for Orientalism: the dynamics of the sexual tourist gaze in Laurent Cantet’s Vers le sud/Heading South (2005)

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-47
Author(s):  
Charlotte Hammond ◽  
Andrew McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Tourist Gaze ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sexual Tourism

This article explores the Orientalist dynamics of North/South sexual tourism in Laurent Cantet’s Vers le sud/Heading South (2005). The narrative of the film is structured around the self-interested motivations of three white middle-aged bourgeois Western women who travel from North America to Haiti in the late 1970s in order to explore their sexuality in what they perceive as an island paradise, effectively exiling themselves from the codified social behavior expected of them in their homeland. The women avail themselves of the pleasures offered by young black Haitian men, often in exchange for money or goods, and fuel one-sided fantasies of romantic love with their local hosts, seemingly oblivious to the Orientalist nature of such an imbalance of social and economic power. The article explores the historical context of the political repression and violence of late-1970s Haiti under the Duvalier regime, as well as the manifestations of spatial politics represented in the film. In its Haitian setting, Vers le sud sheds light on a relatively unfamiliar cultural and social milieu for the Western/Northern audience, with the director keenly aware of the exoticism of the subject matter and the impossibility of the film to maintain its neutrality in a problematic engagement with the Orient/South. The article argues that the privileged position of the film’s protagonists is matched not only by Cantet’s directorial gaze, but also by the intellectual detachment of postcolonial scholars such as the article’s authors, who acknowledge that their engagement with the subject matter risks re-enacting the Orientalist dynamics they seek to expose.

scholarly journals ‘Thinking Through’ Games in the Classroom: Using Discursive Game Design to Play and Engage with Historical Datasets

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
René Glas ◽  
Jasper Van Vught ◽  
Stefan Werning
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
Card Game ◽  
Simple Games ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Educational Framework ◽  
The Subject

In this contribution, we outline Discursive Game Design (DGD) as a practice-based educational framework, explain how to use this design framework to teach game historiography, and report on findings from a series of in-class experiments. Using Nandeck, a freely available software tool for card game prototyping, we created sets of playing cards based on two game-historical datasets. Students were then asked to prototype simple games with these card decks; both playtesting and co-creating each other’s games in an ongoing quasi-conversational process between different student groups fostered discussions on, and produced alternative insights into, the complex notion of (Dutch) game history, canonization/selection and games as national cultural heritage. The article shows how DGD can be implemented to allow for students with little or no design background to actively ‘think through’ games about the subject matter at hand.

scholarly journals Note on surges of voltage and current in transmission lines

1936 ◽  
Vol 156 (887) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Line ◽  
Transmission Lines ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Unit Length ◽  
The Self ◽  
Practical Calculation ◽  
Electrical Transmission ◽  
Present Treatment ◽  
Distant Point ◽  
The Subject

The increase in extent and capacity of electrical transmission systems lends increasing importance to the subject matter of this note; for excessive survoltage, particularly when it occurs suddenly, is apt to damage equipment and endanger life, cause a large and virtually instantaneous rise of potential at the point struck; and it is important, in the study of its effects, to determine the resulting disturbance at a distant point of the line. A solution of the fundamental case of an infinite transmission line, at the end of which a change of potential suddenly occurs, was propounded by Heaviside, but this solution appears to be incorrect. It nevertheless seems to have been very generally accepted by engineers who have dealt with the problem. The subject has also been discussed by Jeffreys, but it is felt that the present treatment offers advantages, not only in that it leads to a clearer physical apprehension of the phenomena, but also as being more amenable to the purpose of practical calculation. The equations between voltage V and current i at any point x and time t are d V/ dx + L di / dt + R i = 0, (1) di / dx + K d V/ dt + SV = 0, (2) where R is the resistance, S the leakage conductance, L the self-induction, and K the capacity of the line-all reckoned per unit length. Whence, d 2 V/ dx 2 = LK d 2 V/ dt 2 + (RK + SL) d V/ dt +RSV. (3)

scholarly journals Descending and ascending trajectories of dialogical analysis: seventh analytic interpretation on the short story "The guerrillero"

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danilo Silva Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
The Self ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Concrete Situation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Albalucia Angel

Abstract: The dialogical unity for the analysis of the Self includes the descending intersubjective interpenetration of the psychologist's lens into the self-others' feeling/thinking together with the analytic demonstration concerning the transformations of the objects that participate in the intrapsychological stream of the focused feeling/thinking. The theoretical and methodological issues selected for our present study concern how to make dialogical analysis out of empirical data and how to articulate the analyzed content to the interpretative whole situation from which the researcher and the subject matter are part of. Dialogism does not have a standardized procedure and we are not considering that there is only one correct methodological procedure in dialogical psychology. Nevertheless, discussing some dialogical approaches to a short story from Albalucía Ángel (1979), we found that the starting point for the dialogical analysis should be the mediated relation of the Self with the others, emphasizing the relevance of the extra-verbal concrete situation.

JANE EYRE'S PURSE: WOMEN'S QUEER ECONOMIC DESIRE IN THE VICTORIAN NOVEL

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-759
Author(s):  
Meg Dobbins
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Victorian Novel ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Core ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Economic

“Young ladies don't understandpolitical economy, you know,” asserts the casually misogynistic uncle of Dorothea Brooke in George Eliot'sMiddlemarch(1871) (17; bk. 1, ch 1). Although Eliot's heroine resents both her uncle's remark and “that never-explained science which was thrust as an extinguisher over all her lights,” her attempt to teach herself political economy in the novel only seems to confirm her uncle's assessment (18; bk. 1, ch. 1): Dorothea gathers a “little heap of books on political economy” and sets forth to learn “the best way of spending money so as not to injure one's neighbors, or – what comes to the same thing – so as to do them the most good” (805; bk. 5, ch. 48). Naively likening “spending money so as not to injure one's neighbors” to “do[ing] them the most good,” Dorothea fails to grasp the self-interest at the core of nineteenth-century political economic thought and so misunderstands the subject matter before her: “Unhappily her mind slipped off [the book] for a whole hour; and at the end she found herself reading sentences twice over with an intense consciousness of many things, but not of any one thing contained in the text. This was hopeless” (805; bk. 5, ch. 48).

Transformative Power in Performance

Matatu ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-93
Author(s):  
Yvette Ngum
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
A Performance

Abstract Despite the crucial role that performative arts play in enabling progressive transformation, education, healing and psychological protection for abuse on certain female bodies, often the intentions or agenda of such performances habitually outweighs the transformative potentials therein. In the context of this paper, my association with transformation is related to power in a performance that invites participants to reclaim the broken pieces of their lives as a form of agency. Tears in the Mirror, is based on my personal experience narrated in a performance-based project on sexual violence. In my position as the artist directing the play, I took down notes over a period of one-week rehearsal with the actor, representing my experience. The autoethnographic performance method for information sourcing was used with the actor. I used observation and discussion in the process and each stage reflected a continuing process of integrating the ‘doing’ of autoethnography with a critical reflection upon the subject matter. My findings showed that victims of sexual violence are more likely to identify with narratives of other victims during a performance. This is because in viewing the image of the actor on stage one is simultaneously viewing the self in the mirror of the other.

scholarly journals I lost my baby today: Embodied writing and learning in organizations

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Boncori ◽  
Charlotte Smith
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Perinatal Loss ◽  
Embodied Writing ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Traditional Structures ◽  
Masculine Discourse

This article focuses on miscarriage and the sharing of intimate experiences as an example of alternative writing that can be used to challenge and resist dominant masculine discourse in academia. It steps back from patriarchal forms of writing organizations and contributes in three ways: in terms of methodology through the use of multi-voice autoethnography that embraces evocative language; with regard to the subject matter, by sharing a narrative that focuses on the bodily and dirty in day-to-day organizing; and in style, by going beyond traditional structures to foster personal, fragile and reflexive narratives that can enhance the understanding of lived experiences in organizations. More specifically, the first author’s autoethnographic account of perinatal loss in the context of contemporary academia is used as an example of resistance to patriarchal norms of organizing.

scholarly journals Ochrona zamków oraz pałaców i dworów szlacheckich na Warmii i Mazurach – aspekty prawnokarne i kryminologiczne

2019 ◽  
pp. 239-259
Author(s):  
Joanna Narodowska ◽  
Maciej Duda
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Contemporary Perspective ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law

The authors of the paper disscuss the issues of conservation of the cultural heritage located in Warmia and Mazury region. Within the introductory issues, basic terms related to the subject matter are defined. The main part of consideration is devoted to description of the most valuable elements of the region’s material cultural heritage, such as castles, palaces and nobile manors. The particular attention is paid to presentation of pathological phenomena directed against monuments in the historical and contemporary perspective. A contrario the positive examples of revitalization of monuments of Warmia and Mazury are also pointed out. A dogmatic and legal analysis of the provisions of the law on conservation of monuments in the context of the destruction and damage of monuments are also made. The conclusions indicate the contemporary threats to the cultural heritage of the region and the possibilities of counteracting them.

Faust-Sammlungen

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Rohde
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Literary Subject ◽  
The Subject

For more than a century, Faust was more than just an object of literary theory. In Germany, in the course of the overwhelming response Goethe's Faust tragedy spawned, both character and literary material developed into a national object of identification. The 'Faustian' became the sign of an age. For the self-reflection and self-description of Germany as a cultural nation in the 19th and in the first half of the 20th century, the Faust myth was of central importance. The singular meaning of the Faust story is also reflected in the fact that in the 19th and 20th centuries it became the subject of numerous at first predominantly private, and later also public, collecting activities, unlike any other literary subject matter. What stands out is the breadth and internationality of the collectors, both individual and institutional. The contributions collected in this volume discuss the origins, the composition, the objects and the forms of presentation of these collections – and what they reveal about the cultural memory (not just of) the Germans.

Creativity, spirituality and society: a study in preservation of Ikenga and Ọfọ sculptures in contemporary Igbo society

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Chukwudi Isiani ◽  
Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani ◽  
Chikelue Chris Akabuike ◽  
Stanley Jachike Onyemechalu ◽  
Sochima P. Okafor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

PurposeThe overall aim of this research is to interpret Ikenga and Ofo creativity as it is revered in Igbo societies. Igbo creativity, especially interpreted through material culture, suffers the threat of extinction resulting from the forces of modernity. Forces of modernisation, which appear in the personae of Christianity, education, urbanisation and industrialisation, denigrated indigenous creativity, brandishing them as devious, fetish and primitive. Ironically, in most cases, the drivers of such narratives keep these “fetish” items in their museums and will give a lot to preserve them.Design/methodology/approachThis study centred mostly on several communities in the Nsukka area of Igboland, Nigeria. It relied on both primary and secondary sources of historical enquiry. This qualitative research discussed the nuances of the subject matter as it relates to Igbo cosmos. These approaches involved visiting the study area and conducting personal interviews.FindingsArchaeologists do often rely on material culture to study, periodise and date past human societies. In this study, it is found that material culture, an expression of indigenous creativity, best interprets how society survived or related with their environment. This paper examined two Igbo sculpted artefacts – Ikenga and Ofo – while unearthing the intricacies in Igbo cosmology as regards creativity, spirituality and society.Originality/valueThe shapes, motifs, patterns and designs depict an imaginary history, the intellectualism of the past and even the present. This serves as an objective alternative to the twisted colonial narrative on Igbo material culture and consequently contribute to ongoing efforts to preserve, protect and promote cultural heritage resources in this part of the world.

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