"Encystation": Containment and Control in Israeli Ideology and Practice

The radical closure of Gaza serves here as an extreme example of a process of isolation and immiseration of national enemies that is deeply rooted in Israeli ideology and practices of state formation. I use encystation to reveal the dual meaning of the term—that of radical isolation of diseased elements and that of protecting a fetus within a womb—and to show how the two meanings connect with respective Israeli policies toward Palestinians and Jews. I suggest in closing that the Oslo Accords have put in place mechanisms for the future imposition on West Bank Palestinians of the same containment currently afflicting Gaz

The Application of Transformative Learning Theory to Online Teaching

Transformative learning has emerged as a powerful image for understanding how adults learn (Dirkx, 1998). Mezirow (1991) in explaining his theory of transformative learning, maintained that adults seem to realize personal and professional growth when confronted with dilemmas that challenge their existing views of the world. Transformative educators do not necessarily teach content that is significantly different from other educators. However, they teach the content with a different objective in mind. Transformative educators teach with the aim of consciousness-raising (Freire, 1970), critical reflection (Mezirow, 1995), development (Daloz,1986), or individuation (Boyd & Myers,1988). Many adult educators teaching in the traditional face to face classroom environment have long used one or more of these objectives in their delivery strategies. These strategies include role playing, the sharing of critical incidents or other in class strategies designed to engage students

Confronting the Imposter Syndrome in the Adult Learning Classroom

This paper examines the experiences of two African American male professor in confronting the Imposter Syndrome. The relevant literature on the Imposter Syndrome is used to analyze the experiences of these two educators and strategies are advanced for addressing the phenomenon of both a personal and a professional level

Introduction: After Society

This book brings together a group of scholars who were shaped by Oxford anthropology in the late 1970s and early 1980s, each reflecting on their academic trajectories. This was a period of major political and academic change in Great Britain and, more generally, around the globe. A decade earlier, the student revolts had had a profound effect on the way the social sciences saw their role in society. Yet, it is only with the impact of the neoliberal reaction, at the time of Mrs Thatcher’s first government, that the full implications of the earlier crisis made themselves felt in anthropology. These implications were both internal, in theoretical terms, leading to a deep questioning of the central tenets that had shaped the social sciences throughout the twentieth century; and external, in academic terms, when scholarly discourse was suddenly treated by those in power as being largely irrelevant to the economy and to society – a kind of perverse luxury.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Nation, xénophobie et fantasme

Le rationalisme moderniste ne nous aide pas dans l’analyse du nationalisme ou de la haine nationale. A la suite des élections yougoslaves de 1990 sont arrivés au pouvoir des partis politiques prétendant représenter le peuple, le groupe national dominant dans chaque république et affirmant que leur développement était freiné par les autres. Si la haine nationale a été provoquée d’en haut, la réponse populaire a tout de même été enthousiaste. Après avoir analysé les moyens de manipulation, l’auteur s’intéresse aux raisons de son acceptation. L’appel à la haine de l’autre réussit à s’ancrer dans des individus aux bagages culturels et sociaux différent parce qu’il fait écho aux processus de formation de l’identité.The modernist rationalism is not that helpful in the analysis of nationalism or national hatred. The polical parties that took power in the 1990s, have claimed that they represented the people, the dominant ethnic groupings of the respective republics and have asserted that their development was impeded by the others. If ethnic hatred has been instigated from above, the people’s response, yet, was enthusiastic. Firstly, the author analyses the means of manipulation. Secondly, he looks for the reasons of its acceptation. The call of other’s hatred was successful among persons of a widely range of social and historical backgrounds because it echoes processes of identity formation