Search results for "narrative"

John Bates Clark on trusts: New light from the Columbia archives

2005

Public concern over the so called “trust problem” in the United States between the end of the nineteenth century and 1914, the year of the passage of the Clayton and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Acts, was reflected in the considerable contemporary literature on the subject. Not surprisingly, professional economists actively participated in this debate. Their thinking directly and indirectly influenced the legislation of 1914 in a way that cannot be said of the Sherman Act of 1890 (Mayhew 1998). A survey of the most important of these professional writings shows that, among the several voices animating the discussion, John Bates Clark's was perhaps the most influential. In this connection,…

Heritage of the Soviet Ideology in parenting nowadays : the case of Latvia

2015

The Soviet period has shaped the history of Latvia in different areas. This article offers an insight into the ideological heritage which has significantly transformed the pedagogical discourse in theoretical as well as instrumental level. Article describes a part of two researches “Social transformations of the child's image in children's room” and “Father`s Pedagogical Competence in Family Nowadays”, revealing common features characterizing Soviet issues. Narrative explores crucial systemic changes, transformation of social and family life, deals with the deformed relationship between individuals in public sphere and family members in private and shows consequences still actual nowadays, …

Muslim Martyrs and Pagan Vampires

2005

In December 2000 the government of Kano State in Muslim northern Nigeria reintroduced shari’a and established a new board for film and video censorship charged with the responsibility to “sanitize” the video industry and enforce the compliance of video films with moral standards of Islam. Stakeholders of the industry took up the challenge and responded by inserting religious issues into their narratives, and by adding a new feature genre focusing on conversion to Islam. This genre is characterized by violent Muslim/pagan encounters, usually set in a mythical past, culminating in the conversion of the pagans. This article will first outline northern Nigerian video culture and then go on to e…

Superheroes, Social Responsibility, and the Metaphor of Gods in Mark Waid and Alex Ross’s Kingdom Come

2015

Some decades ago, Umberto Eco, in » The Myth of Superman, « pointed out the paradoxical nature of the all-powerful superhero. » Superman, « Eco notes, » is practically omnipotent; « consequently » one could expect the most bewildering political, economic, and technological upheavals in the world « from Superman – or any other › practically ‹ omnipotent superhero. But no such transformations occur in the narratives.

‘George Mitchell’s Peace’: The Good Friday Agreement in Colum McCann’s Novel TransAtlantic

2018

The impact of the different parties and individuals involved in constructing the Good Friday Agreement has been much discussed. This chapter scrutinizes the role of the American negotiator George Mitchell, as it is presented in Colum McCann’s novel TransAtlantic (2013). It places McCann’s novelistic depiction of Mitchell’s role in the context of both Mitchell’s own autobiographical writings and other external political assessments. Mitchell’s domestic life—including his experience of fatherhood—is shown to play a crucial role in the fictional treatment of the negotiations. McCann’s own position as an Irish-American author with a globalistic bent is taken into account, as is the way in which…

What is Educational Praxis?

2020

This chapter explores the question “What is educational praxis?” based on a review of theoretical and empirical research undertaken by the Pedagogy, Education and Praxis (PEP) international research network over the past decade. A book series produced by the network in 2008 explored this very question in relation to a range of educational sites and national contexts. Six key themes emerging from this work were outlined in the first of the books in the series, Enabling Praxis: Challenges for Education. In short, the themes concerned agents and agency; particularity; connectedness; history; morality and justice; and praxis as doing (Kemmis and Smith in Enabling praxis: challenges for educatio…

Book Review: Counterfeit Politics, Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas

2014

Who speaks? : renegotiating sovereign and metaphysical discourses in politics and law.

2016

The article deals with the theme of the subject in politics and law, which is essentially also the theme of who speaks. A focus on the voice is regarded here as paramount.

Perception of Political Leadership in Local Governments in Latvia

2018

Theme of the paper is political leadership in local governments in Latvia. The work uses secondary data analysis and case studies. The aim of the study is to find out what kind of role does the chairperson of the municipality have as a political leader and what kinds of factors are influencing him/her. The results revealed that formally the chairperson of the municipality has no decisive influence on the municipality and that both types of factors (internal and external) interact with each other limiting the political leader’s (chairperson’s of a municipality) freedom of action.

La dérive pédagogique parallèle. Un fil éducatif invisible entre Porto et Paris à travers des récits personnels

2019

Partimos de la deriva como práctica artística contemporánea, con reconocidos antecedentes históricos. El objetivo principal es experimentar las potencialidades pedagógicas de la observación de entornos urbanos de forma colaborativa y mediada por las TIC a través de la deriva, como artistas/investigadores/docentes encargados de la formación del profesorado, para poder introducir este tipo de iniciativas en el entorno educativo. La A/R/Tografía como método de Investigación Basada en las Artes facilita usar la deriva simultáneamente como práctica artística, proceso investigador y experiencia de aprendizaje docente. Los resultados se exponen a través de narrativas personales que muestran reflex…