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Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2018

This study aims to investigate cultural content as well as to find out students' perceptions and interests in cultural content in English textbooks of grade 7 junior high school. The research method applied in this study is a qualitative method in which the researcher conducts research by means of book analysis and interviews. The results revealed that in the English textbook "English Starter Interactive Book" grade 7 junior high school there is cultural content in accordance with the grand theory used, namely the first theory by Cortazzi and Jin (1999) about a good textbook must have 3 characters, including Source Culture, Target Culture and International Culture. The second theory by Adaskou, Britten & Fahsi (1990) about cultural content materials can be represented by four cultural frameworks, namely Aesthetic Sense, Sociological Sense, Pragmatic Sense and Semantic Sense. The results of the study further revealed that with the positive perceptions by students about cultural content in the English textbook "English Starter Interactive Book" grade 7 junior high school, the researchers also concluded that students were interested in learning cultural content in the book.

Routledge eBooks, 2022

The plot behind an exhibition can at times be just as important as the objects on display: This plot reflects an intention, which adds perspective to the exhibited and stimulates the intellectual capacity of the visitor beyond the simple -and often irrelevant -question of beauty. (Bøe 1966, 14) Though originating in an unrelated 1966 exhibition review in the journal Dansk Brugskunst, these words by Norwegian design historian Alf Bøe are apt in capturing the qualities of institutional transformation traceable in three exhibitions studied in this chapter. Seeking to broaden the scope of design and strengthen its relevance to society, these three exhibitions all come close to embodying this overall 'plot' as Bøe describes it, each in a different way. They are: the Norwegian Industrial Design exhibition at the Oslo Museum of Decorative Art in November 1963; the FORM 68 exhibition at the Danish Museum of Decorative Art in Copenhagen in May 1968; and the exhibition Object and Environment (Esine ja ympäristö) touring Finnish schools, libraries and other local exhibition spaces between 1968 and 1971. The desirable luxury objects and furnishings of the post-war years encompassed by the 'Scandinavian Design' label were -and still are -an obliging category for exhibition formats based on aesthetic premises in museums and kindred organs. With the 1960s and 1970s increased attention to the expanded concept of design, its social meanings and activist potential, institutions of didactic cultural exhibiting were faced with a new challenge of communicating design as contemporary culture and as an element of social change. In national museums of industrial and applied arts, the traditional art historical practice of highlighting an aesthetic canon held sway, consequently leading to a retrospective approach. Conversely, within the exhibition activities of national societies and associations of craft and design, the commitment to advancing industrial export and domestic production were dominating and implied a demand for novelties and goods ready for mass production. In order to afford the general public a way of exploring the cultural meaning of design at eye level without addressing them as immediate consumers, the need arose for developing new curatorial strategies.

Springer briefs in geography, 2014

Social Indicators Research, 2014

Culture is an important factor affecting happiness. This paper examines the predictive power of cultural factors on the cross-country differences in happiness and explores how different dimensions of cultural indices differ in their effects on happiness. Our empirical results show that the global leadership and organizational behavior effectiveness nine culture indices are all significantly related with happiness. Out of these nine indices, power distance (PDI) and gender egalitarianism (GEI) play the most important and stable role in determining subjective well-being (SWB). We further examine the relative importance of the various variables in contributing to the R-squared of the regression. The results show that PDI is the most important, accounting for 50 % of the contributions to R-squared of all variables, or equalling the combined contributions of income, population density and four other traditional variables. The contribution of GEI is 37.1 %, also well surpassing other variables. Our results remain robust even taking account of the different data for culture and SWB.

Hasekura series - Images Philosophy Communication, 2021

In the general frame that binds "Images, Philosophy, and Communication", I would like to focus on the possible pathway that allows to move on the way to an intercultural thought and experience. In these pages I will thus discuss some notions, experiences and arguments, crossing philosophical concepts and artistic insights, in order to provide a possible mutual understanding and self-reflection among different cultures. Going beyond personal interest and involvement, the effort to decode some Japanese categories and put them in dialogue with European patterns reveals itself not only as a sort of methodological lever for questioning the general framework of the so-called "Western rationality"; it is also an opportunity to create a space of crosscultural inquiry "that maintains the integrity and the richness of both Eastern and Western schools of thought". 2 It should be clear enough that this method does not imply at all that Europe should follow Japan, or vice versa. Reflecting each other on the grounds of different languages, images, and aesthetic experience means rather to strengthen "the sensitivity of 'being affected' […] as an aspect of 'being in phase' […] with the environment. Reflexivity as self-reflection of what it means to be humans in nature and in culture could favor a sustainable hygiene". 3

Clinical Psychology-science and Practice, 2019

article, "Keeping culture in mind: A systematic review and initial conceptualization of mentalizing from a cross-cultural perspective." The article breaks new ground in pressing issues concerning the impact of culture on the construct of mentalization. Indeed, reading this article has the uncanny effect of making one wonder how such an obvious concern has been overlooked, as well as opening up a wide swath of intriguing questions and potential avenues of research. The article is particularly exciting for us as our research group has begun to explore similar ground, focusing on issues that have emerged with the translation of the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS), a selfreport measure that we have created, specifically grappling with cultural differences in the expressing of emotions, one component of mentalization . We will have the opportunity to say more about our work later in this commentary, but first we would like to give the article its due justice. The authors introduce mentalization as a promising, "multidimensional construct," referring to distinctions that Fonagy and have made between self and other, cognition and affect, and explicit and implicit processes. Fonagy's perspective on mentalization emphasizes that it is a developmental achievement. This take is original in not just arguing that we can mentalize about others or about the self, but in arguing that they are integrally related: that we first learn to mentalize through being mentalized by caregivers. also articulate the clinical application of mentalization as the basis for an evidence-based approach to treating borderline personality disorder. In randomized control trials, mentalization-based therapy (MBT) has shown success in reducing symptoms, with fewer suicide attempts, fewer hospital stays, and better social functioning. Notably,

Foucault Studies, 2023

NCDs are, for example, cancer, heart diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes. These are statistically shown to be the leading cause of death in the world. By 'attacking' these, the assumption is that by better managing these conditions, the risk from COVID-19 will be reduced. pandemic; an empirical calculus of the threat of infection, illness and death for individuals. But these analyses ignore an even wider context -the politics of life -espoused through reactions to the accentuated assemblage of threats. The dissemination of scientific expertise, but also questioning thereof, brought fundamental aspects of biopolitics to the surface and made them visible in the old, renewed and innovative responses to what became known as 'the pandemic'. The contributions in this special issue draw attention to this wider biopolitical context and show how much more than just the virus was implicated during and after the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic, (or syndemic), has attracted rich debate on how life could and should be best ordered and vitalized in practice -'managing the virus is about managing people' 5 and interspecies relations. It is also a debate that has renewed theoretical interest in Foucauldian biopolitics, reaching scholars who were previously unfamiliar with the biologization of life and its changing historical expressions. Similar to previous cases of epidemic and pandemic threats, knowledge about the outbreak in 2020 mainly targeted human connectivity conceived as a matter of life and death. And when threats in any form rapidly flow through the population, so does the quest for new knowledge coupled with innovative ways of governing oneself and others. Depending on geographical positions and epidemiological preferences, the regulation of life via science, statistics and responsibility did, with COVID-19, not only diffuse logistically, motivated by biological longevity with racist implications, 6 but also opened up for ideas of future bodies and an expanded administration of life on a planetary scale. If the 'right to health' 7 originally demanded biopolitical intervention in the form of novel technologies of power that were flexible, economical and alluring enough, responses to COVID-19 have been suggested to permeate both discipline and sovereignty to remould and enforce them anew. 8 In India, for example, the government response often sought to victimize the poor, 9 and migrant workers became the necessary casualties in the effort to portray the impression of quick and 'strong' leadership. The migrants were forced to walk back home, to a domestic sphere, often hundreds of miles, going unfed and untreated during the hurriedly imposed lockdown. 10 Some of them were killed by heavy vehicles while walking, and how many 5

Research Handbook on Maritime Law and Regulation, 2019