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Virtual and in-person exchanges: Student perspectives on advantages and disadvantages
No full textInteracting with target-language speakers online has become an important way for many second language students around the world to improve their skills in their target language. These types of learning interactions can take place on a wide range of online platforms, whether paid or unpaid, one-on-one or in small groups. Although research on these types of activities, often called virtual exchanges (VE), has increased, relatively little research has compared students’ experiences across different platforms. The present study compared the experiences of first and second-year university students with native speakers in in-person interactions as well as through several online services that connect language learners. Results indicate that students claimed to learn more in the in-person interactions than in the online settings. They also claimed to feel less anxiety in the in-person interactions. However, they also felt that certain online services improved their language learning in ways that were similar to the in-person interactions. In addition, each online or in-person setting offered unique advantages and disadvantages in terms of practicality and learning
Leveraging intercultural dialogue and collaborative learning to promote interpersonal and patient care competencies
No full textThis paper describes the virtual exchange (VE) between universities in the U.S. and in the West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt). The VE aimed at developing students’ interpersonal and patient health care practitioner communication skills through an intercultural dialogue framework. With this objective in mind, the program was designed to employ elements of both intercultural dialogue and team-based approaches to VE. Over the course of four weeks, students and facilitators met weekly via Zoom. During these live sessions, 26 students within their teams were engaged in a number of activities to share and learn about each other’s identities and cultural perceptions of mental health and practiced intercultural dialogue communication skills. Students also had to work collaboratively to explore different mental health case studies and how they are perceived within their communities through local interviews. The VE took into consideration the sociopolitical context of the students living under occupation, creating space for the participants to learn about one another’s daily lived reality including engaging in ad hoc dialogues on unexpected events happening in one of the countries. Data was collected through students’ reflections. Thematic analysis of the reflections revealed that the students reported interpersonal skills development and a culturally enriching experience for both the U.S. and West Bank, oPt students. Based on the findings a number of practical implications were drawn, including having a flexible program plan, facilitators meeting on a regular basis during the implementation phase and collecting students’ feedback throughout the program
A Decolonial Spinoza: An Interpretation in Tension
No full textFollowing Santiago Slabodsky’s articulation of a tradition of decolonial Judaism and his suggestion that Spinoza might be considered a part of it, I argue that Spinoza may be considered a decolonial thinker. While outlining the historical context in which the Jewish Spinoza wrote, I present an interpretation of Spinoza’s philosophy—in particular, the political implications of his substance monism and naturalism—and demonstrate how it satisfies general standards for a decolonial theory. In addition to highlighting relevant topics in Spinoza’s corpus, including the notion of servitude and his passing comments on Islam, I rebut several potential objections to this reading. While accepting points of tension, I claim a generally consistent, decolonial character may define the overall system of Spinoza’s philosophy. I conclude the paper by considering the relationship between this interpretation and the only proper mention of colonialism in Spinoza’s corpus, i.e., his waking dream of a silent Afro-Brazilian man
Fifty years of Spinozism in Spain
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to give an account of the journey that Spinoza’s philosophy made in the last fifty years through Spain, from the final years of the Franco regime till today. Our aim is to show the foundational role played by Spinoza’s philosophy during the decisive moments of the transformation of Spanish society and the Spanish university. We start by addressing the revival of Spinoza’s philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) during the final years of the Franco regime (1966-1975). We then divide the last fifty years of Spinozism in Spain into three periods: (1) the consolidation and the institutionalization of Spinozism (1975-1990); (2) the expansion of Spinoza’s influence through the University of Castilla-La Mancha, the Seminario Spinoza and the first three International Spinoza Conferences (1990-2000); (3) the diverse and manifold Spinoza of the third millennium (2000-2023). In the appendix we briefly address the state of Spinozism in Latin America and its relations with Spinozism in Spain
Op straat geïntimideerd, in het parlement genegeerd. Vrouwen en de \u27inclusieve\u27 democratie tijdens de Bataafse republiek
No full textVrouwen verschaften zich tijdens de Bataafse republiek toegang tot het parlementair gezag door collectief te petitioneren. Hoewel de oprichters van het (eerste) parlement een democratische inclusieve[re] regering pretendeerden, drukten de volksvertegenwoordigers de stem van petitionerende burgeressen (‘vrouwtjes’) weg uit het publieke discours. Deze strategie kan worden geduid als ‘silencing’, een van de vele beproefde vormen van karaktermoord
Negative polarity environments in the spontaneous speech of Dutch individuals with aphasia
No full textIn the current study, I will investigate the production of negative polarity items and especially the context in which they occur in a group of 10 non-fluent speakers with Broca’s aphasia and compare these with those of a group of 10 fluent speakers (diagnosed with either anomic aphasia or Wernicke’s aphasia) and 10 control speakers in spontaneous speech. Although especially non-fluent speakers do have problems in producing grammatical sentences, it has been shown that negation seems to be spared in these speakers. In contrast however to the large number of negations produced by the aphasic speakers, the number of negative polarity environments was strikingly low as compared to the control speakers in this study. Although not all individual control speakers used such environments, this clearly contrasted the number of cases of such environments in the group of control speakers
Two challenges for existentialist approaches to strict negative concord
No full textI present two challenges for the popular approach to the meaning of negative concord items, or neg-words, as existential quantifiers or indefinites. The first challenge concerns the interaction of that analysis with the approaches to fragment answers as instances of clausal ellipsis. The second challenge stems from the ability of multiple neg-words within one clause to be modified by almost, which is unexpected if they are existentials or indefinites
Ge- en her- geheranalyseerd
No full textHet verleden deelwoord van Nederlandse werkwoorden met het prefix her- wordt soms wel (geherstructureerd) en soms niet (herzien) gevormd met behulp van het prefix ge-. In dit artikel inventariseren we de werkwoorden met her- en laten we zien dat de eenvoudigste beregeling van de vorming van het verleden deelwoord moet verwijzen naar de structuur van het grondwoord, dus naar de interne structuur van werkwoorden met her-
Constructing Crime: Moral and Psychological Urgency in Online News Media Coverage of Judicial Proceedings in the John Worboys Case
No full textForensic psychology has immense value and interest from criminal justice institutions and citizens alike. Representations of its contributions and controversies matter towards psychology as an academic and professional discipline, especially in promoting and inhibiting prosocial aims. This paper analyses thirty-three online news media articles covering criminal justice proceedings (2009–2018) in the high–profile John Worboys case in the United Kingdom (UK). Using critical discursive psychology, we analyzed how criminal justice system actors were invoked concerning common psychological issues. While some coverage was focused on offender motivations, echoing previous research, we also found numerous moralizing practices issuing blame and managing accountability of institutional bodies and actors involved in the case. Moral injunctions were widely used to protest (in)action with tangible urgency embedded in accusations of political, professional, and psychological bias. This paper underlines multiple future study directions on online news media coverage of criminal justice proceedings. The implications of online news media coverage for societal constructions of offending, justice, and parole board processes are discussed