Study of Taiwanese ¡§National¡¨ Curriculum in Japanese Colonial Period ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to discuss the foundation and influence of elementary school curriculum in Japanese Colonial Period in Taiwan and to provide further explanations for the manipulation from the power relationships at that time. First, this paper critically reviews those contributions from Marx, Gramsci and Apple to build up the analysis scaffold of national curriculum principles. Then it discusses the role of dominant structures and elementary schools through Taiwanese economic evolution in that period. Further more, it shows the knowledge features of elementary school textbooks by the content of subjects such as Japanese, Moral, Geography and History courses. The results confirm that national curriculum in Japanese Colonial Period in Taiwan provides a platform for ideology manipulation from the dominant, it is not only a set of knowledge content but also something which hiding with the figure of national power at it¡¦s back. Keywords: Hegemony, National curriculum, Elementary school, Textbook

This dissertation reports on the findings of a single, embedded, interpretive case study centered on nine teachers, supportt staff and administrators in a small, fledgling, faith-baised, independent school in a major city in Canada. Communication practices in schools are significantly impacted by the highly rational society in which they are situated as well as by the expectations often associated with traditional hierarchal roles. Independent schools, as a feature of their 'independence,' have certain freedoms to create new norms of leadeship and emancipation but also meet with greater pressures because of their increased dependency for sustainability on donations and tuition fees. They tend to be easily drawn into the competitive ideologies that exemplify a highly rationalized, free market capitalist society. A large body of literature describes the impact of excessive rationality on communicative practices. The work of Jurgen Habermas serves as foundational to the phenomena of communicative practices in this dissertation. The researcher used qualitative methods to explore participants' perspectives on the communicative practices of their school organization. The findings show participants to be vulnerable to the cultural hegemony of rationality, but anaware of that hegemonic power. However, the findings also show a desire to foster ethical and inclusive communicative practices. They also reveal a significant interplay between participants' individual theologies and their beliefs about communicative practices. The suggestions for educational change are to more readily educate both teachers and administrators regarding ethical discourse and the essential components of Ideal Speech, and for each school organization to conduct an audit of communicative practices to ensure an ongoing creation and critique of communicative norms. / Graduate

Our aim with this study was to examine how the Marikana massacre, the killings of 34 mineworkers in August 2012, was portrayed in the news media in South Africa. We based our study on a discourse analysis of a selection of articles written at the time of the massacre. We have also used interviews with two journalists who covered the Marikana massacre, to gain further insight in journalistic decisions regarding the coverage. Through theories and earlier research we have analysed the content, among others we have used Burton’s theory of self-regulation and Gramsci’s theory of media hegemony. The findings of the discourse analysis show that newspapers have covered the incident from different angles, in accordance with the different conflicts that the massacre contains. We found a conflict between the police and miners as they are both portrayed as victims and the criminals in the articles. The second conflict between the largest unions and the third among the politicians Jacob Zuma and Julius Malema. We have concluded that there is a political discourse and the political key players have used the massacre as means to gain political support. Through the discourse analysis we have also found that newspapers are at times critical towards government and authorities.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, November, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 323-367.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of History and Politics, Discipline of Politics, 2008. / Includes bibliography ( leaves 297-347) Also available in print form.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 251-270.

abstract: This dissertation explores the rhetorical significance of persecution claims produced by demonstrably powerful publics in contemporary American culture. This ideological criticism is driven by several related research questions. First, how do members of apparently powerful groups (men, whites, and Christians) come to see themselves as somehow unjustly marginalized, persecuted, or powerless? Second, how are these discourses related to the public sphere and counterpublicity? I argue that, despite startling similarities, these texts studied here are best understood not as counterpublicity but as a strategy of containment available to hegemonic publics. Because these rhetorics of persecution often seek to forestall movements toward pluralism and restorative justice, the analysis forwarded in this dissertation offers important contributions to ongoing theoretical discussions in the fields of public sphere theory and critical cultural theory and practical advice for progressive political activism and critical pedagogy. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Communication Studies 2011

Esta dissertação analisa as articulações da disputa por hegemonia com julgamentos sobre o significado de qualidade da educação de alunos de uma escola municipal e de uma escola privada de Porto Alegre. O trabalho vincula-se ao campo da Sociologia da Educação na medida em que se interessa pelo estudo da estabilidade e da mudança da hegemonia e suas relações com a realidade educacional. Para tal estudo, considera-se necessária a operação de complexa teoria, utilizando-se os conceitos de ideologia, articulação e hegemonia, além de complexa metodologia, optando-se por uma análise relacional. Este estudo toma alunos como público de pesquisa para incluir julgamentos daqueles que são atendidos pela educação no debate sobre a educação. Estes são julgamentos sobre um tema específico: a qualidade. A opção por estudar os julgamentos dos alunos sobre esta palavra decorre de que ela tem sido considerada o eixo fora do qual não tem sido possível o diálogo sobre avanços educacionais, independentemente do que signifique. A partir do entendimento bakhtiniano de que a disputa pelo significado da palavra é o indicador preciso da disputa pela ideologia, analisa-se como se articulam os julgamentos dos alunos sobre o que é qualidade, para que se possa compreender então a ideologia. Relaciona-se, assim, a ideologia presente nos julgamentos dos alunos com a hegemonia, e se a relaciona com as condições sociais específicas dos alunos. Neste sentido, a opção por alunos de uma escola privada e de uma escola municipal advém do interesse de entender como a questão de classe, bem como os projetos pedagógicos das escolas, influencia nos seus julgamentos. Os dados obtidos apontaram como os alunos, ao mesmo tempo que interagem com as influências de seus contextos específicos e com a hegemonia, ativamente rearticulam sentidos e constituem julgamentos ideológicos sobre o que é qualidade. As diferentes formas como a noção de qualidade é interpretada, nos cenários pesquisados, e as possibilidades de confronto a noções vinculadas à hegemonia de mercado, articuladas nos julgamentos, apontam para o caráter histórico e instável da hegemonia na educação. / The present thesis aims at analysing the articulations of the dispute for hegemony with judgements about the meaning of quality in education from students from a municipal and a private school in Porto Alegre. This research is linked to the field of Sociology of Education in that it is interested in the study of stability and change of hegemony and its relations to educational reality. For this task, complex theory operation is required, and, in this sense, ideology, articulation and hegemony are key concepts here. Also, complex methodology is important for this complex enterprise, and relational analysis is also basal in this study. This investigation takes students as its research public, in order to include judgements of those who are the target in education in the debate of education. These are judgements about a specific matter: quality. The option for studying student’s judgements about this particular word stems from the fact it has been considered an axis outside which it has been impossible a dialogue about educational improvements, despite what it means. Based on the bakthinian understanding that the dispute for the meaning of a word indicates precisely the dispute for ideology, it is analysed how student’s judgements about quality are articulated, in order to understand ideology. So, ideology in their judgements is related to hegemony, and also to student’s specific social conditions. In this sense, the option for students from a private and a municipal school comes from an interest in understanding how the matter of class, as well as the pedagogic projects from each school, influences their judgements. Data obtained indicates how, at the same time students interact with the influences of their specific contexts and with hegemony, they actively rearticulate meanings and constitute ideological judgements about quality. The different ways the notion of quality is interpreted, in the research field, and the possibilities of confrontation to notions linked to the hegemony of market, articulated in their judgements, point to the historic and unstable properties of hegemony in education.

The aim of this research project is to investigate the hegemonic and posthegemonic arrangement regarding trust and power in order to establish whether the concept of 'trust' between banks, customers and the media is sustainable. This research challenges the notion that customers are losing 'trust' in banks by questioning the original existence of 'trust' and critically examining the components comprising what is seen as 'trust', as well as assessing the role played by the media in the process of building/destroying trust. What the literature shows is that despite there being a body of knowledge regarding trust in various fields within business, the issue of trust in the banking sector is becoming prominent. Although trust in banking has become a popular research topic (see, for example, Devlin et al 2015), few studies interrogate the concept of trust. This research was based on an inductive qualitative approach using critical discourse analysis to analyse data collection. The research found that there are four main components of trust that customers want in the banking sector and they are hope, expectation, belief and confidence. One can argue that trust is posthegemonic. The emotions produced from the articles are affective and it does not matter whether one has knowledge about the subject or not, affect can change opinions. The articles affected the four components of trust which led to a lack of trust from the customers towards the banks. Therefore, an argument can be made that the media influenced the public's perceptions of banks during the financial crisis and that many of these perceptions persist to the present day. There is scope for further research. One area of research could be to test the framework of trust developed in this research. Another area could be to measure the impact of the media during the financial crisis.