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21	Creative girls: fashion design education and governmentality Bill, Amanda Elizabeth January 2009 (has links) This thesis is concerned with creativity as an object of educational governance and a category of subjective identification. It studies a ‘creativity explosion’ in higher education in New Zealand, focusing on how fashion design students are being mobilized as subjects of creativity through ‘joined up’ modes of governance and technologies of educational choice. Using a poststructural ethnographic ‘methodology’ I explain how, from the late 1990s, models of educational governance began to appear dysfunctional and unable to deliver the attributes and capacities expected of citizens in a knowledge economy. I argue that creativity gained significance as a result of new ways of ‘thinking culture and economy together’. Neoliberal rhetorics representing creativity as flexible human capital and a generic, transferable skill needed by workers in the new economy, were articulated with liberal humanist notions about creativity, which are commonly understood and performed through the social categories of art. All kinds of individual and institutional actors took advantage of these shifting opportunity structures to position themselves with ‘creative’ identities. Within various cultural organisations, including universities, moves to strengthen a liberal agenda and retain creativity as a form of ‘arts knowledge’ with high cultural capital, rubbed up against counter-hegemonic strategies to enlist and develop more universal concepts about creativity as a collaborative endeavour, vital to new forms of capitalist enterprise. By historicising the context in which a new ‘normative doctrine’ of creativity has emerged, and by treating its theorisation as culturally performative, I develop the position that fashion design graduates, as ‘creative girls’, are highly productive performers in the new categories of cultural economy. However I argue that the creative girl occupies a subject position fitted to after-neoliberalised social and economic arrangements, not because she is shaped by neoliberal ideologies, but because she is made up by techniques and tactics of an ‘after-neoliberal’ governmentality. This demonstrates the mutual constitution of ‘creative economy’ and ‘creative persons’ and underlines the fact that despite after-neoliberal ambitions for managing education, there can be no simple cause and effect relation between higher education and economic performance. creativity research creativity pedagogy creative economy sociology of design gender studies youth studies governmental politics Fields of Research::330000 Education Fields of Research::410000 The Arts
22	Creative girls: fashion design education and governmentality Bill, Amanda Elizabeth January 2009 (has links) This thesis is concerned with creativity as an object of educational governance and a category of subjective identification. It studies a ‘creativity explosion’ in higher education in New Zealand, focusing on how fashion design students are being mobilized as subjects of creativity through ‘joined up’ modes of governance and technologies of educational choice. Using a poststructural ethnographic ‘methodology’ I explain how, from the late 1990s, models of educational governance began to appear dysfunctional and unable to deliver the attributes and capacities expected of citizens in a knowledge economy. I argue that creativity gained significance as a result of new ways of ‘thinking culture and economy together’. Neoliberal rhetorics representing creativity as flexible human capital and a generic, transferable skill needed by workers in the new economy, were articulated with liberal humanist notions about creativity, which are commonly understood and performed through the social categories of art. All kinds of individual and institutional actors took advantage of these shifting opportunity structures to position themselves with ‘creative’ identities. Within various cultural organisations, including universities, moves to strengthen a liberal agenda and retain creativity as a form of ‘arts knowledge’ with high cultural capital, rubbed up against counter-hegemonic strategies to enlist and develop more universal concepts about creativity as a collaborative endeavour, vital to new forms of capitalist enterprise. By historicising the context in which a new ‘normative doctrine’ of creativity has emerged, and by treating its theorisation as culturally performative, I develop the position that fashion design graduates, as ‘creative girls’, are highly productive performers in the new categories of cultural economy. However I argue that the creative girl occupies a subject position fitted to after-neoliberalised social and economic arrangements, not because she is shaped by neoliberal ideologies, but because she is made up by techniques and tactics of an ‘after-neoliberal’ governmentality. This demonstrates the mutual constitution of ‘creative economy’ and ‘creative persons’ and underlines the fact that despite after-neoliberal ambitions for managing education, there can be no simple cause and effect relation between higher education and economic performance. creativity research creativity pedagogy creative economy sociology of design gender studies youth studies governmental politics Fields of Research::330000 Education Fields of Research::410000 The Arts
23	Performativa årsringar. Om hur barn gör(s) ålder i förskolan / Age as performative. How children construct and are assigned age in preschool Tornehag, Caroline January 2018 (has links) Denna studie utgår från barns möten i förskolan och undersöker ålder som ett görande. Studiens data utgör 18 timmars videoobservationer på en förskoleavdelning i en större svensk stad där sexton barn deltar från åldrarna ett till sex år. Studien utgår från en posthumanistisk grundsyn genom agentisk realism (se Barad, 2007 och Lenz Taguchi, 2012) och tematisk analysmetod har tillämpats i analysdelen (se Braun & Clarke, 2006). Studiens resultat visar att barn, språk, diskurser, material och miljö intra-aktivt samhandlar och performativt producerar ålder som fenomen i förskolan. Studiens bidrag är att med stöd i agentisk realism introducera sätt att förstå ålder som ett socialt och materiellt fenomen. Detta skapar en förskjutning från barnet som ensam aktör i förklarandet av normerande ålderspraktiker i förskolan för att mer tillgängligt möjliggöra ett förklarande av aktörskap inom sociala och materiella praktiker och hur dessa samkonstituerar ålder som fenomen i förskolan. / This agential realist study aims to explore age as a social and material doing in children’s meetings in preschool. The data consists of eighteen hours of video observations in a preschool located in a larger city in Sweden. The study works theoretically with agential realism (see Barad, 2003, 2007 and Lenz Taguchi, 2012) and the analysis was conducted thematically (see Braun & Clarke, 2006). The study shows that children, language, discourses, materiality and the surrounding environment intra-actively co-operates and performatively produces age as a phenomenom in preschool. The study contributes with support in agential realism to introduce a way to understand age as a socially and materially constructed phenomena. This produces a consequential shift from the child as the only responsible actor in the explanations of childrens normative age practices in the preschool and enables a possible explanation of agency within the social and material practices where these collaboratively produces age as a phenomena in preschool. Child and youth studies preschool children age materiality performative agents intra-actions agency power Barn- och ungdomsvetenskap förskola barn ålder materialitet performativa agenter intra-aktiv samhandling agens makt Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap
24	”Man får göra vad man vill, men man måste tänka på vad man gör.” : En genusstudie om tjejer, femininitet och platstagande / ”You can do what you want, but you have to think about what you do.” : A gender study on girls, femininity and space for action Soback, Antonia January 2016 (has links) Studien har som ambition att studera hur tjejer skapar femininitet och således tar plats på en ungdomsgård belägen i en multietnisk stadsdel i Stockholm. Studiens metod består av deltagande observation av en grupp på åtta tjejer som besökte ungdomsgården dagligen. Resultatet indelas i tre teman, Systerskap, Ungdomsgården är hemma och Femininitetskapande som beskriver tjejernas relationer till varandra, andra ungdomar på- och utanför ungdomsgården samt bostadsområdet, men även förhållandet till svenskhet. Resultatet analyserades med teorier rörande genus, etnicitet, postkolonial feminism och praktikgemenskap. Det framkom att tjejerna formade en gemenskap som de upprätthöll med outtalade regler rörande femininitet, etnicitet och sexualitet. Studiens slutsatser är att ungdomsgården framställdes som en betydelsefull plats då den utgjorde en fristad för tjejerna, där de försökte undkomma de olika regler som omfattade dem och deras liv. Child and Youth Studies Gender femininity sex girls youth Location Location-taking negotiation ethnicity suburb youth recreation postcolonial feminism gender theory Community of Practice Barn- och ungdomsvetenskap Genus femininitet kön tjejer ungdom plats platstagande förhandling etnicitet förort ungdomsgård fritidsgård postkolonial feminism genusteori praktikgemenskap (Community of Practice)
25	«Moi j’suis pas francophone!» : discours, pratiques langagières et représentations identitaires d’élèves de francisation à Vancouver Levasseur, Catherine 01 1900 (has links) No description available. Francisation Discours identitaires Plurilinguisme Représentations linguistiques Communauté imaginée Francophonie canadienne Enfance et jeunesse Sociolinguistique Ethnographie Francization Multilingualism Linguistic representations New speakers Identity discourses Imagined community French canadian minority Child and youth studies Sociolinguistic Ethnography
26	Taking Up Space: Community Formation Among Non-Urban LGBTQ Youth Bishop, Madison 17 June 2015 (has links) No description available. American Studies Education Education Policy Educational Sociology Gender Gender Studies Sociology Web Studies Womens Studies queer LGBTQ youth studies LGBTQ youth GLSEN anti-bullying Internet community tumblr gay straight alliance LGBTQ allies LGBTQ community formation rural youth exurban Cleveland Oberlin Ohio Queers and Allies Club

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