Academic literature on the topic 'Material culture and decolonial pedagogy'

The Bible served as the principal source of religious imagination for English colonials in the seventeenth century. It was that which inspired their radical ecclesiastical, political, and societal reconstructions and that by which they measured their faithfulness to the Christian tradition. It proved to be a remarkable stimulus to the formation of colonial institutions and material culture, and the production of an entire range of literary genres, including spiritual memoir, public rhetoric and exhortation, history, poetry, music, pedagogy, law, and linguistics. The Bible also served as the te

The concluding chapter argues that it is not at all coincidental that today Andean women are the emblematic figures in the national imagination, representing both a rich cultural history and the last vestiges of a perceived “backward” and recalcitrant culture. This book offers a close examination of the ambivalent ways in which gender, race, and cultural heritage intertwine to position Andean women as the quintessential subjects of both national pride and everyday scorn and neglect in Peru. Studies from the former hacienda community of Vicos, the highland city of Huaraz, and the migrant stream to Lima, placed in relation to broader regions of Latin America, provide ample ethnographic material to support that argument. The book has engaged in a self-critical process of locating the author’s writings in the historical contexts in which they were written and then reexamining them from the present vantage point of emergent decolonial feminisms. Ultimately, her objective has been to work toward a decolonial feminist anthropology of gender, race, and indigeneity that recognizes culturally diverse lives in all their complexity, as neither saints nor sinners, neither iconic heroes nor pitiable victims. The work should inspire others to undertake their own reflections and contribute to what she hopes will be a growing and vigorous discussion of gender, race, and other axes of power in Latin America and beyond.

This article unpacks three auto-narratives drawn from my embodied experiences journeying from soprano to researcher. A feminist theoretical performative “I” is created through the use of performative autoethnography, a position of situated knowledge and Judith Butler’s thinking of gender as performative. I explore the query: How is a singer’s feminist performative I created through autoethnography? By unpacking my lived experiences I establish a connection between the I and the context I live in, referred to as “the Other”. This connection then illuminates how my voice has been constructed and disciplined to that of a normative feminine soprano by attaining and repeating actions from the social-culture context of singing. I also leverage off Butler’s thinking and how it may foreclose the attention to the materiality of the body, and lean into a performative embodied, new perspective. Embracing both the soprano and researcher role I create a position that brings me into a “liminal space”. I do this to better understand the intersection of music education and gender, the becoming of a researcher, researching with the “inside out”, and to embrace the material body’s actual contribution in (to) the web of meanings in the sociocultural context of singing. By carving out a connection between being a soprano and moving into my researcher voice, I offer this article as an expanded way of knowing – a knowing through being. In turn, such insights offer epistemological and ontological ways of thinking for those experiencing similar encounters.

The subject of the article is the preparation of future reserve officers for educational work. The training of reserve officers is carried out by the military departments of higher education institutions of Ukraine. The article contains information that citizens of Ukraine undergo military training on a voluntary basis who have or receive a higher education degree at least a bachelor's degree, fit for military service for health reasons and moral and business qualities. Citizens can undergo military training, subject to the correspondence of the specialties that they or for which they are trained in the institution of higher education, the military accounting specialty, in which the training of reserve officers is carried out. The leading feature of the military professional activity of a military leader is the dominant professional orientation, which manifests itself in an orientation toward working with personnel and active interpersonal interaction, toward organizing activities, toward tough interaction with the enemy. In this regard, the officer must have a broad developed practical thinking and managerial competence. The article presents the components of its formation and demonstrates the ways to achieve it: information-analytical component of training future reserve officers; the formation of the communicative competence of future reserve officers; the use of computer technology in training reserve officers for educational work; individualization of training. The information and analytical component of the training of future reserve officers provides for: 1) information and presentation meetings of candidates for training under the training program for reserve officers with officers of the military commissariat; 2) professional excursions and to military units of candidates for training under the training program for reserve officers, in which potential applicants can communicate with platoon commanders and company commanders, get acquainted with the daily activities of the platoon; 3) self-testing of potential applicants for professional self-determination and readiness for management activities. The formation of the communicative competence of reserve officers provides for the following factors: pedagogy of cooperation, personality-oriented education, an active personal position of the future reserve officer, critical thinking, the formation of language culture and the influence of mentors. One of the effective means of improving the level of training of military specialists is the use of modern information technologies, in particular, virtual computer systems and computer networks (simulation) models. They, first of all, should contribute to the comprehension and assimilation of educational material, as well as to ensure the possibility of a comprehensive assessment of the readiness of the future reserve officer for independent activity, the timely introduction of individual adjustments in the training of a military specialist. The main methodological foundations of the process of individualization of training: the organization of additional classes with students who have gaps in knowledge, by organizing optional classes; search for ways to individualize learning within a specific lesson; inclusion of the weak in the subgroups of well-prepared students. The practical application of these theoretical principles will contribute to the formation of a military specialist and the preparation of future reserve officers for educational work.

In modern educational conditions the problem of professional mobility of the future Physical Education teacher acquires actual value. This is what strengthens the special interest in the ideas of child`s physical development through the prism of game technologies, which were put forward by educators of the past and have not lost their importance today. Analysis of the creative heritage of outstanding educators makes it possible to use historical experience in the development of modern education. The works of the German teacher F. Froebel and the Ukrainian K. Ushynskyi, wich study the theory of children's game, are of considerable interest nowdays. The subject of research is the pedagogical possibilities of children's games by F. Froebel and K. Ushynskyi in the professional training of a mobile-oriented PE teacher in modern educational conditions. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the effectiveness of game methods of the child`s physical development in the process of future PE teachers training to implement the pedagogical ideas of F. Froebel and K. Ushinskyi in the modern space of higher physical education. Objectives of the study: studying the problem of children's play in the pedagogical concepts of F. Froebel and K. Ushinskyi, outlining ways of creative use of ideas of F. Froebel and K. Ushinskyi in the formation of professional mobility of future PE teachers in the process of practical preparation for play activity of young pupils. The methodological basis of the study is the pedagogical heritage of F. Froebel and K. Ushinskyi; theory of scientific knowledge. The study is based on the principles of historicism, systematics, scientificity, mobility, child-centeredness, creative approach to the personality as a subject of the educational process. The scientific novelty of the study is, that: a comparative analysis of game methods of the child`s physical development through the prism of pedagogical systems of F. Froebel and K. Ushinskyi is given for the first time; the process of professional training of future PE teachers is modeled on F. Froebel's pedagogical ideas; further development of the content and methodological support for the formation of professional mobility of future teachers to implement the provisions of F. Froebel and K. Ushinskyi on children's play activities. Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) developed the theory and methodology of the game as a means of harmonious development of the child. His system of preschool education was extremely widespread in the world, and is also used today in Europe, particularly in Germany. Konstantin Ushinskyi (1824–1870) formulated the following pedagogical conclusions about the game: games predict the future character and destiny of the child; the game has a great influence on the development of children's abilities; children's games have their nationalities, their centuries-old history; children are constantly creating new games. The study led to the following conclusions: 1. The study of the theory of children's play in the pedagogical concept of F. Froebel showed that it is based on the principles of child centrism, creativity, amateurism, children's self-development, fun, constructive activity through the expression of children's feelings, thoughts, gestures, songs, stories. 2. K. Ushinsky defines the importance of game in the physical and mental development of the personality, argues and critically evaluates the "children's gifts" of F. Froebel. Theoretical and practical study of children's games in modern conditions is an important professional competence of future PE teachers, methodical provisions on their expediency were substantiated by K. Ushinskyi. The conducted historical and pedagogical analysis of the works of F. Froebel and K. Ushinskyi testifies to the important scientific achievements of teachers in the field of children's play theory. 3. Froebel's didactic material was aimed at mastering by students the method of developing children's physical abilities, their ability to constructive activity, logical thinking, which today acquires special significance not only in physical education but also in professional sports. Froebel's pedagogy is designed to educate the future teacher not only of physical culture, but also "culture" in the broadest sense of the word, forms his professional and mobile competencies of the combinatorial type. 4. Necessary pedagogical conditions for the implementation of the main tasks of physical education in the scientific heritage of K. Ushinskyi are compliance with the principles of humanism, nationality, conformity to nature, rational use of effective ways, means and forms of strengthening and preserving mental and physical health of students on the requirements of high moral and professional qualities of teacher's personality.