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Promoting social cohesion through education
This book is part of the World Bank's effort to understand the positive role education can play in fostering respect for diversity and to redress the potentially negative role education can play in sustaining the social divisions and prejudices that help perpetuate generations of inequity and protracted conflict. ... This volume contains 11 chapters. Most originated as papers presented at a World Bank workshop on \"Curricula, Textbooks, and Pedagogical Practices and the Promotion of Peace and Respect for Diversity\", held in Washington in March 2003. The purpose of the workshop was to explore how textbooks and learning materials, teacher training, and processes of curriculum development can contribute to peace and respect for diversity. The volume pulls together these contributions, together with other materials prepared for the CEERD [Civic Engagement, Empowerment, and Respect for Diversity] program on Education and Respect for Diversity, as tools for practitioners in education to use when considering how they might change their education systems to improve social cohesion. ... This volume has three foci: the rationale for considering how aspects of education can affect social cohesion, case studies that review particular country experiences with curricula and textbooks, practical guidelines and applications to help countries improve areas of education. The three chapters that make up Part I of the book establish the importance of the topic of educating for social cohesion, describing not only the social and economic stakes but also the power of the mechanisms at play. Together they provide a loose framework to help countries analyze education and social cohesion issues. ... Part II of the volume consists of four case studies of countries or technical issues. ... Part III presents some applications learned from situations such as those described in Part II, as well as some tools for diagnosis and improvement. (DIPF/Orig.).
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Transformations in Social Studies Textbooks: An Analysis of Content on Gender, Religion, and Policy Concerns in Turkey
In this study, content on gender, religion, and policy concerns was examined in Turkish social studies textbooks. Content and discourse analyses were conducted to clarify the text and narrative of these textbooks. This comprehensive approach enabled researchers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the textbooks, their key messages, and the broader social implications of the content. This multidimensional analysis can deepen understanding of the social, cultural, and educational contexts in which these textbooks are produced. Factors influencing the evolving content of social studies textbooks beyond the prescribed curriculum were explored. Design of contemporary textbooks is driven by ideological rather than academic motives, and these textbooks often lack comprehensive sources and evidence. These materials provide limited narratives on Turkish national identity, gender equality, and societal diversity. Additionally, these textbooks incorporate Islamic customs with conservative religious framing, which aligns with the Turkish Ministry of National Education's 2018 reforms. The promotion of ＂new-Ottomanism＂ and Islamic ideals aligns with the ruling party's discourses and the Republic's Presidency. Ottoman history, unity around the Turkish-Islamic outlook, and pride in national traditions are emphasized, whereas the contributions of modern Turkish society's founders are neglected. Consequently, these textbooks reflect dominant rather than unbiased viewpoints, failing to foster critical thinking and impartiality.
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Wither the Nation-State? A Comparative Analysis of Nationalism in Textbooks
What happens to the historic nationalizing purpose of schooling in an era of pervasive globalization? We address this question by examining patterns and predictors of nationalist emphases in 576 secondary school social science textbooks from 78 countries published between 1955 and 2011. Our descriptive and multilevel analyses show that nationalist narratives in textbooks persist into the recent globalization era and on average are not diminished in countries that are more economically, politically, or socially globalized. However, countries that occupy a dominant position in world society—either through Western cultural status or deeper embeddedness in international non-governmental organizations (INGOs)—tend to display lower levels of nationalism in their textbooks. Our examination contributes to the sociology of education by highlighting that the relationship between the global and the national is not a zero sum game: even in our globalized world, nationalist educational narratives are alive and well. We further contribute to the world society perspective by highlighting a tension between recent world cultural shifts toward individual rights and cosmopolitanism and the continued centrality of the nation-state model in world society. Our results suggest that attenuation of nationalist celebrations in schooling may be easiest for globally dominant countries whose legitimacy as nation-states is not in question.
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Relative difference in muscle strength between patients with knee osteoarthritis and healthy controls when tested bilaterally and joint-inclusive: an exploratory cross-sectional study
Background
To improve the goal-directedness of strength exercises for patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA), physical rehabilitation specialists need to know which muscle-groups are most substantially weakened across the kinetic chain of both lower extremities. The purpose was to improve the knowledge base for strength exercise therapy. The objective was to explore the relative differences in muscle strength in the main directions bilaterally across the hip, knee, and ankle joints between patients with light-to-moderate symptomatic and radiographic KOA and people without knee complaints.
Methods
The design was an exploratory, patient vs. healthy control, and cross-sectional study in primary/secondary care. Twenty-eight patients with mild to moderate KOA (18 females, mean age 61) and 31 matched healthy participants (16 females, mean age 55), participated. Peak strength was tested concentrically or isometrically in all main directions for the hip, knee, and ankle joints bilaterally, and compared between groups. Strength was measured by a Biodex Dynamometer or a Commander II Muscle Tester (Hand-Held Dynamometer). Effect sizes (ES) as Cohen’s
d
were applied to scale and rank the difference in strength measures between the groups. Adjustment for age was performed by analysis of covariance.
Results
The most substantial muscle weaknesses were found for ankle eversion and hip external and internal rotation in the involved leg in the KOA-group compared to the control-group (ES [95% CI] −0.73 [−1.26,-0.20], − 0.74 [−1.26,-0.21], −0.71 [−1.24,-0.19], respectively;
p
< 0.01). Additionally, smaller but still significant moderate muscle weaknesses were indicated in four joint–strength directions: the involved leg’s ankle inversion, ankle plantar flexion, and knee extension, as well as the uninvolved leg’s ankle dorsal flexion (
p
< 0.05). There was no significant difference for 17 of 24 tests.
Conclusions
For patients with KOA between 45 and 70 years old, these explorative findings indicate the most substantial weaknesses of the involved leg to be in ankle and hip muscles with main actions in the frontal and transverse plane in the kinetic chain of importance during gait. Slightly less substantial, they also indicate important weakness of the knee extensor muscles. Confirmatory studies are needed to further validate these exploratory findings.
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Feeling Solitary in the Seductive Republic
This essay examines two prominent literary narratives and tropes at the turn of the nineteenth century that constellate around the seduction plot and the hermit narrative. These two ostensibly discrete narrative forms have a curious history as they play out in the printed iterations of the Elizabeth Wilson and William Wilson stories, two siblings whose lives were marked by diff ering forms of tragedy. By bringing together a tale of seduction, execution, and hermitic living, I show how the account of Elizabeth Wilson's execution for infanticide shift ed from being a seduction plot to a frame tale for a hermit narrative about her brother. This narrative turn moves from an account that focuses on the policing of female sexuality to instead emphasize the curious life of a man who refuses social intercourse. But that shift actually signals something more complicated about how the early Republic sought to instill ways of feeling about gender and deviance.
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Cognitive-Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language
This innovative and original volume brings together studies that apply cognitive and functional linguistics to the study of the L2 acquisition of Japanese. With each article grounded on the usage-based model and/or conceptual notions such as foregrounding and subjectivity, the volume sheds light on how cognitive and functional linguistics can help us understand aspects of Japanese acquisition that have been neglected by traditionalists.
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Student-Centeredness in Social Science Textbooks, 1970-2008: A Cross-National Study
A striking feature of modern societies is the extent to which individual persons are culturally validated as equal and empowered actors. The expansion of a wide range of rights in recent decades, given prominence in current discussions of world society, supports an expanded conception of the individual. We examine the extent to which broad global changes promoting human empowerment are associated with expanded ideas of the status and capacities of students. We hypothesize that there are substantial increases in student-centered educational foci in countries around the world. First, the rights of students as children are directly asserted. Second, an emphasis on empowered human agency supports forms of socialization that promote active participation as well as the capacities and interests of the student. Examining a unique dataset of 533 secondary school social science textbooks from 74 countries published over the past 40 years, we find that textbooks have indeed become more student-centered, and that this shift is associated with the rising status of individuals and children in global human rights treaties and organizations. Student-centered texts are more common in countries with greater individualism embodied in political and socio-economic institutions and ideologies, and with more links to world society. The study contributes to both political and educational sociology, examining how global changes lead to increased emphasis on empowered individual agency in intended curricula.
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Longing for Annabel: Queer Love and the Melancholic Critic
This essay advances a queer reading of Edgar Allan Poe's \"Annabel Lee\" through reframing his relationship with the editor Rufus Griswold, who posthumously printed the poem to accompany his infamous obituary of the poet. I argue that the complicated personal and sexual lives of Griswold offer queer resonances to understand his attachments to the action and feeling of \"Annabel Lee.\" Indeed, the history of Griswold's marriages provides insight into how desire and disavowal create screens for refused melancholic attachments. Narrating his ill-fated second marriage to Charlotte Myers, I show how Griswold's desire to present himself as a normative and proper subject belie an anxiety over what he ends up considering wrong object choice, arguing in his divorce affidavit that she \"had been bound, in honor and law, not to receive any man's offer of marriage.\" What this saga of Griswold's fraught attachments illuminates is how a critic's own entanglements with their objects of study can become rich contexts to understand both their own disavowed attachments and the objects that call forth their interest. As such, I consider how the literary critic's orientation toward objects of critique may be compellingly plumbed and analyzed for ways to engage more directly with the concerns of affect studies, queer studies, and author studies.
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Slovak Text Studies and Editing in the Second Half of the 20th Century
The goal of the article was to at least partly systematize the knowledge gained by Slovak text studies as a generalizing work in this field does not exist in our country. The ideas built on the scientific articles within text studies written in the second half of the 20th century. The beginning of Slovak text studies in the 1950s is represented by the works by Jozef Felix, Karol Rosenbaum and Mikuláš Bakoš. Later studies by Nora Krausová, František Miko and Peter Zajac form the next stage of its development and with regard to the future seem to be trend-stting. The mutual interconnections of the contents of the articles form the original basis of Slovak text studies as they individually deal with the subject in question. Owing to their communicative and inspiring nature, the summary can be considered a good starting point for an effective exploitation of their potential. Based on the study of the texts used at the birth of Slovak text studies it can be concluded that the most serious practical problems are related to the way texts are edited and the choice of the basic text. Using the texts written by younger authors the scientific character of text studies was demonstrated as well as how they are bound with literary theory and why they are important for the correct understanding of literary texts. In attempt of scientifying text studies the relation between theoretical reflection and practical activity was given consideration. It was noted that there is the need to solve partial problems by understanding their roots correctly. The summary and assessment of Slovak text studies in the article map their most important topics and debatable issues, relate the results of the research by the literary scientists engaged in this field and draw attention to their various approaches. They also raise questions about the direction of Slovak text studies in the future.
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