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Eine Palette an grundlegenden Fragen und anregenden Antworten – Zum 50-Jahre-Jubiläum des Berichts «Lehrerbildung von morgen»
No full text1975 publizierte eine Expert:innenkommission im Auftrag der Erziehungsdirektorenkonferenz den Bericht «Lehrerbildung von morgen» (LEMO-Bericht). Mit diesem Bericht war eine inhaltliche Koordination der Grundausbildung von Lehrpersonen beabsichtigt. Überlegungen zum Curriculum nehmen denn auch den grössten Umfang des Berichts ein. Explizit wurde eine Gleichwertigkeit von seminaristischem und maturitätsgebundenem Weg in den Lehrberuf postuliert und so die umstrittene Strukturfrage offengelassen. Der Beitrag erinnert an die Entstehungsgeschichte des LEMO-Berichts, verweist auf wichtige Vorarbeiten und hält zentrale Inhalte und Empfehlungen fest. Der LEMO-Bericht blieb auch später ein wichtiges Referenzdokument, was sich nicht zuletzt in expliziten Bezügen in fast 100 BzL-Beiträgen dokumentiert
Finding The Lost Fishermen: Cinematic Adaptation as a Safeguard for Ghana’s Ailing Folk Operatic Tradition
Get PDFThis paper interrogates the meanings, praxis and theoretical implication(s) of cinematic adaptation as a safeguard for Ghana’s ailing operatic arts using The Lost Fishermen folk opera as a case. It explores the extent to which the underlying objective to safeguard, the peculiarity of the operatic art as one genre that privileges integration of music with drama, as well as medium change foreground (in)fidelity as a key contextual issue in the determination of success of the project. Saka Acquaye (1923-2007) pioneered the art form in the nationalist spirit of Ghana’s political independence from colonial rule in 1957 and its immediate aftermath. Some 30 years after it premiered, however, the once highly popular genre was already in danger of extinction. Kwame Crenstil’s piloted film adaptation in June 2023 is part of the search for a viable safeguard for the endangered genre. The paper argues that cinematic adaptation for the purpose of safeguarding ought to be seen, primarily, in terms of composite audio-visual documentation. Since adaptation is inherently subject to the vagaries of representation, notions of fidelity on which the success of safeguarding hangs, cannot mean exact reproduction due to the change of medium, but in terms of the degree to which the resultant story resembles the referent.
Enacting translanguaging in a Ghanaian multilingual classroom: Code choices in minority language classrooms
Get PDFThe present study addresses translanguaging as a theory that unravels the deployment of linguistic and semiotic resources for communication by monolinguals, bilinguals, and multilinguals. Secondly, it explores translanguaging as a linguistic practice with unique characteristics and functions. In the multilingual classroom, translanguaging has been used strategically or spontaneously as a pedagogical tool for effective instruction and other educational ends. The present case study is conducted in Santrokofi in Ghana and sought to examine translanguaging as a pedagogic tool in a multilingual classroom that is constrained by a bilingual education policy. Using classroom observation, interviews, and focus group interviews, the present study highlights the nature and the functions of translanguaging that takes place in the multilingual classroom. The findings of the study affirmed earlier findings that the multilingual classroom is an important site for translanguaging. Again, translanguaging practices that were observed in the classroom included translation, code-switching, repairing, and deployment of a cocktail of linguistic and semiotic resources and modalities to enhance understanding, explain concepts, and facilitate home-school cooperation. The study also identified negative attitudes of teachers and the marginalization of learners’ mother tongue as constraints to effective translanguaging and proposes a reexamination of Ghana’s language-in-education policy and teacher reorientation and training as ways of reversing teachers’ negative attitudes in order to maximize translanguaging in the multilingual classroom.
Language Policy and Power Dynamics in Post-Independence Morocco: A Critical Analysis
Get PDFMorocco is a multilingual society where national, official, and foreign languages coexist and are used daily. Their functions and domains of use reveal their status and the processes by which they are classified into dominant and dominated languages. Most of the former studies on language policy in Morocco have mainly focused on policy formulation and decisions as an apolitical endeavor. The present study, however, aims to investigate the crucial role language policy plays in structuring power and inequality in the country. It argues that language policy is a political act with educational, linguistic, social, and economic ramifications. The national language policy formulated after Morocco\u27s 1956 independence adopted the European model of \u27one language, one nation\u27 without considering the country\u27s specific realities. The present paper involves a critical review of the literature and the legal documents, including the Moroccan New Constitution, and an extensive inquiry into the institutional reform efforts and directions in an attempt to answer the research questions related to (i) the status of mother tongues, official languages, and foreign languages in Morocco, more than six decades after its independence; (ii) the state of the Arabization process, the officialization of Amazigh, its teaching, and standardization; and (iii) what governs Moroccan language policy, and what the educational policies in Morocco reveal about the State’s language policy
The Bay of Kiladha Project (Argolid, Greece): Bridging East and West
Get PDFThe project, a joint research program between the University of Geneva, under the aegis of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece, and the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, aims at finding traces of prehistoric human activity in a small bay of the southern Argolid, near the Franchthi Cave, a major prehistoric site used from 40,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago. For most of these 35,000 years, because of global sea-level change in prehistory, the Bay of Kiladha was in fact a small coastal plain, where the sedentary farmers of the Neolithic period had probably their village.Research currently focuses on two parts of the bay: the Franchthi sector, close to the Cave (submerged Neolithic village) and the Lambayanna sector, just a few hundred meters to the north of Franchthi Cave (HA II fortified settlement)
Loom weights as a research tool
Get PDF The function of loom weights was to stretch and space the warp threads on a vertical loom. The loom weight is often the only preserved remnant of a loom used in antiquity. Because of their ubiquity, loom weights are the main key to the study of textile production in the Iron Age in the Levant.During excavations loom weights are easy to recognize if they are made of metal, stone or ceramics. Within burnt layers, unfired clay loom weights can be accidentally fired and thus well preserved. But it is difficult to recognize and securely excavate unfired raw clay loom weights. The two main problems are:1. Unfired loom weights disintegrate when they get wet.2. When excavating a mudbrick site, the clay of the loom weights resembles the matrix they were found in.Clay loom weights were sometimes fired, resulting in durable terracotta weights, but the majority were made of unfired clay. Unlike Staermose Nielsen (Staermose Nielsen, K.-H. In: Pritchard, F. and J.F. Wild (ed.). Northern Archaeological Textiles NESAT VII. Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2005:130), who states: “Groups of unbaked clay weights are the more numerous of all, but as clay loom weights reveal themselves on excavations only as disintegrated lumps, their usefulness in a classification is minimal.” For many excavations Staermose Nielsen is right. But that is because of the way the weights are excavated rather than preserved in the ground. I will demonstrate that clay loom weights, when properly excavated and preserved, can be classified and studied in a meaningful way, enabling us to reconstruct textile production. The practical part.I would like to share a registration form for loom weights to be used in excavations and research projects (see abstract link below). Your comments and ideas on my conceptual form are very welcome!
The motive of Hieros Gamos in Jesus’s Baptism in the Jordan River and in Jewish Kabballah
Get PDFThis paper suggests an alternative interpretation of Christ’ baptism, and more precisely, of the dove\u27s role in it. One of the main rituals in the Ancient East was the \u27sacred marriage\u27 (Hieros Gamos), the purpose of which was to assure abundance, prosperity, and cosmic fertility, and to validate the status of the king. In many cases, the actual crowning, which followed the main ritual, was performed by a dove, one of the symbols of the feminine partner in the sacred marriage – the great goddess.Through the centuries, this ancient ritual underwent extensive transformations and reforms, but even though the goddess seemed to have vanished, her disappearance was only an illusion. There is abundant evidence to show that the ritual reform did not suppress the old traditions and beliefs but merely hid them beneath the surface. This evidence suggests that the goddess reappeared, sometimes centuries later, manifesting herself in numerous guises, as, for example, in the Kabbalah and in Middle Eastern folk tradition. Furthermore, both textual and archeological findings indicate the continuous presence of the motive of the dove as a symbol of the goddess, who elects and coronates the king. The projection of this motive onto the familiar Christian scenario of Jesus’ baptism can shed new light on the survival of the ancient, forgotten, symbolic meaning of the dove as a female divine entity who chooses and crowns Christ.
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