Search results for "Cultural studie"

Block 21 and the Pensabilità of the Representation of Auschwitz

2012

Abstract Building on the assumption that the Memorial in Honor of Italians Fallen in Nazi Extermination Camps (situated in Auschwitz I, Block 21) expresses the meta-reflexive inclination that strengthened the twentieth century (the capacity of that century to think of itself as a subject), this article aims to highlight and illustrate the dual philosophical significance of the Memorial. From the perspective of the philosophy of history, this philosophical significance, which has a symbolic value, leads us to investigate an organic and historically embodied conception of deportation. From the perspective of the aesthetics of memory, this philosophical meaning offers a new framework for the …

Review of Bybee (2010): Language, Usage and Cognition

2011

Review of Wilson & Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (2012): Dynamicity in Emotion Concepts

2013

Review of Foolen, Lüdtke, Racine & Jordan (2012): Moving Ourselves. Moving Others. Motion and Emotion in Intersubjectivity, Consciousness and Lan…

2013

Brokerage from within: A conceptual framework

2021

Situated between various social worlds, brokers are highly mobile figures, in a physical and an ideational sense; they channel scarce information and resources, translate different languages and jargons, and mediate and facilitate between individuals and/or organisations, the local and the global, in a wide range of settings. Taking an in-depth ethnographic look at the actual work of brokers and their particular life stories, contributions to this special issue examine brokers’ successes and failures, their vulnerabilities and limitations, (changing) interests and motivations within the cultural contexts that these brokers are part of. By adopting a comparative perspective in a thematic an…

The Foundations of Cognitive Linguistics

2015

Teachers’ initial training in cultural diversity in Spain: attitudes and pedagogical strategies

2005

This paper examines a number of issues relating to educational responsibility for increasing social cohesion and preventing the segregation of people from different cultures who have to pass through the Spanish educational system. Using a descriptive analysis, we review the present situation. Our review shows that the treatment of cultural diversity by Spanish universities is, in general, insufficient with respect to the training needs that students will demand from the educational system both now and in the future. Simply taking a single course on intercultural issues is not enough to prepare teachers to cope with cultural diversity in the school and classroom. Therefore, educational appro…

Navigating diversities: experiences of youths in one Singapore school

2021

Singapore has established a reputation as a country with social harmony. But in recent times, increasing reports on issues of social cohesion have begun to emerge in the media about tensions among ...

"Las provincias" and the foundations of Valencian environmentalism. The columns by Maria Consuelo Reyna on El Saler and the Turia river bed

2011

Aquest article se centra en les columnes d’opinio que Maria Consuelo Reyna va dedicar en Las Provincias a la urbanitzacio projectada en la Devesa del Saler i al llit del riu Turia, en la primera meitat dels anys setanta. A traves de les seues columnes, la periodista va construir un discurs contrari a la urbanitzacio i en defensa de l’espai verd, i va orquestrar la campanya del diari que va concloure finalment amb la paralitzacio del pla urbanitzador del Saler i amb la conversio del llit del riu Turia en un espai verd. Una etapa en la qual Reyna utilitza ja els recursos que desenvolupara mes tard en els anys vuitanta durant la Batalla de Valencia i que la convertiran en una figura clau de la…

The Relationship Between Teacher Non-Verbal Communication and Student Behavior: A Cross-National Perspective

2020

This paper aims at providing insights on the role of non-verbal communication (NVC) in classroom by examining the relationship between teacher NVC cues and student behavior. Student behavior is considered in terms of perceptions of the match between the teacher and the student self-concept (i.e. self-image congruence), attention, and learning. Hypotheses are tested on a sample of students coming from Spain and Italy. Findings indicate that the student self-concept has the strongest relationship with teacher personal appearance, attention with paralinguistics, and learning with kinesics. Some differences are found in the strength of the examined relationships between Spanish and Italian stud…