Social distinction in children's peer groups: first results from Brazil and Germany

Die Autorin stellt erste Ergebnisse aus einem Länder vergleichenden Forschungsprojekt vor, in welchem anhand von Interviewdaten aus Brasilien und aus Deutschland untersucht wird, wie Kinder die Strukturiertheit beider Schulsysteme und die damit verbundene soziale Ungleichheit wahrnehmen. Die Abgrenzung gegenüber anderen Schulformen wird in Deutschland nach dem Wechsel in die Sekundarstufe vor allem von jenen Kindern angesprochen, die auf formal niedrigere Schulformen gewechselt sind und sich nach oben und unten abzugrenzen versuchen. In beiden Ländern besteht die Tendenz, dass Peerkontakte zwar im selben Schulmilieu üblich sind, dass aber über die Schule hinausgehende Kontakte der Legitimierung bedürfen. Die Autorin verdeutlicht anhand der Forschungsergebnisse zur sozialen Distinktion, wie die leistungsbasierte Selektion in der Schule von den Heranwachsenden thematisiert wird und wie Schulleistungen und soziale Herkunft die Peer-Beziehungen beeinflussen. Als Auswertungsmethode wird die dokumentarische Methode nach Ralf Bohnsack angewendet, um sowohl die individuellen Orientierungen zu Schule, Familie und Peers als auch die kollektiven Einstellungen der Peers gegenüber der Freizeit und der Schule zu rekonstruieren. Die Autorin diskutiert abschließend die Ziele und Grenzen der interkulturellen, rekonstruktiven Forschung zur sozialen Distinktion. (ICI

The Islam Defence Action: a Challenge of Islamic Movement to Democratic Transition in the Post 2014 Indonesia

The Islam Defense Action in Jakarta during November to December 2016 was the largest protest movement that ever been held in Indonesia and brought national concerns over political instability. Hudred thousands to milions of people overwhelmed the streets protesting the alleged blasphemy on Islam by Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, a candidate for the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election that has a close connection to President Joko Widodo. This article analyzes the outbreak of the protest movement as a depiction of the strategic influence of Islamic groups in the midst of political upheaval threat. The protest movement showed a struggle to defend their values, but on the other hand its political impact cannot be disclaimed. Above all of the phenomena, Islam Defense Action implies that religious sentiment still interacts with the politics and challenging the role of Islamic civil society toward Indonesia democracy transition in the post 2014

Methodological cross-fertilization: Empirical methodologies in (computational) linguistics and translation studies

Recent years have seen attempts at improving empirical methodologies in con- trastive linguistics and in translation studies through interdisciplinary collaboration with multi-layer corpus architectures in computational linguistics. At the same time, explanatory background for empirical results is increasingly sought in more sophisticated models of language contact in typologically based contrastive linguistics on the one hand, and in language processing in situations of multilinguality, including translation, on the other. Three attempts are discussed to narrow the significant gap between the high level of abstraction of such models, and data provided through shallow analysis and annotation of electronic corpora. The first of these operationalizes the high level terms “explicitness/explicitation” in terms of lexicogrammatical data available in a contrastive corpus, treating them as dependent variables and attempting to explain their variation in terms of the independent variables controlled for in the corpus architecture. The second attempt starts from the same corpus architecture, yet includes annotations about textual cohesion in its operationalizations and develops increasingly fine-grained hypotheses to limit search space and variation between independent and dependent variables so as to get closer to causal explanations rather than explanations in terms of co-variation. The third attempt intersects corpus data of the type outlined before with data from processing studies, aiming at an integration and mutual explanation of product and process data. Our focus here is on methodological issues involved in integrating data of such different types and granularity in an overall empirical research architecture

THE INSURGENT ARCHITECTS' RIGHT TO THE CITY IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON

The Right to the City is not only a theoretical concept but also a political ideal. This paper will present empirical research and theoretical aspects ofo this right, and possibilities of change, through an analysis of a group of cities in the Brazilian Amazon, those located along the rivers Solimões and Amazonas, Amazonas state, Brazil. Cities have an in si and a per si character. Considering the in si character a city can be studied and comprehended in itself, its morphological structures (physical, imaginary) and its fluxes (of things, people and power). This understanding is a necessary first movement for change and how this understanding is done, the methodological procedures, will limit or expand transformative possibilities. The revolutionary force of the Right to the City is to comprehend the city per si, as entity that can influence and take lead on the changes that transform the premises of the future. Areas with low city density, as the Amazon, a city itself has an important (use)value. The functions that are intrinsic to cities are  available in definite places/locations. These cities are special places, still opened to change, for the handcuffs of private property of land as defined by capitalism are not fully established. Land property in most of the cities in the western section of the Brazilian Amazon is not defined by law: houses and gardens merge. The socioecological relationships that define this diverse socio-biodiversity may give interesting insights to the discussion of the Right to the City world-wide

Translingualism in post-secondary writing and language instruction : negotiating language ideologies in policies and pedagogical practices.

Drawing on text-oriented data from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, this study examines how writing teachers and students constantly negotiate tensions between translingual sociolinguistic realities on one hand and monolingualist assumptions about language and language relations on another that dominate curricular and pedagogical designs in first year writing courses. The study involves a multiplicity of data sources, such as official institutional documents, individual instructional materials, classroom observations, structured interviews, and a method of talk around texts. Writing teachers in this study sensitively grappled with tensions between the constant political pressures of generating the status quo and their ideological orientations towards keeping up with rapid sociolinguistic changes on the ground. As multilingual student participants in this study continued to grow more worldly with English, this study demonstrates the relevance of a translingual approach to their specific personal, social, linguistic, and cultural affiliations in addition to their academic and professional aspirations. By taking a translingual approach to writing instruction, this study puts forward strategies of ideological and pedagogical change aligned with translingualism that pays special attention to the diversity and complexity of linguistic and discursive resources already flowing into the writing program and classroom

Qualitative analysis and documentary method in international educational research

"Der Band vereint Beiträge zur erziehungswissenschaftlichen qualitativen Forschung in Brasilien und Deutschland. Neben der Systematisierung der Bedeutung qualitativer Zugänge in beiden Ländern und in der pädagogischen Ausbildung liegt sein besonderer Schwerpunkt auf der dokumentarischen Methode, die in dem Sammelband in drei Kapiteln bezogen auf die Anwendung auf Gruppendiskussionen, Interviews sowie Bild- und Filmmaterial vorgestellt wird. Dabei finden sich jeweils Aufsätze zu methodologischen Grundlagen und methodischen Verfahrensweisen, wie auch solche zu ihrer Anwendung mit Beispielen aktueller erziehungswissenschaftlicher Studien aus Brasilien und Deutschland. Der Band bietet damit die erste umfassende englischsprachige Einführung in Methodologie und Forschungspraxis der dokumentarischen Methode." (Autorenreferat). Inhaltsverzeichnis: Nicolle Pfaff, Ralf Bohnsack, Wivian Weller: Reconstructive Research and the Documentary Method in Brazilian and German Educational Science - An Introduction (7-38); I. Qualitative Methods in Educational Science: Bernadette A. Gatti, Marli André: The Relevance of Qualitative Research Methods in Education in Brazil (41-51); Heinz-Hermann Krüger: The Importance of Qualitative Methods in the German Educational Science (53-74); Gerhard Riemann: The Significance of Procedures of Ethnography and Narrative Analysis for the (Self-)Reflection of Professional Work (75-95); II. The Documentary Method and the Interpretation of Group Discussions: Ralf Bohnsack: Documentary Method and Group Discussions (99-124); Karin Schittenhelm: School-to-Work Transitions of Young Women. A Cross-Cultural Approach Based on Group Discussions (125-142); Wivian Weller: The feminine presence in youth (sub)cultures: the art of becoming visible (143-163); Nicolle Pfaff: Social Distinction in Children's Peer Groups: First Results from Brazil and Germany (165-192); III. The Documentary Method and the Interpretation of Interviews: Arnd-Michael Nohl: Narrative Interview and Documentary Interpretation (195-217); Rógerio A. Moura (oder Rogério De Moura): CSOs and the Structure of Professional Education Programs in the Context of Youth Care: The Point of View of Coordinators in Brazil and Germany (219-235); Arnd-Michael Nohl, Ulrike Selma Ofner: Migration and Ethnicity in Documentary Interpretation - Perspectives from a Project on Highly Qualified Migrants (237-264); IV. The Documentary Method and the Interpretation of Pictures and Videos: Ralf Bohnsack: The Interpretation of Pictures and the Documentary Method (267-292); Alexander Geimer: Cultural practices of the reception and appropriation of films from the standpoint of a praxeological sociology of knowledge (293-309); Astrid Baltruschat: Film interpretation according to the documentary method (311-342); Andrea Salisch (oder Sabisch): Recording and Representing Aesthetic Experience in Diaries (343-363)

Evidentiality in Tagalog

Tesis doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Departamento de Filología Española. Fecha de lectura: 02-07-202

State and Local Limitations on Ballot Measure Contributions

This Note\u27s thesis is that ballot measure limitations unconstitutionally infringe upon the rights of free speech and association. Part I analyzes Buckley and concludes that the CARC court misapplied its distinction between contributions and direct expenditures. Part II tests ballot measure limitations against Buckley\u27s exacting scrutiny standard. It identifies the state interests asserted in defense of ballot measure limitations - lessening abuse by narrow interest groups, reducing apathy, and equalizing political expression - and concludes that ballot measure limitations do not permissibly further these governmental interests