Against Reactionary Populism: Opening a Needed Conversation in Education

Comedy that challenges race ideology is transformative, widely available, and has the potential to affect processes of identity formation and weaken hegemonic continuity and dominance. Outside of the rules and constraints of serious discourse and cultural production, these comedic corrections thrive on discursive and semiotic ambiguity and temporality. Comedic corrections offer alternate interpretations overlooked or silenced by hegemonic structures and operating modes of cultural common sense. The view that their effects are ephemeral and insignificant is an incomplete and misguided evaluation. Since this paper adopts Hegel’s understanding of comedy as the spirit (Geist) made material, its very constitution, and thus its power, resides in exposing the internal thought processes often left unexamined, bringing them into the foreground, dissecting them, and exposing them for ridicule and transformation. In essence, the work of comedy is to consider all points of human processing and related structuration as fair game. The phenomenological nature of comedy calls for a micro-level examination. Select examples from The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1968), The Richard Pryor Show (1977), Saturday Night Live (1990), and Chappelle’s Show (2003) will demonstrate representative ways that comedy attacks and transforms racial hegemony.

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confidence: 99%

Racism’s Back Door: A Mixed-Methods Content Analysis of Transformative Sketch Comedy in the US from 1960-2000

Kim

2020

“…Based on the theory, to retain excellent faculty in an institute on long terms and to maintain the remarkable record of education requires healthy and encouraging working conditions in an educational institute. Finally, employee retention exerts a positive influence on quality education, too (Jonas, 2016;Robbins et al, 2019).…”

Section: Theory Of Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving Quality Education through Better Working Conditions of Academic Institutes

Budiharso¹,

Tarman²

2020

Self Cite

Education has become inevitable for every country and specifically for every person to proceed in with the appropriate pace. Life is really difficult to be lived without essential amount of education. Many countries are giving attention towards this cause and are making strategies and policies to improve the quality of education in the country. For better quality of education, working conditions of the educational institutes is very important. In addition, faculty retention and employability are very crucial in this regard. In the current study, the aim of the author is to study the impact of working conditions on quality education in Indonesia in the presence of mediation of faculty retention and employability. For this purpose, data was collected from 293 faculty members of the educational institutes of Indonesia. To analyze the gathered data, confirmatory factor analysis CFA and structural equation modeling approaches have been used. The results of data analysis have shown that the impact of working condition on quality education is insignificant but the mediating role of employability and faculty retention are significant in this regard. In the last section of the study, several theoretical, practical and policy making implications have been discussed by the author. In addition, some limitations and future research indications have also been described.

“…Indeed, the political powers of host societies can create social boundaries by strengthening symbolic boundaries, in particular, religion and language, between immigrants and members of the host society (Lamont & Molnár, 2002). Educational systems and the labour market of host countries, by favouring the majority group, which is already advantaged by the fact it is "white," contribute to institutionalizing different types of discrimination (Van Dijk, 1993;Robbins et al, 2019) such as ethnicism, ethnonationalism, religious intolerance and racism (Bourhis et al, 2007). Minority groups may belong to linguistic groups other than the majority group.…”

Section: Analytical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Boundaries Through the Prism of Post-secondary and Professional Orientation: The Views of Young Québec Adults of Immigrant Background

Darchinian

Magnan²

2020

Based on our collection of life stories (n = 25), our qualitative study seeks to better understand, after the fact, how young, immigrant-background adults in Québec negotiate ethnocultural boundaries through their post-secondary and professional orientation experiences, particularly in terms of linguistic choices. The analyses highlight the strengthening of boundaries within Québec’s educational institutions and workplaces. The results expose different examples of racism experienced by young adults in their relations with the Québec francophone majority that led them to integrate into English-language post-secondary education and workplaces. In addition, young adults from “black” and “Arabic” minorities more frequently report racist attitudes from francophone Quebecers.