This critical cultural analysis of trends in the field social emotional learning (SEL) United States considers how ideas concerning skills and competencies have informed programmatic discourse. While currently stressing links between SEL academic achievement, program literature also places emphasis on ideals caring, community, diversity. However, recommended practices across programs tend to undermine these by focusing behavioral control strategies that privilege individualist models self....

Drawing principally from anthropological critiques of contemporary American multiculturalism, this interpretive analysis multicultural education in the United States suggests that discourse, text, and practice domain are imbued with unexamined assumptions concerning such basic concepts as culture, self, individual identity. The article provides a critical these ideas their presentation discourses illustrates how they shaped by dominant core cultural frames reference. It argues more reflexive...

In recent years, consciousness of high levels societal and familial risk have made raising a 'resilient child' key theme in parenting culture. Using evidence from the popular literature on resilient children, this interpretive discourse-based critique explores ways resilience has been conceptualised advice literature. It suggests that advocates 'resilience pedagogy' reflects social class differentials dramatically expands possibilities for parental intervention children's lives. The analysis...

Long before the earthquake in Haiti on 12 January 2010, but particularly since, international media and humanitarian groups have drawn attention to ‘vulnerable child’ Haiti, a child often portrayed as needing ‘saving’. Focusing particular restavèk (child domestic laborer), this article first explores ways which such children are represented vulnerable victimized, despite emerging ethnographic evidence children’s lived experience that paints rather different picture. It then argues far from...

Although much debate exists on the conceptualization, nature, and goals of global citizenship education, there has been widespread support for incorporating ideals into practices, texts, curricula U.S. schools universities. This article offers an interpretive discourse-based critique ideas selfhood underlying education. Based analyses two high school materials available websites devoted to citizenship, we develop a universalizing constructs that underlie discourse. These assumptions obscure...

Identity is a key area for consideration in contemporary educational analysis and the anthropology of education particular. This article considers need critical inquiry into notion identity, suggesting that field might reconsider value an approach moves beyond identity toward cultural models self their implications. The discussion outlines three areas where appears to be useful construct (cultural therapy, multiculturalism, transcultural comparisons teaching learning).

This interpretive critique of the US parenting advice literature explores underlying cultural values and assumptions concerning emotion power that are revealed in discourses on child behavior management. The analysis reveals a clear emphasis pedagogical therapeutic role an emotionally knowledgeable parent relation to deficient child. Parents supposed teach how handle negative emotions through explicit strategies such as labeling, verbalization, listening, many which imbued with class bias....

This interpretive analysis of Farsi and English language use among first‐generation Iranian immigrants exiles in the United States examines relationship between second culture acquisition. Based on samples data collected during fieldwork professionals high school students, focuses symbolic role cross‐culture acquisition process. It suggests that although played a cultural identity maintenance expression attitudes toward American culture, its most important function was to facilitate an...

Recognizing that early childhood education in the United States has been influenced deeply by notions of developmentally appropriate practice, this critical conceptual analysis discourse and Japan contrasts cultural assumptions views self inform each context. Although can be characterized as highly progressive child centered, at same time it is not developmentalist envisions principally terms culturally valued qualities personhood. In contrast, discourses on emphasize a construct individual...

Clinical trial sponsors spend considerable resources preparing informed consent (IC) and assent documentation for multinational paediatric clinical applications in Europe due to the limited dispersed patient populations, variation of national legal ethical requirements, lack detailed guidance. The aim this study was design new easy-to-use guide publicly available on European Medicines Agency's, Enpr-EMA website all stakeholders.

Abstract In the discourse on contemporary parenting in United States, parent–child “power struggle” is often spoken of as a common event everyday lives parents and children. On basis ethnographic interviews with economically privileged white mothers preschool elementary‐age children, I analyze power struggle cultural trope. Despite refusal to be considered “mainstream” outright denigration what they parenting, mothers’ reveals understandings about its relationship self that reflect broader...

Cet article explore les représentations de l’enfant par la galaxie complexe l’aide humanitaire, des organisations non gouvernementales et organismes bienfaisance avant après le tremblement terre en Haïti. À partir l’analyse données d’entretiens ethnographiques, documents discours, il montre que projets développement ont dépeint enfants haïtiens à tour rôle comme « esclaves » anges orphelins tout niant nature politique ces réalités vie enfants. Le discours soutient l’idée est une clés du...

Drawing from recent anthropological critiques of the notion resistance, this paper argues that concept is often sanitized and overextended in educational analysis. More nuanced useful approaches to idea resistance cultural contexts must take into account ways which views self inform practices power/resistance. On one hand, certain individualist ideologies implicitly privilege agency make "inevitable"; yet there exist alternative give primacy intimacy self-other identification, as well...

Drawing principally from anthropological critiques of contemporary American multiculturalism, this interpretive analysis multicultural education in the United States suggests that discourse, text, and practice domain are imbued with unexamined assumptions concerning such basic concepts as culture, self, individual identity. The article provides a critical these ideas their presentation discourses illustrates how they shaped by dominant core cultural frames reference. It argues more reflexive...

Abstract In light of recent global debates over the dangers institutionalised orphan care, a new model family care premised on trope reunification has emerged among Haitian and US faith‐based actors as best alternative for ensuring vulnerable children's well‐being. This article offers critical cultural reading narratives in Haiti social media advocacy discourse, revealing how this approach privileges Northern assumptions about proper parenting life. Not only are these ideas mismatch with...

White Savior or Local Hero?:Conflicting Narratives of Help in Haiti Diane M. Hoffman (bio) In 2010, experienced a devastating earthquake that killed over two hundred thousand people and resulted vast but ultimately ineffective international humanitarian aid relief effort. This article considers how the recent August 2021 has produced shift rescue assistance narrative emphasized trope Haitian agency when responding to hardship disasters. Based on critical reading Facebook posts, online news...

In South Korea, gender has been commonly considered a manifestation of an unquestioned dichotomy between male and female domains, reflecting "official" Neo-Confucian views as inherently separate unequal statuses. This study argues that we must move away from facile acceptance male-female relations in contemporary Korea. Rather, it proposes there are levels Korean behavior cultural psychology which the oppositions "official culture" subverted or otherwise deconstructed, principally by process...