This article explores the integration of multimodal narratives and feminist perspectives in additional language education to promote social justice. Drawing on the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies, which emphasizes the need to engage with diverse modes of meaning construction, the text discusses how digital resources contribute to challenge traditional gender roles and foster inclusive learning environments. Through a theoretical framework grounded in the dimensions of literacy, learning by design, and social justice, and under a feminist lens, we examine the transformative potential of incorporating gender discussions into language education. Additionally, the role of multimodal texts in expanding students’ multiliteracies is explored, offering a practical learning path to promoting gender equity and empowering future teachers as agents of change.
Sangam literature has its distinct traditions and characteristics. In terms of its linguistic style, it is structured with a refined and firm structural framework. As Sangam Literature has emerged from a highly learned social backdrop, women were also capable of creating poetry with great skill at Sangam times. They expressed their inner and outer emotions through poetry. These poems were not mere empty verses but were deeply insightful works reflecting social concern and rooted in morality. The linguistic ability of these women was infinite. In terms of phonetics, vocabulary, syntax, the ideas conveyed and their authentic Tamil language is with excellence, coherence and beauty. The female poets of the Sangam era stood out for their skilful use of Tamil language. They handled verbs in both internal (personal) and external (social) contexts across the dimensions of texts, poets, themes and expressions using them both similarly and differently. This essay highlights the linguistic authority of the female poets of the Sangam period in particular to the use of their verbs.
This paper maps key factors that activate adult stakeholders in Ontario to support curriculum pertaining to consent and non-violence in K-12 education. The paper draws from a study that used three qualitative approaches: (1) the design of an original media literacy curriculum module for Ontario youth ages 13-15; (2) curriculum assessment of the module by diverse stakeholders in Ontario K-12 education (n=20); and (3) analysis of archival documents pertaining to consent education and media literacy in Ontario, including official curriculum and media reports. Four key factors united stakeholders in supporting K-12 curriculum pertaining to consent and non-violence in Ontario. Firstly, stakeholders are intrigued by media-based pedagogies that can facilitate consent education that is “culturally relevant” (Ladson-Billings 1994; 1995) for diverse learners in Ontario. Stakeholders are also more likely to support consent and violence prevention initiatives if accompanied by professional development and teaching tools. Educator collectives and political organizing also allow for more feminist and social-justice pedagogies in the classroom, including consent education. Finally, parent councils and community groups are essential places for activism and knowledge sharing that can meet the needs of community members, while addressing stakeholders’ attitudes and behaviours that gatekeep violence prevention initiatives in education.
Introduction and Purpose:The ability of television in cultural currents and their impact on lifestyles has overshadowed many women's orientations in values, and this study aims to analyze the qualitative content of television pathology on the socio-cultural values of women's lifestyles.Materials and Methods:This research is a qualitative content analysis and the required information has been collected based on semi-structured interviews. The sampling method was snowball and information was obtained from 27 interviewees in the field of media experts and knowledgeable women.Findings: Findings indicate that there is a relationship between domestic and foreign television programs and socio-cultural values of women's lifestyle.Discussion and Conclusion:The results showed that the mere use of television programs can not be shifted as the main element shaping the socio-cultural values of women's lifestyles. In addition to this factor, other factors such as the weakness of domestic television, changes in the country's social system, capitalist and humanist thinking due to the globalization process, the diversity of virtual social networks and other socio-economic factors determine the value orientations of women's lifestyles in Mahabad.
This article examines narrative articulations of Native American hospitality in the autobiographical essay “The Worry Lines” (2020), by Métis writer Toni Jensen, and the fictional chapter “Sacred Wilderness” (2014), by Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member Susan Power. In both texts, relevant connections to the Other are made outdoors by means of words, deriving in the lowering of walls—which both separate and connect—and calling for a reexamination of Indigenous peoples as strangers within the doors of the US settler colonial state. The result is a vindication of Indigenous sovereignty and literary activism through the epistemological and ethical value of relationality, as well as a contribution to hospitality studies more broadly through its vindication of the power of conversation and literature.
A partir da realização de entrevistas com doulas de diferentes regiões brasileiras e de uma postura construcionista como suporte epistemológico e metodológico buscamos compreender os sentidos atribuídos às suas experiências e às suas vivências na doulagem e aos contextos relacionais em que se inserem. São citadas algumas das situações de violência com as quais as entrevistadas se deparam no cotidiano da sua atuação e na importância da vinculação entre mulheres para o fortalecimento da autonomia e empoderamento e superação das vulnerabilidades. Como resultado, o artigo aponta que a atuação como doula não apenas traz a possibilidade de empoderamento para a pessoa gestante, por meio do apoio e da informação trazidos pela presença da doula, como também para a própria doula, ao se conectar a outras mulheres com o intuito de enfrentamento das iniquidades com as quais se defronta.
The essay is based on the international strike of March 8th 2017 and the gradual establishment of the Feminism for the 99% movement. According to theorists and activists, a class feminism able to articulate needs and political positions that speak to the complexity of experiences of ordinary women, so far neglected by the liberal dominant elite feminism. Against these events, notions like “redistribution” and “identity recognition” by Nancy Fraser, have been decisive in order to conceptualize a change which has occurred in these last decades within western politics. A transformation which has brought together the more impactful movements on the social protest level, unlike in the past, beyond a class interest perspective, as ‘groups’ or communities of value, aimed to reclaim their own identity and acquire “recognition”. A significant shift of perspective in gender politics, but also paradigmatic of the contemporary political experience in the progressive field.
While there has undoubtedly been progress made in regards to the inclusion of women and LGBTQ+ individuals as full members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), it is questionable as to whether the organizational culture has shifted since these efforts were initiated almost thirty years ago. This article argues that resistance to culture change is based in sexist beliefs and attitudes, which are most noticeable in discussions related to Operation HONOUR, the CAF initiative meant to purposefully change military culture in an effort to eliminate sexual misconduct. The article critically reflects on how the CAF has presented results from surveys aimed at examining the beliefs and perceptions of current serving members in regards to sexual misconduct in the military. It argues that the CAF is missing key points of analysis, particularly in failing to identify and analyse the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours that make up a problematic and misogynistic military culture. To address this, the article presents a taxonomy of sexism to help understand the attitudes of soldiers and veterans. Based on this taxonomy and informed by long-term and ongoing ethnographic research, the article then outlines a spectrum of behavioural archetypes, namely: (1) allyship to victims, (2) willful blindness to the prevalence of and harms caused by military sexual misconduct, and (3) a negative and misogynistic response tied to what has been termed as toxic masculinity. Understanding these behaviours and their embeddedness in veterans’ self-perceptions and the military’s culture is key to achieving CAF culture change in the context of systemic sexual misconduct.
Daniel Barredo Ibáñez, Grupo OVEC Observatorio de la Violencia en el Ecuador
Varios de los países latinoamericanos presentan algunas de las cifras más altas del mundo sobre violencia de género: las circunstancias históricas, culturales, políticas y socioeconómicas determinan fuertemente la construcción de unos imaginarios donde prevalece la supremacía de género. Este es el caso de Ecuador, un contexto en el que, según cifras oficiales, seis de cada diez mujeres son víctimas de algún tipo de violencia. En este artículo, presentamos los resultados de un proyecto en el que hemos generado casi tres mil encuestas a un grupo referente: los estudiantes universitarios. A grandes rasgos, se ha percibido un desconocimiento – sobre todo entre los hombres – de la complejidad debida al fenómeno de la violencia, así como cierta tolerancia hacia este tipo de epidemia social. Se recomienda, por tanto, a las autoridades institucionales, la intensificación de campañas de comunicación estratégica para promover una erosión de los factores simbólicos que motivan la persistencia de un tradicionalismo residual en este significativo epicentro de la cultura andina.
Women’s underrepresentation in the scientific community is currently on the agenda of science policy both in Europe and internationally. The significance of media as a provider of female role models, on the one hand, and in reproducing stereotypical images of scientists, on the other hand, is often mentioned in this context. However, there is relative lack of research on how women researchers are depicted in the media, especially outside the US and UK contexts. Finland provides an interesting context to study media representations of women in research, as a relatively gender equal and research intensive setting seen from a global perspective. The media representations of women researchers in Finland were explored by analyzing person interviews in Finnish printed media: newspapers, women’s magazines and magazines aimed for general public. The data consists of 107 interviews of women researchers from all fields of research, published in 1997-2014. Overwhelming majority of the interviews was written by female journalists. The analysis focuses on both social and linguistic aspects of the interviews from a gender perspective. Women researchers were found to be represented by a variation of frames, the most common of which were the Expert and the Top Researcher. Their family context was frequently mentioned, and the interviews frequently commented their appearance (hair, physique, way of moving). The fact that the interviewees’ family context was often highlighted in the interviews may serve to convey a message that it is possible and common to combine a career in research and family. One main result of the study was the diversity of representations of female researchers, compared to the US and UK studies. The diversity of the media images of female researchers suggests that the media may provide important role models for young women, encouraging women to choose research as a profession.
As a consequence of recent changes, health research policies in the United States mandate the inclusion of women and members of racial and ethnic minority groups as experimental subjects in biomedical research. This article analyzes debates that underlie these policies and that concern the medical management of bodies, groups, identities and differences. Much of the uncertainty surrounding these new policies reflects the fact that researchers, physicians, policy makers and health advocates have adopted competing, and often murky, understandings of the nature of sex, gender, racial and ethnic differences, and of the relation of the biological to the social in the manifestation of bodily illness.
پژوهش پیش رو پژوهشی از نوع توصیفی هم بستگی است، که با هدف تعیین میزان مشارکت زنان روستایی در برنامه های آموزشی ترویجی و شناسایی مهم ترین دلایل مشارکت و نبود مشارکت در این برنامه ها صورت گرفته است.جامعه آماری پژوهش را 2199 نفر از زنان روستایی شهرستان سنقر و کلیایی در استان کرمانشاه تشکیل می دهند که 327 نفر از آنان، با روش نمونه گیری چندمرحله یی و به عنوان نمونه پژوهش، انتخاب شدند. ابزار اصلی پژوهش پرسش نامه است، که ضریب آلفای کرون باخ، بیان گر پایایی مناسب مقیاس های طراحی شده آن است (برای بخش دوم 0.94 و برای بخش سوم 0.95) و برای تحلیل داده ها نیز از نرم افزار SPSS استفاده شده است.نتایج پژوهش نشان می دهد میزان مشارکت زنان روستایی در برنامه های آموزشی ترویجی کم تر از متوسط است. بر پایه پاسخ های داده شده، تبعیض های جنسیتی، نبود اجازه برای حضور زنان در فعالیت های گروهی، پایین بودن سواد، فقر اقتصادی خانواده، و نبود آگاهی نسبت به شیوه برخورد با زنان،از مهم ترین دلایل مشارکت نکردن، و تماس زیاد با مروجان، افزایش تولید و درآمد، خوشنودی از برنامه های آموزشی ترویجی گذشته، و علاقه مند بودن به کشاورزی، از مهم ترین دلایل مشارکت است. بر پایه تحلیل رگرسیون، سطح تحصیلات، سن، و سطح تحصیلات همسر، از عوامل موثر بر میزان مشارکت زنان روستایی در برنامه های آموزشی ترویجی اند.