59 research outputs found
Conceptualizing the North: Three Presentations from Norway, Canada, and the United States (2021-04-07)
No full textPresentations include: "It matters what worlds world worlds," Kate Maxwell, Lilli Mittner, and Hanne Hammer Stien, UiT The Arctic University of Norway; "There Is No - A (de)colonial project - Or Not?," Hanna Horsberg Hansen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway; "The Canadian North as the Place where Peoples Meet in the Comics of Jeff Lemire," John Moffatt, University of Saskatchewan, David Beard, University of Minnesota Duluth; Free and Open to the public; A CLA and LSBE Passport EventRoyal D. Alworth, Jr. Institute for International Studies and UMD Writing Studies ProgramMaxwell, Kate; Mittner, Lilli; Hammer Stien, Hanne; Horsberg Hansen, Hanna; Moffarr, John; Beard, David; University of Minnesota Duluth. Royal D. Alworth, Jr. Institute for International Studies. (2021). Conceptualizing the North: Three Presentations from Norway, Canada, and the United States (2021-04-07). Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/220650
“Students can have a really powerful role…” Understanding Curriculum Transformation Within the Framework of Canon Critique and Critical Pedagogy
No full textEducational practice needs to continuously update the curriculum in line with both current theoretical
frameworks developed within academia and the lived reality of the coming generation. This
article takes the student perspective on this issue, investigating a case from secondary music education
in England. In 2015, Jessy McCabe initiated a successful campaign for the inclusion of women
composers on the A-level syllabus, in order to create a more gender-balanced curriculum. Drawing
on a qualitative interview with Jessy McCabe, I elaborate on the significance of the campaign
within the framework of canon critique and critical pedagogy. The case shows that balancing the
curriculum needs no longer to be a “future position” as Lucy Green suggested in 1997. The qualitative
data underscore the importance of the teacher as a role model and the effectiveness of the
student as co-investigator within the process of curriculum transformation. In both cases, a gender
perspective can be an appropriate and significant tool to achieving a more balanced curriculum
Arts-based pathways for sustainable transformation towards a more equal world
No full textThe cultural sector is a potential instigator of change due to its experimental, performative, and relational nature. However, like everywhere else, the cultural sector re-enacts and thus conserves inequalities of various kinds through its outreach to wider audiences and its deep engagement in socio-cultural practices. By taking our actions within the ERASMUS+ project ‘Voices of Women’ as a creative catalyst, this paper scrutinizes a set of items for further discussion of arts-based pathways for sustainable transformation towards a more (gender) equal world. We discuss the ability of the arts to engage, educate, and transform power relations through three pathways towards sustainable transformation: 1. Canon critique; 2. Decolonization; and 3. New materialism. We argue that all three pathways enable novel forms of knowledge creation and actions in arts-based research, arts education, the cultural sector, and beyond.
Cover image: Still picture from film: Music and Gender in Balance (Mittner and Bergli, 2018
Arts-based pathways for sustainable transformation towards a more equal world
No full textThe cultural sector is a potential instigator of change due to its experimental, performative, and relational nature. However, like everywhere else, the cultural sector re-enacts and thus conserves inequalities of various kinds through its outreach to wider audiences and its deep engagement in socio-cultural practices. By taking our actions within the ERASMUS+ project ‘Voices of Women’ as a creative catalyst, this paper scrutinizes a set of items for further discussion of arts-based pathways for sustainable transformation towards a more (gender) equal world. We discuss the ability of the arts to engage, educate, and transform power relations through three pathways towards sustainable transformation: 1. Canon critique; 2. Decolonization; and 3. New materialism. We argue that all three pathways enable novel forms of knowledge creation and actions in arts-based research, arts education, the cultural sector, and beyond.
Cover image: Still picture from film: Music and Gender in Balance (Mittner and Bergli, 2018
Sabaudia e le città nuove degli anni Trenta
No full textThe paper examines the foundation project of the city of Sabaudia, Italy, in
the 1930s. In order to better comprehend the project, the following text presents
a general overview on a wide range of new cities examples of the period: from
the other Fascist projects for Italy and Italian colonies in Libya, Somalia and
Eritrea, to the German company towns; from the Russian new cities massive
program to the American expansions or foundations in the English garden city
style. The author underlines similarities and differences among these urban
experiences, contextualizing them in the national and international geo–political
strategies.
During the first half of the XX century thousands of new towns were
designed and built worldwide. The reasons of the new foundations are mainly
economic and political: the urban projects played, indeed, a pivotal role in the
government propaganda and they were related both to domestic policies and
colonial expansions overseas.
Sabaudia is part of the Fascist project of reclamation of Agro Pontino, a
marshland in Lazio Region.
The Italian project of reclamation and foundation of new cities can be
easily compared to a similar plan in Holland: they both share a large scale
reclamation, as well as the intention to give a territorial and civic role to the
new towns. In both the plans, main cities and secondary towns are provided, the
latter considered as service centres for the rural homes spread in the agrarian
territory.
In Italy the new cities are designed as strongly independent urban towns.
This is due to the Fascist rhetoric which wanted each urban project invested by
a big amount of political meaning and heroic references.
The project of Sabaudia does not show a severe geometric plan, but the
urban shape is quite open. This is due to the will of Luigi Piccinato, the main
architect and urban designer of the city, to involve the landscape elements in its
plan by both physical and visual connections.
Aware of the territorial and civic role demanded to the city, Piccinato wrote:
« Sabaudia has to be considered strictly connected to its own territory. . . and
the most beautiful and exceptional views can go deep into the life of the city
centre »
Gender balance
No full textGender balance is defined as equal participation of women and men. Aiming for gender balance can be one pathway towards more equal, diverse, and inclusive societies. Gender balance can be achieved both vertically and horizontally within an organisation. Vertical gender balance is defined as an equal proportion of women and men in ranked positions of power. Horizontal gender balance is defined as an equal proportion of women and men across different fields of practices. A major limitation of the concept is that it builds on a binary understanding of gender which leads to statistical data handling that does not take gender diversity into account. Gender balance in academia needs to be seen in a broader context of transformational processes towards a more gender equal society. Innovative measures to map and monitor gender balance in research leadership have been recently developed in Norway. Those who work with the concept need to keep in mind that balanced representation does not necessarily lead to a redistribution of power
Möglichkeitsräume norwegischer Komponistinnen. Perspektiven des Arbeitsgesprächs des Forschungszentrums Musik und Gender 2011
No full textDer »Global Gender Gap Report«, in dem die Differenz der Geschlechter anhand von Indikatoren aus den Gebieten Wirtschaft, Gesundheit, Bildung und Politik gemessen wird, platziert die skandinavischen Länder schon seit mehreren Jahren auf den vordersten Plätzen. 2008 lag Norwegen sogar auf Platz. Die Unterschiede zwischen den Geschlechtern waren damit in keinem anderen Land geringer. Zum sechsten Bericht des »Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women« 2003 bezeichnete der UN-Ausschuss für die Beseitigung jeder Form von Diskriminierung der Frau Norwegen als »Hafen der Geschlechtergerechtigkeit«
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