How women are imagined through conceptual metaphors in United Nations Security Council Resolutions on women, peace and security

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 is a landmark pronouncement on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Not only does this resolution highlight the important role of the involvement of women in peace processes, but it also stresses the importance of their equal participation in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace. Furthermore, it also triggers the approval of some other resolutions, which are all further elaborations on that first document. The aim of this paper is to analyse, from a cognitive linguistic perspective, the way in which women are actually narrated in these pronouncements by means of the two conceptual metaphors that are most often repeated: WOME…

A history of popular education: educating the people of the world

The race to educational reform in the USA: the race to the top

From the cognitive perspective of embodiment and relying mostly on the powerful and revealing tool of metaphor, we approach the issue of education in the Obama administration's discourse trying to unveil the ideological preferences hidden behind the use of the different metaphors. It is assumed that this body of metaphors will contribute to the political and cultural understanding of such strategic issue to a nation. The analysis of speeches on education by leading figures plus the media reflection of educational problems (Washington Post) will let us see from a close distance how education is talked about. After the analysis of the four metaphors, it will be seen that traditional values su…

EL DERECHO A LA EDUCACIÓN Y ATENCIÓN DE LA PRIMERA INFANCIA EN AMÉRICA LATINA (THE RIGHT TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE IN LATIN AMERICA)

0 0 1 104 574 UNED 4 1 677 14.0 Normal 0 21 false false false ES-TRAD JA X-NONE In this work we study the factors that help to understand the state of the first aim from the Education For All framework in Latin America. Therefore, the paper builds on the societal and historical structure of the region concerning to elements such us the well-being and social exclusion which bias its development. From this view, we attend to the progress and expansion of the early childhood education and care (ECEC) provision throughout Latin American societies, particularly for vulnerable groups. Finally, we include an analysis on the settled measures and actions in support of the right to ECEC, both in term…

Enseñar e investigar hoy en educación comparada: la perspectiva de tres décadas de dedicación académica en ese campo

Aunque con claras diferencias regionales, en los últimos treinta años hemos pasado —claramente en el caso de España— de una limitada visibilidad en el terreno académico, con una escasa presencia curricular en Grados y Posgrados, muchas veces centrada en ofertas de carácter optativo, a una oferta diversificada y consolidada en todos los niveles de la enseñanza universitaria en el ámbito de la Educación Comparada (Lázaro, 2013). Exactamente la misma tendencia podemos observar si nos referimos a la actividad investigadora en ese mismo terreno de la comparación educativa con una perspectiva internacional.