Philosophy of education not only forms the background for curriculum construction and pedagogy but there is a connection between epistemology and education within the economic power structure of society in the United States (Aronowitz & Giroux, 1993/1991, p. 88). Public education in the United States often functions as a propaganda delivery system which conserves the economic power structure by use of a conservative and objectivist philosophy of education which instrumentalizes education into vocational preparation, compliance to a governing ideology and uncritical acceptance of knowledge as absolute truth (Aronowitz & Giroux, p. 22). This project aims to construct a philosophy of education which could transform the education system into a counter-propaganda institution with the potential to transform the power structure of society. A critical postmodern philosophy of education which synthesized critical and postmodern philosophies of education would emphasize epistemological skepticism, counter-propaganda knowledge construction and social transformation (Aronowitz & Giroux, p.22). In addition, the project contains a literature review of critical theory, postmodern theory and critical postmodern theory on education as well as theory on a critical postmodern philosophy of history education, philosophy of correctional education and ideas for the implementation of the philosophy of education into specific pedagogical and curricular practices. Attached to this manuscript is a PowerPoint presentation focused on stimulating discussion of this philosophy of education.

Sports fandoms, historically, have been categorized as a male domain, even in academic studies. Therefore, as Formula 1 has been a sport with a remarkable increase in digital engagement and women are one of their main target audiences, I study Spanish F1 female fans’ behaviours, attitudes, and motivations towards F1 and Twitter as part of their fan experience. Through nethnographic methods, where semi-structured interviews and participant observations have been central, I try to gain knowledge about individual experiences as well as the functionality of the F1 Twitter community. It is illustrated that F1 female fans cannot be considered a homogeneous group by applying a postmodern feminist approach where identities are considered to be fluid, fractured, and in constant flux, distancing from previous feminist ideals that promoted binary and determinate gender concepts. Raney’s affective, cognitive and social/behavioural sets of motivations are employed in order to contemplate F1 female fans' motivation for consuming F1 and choosing Twitter as the social network to follow the sport. Moreover, Jenkin’s participatory culture is taken into account to analyse the F1 Twitter community. Patterns regarding becoming a fan due to Alonso's success and family ties, common interests in information and shared F1 popular knowledge are encountered. However, diverse usage of Twitter and different levels of sense of belonging to TwF1 are also displayed. Hence, I conclude that more research is needed to gain a better understanding of them because despite displaying different facets, F1 female fans are ‘authentic’ fans who should be taken into consideration by sports, media and fan studies in addition to sports organizations and fellow fans.

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第一章討論的是惹內運用劇中劇的形式，來凸顯他的劇作是經由人為精心策劃的這個事實。他更認為所謂的真實，也和虛幻一樣，是人建構出來的東西。第二章則是關於作者如何以後現代諧擬的手法，打破他劇作的虛構性，刻意使觀眾察覺幕後製作技巧的運作方式。第三章要談論的是他劇作所展現出的不定性及流動性。第四章旨在指出他劇中人物主體性的定義，是基於他們角色的不同，和他們相互間的差異性。本章並且探討作者如何以二元對立的形式，解構傳統中一尊一卑的二元對立模式。 惹內以劇場的形式解構了傳統寫實劇場。他利用自我顛覆的技巧，不斷地強調虛幻比現實更真實，創造了一動盪不定且虛無的戲劇世界。 / This thesis aims at exploiting the postmodern characteristics of Jean Genet's plays: The Maids, The Balcony, The Blacks and The Screens. The first chapter discusses how Genet makes use of the form of a play within a play to foreground the theatricality of his plays. With this structure, he expresses his view on reality: it is constructed in the same way as illusion. He considers that nothing can be real. The second chapter talks about the way postmodern parody functions in his works: to reinforce the artificiality of the plays and to make the audience aware of how theatrical devices woek. The third chapter probes the indeterminacy and fluidity of his plays . The fourth chapter discloses the playwright's notion that one's identity is defined in terms of one's role and one's difference from the others. It also elaborates how he deconstructs the traditional binary opppsition(in which there is always a superior and an inferior). Genet subverts the conventional realistic theater by using its form. As he keeps destabilizing his plays and emphasizing that appearance is more real than reality, he creates a theatrical world of uncertainty and emptiness.

紐約三部曲，顧名思義，是三個關於後現代資本首都，紐約，的故事。然而，作者並未著重描繪後現代城市，迥異於後資本觀點如：物化、戀物癖、時尚、為主的敘事，而著重於描述身處於後現代空間主體如何因應、如何遭遇挫折、心態如何變化的現代啟示錄。 空間形塑主體，主體也反之形塑空間。現代空間所帶來的整齊清潔的身份認同童話已然消失，代之而興的，是後現代破碎、曖昧、精神分裂、主體消失的超現實空間，在這個獨特的空間場域裡，本論文試圖分析紐約人在紐約此一獨特空間之作為：透過行走、書寫、命名、記憶、偵察、地圖認知等方式來定位/重新定位/喪失定位的過程。 悲劇在於，籠罩於後現代的的烏雲下，雖然現代主義式英雄早已是一條死路，但提不出任何新的突破之路的主角們，終究不由自主地，以舊式現代主義英雄式的方法去探究、去找尋，去試圖重整秩序，緊接著便是，在這做玻璃之城裡，去失望、去挫折，去瘋狂，去死亡。 / Space is an influential, even determining factor to establish concerning subjectivity, and vice versa. The modern space and its fairy tale-type ordered/reasoned/omniscient city dwellers and detectives have already proved to be just an illusion. The world is no longer a comprehensible and legible universe. The omnipotent position the humans believe they firmly stand is just an ideological illusion. What exists in New York now is a hyperspace with ambiguity, contingency, self-dislocation, schizophrenia, and pastiche. Even though Auster’s texts are frequently regarded as postmodern, the Postmodernity is delineated and constructed not upon the illustration/configuration of the late urban capitalism logic which Jameson sees as the dominant features, but upon the textual characteristics of meta-fictionality and the self–deconstruction. But the New York tragedy is, facing with the mental crisis of the new age, the protagonists, or the heroes, the representative of every city dwellers living in the “mutation of the built space,” can’t propose any efficient and effective resolutions. The modernist efforts are proved to be a failure along with the changing of the city. Even though we know the condition is different, we still can’t have a new way to overcome our incapability and incompetents. This failure leads to various crises of subjectivity, ending in disappointment, frustration, disappearance, madness and death. So, in this dissertation, I will attempt to analyze the behaviors of New Yorkers and the way they take actions: through the ways of writing, walking, naming and remembering, they endeavor to orient/reorient/disorient themselves in this particular the biggest late capitalism metropolis.

This thesis is a study of female authorship that examines the feature films of Jane Campion in order to determine how her preoccupation with the cinematic articulation of 'female experience' is expressed in her films-whether female experience can be aestheticised, and to discover whether her gender can be discerned through the films of a woman director. The exploration of these ideas entails a review of the feminist thinking, methodologies and epistemologies that are relevant to cinema, and that examine relevant theoretical positions within feminism and theories of cinematic authorship. The key lens employed here for theorising Campion's cinema is that of postmodern-feminism. As an approach, this allows an understanding of difference rather than 'Otherness', and an enquiry into gender that is neither essentialist nor constructionist, but facilitates critical thinking about both positions. The central argument of this thesis is that Campion's film practice functions as an investigation into gender difference, how women and men live together in the world-experience that world, and are engendered as female through historic, psychological and cultural experiences. This thesis therefore argues that Campion's aesthetic and perspective is not only feminist, but also, female, and feminine, and her work a cinematic articulation of female experience.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2002. / Degree granted in Theater and Dance. Also available via the World Wide Web. (Restricted to UC campuses)

<p>This licentiate thesis is written at the multi-disciplinary research school Identity and Pluralism−and also within the subject of Church History−at the Department of Culture and Communication, University of Linkoping, Sweden.</p><p>In the thesis the rise of the Cell Group Church is explained. Further the Cell Group Church is analyzed with help of questions regarding identity and pluralism. The author conceives a basis of identity, an approach to define cell-structured churches. This basis can in turn constitute a premise for continued research. Furthermore adequate criteria to evaluate the movement are put forth.</p><p>The dissertation poses three main questions. How was the Cell Group Church formed? Is it possible to identify the Cell Group Church with help of identity markers? What criteria are appropriate to use for an evaluation of the Cell Group Church?</p><p>The concept of the Cell Group Church was coined by Dr. Ralph W. Neighbour and it is he and his book ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’ which are the eye-catchers in this thesis. In what way might Neighbour’s own personal development have affected the design? The intention is not to make a psychological study of Neighbour’s persona, but to weigh in some decisive events that are found in Neighbour’s own biography and that might have affected the design of the Cell Group Church. But influence also has occurred from the outside. What has happened when the Cell Group Church has met the congregations of reality in Korea, Singapore, The Ivory Coast and Columbia? What has Neighbour modified and what in the Cell Group Church has endured? Within the given frame, 1965-2006, there has been an interaction going on between Neighbour and his personal development on the one side and his encounters with reality on the other. In this tension a process of reform is growing. The author will highlight what is lasting in this process, what stands for continuity, and what means a change of identity. The method is to begin with historically descriptive but devolves into being analytical.</p><p>This thesis contributes to the basic research in the field of the Cell Group Church. The movement of the Cell Church is a part of a forceful global course of events within Christianity. There are historians of religion and sociologists of religion who mean that a new kind of Christianity is forming in our times. The manner in which the Cell Group Church relates to its contemporary period is interesting both from international as well as Swedish conditions. Is the Cell Group Church an alternative that will replace the churches of old? Can the Cell Group Church contribute to the survival of the churches of old?</p>

<p>Denna studie syftar till att granska elevers uppfattningar om dagens svenska skola som framgångsfaktor. Tre frågeställningar har konstruerats; (a) hur ser eleverna på motivation i skolan, (b) hur ser eleverna på deras framtida väg till framgång samt (c) ser eleverna andra vägar till framgång utöver den väg som skola och utbildning erbjuder och hur påverkar detta deras motivation att prestera i skolan? Då syftet är av en tydlig subjektiv karaktär, har en kvalitativ metod och teknik tillämpats. Studiens teoretiska utgångspunkt utgörs av två teman; motivation och vägar till framgång. Dessa två ämnesområden innehåller underrubriker som utgör den tematiska ordning som uppsatsen följer. Empirin i studien bygger på åtta semistrukturerade kvalitativa intervjuer med elever i grundskolans år nio. Studiens resultat visar att ungdomarna upplever en påtaglig ambivalens i deras motivation i skolan samt i deras syn på vägar till framgång. Samtiden präglas av övergången från det moderna samhället till det postmoderna, vilket medför att ungdomarna ser möjligheten att välja mellan skolans väg till framgång och alternativa vägar. En motivationskonflikt uppstår som påverkar ungdomarnas prestationer i skolan.</p> / <p>The study’s purpose is to examine students' perceptions of today's Swedish school as a factor of success. Three questions have been designed; (a) what are the students’ views on motivation in school, (b) what are the students’ views on their future path to success and (c) do students see other avenues to success in addition to the road of education and training offered, and how does this affect their motivation to perform at school? Because the purpose is of a clear subjective character, a qualitative methodology and technique have been applied. The study’s theoretical basis consists of two themes; motivation and paths to success. These two topics have generated subheadings, which provide the thematic order in which the paper follows. The empirical work is based on eight semi-structured qualitative interviews with secondary school students. The results show that the youths are experiencing a tangible ambivalence in their motivation in school and in their view of paths to success. The contemporary period is characterized by the transition from modern society to the post modern, which means that young people see the opportunity to choose between the school's road to success and alternative routes. A motivational conflict arises that effect the youths’ performance at school.</p>

Thesis (M.A. (Sociology))--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005.