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Augmented lesson planning as a moment of professionalization for the agency of pre-service English teachers
No full textMit den neuen Bildungsstandards für das Fach Englisch in der Sek I wird der Bereich fremdsprachenspezifische digitale Kompetenz neu eingeführt. Deshalb sollten angehende Lehrkräfte auf die Entwicklung von Unterrichtsplanungskompetenz durch Nutzung von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) und einer digitalen Plattform als „Gesprächspartner“ schon in der ersten Professionalisierungsphase vorbereitet werden. Wie dies erfolgen kann und welche Rolle die Entwicklung der Professionalitätsfacetten für angehende Englischlehrkräfte spielen, wird im folgenden Artikel erläutert.
The new educational standards for English at secondary level introduce a new area of foreign language-specific digital competence. Thus, pre-service teachers should be prepared for the development of lesson planning competences through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital platforms as “conversation partners” as early as their first professionalization phase. How this can be achieved and what role the development of professional facets plays for future English teachers is explained in the following article.The new educational standards for English at secondary level introduce a new area of foreign language-specific digital competence.Thus, pre-service teachers should be prepared for the development of lesson planning competences through the use of artificial intelligence and digital platforms as “conversation partners” as early as their first professionalization phase
M.-A. Bogers Theorie der trilemmatischen Inklusion als hochschuldidaktisches Analyse- und Reflexionsinstrument für diskriminierungskritische Ansätze im Rahmen des (Literatur)unterrichts
No full textDer Beitrag thematisiert den hochschuldidaktischen Nutzen von Mai-Anh Bogers Theorie der trilemmatischen Inklusion im Kontext literaturdidaktischer Seminare. Anhand zweier Texte von Studierenden wird exemplarisch gezeigt, wie die Theorie von (angehenden) Deutschlehrkräften als Heuristik für die Bearbeitung literaturdidaktischer Herausforderungen (diskriminierungskritische Analyse literarischer Texte und Aufgabenkonstruktion) im Zusammenhang mit inklusionsorientierter Unterrichtsplanung genutzt werden kann.
The paper discusses the didactic benefits of Mai-Anh Boger\u27s theory of trilemmatic inclusion in the context of literature didactics classes at university. Two texts by students are used as examples to show how the theory can be used by (prospective) German teachers as a heuristic for dealing with challenges (such as the discrimination-critical analysis of literary texts and the construction of tasks) in the process of planning inclusive literature classes.The paper draws on texts by students to demonstrate various ways in which Mai-Anh Boger\u27s theory of trilemmatic inclusion can be made fruitful for university teacher training. The theory can be used for the subject-independent reflection of inclusion-related contradictions, as well as for the specific context of planning literature classes, including the internal differentiation of tasks and the selection of literary texts for the classroom
Data Literacy im Wissenschaftsjournalismus – Facetten journalistischer Datenkompetenz und Fortbildungsbausteine zu deren Schulung
No full textDie Data Literacy Charta des Stifterverbandes (2021) betont die Wichtigkeit der Förderung von Datenkompetenz. Journalist:innen spielen durch die Verbreitung von Daten und Fakten eine besondere Rolle und können maßgeblich zur Meinungsbildung in der Gesellschaft beitragen. Erstaunlicherweise gibt es bislang zwar anekdotische Berichte zu typischen Fehlern in medialen Darstellungen, aber kaum empirisch gesicherte Erkenntnisse zur Data Literacy von Journalist:innen. Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden inhaltsbezogene Kompetenzfacetten zur Konzeptualisierung der Data Literacy vorgeschlagen sowie ein entsprechendes Training zur Förderung der Data Literacy von Wissenschaftsjournalist:innen vorgestellt (evaluiert mit Prä- und Post-Test).The Stifterverband\u27s Data Literacy Charter (2021) emphasises the importance of promoting data literacy. Journalists play a special role by disseminating data and facts and can make a significant contribution to shaping public opinion. Surprisingly, however, there are so far only anecdotal reports on typical errors in media representations but hardly any empirically verified findings on the data literacy of journalists. This article presents a training programme to promote science journalists\u27 data literacy. The training was evaluated using pre- and post-tests, which provide an initial insight into which data literacy facets can be improved
Esclavitud, racialización e identidades africanas en los registros parroquiales republicanos de Cartagena de Indias y Caracas de principios del XIX
No full textRacializing narratives were in force both in the Spanish Ancien Régime and in the later Spanish-American republics during the first half of the 19th century. Counterintuitively, in the official discourse, the colonial and republican authorities of Colombia and Venezuela converged in the use of ideological devices of control and sociorracial classification aimed exclusively at the enslaved black population and, in this sense, reproduced slave-owning thinking. Nor did the local sphere escape this racializing logic. The parish slave registries of Cartagena de Indias and Caracas, for instance, reproduced these racializing narratives until the republics of Colombia and Venezuela were well consolidated in the mid-19th century, and were decisive for the hierarchization of the social body and the delimitation of the political community. From a comparative perspective of two (post)colonial spaces of the Spanish Afro-Atlantic world, Colombia and Venezuela, this article analyzes the (re)construction of African identities in these racializing narratives, in light of the parish records of Cartagena de Indias and Caracas during the first decades of the nineteenth century.Las narrativas racializadoras estuvieron vigentes tanto en el Antiguo Régimen español como en las posteriores repúblicas hispanoamericanas durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Contraintuitivamente, en el discurso oficial, las autoridades coloniales y republicanas de Colombia y Venezuela convergieron en el uso de dispositivos ideológicos de control y clasificación sociorracial dirigidos exclusivamente a la población negra esclavizada y, en este sentido reprodujeron el pensamiento esclavista. El ámbito local tampoco escapó a esta lógica racializadora. Los registros parroquiales de esclavos de Cartagena de Indias y Caracas, por ejemplo, reprodujeron estas narrativas racializadoras hasta bien consolidadas las repúblicas de Colombia y Venezuela, a mediados del siglo XIX, y fueron determinantes para la jerarquización del cuerpo social y la delimitación de la comunidad política. Desde una perspectiva comparada, de dos espacios (post)coloniales del mundo Afro-Atlántico hispano, Colombia y Venezuela, este artículo analiza la (re)construcción de las identidades africanas en estas narrativas racializadoras, a la luz de los registros parroquiales de Cartagena de Indias y Caracas durante las primeras décadas del siglo XIX.Racializing narratives were in force both in the Spanish Ancien Régime and in the later Spanish-American republics during the first half of the 19th century. Counterintuitively, in the official discourse, the colonial and republican authorities of Colombia and Venezuela converged in the use of ideological devices of control and sociorracial classification aimed exclusively at the enslaved black population and, in this sense, reproduced slave-owning thinking. Nor did the local sphere escape this racializing logic. The parish slave registries of Cartagena de Indias and Caracas, for instance, reproduced these racializing narratives until the republics of Colombia and Venezuela were well consolidated in the mid-19th century, and were decisive for the hierarchization of the social body and the delimitation of the political community. From a comparative perspective of two (post)colonial spaces of the Spanish Afro-Atlantic world, Colombia and Venezuela, this article analyzes the (re)construction of African identities in these racializing narratives, in light of the parish records of Cartagena de Indias and Caracas during the first decades of the nineteenth century
“O My Language, Help me to Learn / So That I May Embrace the Universe”: Transnational Feminist Communities in the Work of Palestinian Women Writers
No full textIn the title quote, Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) expresses his desire for a space that preserves Palestinian identity within a wider culture. Rather than leaving ties to Palestine behind, Darwish, like writers included in this article – Susan Abulhawa, Hala Alyan, Randa Jarrar, and Naomi Shihab Nye, to name a few – puts his homeland within a framework of diasporic space. Similarly, Rana Barakat views exile as both an individual “shipwreck” and a communal journey, a stance that reflects intersectional feminist values. Negotiating “the isolation of the individual within our shared collective condition,” Barakat offers what Anna Ball terms a “transnational feminist approach”. She joins a larger body of post 1948 writers who construct what the “poet of witness” Caroline Forché calls “assembled communities”, groups of friends who, she says, are “varied in the universe” but come together via various kinds of communication in order to discuss common issues. This article seeks to explore a variety of transformative dialogues which transcend difference by standing together for justice, equality, and peace. How might feminist writers and activists negotiate a balance between connecting to their homeland but also recognize the potential that arises from the transnationalism of Avtar Brah’s concept of “diasporic space?” As a place marked by hybridity, where tradition is continually transformed, this theoretical concept addresses the confluence of migrating populations, capital, commodities and culture. This article also builds on Steven Salaita’s Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine (2016), a work that explores how such dialogues across borders offer a viable means of resistance. As Cynthia Franklin, editor of Biography’s special issue “Life in Occupied Palestine” (2014), notes, while sumoud (steadfastness) is a Palestinian tradition, it gains strength when Palestinians ally with social groups who are interconnected via various means of oppression
Review: Stan Hawkins: Queerness in Pop Music: Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality (Routledge Studies in Popular Music)
No full textIn lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the review:
Professor Stan Hawkins’s latest book, Queerness in Pop Music: Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality, takes up the queer aesthetics and politics of performance within pop music as its subject. Over the course of seven chapters, Hawkins invites his readers to “partake in his own experiences, delights, and impressions” (Hawkins 2) of such figures as Madonna, George Michael, and David Bowie. This volume joins recent works in analyzing the political and social dimensions of pop music and its performers as Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (2012) by Jack Halberstam, Gender, Branding, and the Modern Music Industry: The Social Construction of Female Popular Music Stars (2013) by Kristin Lieb, and Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity, and Subjectivity (2013) by Sheila Whitely. Drawing on his training as a musicologist, Hawkins’s work emphasizes how performers in pop music foreground a queer sense to normative representations of gender and sexuality. It is this queer sense, the author argues, that helps unsettle dominant social conventions and provide new frameworks for imagining the future
Review: Casselberry, Judith. The Labor of Faith: Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism.
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In The Labor of Faith: Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism, Judith Casselberry, Associate Professor of African Studies at Bowdoin College, provides an ethnographic analysis of the ways in which women simultaneously support a gendered hierarchy and exercise their own power within an African-American Holiness-Pentecostal congregation. Although there have recently been a number of studies of African American Pentecostalism (see, for example, Peter Marina’s Getting the Holy Ghost: Urban Ethnography in a Brooklyn Pentecostal Tongue-Speaking Church [2013] and William Turner’s United Holy Church of America: Study in Black Holiness Pentecostalism [2006]), as well as multiple and powerful theological analyses of African-American women’s experience (see, for instance, M. Shawn Copeland’s Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race and Being [2009]), Casselberry’s anthropological work fills a gap in focusing on the experience of African-American women within a particular denomination, the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ (COOLJC)
Frontmatter and Editorial
No full textIn lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the editorial:
This year marks the sixth Early Career Researchers issue of gender forum. As in previous years, 2018 has seen a huge demand for this platform for up- and coming researchers and led to the submission of many high quality articles on a remarkable variety of issues. The few articles selected for this issue focus on notions of masculinity and femininity, the queer in-between spaces, and the potential of shaping non-normative identities against the strain of a normative society
“This is the girl”: Queer Nightmares, Fantasy, and Reality in Mulholland Drive
No full textThe article discusses how David Lynch’s film Mulholland Drive (2001) offers many filmic clichés to deconstruct assumptions about queer identity. Although some critics of the film have suggested that the film upholds heteronormativity, Lynch unravels the limits of linear space and time to contest a singular reality. Analyzing Mulholland Drive via theories of queer temporality will suggest that a singular, supposedly correct reading of this film’s chronology may not be easily determined. In fact, approaching this film from a queer theoretical perspective offers the opportunity to show that, despite the alleged privileging of the heteronormative order, the tropes of neo noir allow the characters to celebrate the possibility of queer desire through the negation of a unitary self
Gender and the Labyrinth
No full textThis essay analyses the labyrinthine nature of Kathy Acker‘s texts “Seeing Gender” (1995), Blood and Guts in High School (1979, publ. 1984) and Empire of the Senseless (1988). An understanding of Acker’s writing as a re-writing of the concepts of sex and gender will be linked to her negotiation of concepts of corporeality and temporality as forms of entrapment of the self