Promising and Contested Fields

Chow, Esther Ngan-ling; Zhang, Naihua; Wang, Jinling

doi:10.1177/0891243203261128

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“…Pemberian tunjangan dan fasilitas tersebut diharapkan kondisi pendidikan dan pembelajaran menjadi lebih baik. Terlebih lagi Reward yang diberikan lebih baik, misalnya: kenaikan gaji dan pelatihan yang berkualitas (Chow et al, 2004) menjadi alasan bagi guru lakilaki untuk terus bertahan pada profesi ini. Strategi ini dapat dilakukan untuk perekrutan guru khususnya laki-laki.…”

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Strategi Lembaga Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini dalam Melibatkan Guru Laki-Laki

2021

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The involvement of male teachers in Early Childhood Education (ECE) institutions is still a matter of debate. Data for the last 10 years shows a decrease in the number of male teachers in ECE institutions. Even though their involvement is as a substitute figure for their father at school. This study aims to determine the strategy carried out at ECE institutions in KB-TK Al-Fath Cirendeu in involving male teachers. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study method. The research subjects included: the principal, 2 female teachers and 7 male teachers. Data collection was carried out employing observation, in-depth interviews and documentation. Data analysis using Miles Huberman through the stages of data reduction, data presentation, verification, and concluding. The results of the study found that the ECE institutional strategy to involve male teachers in the institution was carried out through the planning of male teacher involvement objectives, recruitment plans, provision of special facilities, preparation of organizational structures, division of job descriptions between male and female teachers and institutional supervision of male teacher performance.

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Strategi Lembaga Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini dalam Melibatkan Guru Laki-Laki

2021

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“…As a part of the anti-imperialist, anti-Confucian, nationalist, and intellectual movements, the Reform Movement in the mid-1890s and the New Cultural Movement of the May Fourth Era (1915−1925) initiated public discussion on gender equity-the role of women in the new China in particular. The introduction of Western ideologies such as socialism, feminism, and Marxism challenged the dominant Confucian ideology and played a key role in the development of the new socio-cultural environment in the country (Chow et al 2004).…”

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Global fashion brands and the construction of ‘Modern Girl’ archetypes in the emerging Chinese market

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Fashion, Style &Amp; Popular Culture

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The rapid growth of the Chinese economy since the late 1970s has dramatically changed the dynamics of the marketplace. China’s consumer society has been transformed to a more liberal market system in which a variety of diverse market imageries have been created and circulated to consumers. This article examines how global fashion brands construct different ‘modern girl’ archetypes for consumers in the emerging Chinese market. Through conducting a semiotic analysis of printed advertisements published in four major fashion magazines during a four-year period from the beginning of 2009 to the end of 2012, we identified six ‘modern girl’ archetypes constructed by global fashion brands. Our findings reveal a dialogical relationship between brand-created imageries and prevailing cultural attitudes. We argue that fashion brands strategically create alternative modern girl archetypes as a way to depict a new era marked by the liberation of Chinese women under the influence of global consumer culture.

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“…The academic knowledge production about women's and gender studies (WGS hereafter) has always been a negotiation between multiple paradigms and practices of power as socially situated knowledge (Harding, 2004). In China, WGS as an interdisciplinary program, compared to more well-established disciplines such as sociology, political science, and history, has not achieved the same level of institutionalization in the formal higher education system (Chow et al, 2004). In the public sphere, feminism (nvquanzhuyi) has continued to suffer from misogynistic backlash, such as in online discourse where feminist-conscious netizens strive to voice their discontent strategically in response to the tightening control of civic sphere (Wu & Dong, 2019;Zeng, 2021).…”

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Dependency as Situated Knowledge: A Reflexive Politics of Location on the Positionalities of Chinese Feminist Scholars

Han

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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While feminist knowledge has historical roots in China, the academic knowledge production about women’s and gender studies (WGS) as situated knowledge has always been a contestation between opposing forces. The Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, marked the critical discursive and organizational moment for grounding the feminist concept of gender as an analytical and action framework. Since then, WGS have flourished, but the label of feminism has been ambivalent. To examine the complicated state of academic dependency and the politics of location in this interdisciplinary academic field, I interrogate researchers’ positionalities in some recent publications on feminism and gender studies about China by pointing out the interplay of diasporic and domestic positionalities in English and Chinese publication outlets. This article argues that for an interdisciplinary program like WGS, with its inextricable connection to the political state of China and socialist state feminism, the theory of academic dependency cannot adequately capture the often contested, strategic, and situated standpoints of feminist scholars. While diasporic and domestic scholars are deeply aware of their own positionalities in the channel of publications that grant them voices, they are also caught in the current hegemonic political economy of knowledge. This article interrogates the contested positionalities of overseas and domestic feminist scholars in creating a feminist academic field about China.

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Promising and Contested Fields

Cited by 24 publications

References 6 publications

Strategi Lembaga Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini dalam Melibatkan Guru Laki-Laki

Strategi Lembaga Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini dalam Melibatkan Guru Laki-Laki

Global fashion brands and the construction of ‘Modern Girl’ archetypes in the emerging Chinese market

Dependency as Situated Knowledge: A Reflexive Politics of Location on the Positionalities of Chinese Feminist Scholars

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