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Diversity And Multiculturalism In The 21st Century, Oluremi "Remi" Alapo

Publications and Research

This is a presentation on Diversity and Multi-Culturalism in the 21st Century related to the individual and society based on responses from in-class assignments during various semester course sessions [from 2019 to 2021] taught by the presenter at the York College [CUNY]. In the course in addition to culture, students learned about norms, values, systems of beliefs, social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication, race and ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation and gender, technology and culture, cultural universalism and relativism, and how these affect our shared or distinct day to day cultural practices and social interaction in our various communities.

At the …

Nations Within Nations: The Heterogeneity Of Mexican Transnationals Of Indigenous Descent From Anzalduan Lenses, David Martinez-Prieto

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

This chapter analyzes the significance and limitations of utilizing Gloria Anzaldúa’s framework when examining Mexican transnational communities of Mesoamerican ancestry after they return to Mexico. In this way, this chapter calls for a better understanding of the historical and political factors that impact the identities of Mexican transnationals of Indigenous origin. Based on data collected during three investigations with transnational (pre)service teachers from Indigenous communities in the Mexican states of Puebla (2017), Tlaxcala (2017), and Oaxaca (2018), the author analyzes the pertinence of Anzaldua’s framework in understanding the subjugation and internal differences of Indigenous transnational populations. This chapter also examines …

Liturgy And Musical Inculturation In A Post-Apartheid South African Catholicism, Austin Chinagorom Okigbo

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

There is a developing trend within mainstream South African Churches to incorporate styles of traditional African music and cultural elements in liturgical functions. This is happening in places where such ideas were hitherto unwelcome because mission churches witnessed the denigration of indigenous African cultures by Europeans during the eras of both colonialism and apartheid. Inculturation Theology underscores the current drive for liturgical transformation. It comprises a part of Black Theology in South Africa, which developed as an intellectual framework for liberation during the time of the anti-apartheid struggles. Using the ethnographic study of the cultural mass at Emmanuel Cathedral in …

العولمة والاتصال والثقافات الوطنية أية رهانات؟, محمد الإدريسي العلمي المشيشي

Dirassat

Globalization, Communication and National Cultures

This introductory lesson deals with the dialectic of the relationship between the globalization of communication and the patriotism of culture, at the level of content and form, and the stakes, and the attendant theoretical and conceptual problems and what this requires of keeping pace with theory and knowledge at the national and international levels.

From Rumi To The Whirling Dervishes: Music, Poetry And Mysticism In The Ottoman Empire, Walter Feldman

Music & Performance in Muslim Contexts

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, whose life and mystical poetry provided the inspiration for the Mevlevi Sufi order, is one of the world's best-known poets.

Yet the centuries-long musical tradition cultivated by the Mevleviye remains much less known. In this deeply researched book, renowned scholar Walter Feldman traces the historical development of Mevlevi music and brings to light the remarkable musical and mystical aesthetics of the Mevlevi ayin – the instrumental and vocal accompaniment to the sublime ceremony of the 'Whirling' Dervishes.

This accessible introduction to the relationship between music and the performative elements of Sufi practice presents the biographies of the …

Book Review: Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, And History By Stephen Chrisomalis, Milton Rosa, Daniel Clark Orey

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This review of Reckonings shares our thoughts on the diverse insights presented by Stephen Chrisomalis’s version of the history of numerical notation. Chrisomalis suggests that members of distinct cultural groups write numbers as an active choice in accordance with their own sociocultural contexts, which reflect the influences of historical, cognitive, social, economic, political, environmental, and cultural factors. This book integrates comparative, cognitive, and evolutionary understandings on numerical cognition with historical and linguistic evidence on the use and transformation of numeral systems through the historical advancement of numeracy. Chrisomalis offers an interesting historical perspective on numbers that builds upon three main …

Pengaruh Kebijakan Laïcité Terhadap Muslim Di Institusi Pendidikan Negeri Prancis Pada Masa Pemerintahan Macron, Syifa Radhityani Esmano, Airin Miranda

Multikultura

Prinsip sekularisme yang dikenal dengan nama laïcité telah ada di Prancis sebagai representasi bangsanya, yang menekankan adanya pemisahan agama dengan negara di ruang publik termasuk pada institusi pendidikan negeri. Penelitian ini akan memperlihatkan bagaimana dampak dari implementasi kebijakan laïcité yang diatur dalam UU 1905 terhadap muslim di institusi pendidikan negeri Prancis pada masa pemerintahan Emmanuel Macron. Metode yang akan digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data secara kepustakaan yang dampak dari kebijakannya akan dilihat melalui artikel-artikel berita. Penelitian ini menghasilkan temuan bahwa Undang-Undang 1905 mengenai laïcité yang pada awalnya diterapkan untuk menghindari adanya perbedaan antar masyarakatnya dan memberikan landasan Bersama …

Diplomasi Publik Rusia Di Indonesia: Pendekatan, Aktor, Dan Instrumen, Reynaldo De Archellie

Multikultura

Komunikasi antarnegara dan antara negara dengan publik di negara lain diperlukan untuk mengkomunikasikan tujuan-tujuan politik luar negeri sebuah negara. Diplomasi publik merupakan instrumen kunci diplomasi yang digunakan sebuah negara untuk membangun opini publik di negara asing dengan cara menjelaskan konteks kebijakan dalam dan luar negeri yang telah diputuskan. Perubahan sosial secara global, seperti demokratisasi, globalisasi, dan revolusi teknologi information telah melahirkan pendekatan diplomasi publik baru/new public diplomacy yang ditandai dengan pendekatan multi-aktor dan formasi hubungan antaraktor melalui aktivitas dialogis dan berjaringan. Rusia sebagai negara great power berusaha memanfaatkan globalisasi dan kemajuan teknologi informasi untuk membuat dirinya diterima secara luas oleh …

Krisis Pariwisata Olahraga Jepang: Olimpiade 2020 Dan Pandemi Covid-19, Fiqih Rusdy Zulkarnain, Didit Dwi Subagio

Multikultura

Pada tahun 2013 International Olympic Committee (IOC) telah menetapkan Tokyo sebagai tuan rumah Olimpiade 2020. Tiga tahun kemudian Bank of Japan merilis laporan penelitian yang memproyeksikan pertumbuhan pariwisata Jepang pada tahun 2020. Namun laporan tersebut berbeda jauh dari proyeksinya, hal tersebut dikarenakan adanya pandemi COVID-19 yang menghancurkan sektor pariwisata dan pariwisata terkait olimpiade di Jepang. Penelitian ini membahas mengenai krisis pariwisata dan dampak yang ditimbulkan akibat adanya pandemi COVID-19, khususnya pada pariwisata terkait Olimpiade Tokyo 2020. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif dan analisis deskriptif yakni dengan membandingkan data jumlah wisatawan asing dan pengeluaran wisatawan asing sebelum dan saat pandemi COVID-19 …

Analisis Semiotika Anggota Keluarga Dalam Iklan Natal Supermarket Di Belanda: Plus (2018), Jumbo (2019), Dan Albert Heijn (2019), Gabrielle Ratri Nurityasari, Fajar Muhammad Muhammad Nugraha

Multikultura

Penelitian ini membahas peran anggota keluarga di Belanda yang terdapat pada iklan natal supermarket PLUS (2018), JUMBO (2019), dan Albert Heijn (2019). Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi peran ayah, ibu, dan anak dalam keluarga Belanda. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori semiotika Roland Barthes. Agar fokus penelitian ini terjaga, maka adegan pada iklan yang dianalisis hanya yang menunjukkan sosok ayah, ibu, dan anak. Untuk mengidentifikasi mitos yang terdapat pada adegan mengenai peran ayah, ibu, dan anak, adegan-adegan tersebut melewati proses analisis makna denotasi dan konotasi. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah ketiga iklan tersebut mencerminkan keadaan keluarga Belanda saat ini. Ayah …

Sub-Kultur Punk Dengan Kritik Sosial Politiknya Di Masa Federasi Rusia, Riski Ramadan, Mina Elfira

Multikultura

Penelitian ini membahas tentang bentuk sub-kultur punk yang ada di Federasi Rusia dengan menganalisis karya-karya pelaku sub-kultur pun di situs berbagi video youtube.com. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif analisis dan studi pustaka. Melengkapi penelitian terdahulu mengenai sub-kultur punk di Rusia serta perbedaanya dengan punk di barat (Gololobov, 2014. Hebdige, 1979.), penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjabarkan fenomena sub-kultur punk yang ada di Rusia dan apa yang melatarbelakangi mereka untuk membentuk sub-kultur punk itu dengan teori youth subculture oleh John Clarke. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa dalam tanggapan pemerintah

Penataan Halaman Percandian Buddha Di Jawa Tengah, Yohann Marshel Firstman Sihombing, Agus Aris Munandar

Multikultura

Penelitian yang dilakukan terhadap penataan halaman percandian Buddha di Jawa Tengah bertujuan untuk mengetahui bentuk-bentuk penataan halaman dengan memperhatikan karakteristik yang terdapat pada halaman percandian Buddha di Jawa Tengah. Pendirian percandian Buddha di Jawa Tengah diketahui berkaitan dengan Dinasti Śailendra yang bercorak Buddhis dan berkuasa pada abad VIII-X Masehi. Percandian ini berfungsi sebagai tempat dilakukannya ritus upacara bagi umat pemeluk agama ataupun didirikan bagi kaum agamawan sebagai vihara. Fungsi yang demikian berkenaan dengan ragam bentuk penataan halaman pada masing-masing percandian Buddha di Jawa Tengah. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode klasifikasi berdasarkan variabel yang terdapat pada halaman percandian …

Diplomasi Rusia Dalam Kasus Kecelakaan Pesawat Boeing 777-200er Milik Malaysia: Manuver Kontrapropaganda, Adonia Oktagrasya, Ahmad Fahrurodji

Multikultura

Artikel ini menganalisis langkah diplomasi Rusia terhadap propaganda Ukraina tentang keterlibatan Rusia dalam kecelakaan pesawat Boeing 777-200ER milik Malaysia di Donetsk, Ukraina pada tahun 2014. Fokus penelitian ini adalah upaya kontrapropaganda Kementerian Luar Negeri Federasi Rusia yang mewakili suara pemerintah Rusia untuk membantah tudingan Ukraina terhadap Rusia. Tujuan artikel ini adalah menganalisi implementasi kontrapropaganda Rusia melalui pidato Lukashevich tentang kecelakaan pesawat Boeing 777-200ER pada tahun 2014 sebagai sebuah manuver diplomasi.. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode analisis wacana kritis Norman Fairclough dengan tiga dimensi model, yakni analisis teks, praktik wacana, dan praktik sosial. Manuver kontrapropaganda yang dilakukan Rusia dalam pidato ini dianalisis …

Proses Penyusutan Arsip Di Unit Record Center Pt Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero), Dinda Rezzki Putri Utami, Ike Iswary Lawanda

Multikultura

Penelitian ini mengenai proses penyusutan arsip di unit record center PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero). Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk menggambarkan proses penyusutan arsip yang dilakukan oleh unit record center PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) sesuai dengan standar prosedur kerja yang melibatkan pihak – pihak terkait yaitu pencipta, pengelola record center, dan pimpinan pusat. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode studi kasus dengan responden berjumlah 5 orang yang termasuk dalam kategori orang – orang yang terlibat dalam penyusutan arsip. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan proses penyusutan arsip di unit record center PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) berjalan sesuai dengan peraturan …

The Resisting Female Body In India, Nancy Boissel-Cormier

Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies

No abstract provided.

Tropical Materialisms: Toward Decolonial Poetics, Practices And Possibilities, Christian Jil R. Benitez, Anita Lundberg

Filipino Faculty Publications

Tropical Materialisms concur on at least three things: humans are always entangled with non-human/material agents; such entanglement is necessary for any creative act to take place; and these same entanglements allow us to interrogate and re-evaluate preconceived notions about the world. This Special Issue aligns itself with the fields of new materialism and posthumanism. What is particularly exciting is the opportunity to rearticulate these fields in tropical terms, that is, with scholarly and creative practices from and about the tropical world. This focus is crucial given that current scholarship in new materialism and posthumanism predominantly comes from European temperate contexts …

A Pilot Study: An Evaluation Of Accessibility Of Resources For Parents Of D/Deaf/Hoh Children In Ky/Tn, Amara Danturthi

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Most parents of d/Deaf/Hoh children are not Deaf, making it imperative for easy access to diverse strategies to ensure smooth communication between them and their child. Parents make the paramount decision of what their child’s first language should be, therefore, access to current information on communication strategies is crucial in this journey. Many families fall on resources sometimes from sources in different formats to understand what may work best for them. The accessibility and availability of these resources are a crucial component in the parent’s decision-making process. Due to the unique dynamics between hearing parents and d/Deaf/Hoh children, this pilot …

Comparison Of Landing Biomechanics Between Different Competitive Levels Of Irish Dance, Jade Shields

West Chester University Master’s Theses

Abstract

Objectives: To determine differences in lower limb landing biomechanics and lower extremity function scale scores between champion levels, in young female Irish dancers.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: McDade-Cara School of Irish Dance

Participants: 12 Open Champion (OC) level female Irish dancers (11.9 ± 3.37 years) and 9 Preliminary Champion (PC) Irish dancers (13.5 ± 3.37 years) performed the landing error scoring system test (LESS), and completed the lower extremity functional scale (LEFS) and a descriptive data questionnaire

Main outcome measures: LESS scoring sheet and LEFS PRO

Results: No significant differences found between OC and PC levels on …

Face Masks And Speech Perception: Emotions And Intelligibility Perceived By Monolingual And Bilingual Speakers, Monica Andrea Chulde Guayasamin

Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics

Speech perception in unfavorable conditions reduces the intelligibility of the message. The use of face masks may be one factor that degrades the comprehension of target words in transcription tasks and the recognition of emotional prosodies. Different researchers have proposed the influence of visual stimuli in the comprehension of the linguistic message (e.g., Tuomainen et al., 2005; Schwartz et al., 2004; Llamas et al., 2008; McGowan, 2015). This study reports the results of an experiment that tests how intelligibility and emotional prosody are affected by surgical masks. The online experiment has been applied to two groups of speakers from the …

The Politics Of Eternity: Public History And Monuments To Memory In Kings Park, 1902-1934, Anthony Critchley

Theses

The sacred sites of Gargatup (Mount Eliza) and Gooninup (Kennedy’s Spring) were revered by Whadjuk Noongar people long before the arrival of Europeans in Western Australia. Now part of the site of Kings Park in Perth, it remains cherished by today’s community for its botanic beauty and panoramic views. European traditions have replaced the Indigenous cultural heritage, most notably with the erection of war monuments, statues, and memorial plaques, amidst the herbaceous gardens and native flora. The first president of the Kings Park Board, Sir John Forrest, and his successor, Arthur Lovekin, envisioned that the Park would emulate ornate British …

Facultas Marginem: Assessing Disability Data And Public Aau Universities’ Affirmative Action Plans For Systemic Barriers Facing Faculty With Disabilities, Joseph Carlton Barry

Theses and Dissertations--Education Sciences

This dissertation contributes to education equity scholarship produced by academics seeking to develop understandings of disability, Persons with Disabilities (PWD), and how both are situated amongst faculty in institutions of higher education. As such, this dissertation centers on a study of public US universities belonging to the Association of American Universities (AAU). This study looks for institutional level associations between respective rates by which college and university faculty with disabilities (FWD) are employed, certain aspects of disability policy drawn from each institution’s 2020 Affirmative Action Plans (AAP), and various other instances of empirical disability data (EDD).

While this study contributes …

Into The Woods: Toward A Material Poetics Of The Tropical Forest In Philippine Literature, Glenn L. Diaz

English Faculty Publications

This study considers how the tropical forest as a material and discursive space mediates the ways in which history is imagined in Philippine literary texts and literary production. Mobilizing ideas from new materialism, material poetics, and tropicality, the paper looks at generative moments from indigenous and revolutionary literature—two broad traditions whose conditions of possibility are inextricably linked with the materiality of the tropical forest and thus inevitably evince the structuring force of such nonhuman agencies and subjectivities. By disclosing how the “more than human” is constitutive of history and historical subject formation, it seeks to foreground the agency of Philippine …

Viola Music Written By Costa Rican Composers: Analysis Of Three Compositional Trends In Costa Rica, Karen Soto Huertas

Theses and Dissertations--Music

What could come from a country that just this past year celebrated 200 years of independence that was only discovered in 1502 and was under the yoke of the Spanish Empire for over 300 hundred years? What contribution to the art music community could this third-world country, Costa Rica, bring to the table? Specifically, what contributions could Costa Rica make to the viola repertoire, which status as a soloistic instrument was raised only 100 or so years ago? How could a small country contribute to the repertoire of this often-forgotten instrument? To answer these questions, I have embarked on research …

Indigenous Language Revitalization: Success, Sustainability, And The Future Of Human Culture, Grace Lewis

Capstone Showcase

This thesis looks at different styles of Indigenous language revitalization programs and seeks to delineate the three most successful characteristics seen across differing designs in an effort to promote the presence of these characteristics in existing programs. The literature analyzed outlines three main schools of thought: first, that language-based education is the most effective program design, second, that language-based education is only effective if it is directed and driven by the community it serves, and third, that culture-based education is the most effective design. The data rejects the idea that one design is superior to another, and instead presents three …

Demonstratives In Nsélišcn ‘Montana Salish’, Aspen A. Decker

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This thesis presents a detailed analysis of the Nsélišcn ‘Montana Salish’ demonstrative system. I propose that there are three features encoded in the demonstratives that I examined in this thesis: (i) proximity of the speaker in relation to the referent, (ii) common ground between the speaker and addressee, and (iii) visibility of the referent. I further propose that the Nsélišcn demonstrative system distinguishes three degrees of proximity: proximal, medial, and distal. Nsélišcn is a member of the Southern Interior branch of the Salishan language family. The data analyzed in this thesis was collected from native Nsélišcn speakers.

Fostering Successful Communities Of Collaboration Through Educational Partnerships: Strengthening Bilingual Learners' Language And Literacy Achievement Along The Texas-Mexican Border, Isela Almaguer

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

There is an undisputable need to form collaborative partnerships between schools, families, homes, and communities across the nation. Collaborative educational partnerships are the cornerstone for student success. With increasingly diverse student populations, schools must communicate and collaborate with families and communities to bridge the wide gap that exists between home and school. With a dominant Spanish-speaking population of Mexican descent, as that of children living in the Southern tip of the Texas-Mexican border, known as The Rio Grande Valley, barriers such as low social economic status and limited English proficiency may impede much-needed communication between schools, homes, and communities. These …

8 National Perspectives On Mexican Transnational Eal Teachers: Ideological And Professional Challenges, David Martinez-Prieto, Kristen Lindahl

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Disciplinary Teacher Perceptions And Challenges Of Literacy Instruction For English Language Learners, Scarlett Nicole Wetherington

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Disciplinary teachers who teach mathematics, science, and social studies are challenged to embed literacy instruction into their disciplines for the growing population of English language learners (ELLs). In a rural middle school in the Southern region of the United States, disciplinary teachers are struggling to embed literacy instruction to support ELLs to meet grade-level achievement standards. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore teachers’ perceptions about the challenges of using literacy strategies to teach ELLs in the disciplinary classroom. The conceptual framework for this study included Mezirow’s theory of transformative learning. The key research questions of this …

Parents’ Attitudes And Beliefs About The Ipad As A Tool For Augmentative And Alternative Communication, Sarah Michele King

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractEducators have increasingly incorporated technology tools such as the iPad into classroom learning. Available evidence suggests the potential efficacy of the iPad, but the attitudes and beliefs of parental stakeholders have often been omitted from empirical studies. There was a need to better understand parents’ attitudes about adoption of the iPad and its apps as a tool for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for high school students and parents’ beliefs regarding the iPad’s ease of use for meeting students’ communication needs. The purpose of this generic qualitative study was to examine those parental attitudes and beliefs. The conceptual framework was …

Transition Barriers Of U.S. Military Veterans With Combat Occupations, Carole Thomas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Many combat-occupation veterans experience difficulty translating their military occupation to a civilian occupation after they leave the military. Veterans may struggle with military culture, self-leadership, health concerns, stereotypes, and employment barriers such as disability and underemployment. In this qualitative descriptive research study, the researcher analyzed the transition barriers U.S. combat-occupation veterans experienced when entering the civilian sector and workforce. The researcher interviewed six participants via Zoom using semistructured interview questions. All participants met the criteria of being 18–29 years old, being a veteran with a combat occupation, and having a willingness to tell their transition experiences. Five of the six …