VOLUME 6(1) • 2018
INTRODUCTION: DOMINANCE AND CRITIQUE IN AND OF EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. There are two main themes of this general issue, both informing each other in varying degrees. Firstly, in what follows, we are reminded by the authors of how dominance takes its place yet also reveals its own vulnerabilities. By its own loud charade, self-certainty, including its play-out..
FLIPPING THE SCRIPT: RETHINKING WORKING-CLASS RESISTANCE
ABSTRACT. This article argues that any viable notion of working class resistance will rest on reclaiming those narratives, historical memories, and elements of resistance that provide a sense of meaning, dignity, and working class courage. In too many instances, members of the working class are defi..
PASTORATE POWER, MARKET LIBERALISM AND A KNOWING WITHOUT KNOWING
ABSTRACT. The works of Michel Foucault have established a cross-disciplinary assessment of the modern liberal state. Specifically, his lectures at the end of the 1970s disposed the integrated web of liberalism as a rationality of government that is inseparable from the legitimizing discourse of poli..
‘BASTUHARA NARI’ OR FEMININE HOMELESSNESS: WOMEN OF THE STREETS
ABSTRACT. The Eurocentric bracketing of human existence created universally defined hierarchical propositions and feminism was one of them. It focuses upon certain feminine segments in society and quite systematically ignores the others. The Feminist movement that emerged in Europe made efforts to c..
EDUCATION FOR THE HIJRAS: TRANSGENDER PERSONS OF INDIA
ABSTRACT. Though revered for their miraculous powers, hijras or transgender people are a marginalized community in India. They earn their livelihood primarily by dancing on the occasions of weddings and births, while lately they have been known to resort to prostitution and begging as well. Recogniz..
EXPLORING THE SUPERVISION EXPERIENCES OF CHINESE OVERSEAS PHD STUDENTS IN NEW ZEALAND
ABSTRACT. Chinese students have comprised a large part of higher degree research students in several English speaking countries. Their supervision experiences, however, have not been fully examined. Using semi-structured interviews with 24 student participants, this study explores the supervision ex..
PRISMATIC STORYING: MAKING VISIBLE MULTI COLOURED CODES
ABSTRACT. Language is a casement into cultures’ deepest meanings. As children acquire languages, they implicitly adopt the mores of people around them; read the symbols, artefacts and codes. In this article, we examine the importance of language and literacy in the early childhood curriculum Te Whār..
REFLECTIONS ON ALGORITHMIC THINKING FOR VIDEO ANALYSIS – SORTING OUT COMPLEX HUMAN ACTIVITIES
ABSTRACT. Algorithmic thinking approaches utilize a number of steps to break down the issues surrounding a given problem. It involves a problem being analyzed and specified to then identify basic actions to the given problem that can be used to construct an algorithm. This means that algorithmic thi..
GEORGES DUMÉZIL AND THE INDOMITABLE MYTH
ABSTRACT. Why Dumézil? It could be that he provides a simple academic afterthought or a prime exercise that digs through the western thinking experiences with the purpose of imagining an answer, a different color that irradiates clarity to contrast the darkness of the world we live in. Probably Dumé..
THE NON-NATIVE LANGUAGE OF CYBERPUNK: FROM RETRO-DICTION TO PRE-DICTION AND BACK AGAIN. AN INTERVIEW WITH BRUCE STERLING
ABSTRACT. Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, and critic, was born in 1954. Best known for his ten science fiction novels, he also writes short stories, book reviews, design criticism, opinion columns, and introductions for books ranging from Ernst Juenger to Jules Verne. During 2005, he was..