There appears to be little doubt about the nature of the relationship between the fashion model and the young girl in contemporary Western culture. Dominant literature, emerging from medico-psychological and feminist research, situates the model as a disorderly influence, imbued with the capacity to infect and, hence, distort the healthy minds and bodies of 'suggestible' young girls. Opposing these perspectives is a smaller, more recent body of literature, emerging from post-feminist work that argues that the model-girl relationship is a delightful influence. Thus, the contemporary field of scholarship reveals an increasingly dichotomous way of thinking about fashion model influence: the model influences young girls in ways that are disorderly or delightful, never both. This thesis argues that to assume that the model-girl encounter is 'neatly' disorderly or delightful is shifty at best. It suggests that, in their rush to judge the fashion model as either pernicious or pleasurable, existing literature fails to account for the precision with which young girls know the fashion model. Using poststructuralist theory, the thesis argues that 'influence' may be more usefully thought of as a discursive effect, which may produce a range of effects for better and worse. Following Foucault (1972), fashion model influence is interrogated as a regime of truth about the model-girl encounter, constituted discursively under specific social, cultural and historical conditions. In so doing, the thesis makes different sense of fashion model influence, and questions influence as an independently-existing 'force' that bears down on vulnerable young girls. Drawing on a poststructural conceptual architecture, this thesis re-conceptualises the model-girl encounter as a pedagogical relationship focused on the (ideal) female body. It suggests that the fashion model, as an authoritative embodied pedagogue, transmits knowledge about 'ideal' feminine bodily conduct to the young girl, as attentive gazing apprentice. Fashion model influence is re-interrogated as the product of certain forms of disciplinary training (Foucault, 1977a), with young girls learning a discursive knowledge about how to discipline the body in ways that are properly feminine. Such a perspective departs from the notion that fashion model influence is necessarily disorderly or delightful, and makes possible a re-reading of influence in terms of learning outcomes. A problematic arises conceptualising the fashion model in this way. To consider the model as a 'good' teacher breaches a number of discursive rules for best pedagogical practice in postmodern times: She is not a pedagogue of the mind; she is not student-centred, facilitative, asexual, interpersonally engaged, relational, or authentic. To create a space for thinking differently about the model as a teacher, then, the thesis looks to ancient historical times and places in which female-to-female and body-to-body pedagogies were practised and understood. The first phase of the research project embedded in this thesis defamiliarises pedagogical work using historical texts from ancient Greece. It examines in particular the erotically embodied pedagogical relationships conducted between older, authoritative elite prostitutes known as hetairae, and their younger female apprentices. The discursive rules governing these pedagogical relationships are examined with a view to diagnosing the model-girl encounter in terms of these rules. These rules are then used to interrogate ethnographic data generated through observation of the model-girl encounter in situ in a modelling course, and through focus group interviews with groups of young girls. Working through notions of corporeal embodiment, self as art, desire, discipline, stillness, spectacle, the gaze and the conduct of conduct, the study interrogates the model-girl encounter as a contemporary pedagogical encounter. To avoid reaffirming more traditional binaries, the reading of data is ironic, working within and between binaries such as disorder/delight. Three ironic categories of femininity are produced out of the analysis: unnaturally natural, stompy grace and beautifully grotesque. These categories 'speak' the fragmentation, fissure, contradiction, inconsistency and absurdity that permeate the talk of young girls and model-girl pedagogy in the modelling classroom. Thus, the thesis offers up an analysis of the model-girl encounter that refuses the neatness and uni-dimensionality that characterises existing literature.

Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy, Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, 2004. / Bibliography: leaves 310-325. / Introduction -- School violence: a brief overview -- What's in a name?: constructing an institutional identity in an educational market -- The discipline of gentlemen -- Parent consumers: tactical manoeuvres and institutional strategies -- Making the papers: Trinity in the news -- Games of truth: "everyone has their spin" -- Conclusions. / This study integrates sociological theories of social class with poststructuralist theories of subjectivity, representation and consumption, to consider the complex ways in which the representational practices of institutions and individuals are implicated in the production of violence in schools. This work draws particularly on a case study of incidents of sexual violence which occurred at an elite private school in Sydney during 2000, in which four students were charged with a range of offences committed against younger peers over a period of months. The assault incidents received widespread media coverage and sparked intense public debate, in response to which a media strategies consultant was engaged by the school to liaise with members of the press. This study demonstrates the extent to which the interrelationships between systems of signification (in particular, written and visual texts) and other social systems, (for example, families, schools, and political economy) function in the constitution of subjectivities and the production of meaning, and takes as its focus the interrelationship and functioning of texts, discursive practices and social practices which pertain specifically to the assault incidents described above. Data are derived from a range of sources and genres, including promotional materials, personal and general correspondence, media reports, and interviews, necessitating a variety of qualitative analytic methods. Informed by critical post-structuralist theory, in particular the work of Bourdieu, Foucault, and de Certeau, this work considers questions pertaining to the operation of power within social institutions, with particular emphasis on the constitutive function of discourse. The analysis extends current conceptualisations of school violence through a post-structuralist interrogation of, and linking of violence to, educational consumption, which has predominantly been theorised according to sociological or economic models. The argument is made that the market ideologies which pervade contemporary social and educative practice, together with the representational practices and disciplinary regimes of schools, function in the constitution of social subjects who occupy multiple ambiguous subject positions in the patriarchal hierarchies which characterise the power relations and institutions under consideration, thus implicating institutions in the production of violence. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / vii, 325 leaves

With an explicit focus on how power is enacted and what this produces in the everyday lives of chronically ill women living on B.C. disability income support (BC Benefits), this research is located at the contested juxtaposition of what I refer to as three fields of possibility; feminism, poststructuralism and critical disability studies. Each of these fields suggests methodological, empirical and interpretive readings that enable me to produce different knowledge, differently, about disabled women’s lives. Using verbatim narrative accounts from in-depth interviews focused on how each of four participants live their lives, take care of themselves, and make sense of and respond to the government policy and practices to which they are subject, reveals everyday, embodied practices of the self that constitute their subjectivities as disabled women. Together, these accounts along with critically interpretive reflections reveal/expose/make visible the lives of these women in response to exercises of power in ways that unseat, unsettle and disrupt taken-for-granted understandings of those who are disabled, female and poor. Along with explicating power relations in the lives of disabled women and what these produce, I also link these critically to their health, socio-economic well-being and citizenship, while creating a disruptive reading that destabilizes common-sense notions about disabled women securing B.C. provincial income support benefits. Thus my research purposes and those of my disability activism are melded as these intersect within the (often-contested) borders of poststructural and social justice terrain. Despite public claims by the B. C. government to foster the independence, participation in community and citizenship of disabled people in B.C., the intersection of government policy and practices and how they are read and taken up by the women, produce profound uncertainty in their lives, such that these women become uncertain subjects. Living poorly, they experience structural poverty, compromised well-being and “dis-citizenship” (Devlin & Pothier, 2006), all inconvenient facts reflecting a marked disjuncture between how government programs are publicly represented and their strategic effects. / Graduate

O objetivo deste trabalho é, a partir de conceitos e problemas apresentados nos estudos acerca da Etnomatemática, relacionar a Matemática com práticas voltadas para o que é étnico, para o que é ético, para a prática artista, e para as relações de amizade a partir de dois focos: Primeiro, uma analítica interpretativa sobre a produção de discursos matemáticos observados sob a lente do pós-estruturalismo. Segundo, a análise de uma pesquisa que relaciona o pensamento matemático e a leitura da arte contemporânea, desenvolvido com três turmas de formandos do Ensino Fundamental em Porto Alegre. Este trabalho é marcado pelas teorizações Foucaultianas, bem como pelas produções teóricas acerca de arte e educação, educação matemática, e os estudos culturais, tudo entremeado pela presença de autores que observam a educação com o olhar pós-estruturalista. A dissertação busca fundamentar a necessidade de um olhar etnoéticomatemático para analisar e redesenhar conceitos e discursos tais como a ética e a amizade nas relações pedagógicas educador-educando, a procura de uma possível docência artista em Matemática. Compreendendo e respeitando as preocupações relacionadas ao Governo Etnomatemático, trazidas à tona principalmente por Lisete Bampi, a análise se desenvolve a fim de pensar uma Ética Etnomatemática, uma Etnomatemaética. / This work aims to study, from concepts and problems pointed in studies in Ethnomathematics, to relate mathematics with practices focused on what is ethnic, what is ethical, to na artistic practice, and the friendship, trough two outbreaks: First, an interpretative analytic analysis over the discourse on the production of mathematical observed under the lens of poststructuralism. Second, the analysis of a pratice that relates the mathematical logic, and the understanding of contemporary art, designed with three groups of students of elementary school at Porto Alegre. This work is marked by Foucaultian theories as well as by theoretical productions about art and education, mathematicas education and cultural studies, all punctuated by the presence of authors that observes the education with poststructuralist look. The dissertation aims to substantiate the need for a look at the ethnomathemaethical concept to analyze and redesign and discourses such as ethics and friendship in the teachers-student‘s pedagogic relations, the search for a possible artistic practice in mathematics. Understanding and respecting the concerns relating to the Government Ethnomatematics, brought up mainly by Lisete Bampi, the analysis is developed in order to consider an ethics Ethnomatematics, na Ethnomathemaethic.

This project forms part of a growing engagement with biology by critical psychology and, more broadly, body studies. The specific focus is on the neurological body whose dogmatic exclusion from critical endeavours is challenged by arguing that neuroscience offers a vital resource for emancipatory agendas. Rather than conversely treating biology as a site for the factual supplementation of social theory the aim is to engage (negotiate) with neuroscience more directly and critically. In this process a discursive reductionism and attempted escape from complicity associated with critical psychology are addressed. Similarly a naïve and apolitical empiricism claimed by neuroscience is disrupted. The primary objective is however to demonstrate the utility of neuroscience in developing critical theory. These objectives are pursued through the ‘method’ of deconstruction, (mis)reading several highly regarded neuroscience texts written by prominent neuroscientists, working within the convolutions of these texts so as develop openings for critical conceptualisations of (neural) corporeality. In this manner the various spectres associated with neurology, including essentialism, determinism, individualism, reductionism and dualism, are displaced. This includes, amongst others, the omnipresent mind/body and body/society binaries. The (mis)readings address a number of prominent themes associated with contemporary neuroscience: Attempts at specifying an identity for (part of) the brain are shown to rely on a necessary relationship with the excluded other (such as the body, the socio-cultural, and the environment). Similarly, attempts at articulating a centre, a point from which agency can proceed, which finds existing identity in the functions of the prefrontal cortices, are also undone by the (multiple, affective, and unconscious) other which decentres the centre by being the essential supplement for any such claims. The causal metaphysic must likewise proceed within the play of différance, a logic of difference and deferral that undermines causal routes, innate origins and autocratic centres. Finally, reductionism must advance as a necessary strategy through which to engage with complexity, its ambitions always impossible as the aneconomic is forever in excess of any economy. The emancipatory viability of such (mis)readings is discussed within a context where the open and malleable body has been co-opted by contemporary neo-liberal geoculture. / Psychology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Psychology)

O objetivo deste trabalho é, a partir de conceitos e problemas apresentados nos estudos acerca da Etnomatemática, relacionar a Matemática com práticas voltadas para o que é étnico, para o que é ético, para a prática artista, e para as relações de amizade a partir de dois focos: Primeiro, uma analítica interpretativa sobre a produção de discursos matemáticos observados sob a lente do pós-estruturalismo. Segundo, a análise de uma pesquisa que relaciona o pensamento matemático e a leitura da arte contemporânea, desenvolvido com três turmas de formandos do Ensino Fundamental em Porto Alegre. Este trabalho é marcado pelas teorizações Foucaultianas, bem como pelas produções teóricas acerca de arte e educação, educação matemática, e os estudos culturais, tudo entremeado pela presença de autores que observam a educação com o olhar pós-estruturalista. A dissertação busca fundamentar a necessidade de um olhar etnoéticomatemático para analisar e redesenhar conceitos e discursos tais como a ética e a amizade nas relações pedagógicas educador-educando, a procura de uma possível docência artista em Matemática. Compreendendo e respeitando as preocupações relacionadas ao Governo Etnomatemático, trazidas à tona principalmente por Lisete Bampi, a análise se desenvolve a fim de pensar uma Ética Etnomatemática, uma Etnomatemaética. / This work aims to study, from concepts and problems pointed in studies in Ethnomathematics, to relate mathematics with practices focused on what is ethnic, what is ethical, to na artistic practice, and the friendship, trough two outbreaks: First, an interpretative analytic analysis over the discourse on the production of mathematical observed under the lens of poststructuralism. Second, the analysis of a pratice that relates the mathematical logic, and the understanding of contemporary art, designed with three groups of students of elementary school at Porto Alegre. This work is marked by Foucaultian theories as well as by theoretical productions about art and education, mathematicas education and cultural studies, all punctuated by the presence of authors that observes the education with poststructuralist look. The dissertation aims to substantiate the need for a look at the ethnomathemaethical concept to analyze and redesign and discourses such as ethics and friendship in the teachers-student‘s pedagogic relations, the search for a possible artistic practice in mathematics. Understanding and respecting the concerns relating to the Government Ethnomatematics, brought up mainly by Lisete Bampi, the analysis is developed in order to consider an ethics Ethnomatematics, na Ethnomathemaethic.

The purpose of my scientific essay is to examine the identity creating processes that goes on amongst pupils as well as pedagogues in leisure time centers. This seen from a gender perspective. The questions in this essay revolves around me as a role model in the leisure time center and how I use the binary gender categories in my line of work. Moreover, how can I present a safe environment for my pupils to try out their identity from a gender perspective. I analyze my questions seen through a leisure time center pedagogue ́s everyday worksituation under the influence of a workplace jargon. A jargon that seems to be enhancing the polatity between the binary gender categories. The theories I use in my essay to reflect upon my questions is Kants philosophy about freedom and the categorical imperative, Lenz Taguchis description of feministic poststructuralistic theory and Butlers theory on sex and gender as socially and cultural constructed. Through my scientific essay I have reflected upon my role as a role model in a way that takes me through an identity creating process of my own in my profession as a leisure time center pedagogue. And by takinga glance on my own actions it has created a bigger understanding of what has formed my own identity as a pedagogue from a gender perspective. This hopefully will increase my ability to present a safe environment for my future pupils in their identity creating processes in the leisure time center in a gender perspective. / Syftet med min vetenskapliga essä är att undersöka identitetsskapande processer på fritidshemmet, både hos pedagoger och elever. Frågeställningarna i essän berör min roll som förebild som blivande fritidshemslärare, hur jag förhåller mig till könskategorierna kvinna och man, flicka och pojke i mitt arbete. Och vidare hur jag skapar trygghet för att eleverna i fritidshemmet ska känna sig fria att pröva sin identitetur ett köns och genusperspektiv. Dessa frågor belyser jag ur ett gestaltat dilemma om hur en fritidshemslärares vardag kan präglas av en arbetsplatsjargong. En jargong som jag upplever förstärker polariteteten mellan könskategorierna kvinna och man. De teorier jag använder för att reflektera kring min vetenskapliga essäs frågeställningar är Kants teori om frihet och det kategoriska imperativet, Lenz Taguchis beskrivning av feministisk poststrukturalistisk teori och Butlers teori om kön och genus som socialt och kulturellt konstruerade. Genom min vetenskapliga essä har jag reflekterat kring min roll som förebild. Att skriva essän har i sig varit en identitetsskapande process för mig då jag vänt blicken mot mig själv i en situation som jag tidigare inte förstått min roll i. Vidare har jag genom essäskrivandet börjat förstå vilken komplex process identitetsskapande är och hur dessa processer är något som pågår samtidigt hos flera personer i ett socialt sammanhang. Min förhoppning är att detta kommer att öka min möjlighet och förmåga att se till att mina elevers identitetsskapande processer får fortgå i en trygg miljö på fritidshemmet.

O objetivo deste trabalho é, a partir de conceitos e problemas apresentados nos estudos acerca da Etnomatemática, relacionar a Matemática com práticas voltadas para o que é étnico, para o que é ético, para a prática artista, e para as relações de amizade a partir de dois focos: Primeiro, uma analítica interpretativa sobre a produção de discursos matemáticos observados sob a lente do pós-estruturalismo. Segundo, a análise de uma pesquisa que relaciona o pensamento matemático e a leitura da arte contemporânea, desenvolvido com três turmas de formandos do Ensino Fundamental em Porto Alegre. Este trabalho é marcado pelas teorizações Foucaultianas, bem como pelas produções teóricas acerca de arte e educação, educação matemática, e os estudos culturais, tudo entremeado pela presença de autores que observam a educação com o olhar pós-estruturalista. A dissertação busca fundamentar a necessidade de um olhar etnoéticomatemático para analisar e redesenhar conceitos e discursos tais como a ética e a amizade nas relações pedagógicas educador-educando, a procura de uma possível docência artista em Matemática. Compreendendo e respeitando as preocupações relacionadas ao Governo Etnomatemático, trazidas à tona principalmente por Lisete Bampi, a análise se desenvolve a fim de pensar uma Ética Etnomatemática, uma Etnomatemaética. / This work aims to study, from concepts and problems pointed in studies in Ethnomathematics, to relate mathematics with practices focused on what is ethnic, what is ethical, to na artistic practice, and the friendship, trough two outbreaks: First, an interpretative analytic analysis over the discourse on the production of mathematical observed under the lens of poststructuralism. Second, the analysis of a pratice that relates the mathematical logic, and the understanding of contemporary art, designed with three groups of students of elementary school at Porto Alegre. This work is marked by Foucaultian theories as well as by theoretical productions about art and education, mathematicas education and cultural studies, all punctuated by the presence of authors that observes the education with poststructuralist look. The dissertation aims to substantiate the need for a look at the ethnomathemaethical concept to analyze and redesign and discourses such as ethics and friendship in the teachers-student‘s pedagogic relations, the search for a possible artistic practice in mathematics. Understanding and respecting the concerns relating to the Government Ethnomatematics, brought up mainly by Lisete Bampi, the analysis is developed in order to consider an ethics Ethnomatematics, na Ethnomathemaethic.

Studiens syfte är att bidra till ökad medvetenhet för verksamma inom förskolans område kring frågor som rör pedagogers förhållningssätt kring relationen mellan bildskapande och genus, men även hur dessa förhållningssätt kan påverka barnens möjligheter i deras bildskapande. En viktig fråga som burits med från starten av arbetet och som lyser igenom i resultatdelen har varit: Vilka möjligheter att förhålla sig till bildskapande och genus kan uppstå om ett kritiskt sätt att tänka kring könsstereotypa mönster tas tillvara inom bildskapande? Metoden har utgått från en intervjustudie vilket inneburit intervjuer av sju pedagoger som arbetar inom förskolan. Halvstrukturerade intervjuer har varit av stort värde för mig som intervjuare för frågeformuleringens skull under intervjuerna, men även för informanterna för att kunna formulera sitt förhållningssätt till relationen mellan bildskapande och genus. Resultat som framkommit har visat på olika och ambivalenta förhållningssätt till bildskapande i relation till genus. Analys av resultaten visar på vikten av ett medvetet förhållningssätt i bildskapande sett till barnens möjligheter i bildskapande. / The purpose of the study is to contribute to increased awareness for those active in pre-school setting regarding the pre-school teachers’ approach to the relationship between art and creation and gender, but also how these attitudes can affect children's art and creation possibilities. An important issue right from the very beginning of this study, which is prevalent in the discussion of the results, has been: What kind of attitudes regarding art and creation and gender can occur if a critical way of thinking about gender and stereotypes is used in art and creation? The method was based on an interview study, which involved interviews of seven educators working in a pre-school environment. Semi-structured interviews have been of great value personally as an interviewer asking questions, but also for the sake of the interviewees abilities to express their attitudes concerning the relation between art and creation and gender. Emerged results have shown different and ambivalent approaches to the relation between art and creation and gender. Analysis of the results shows the importance of the use of a conscious approach in art and creation as seen in the children’s approach to art and creation.

The present thesis interpretes Nicholas Onuf´s fundamental book World of Our Making. This text tries to evaluate Maja Zehfuss´ and Charlotte Epstein´s poststructuralist arguments against constructivist IR theory and tries to resolve the problem within a broader philosophical context. In the end it seeks to consider their argument against the inherent tension of Onuf´s constructivism and consequently suggest a possible solution.