Reconceptualizing Cultural Literacy as a Dialogic Practice

Culture and heritage are plural and fluid, continually co-created through interaction between people. However, traditional monologic models of cultural literacy reflect a one-way transmission of static cultural knowledge. Using the context of a large European project and augmenting the work of Buber with models of literacy as social practice, in this paper we reconceptualize cultural literacy as fundamentally dialogic. We argue that cultural literacy empowers intercultural dialogue, opening a dialogic space with inherent democratic potential. Considering implications for the classroom, we outline how a dialogic pedagogy can provide a suitable context for the development of young people’s cultural literacy.European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 77004

Introduction : Heritage and Scale

In geography, the notion of scale has been discussed within diverse theoretical frameworks. The concept of geographical scale indicates socio-spatial organization within a bounded geographical area – usually labelled as size (such as province or continent) or level (such as global, national, regional, local, and even household). Besides these ‘technical’ definitions, recent research also includes more nuanced elaborations. The introductory chapter discusses four conceptualizations for understanding and utilizing the concept of scale that are critical in underscoring the power relations in heritage. These conceptualizations – scale as a hierarchy, scale as an instrument of power, scale as a process, and scale as a network – function as a point of departure in developing ‘politics of scale’ as a theoretical and methodological approach.Peer reviewe

Performing ‘us’ and ‘other’ : Intersectional analyses of right-wing populist media

Finland and Sweden share the ideal of a Nordic welfare state, with gender equality as a central tenet. In both countries, right-wing populist parties have gained prominence in mainstream politics. Despite similar political agendas at the moment, these parties have different political histories, and different modes of expressing their anti-immigration pleas. In this comparative study, we examine how the distinction between ‘us’ and the ‘other’ is performed intersectionally in terms of gender, social class, ethnicity and ‘race’, and sexuality. For this purpose, we examine empirical material collected from the party newspapers of the Finns Party and the Sweden Democrats, because their content most closely reflects the ideological tenets of these parties. The chosen timeline stretches from 2007 until 2014 and entails the qualitative close reading of 16 issues of each newspaper. We evidence the dynamic between the intersectional analysis that fleshes out the reproduction of categories of difference, and the comparative analysis with its interest in temporal change and the resulting convergence between the two parties’ ideologies. We conclude that, although the Finns Party previously had a more pronounced anti-elitist rhetoric and resorted to class-based antagonism as a means to garner electoral support, it subsequently moved closer to the anti-immigration agenda around issues of protecting national identity and the welfare state that has characterised the political platform of the Sweden Democrats over the past decade. This temporal awareness allowed us to document the Sweden Democrats’ ideological consistency over the examined timeframe, emphasising the party’s quest to rebuild the (Swedish) ‘people’s home’ and to exclude the racialised Muslim ‘other’.Peer reviewe

Intercultural Dialogue in the European Education Policies

This open access book analyses intercultural dialogue as a concept, policy and ideal in European education policy documentation. The core European transnational organizatons – the Council of Europe and the European Union – have actively promoted policies to engender inclusive societies and respond to challenges that diversification may entail. This book, in turn, offers suggestions for improving education policies in super-diversified Europe and beyond, where there is an increasing need for cultural understanding and constructive dialogue. The authors utilize concept analysis to reveal how these organizations seek to deal with dialogue between cultures, as well as weight given to cultural differences and intercultural encounters. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of intercultural dialogue and European education policies

Constructing social Europe through European cultural heritage

The political and economic crises of the recent decades as well as the new changes brought on by globalization and digitalization have contributed to exacerbate social inequalities and injustice and revealed different social realities in Europe. The EU increasingly deals with social issues in its cultural and heritage policy. In this article, we explore the construction of this social dimension and advance the concept of 'social Europe' by exploring its cultural aspect based on our analysis of a recent EU heritage action, the European Heritage Label. In this action, the narrations of the European past and the attempts to foster common cultural heritage in Europe function as building blocks to create Europe as an intertwined cultural and social entity and to socialize a new generation of European citizens. We scrutinize the European Heritage Label and its notion of heritage from two perspectives. First, we analyse how the selection reports of these heritage sites construct a notion of social Europe. Second, we examine how visitors to these sites construct social Europe in their qualitative interviews. Key elements in this construction are narratives related to various values, mobility, and diversity.Peer reviewe

Europe from Below : Notions of Europe and the European among Participants in EU Cultural Initiatives

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Lasten ja nuorten krooninen väsymysoireyhtymä

Kroonista väsymysoireyhtymää pidetään toiminnallisena häiriönä. Etiologia on todennäköisesti monitekijäinen. Oikea-aikainen diagnoosi parantaa potilaan ennustetta ja kuntoutumista. Tutkitusti tehokasta hoitoa ei vielä ole. Hoidosta vastaa lasten ja nuorten hoitoon perehtynyt moniammatillinen tiimi. Tavoitteena on arjen toimintakyvyn tukeminen tai palauttaminen pitkäkestoisen, kuuntelevan ja luottamuksellisen hoitosuhteen avulla.Peer reviewe

Lasten ja nuorten krooninen väsymysoireyhtymä

Kroonista väsymysoireyhtymää pidetään toiminnallisena häiriönä. Etiologia on todennäköisesti monitekijäinen.Oikea-aikainen diagnoosi parantaa potilaan ennustetta ja kuntoutumista. Tutkitusti tehokasta hoitoa ei vielä ole.Hoidosta vastaa lasten ja nuorten hoitoon perehtynyt moniammatillinen tiimi.Tavoitteena on arjen toimintakyvyn tukeminen tai palauttaminen pitkäkestoisen, kuuntelevan ja luottamuksellisen hoitosuhteen avulla