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Golat, Rafał. "THE PROBLEMS OF MINORITIES IN MUSEUMS’ ACTIVITIES (LEGAL ASPECTS)." Muzealnictwo 58, no. 1 (March 17, 2017): 19–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0009.7637.
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Within the scope of their activity, some museums deal with the protection and dissemination of the cultural heritages of various minority groups. These include both museums which focus their attention on minority problems as such (e.g. museums run by minority churches or denominations), and those museums which deal with such issues to a greater or lesser extent because of their statutory objectives related to the cultural heritage of particular minorities (e.g. ethnographic museums). The provisions of the Act on museums do not include clear regulations with regard to the subject of minorities. Therefore, the provisions are construed with respect to other norms, relevant to the minorities’ activities. From among those provisions, these that deserve particular attention are, above all, provisions specifying the activities of NGOs, including associations and foundations, under which they frequently operate. Secondly, of importance are acts which specifically regulate the basis for how given minorities operate, i.e. especially the Act on national and ethnic minorities and on regional languages, the Act concerning the guarantees of conscience and religion, as well as those acts which determine the State’s approach towards particular churches and denominations. Formally, the extent to which a museum engages in a significant activity regarding a given minority is determined by the basic acts issued by the its administrator, which serve as the basis for its operation. Those include statutes (in the case of museums which are legal persons) or regulations (in the case of other museums). When a museum’s statute provides for such minority activity, its administrator is obliged to provide funding for it, regardless of additional financial support, in particular that coming from grants, and above all the one stipulated in the article 18 of the Act on national and ethnic minorities and on regional languages.
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Varutti, Marzia. "The Politics of Imagining and Forgetting in Chinese Ethnic Minorities' Museums." Outlines. Critical Practice Studies 12, no. 2 (April 5, 2010): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/ocps.v12i2.2272.
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Through an exploration of the representation of ethnic minorities in the museums of Kunming, Yunnan Province of China, this article discusses the active role that museums play in the processes of memory and identity engineering, whereby museum images and narratives are used to support collective imagination about ethnic minorities' identities and past. Drawing from a comparative analysis of museum displays in Kunming, I discuss how the image of ethnic minorities is conveyed through a selective process of i) remembering and emphasizing specific cultural elements, ii) forgetting other elements, and lastly, iii) modifying the perception of ethnic minorities relation to the Han majority. By revealing the extent and modalities through which museum representations manipulate ethnic minorities' identities in China, the analysis aims to contribute to our understanding of the multiple ways in which museums act as sites for the enactment of collective memory and imagination.
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Pekárková, Eliška, and Monika Stachová. "Muzejní edukace jako příležitost k inkluzivnějšímu pojetí dějin?" Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia 75, no. 1-2 (2022): 66–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/amnph.2021.006.
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Current mainstream education and the prevailing interpretation of history in museums and schools do not sufficiently reflect the history of minorities currently living in the Czech Republic. In what forms and to what extent are museums addressing this topic? Do minorities constitute a fully-fledged part of the interpretation of Czech history in the public space, or are they treated more as a peripheral issue and as an addition to the prevailing historical narrative? The article examines how technology and museum education can be used to supplement missing aspects of Czech history that otherwise do not receive sufficient space in museum exhibitions in general, in history textbooks or education itself. Examples of museum education that illustrate these trends in the text are the new History Lab exercises on Romani history that are currently being developed in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR), and at the same time an interactive program for children of younger school age. How can these activities contribute to a more inclusive conception of Czech history, which entails more than the history of the Czech and Slovak populations? How can museums contribute to this trend?
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Mikešová, Pavla. "Museums and Their International Audiences." Muzeum: Muzejní a vlastivedná práce 55, no. 2 (June 1, 2017): 42–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mmvp-2017-0046.
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Abstract The National Museum, the Centre for Presenting Cultural Heritage in cooperation with the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures, held on the 24th and the 25th October 2017 a specialised seminar entitled “Museums and Their International Audiences” focusing on the work of the museum staff with foreigners who are living in the Czech Republic and foreign visitors. The seminar presented innovative projects from the environments of museums and galleries that present the culture and the history of foreigners and national minorities who are living in the Czech Republic, it dealt with the role of museums in the field of integration of foreigners and with possibilities of cooperation with the non-profit sector in this area. On the second day of the seminar a specific intercultural skills training was held.
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Rizzo, Alessandra. "Museums as Disseminators of Niche Knowledge." Journal of Audiovisual Translation 2, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 92–136. http://dx.doi.org/10.47476/jat.v2i2.93.
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Accessibility has been facing several challenges within Audiovisual Translation Studies and has also gained great opportunities for its establishment as a methodologically and theoretically well-founded discipline. Audiovisual translation modes have achieved a crucial role in the transmission of what scholarly studies have discussed in relation to media accessibility as a set of services and practices providing access to audiovisual media content for persons with sensory impairment. Today accessibility has become a concept involving more and more universality, since it is extensively contributing to the dissemination of audiovisual and visual products about issues on minorities, and also addressing all human beings, regardless of cultural and social differences.
Against this theoretical backdrop, accessibility is scrutinised within the context of aesthetics of marginalisation, migration, and minorities as modalities which encourage the diffusion of ‘niche’ knowledge, and as universal processes of translation and interpretation that provide access to all knowledge as counter discourse. Within this framework, the ways in which language is used can be considered the beginning of a type of local grammar for interlingual translation and subtitling applied to museum contexts of marginalisation, migration and minorities.
Drawing upon well-established research in the field of audiovisual translation and media accessibility, and by adopting systemic-functional and lexical-semantic methodological approaches for translation quality assessment of museum text types, this study aims to put emphasis on accessibility as a societal instrument that contributes to giving voice to minorities through knowledge dissemination in English as a lingua franca by means of aesthetic narrative types within the field of the visual arts (i.e. museum settings). In this sense, accessibility is viewed as the embodiment of universality that ensures universal access to knowledge for all citizens as a human rights principle, while acting as an agent for the democratisation and transparency of information against media discourse distortions and oversimplifications.
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Uno, Kei. "Consuming the Tower of Babel and Japanese Public Art Museums—The Exhibition of Bruegel’s “The Tower of Babel” and the Babel-mori Project." Religions 10, no. 3 (March 5, 2019): 158. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10030158.
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Two Japanese public art museums, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery and the National Art Museum of Osaka, hosted Project Babel, which included the Babel-mori (Heaping plate of food items imitating the Tower of Babel) project. This was part of an advertising campaign for the traveling exhibition “BABEL Collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Bruegel’s ‘The Tower of Babel’ and Great 16th Century Masters” in 2017. However, Babel-mori completely misconstrued the meaning of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1–9. I explore the opinions of the curators at the art museums who hosted it and the university students who took my interview on this issue. I will also discuss the treatment of artwork with religious connotations in light of education in Japan. These exhibitions of Christian artwork provide important evidence on the contemporary reception of Christianity in Japan and, more broadly, on Japanese attitudes toward religious minorities.
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Pilarz, Łukasz. "Szczątki ludzkie w azjatyckich muzeach a prawa ludności rdzennej." Azja-Pacyfik 26, no. 2 (December 31, 2022): 45–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ap2022.2.03.
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The work concerns the restitution of museum remains as a special cultural asset found in archaeological museums. The research problem concerns reverence towards human remains constituting museum exhibits on the example of Singapore museums. This type of museum inventory has become the subject of intensified restitution activities on the part of tribal minorities, indigenous peoples, who claim the right to them on the basis of the right to worship after their deceased ancestors, the right to protect cultural, religious and traditional heritage. Such law is based in particular on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The research objective focuses, first of all, on the legal grounds resulting from the Declaration, and secondly on the analysis of the inventory of selected Singaporean museums, which contain exhibits that are human remains in their collections. The main research hypothesis focuses on the statement that Singapore, as one of the few Asian countries, maintains a special regime of pietism towards the deceased, which is manifested in the way of treating and storing human remains as museum exhibits. This may be due to the country’s cultural conditions on the one hand, and religious and legal conditions on the other. This, in turn, translates into the approach of museums to restitution claims, which are increasingly being put forward by representatives of indigenous peoples in connection with the return of the remains of their deceased ancestors. These claims find their legal basis in acts of international law and collective human rights. Therefore, the work answers the questions whether museums in Singapore duly respect international law in the field of protection of human remains and the rights of indigenous peoples, and how this translates into reverence for this type of exhibits in museum practices in connection with ICOM regulations.
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Katz, Meighen S. "“Only the Most Morbid Among the Rich Will Find It Entertaining”: Interpreting 1930s Urban Homelessness in Museums." Journal of Urban History 44, no. 2 (March 8, 2017): 278–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144217696986.
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) recent report on the relationship between culture and urban sustainability proposes that museums contribute to the larger civic project by “representing multicultural societies and giving minorities space within national narratives.”1 If, as the report suggests, cities rely on their cultural institutions such as museums to enable integration through narrative, then it is vital to consider how, and how well, this is actually being achieved. The American urban homeless of the 1930s present a viable case study as to the integration—or lack thereof—of one particular historical minority. Examining the interpretation of this select group allows us to then assess the forces at play in museum-based cultural and civic inclusion to draw some conclusions about the realities of this goal.
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Sansone, Livio. "Challenges to digital patrimonialization: heritage.org /digital museum of african and Afro-Brazilian memory." Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology 10, no. 1 (June 2013): 343–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1809-43412013000100015.
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Historically subaltern groups envisage new possibilities for the creation of community museums and exhibits. This seems to be particularly true of the Global South and, even more so, of Sub-Saharan Africa and the African diaspora to Southern America - two regions of the world where, when it concerns ethno-racial minorities and social movements, presential museums and "actual" archives have more often than not been poorly funded, ill-equipped, and underscored. This article teases out the process of creating such a digital museum that focuses on African and Afro-Brazilian heritage. It is a technological and political experiment that is being developed in a country experiencing a process of rediscovery and of the patrimonialization of a set of elements of popular culture, within which "Africa" as a trope has moved from being generally considered a historical onus to (Western-oriented) progress to become a bonus for a country that is discovering itself both multiculturally and as part of the powerful group of BRIC nations.
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Eklemezler, Sercan. "What a Museum Cannot Bear Witness To." Museum Worlds 9, no. 1 (July 1, 2021): 133–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/armw.2021.090112.
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The primary motivation behind this study is assessing how successful “inclusive” urban museums really are in representing ethnic/religious minorities. The research site is Bursa City Museum, Turkey, where the Bursa Jewish Community used to be one of the key social and cultural elements of the city. In-depth interviews are the main method of study, since the opinions of this minority on the subject are the main focus. The main aim here is to reveal the ideas of the community (whose collective memories are threatened with extinction) about being represented in the museum, and from this analysis to make constructive suggestions for the institution. It seems that the community cares about being identified as part of the city, but is indifferent to the institution of the museum, partly due to problems in the ways in which they are represented.
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Sansone, Livio. "The Dilemmas of Digital Patrimonialization: The Digital Museum of African and Afro-Brazilian Memory." History in Africa 40, no. 1 (June 7, 2013): 257–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hia.2013.4.
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AbstractHistorically subaltern groups envisage new possibilities for the creation of community museums and exhibits. This seems to be particularly true of the Global South and, even more so, of Sub-Saharan Africa and the African diaspora to Southern America – two regions of the world where, when it concerns ethno-racial minorities and social movements, presential museums and “actual” archives have more often than not been poorly funded, ill-equipped, and underscored. This article teases out the process of creating such a digital museum that focuses on African and Afro-Brazilian heritage. It is a technological and political experiment that is being developed in a country experiencing a process of rediscovery and of the patrimonialization of a set of elements of popular culture, within which “Africa” as a trope has moved from being generally considered a historical onus to (Western-oriented) progress to become a bonus for a country that is discovering itself both multiculturally and as part of the powerful group of BRIC nations (Brazil/Russia/India/China).
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Sztyma, Tamara. "JEWISH MUSEUMS IN EUROPE: GENESIS AND PROFILE." Muzealnictwo 60 (May 15, 2019): 55–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.2023.
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In the last decades of the 20th c. and following 2000, a real 'boom' in founding Jewish museums throughout Europe could be observed. A lot of new institutions were established, and old ones were modernized. All this resulting from the growing urge to overcome silence over the Holocaust, to square up with the past, and to open the debate on the multiethnicity of the history of Europe. This, in turn, was favoured by the occurring phenomena: Europe’s integration, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the development of democratic civil societies. New Jewish museums established in Europe, though inevitably making a reference to the Shoah, are not Holocaust museums as such, and they do not tell the story of the genocide. Their goal is mainly to restore the memory of the centuries of the Jewish presence in a given country, region, and town: they tell this story as part of the history of the given place, and aim at having it incorporated into the official national history. Moreover, their mission is to show the presence and importance of the Jewish heritage in today’s world, as well as to ask questions related to Jewish identity in contemporary Europe. The civilizational conflicts that arose after the relatively peaceful 1990s, outlined a new framework for the activity of Jewish museums which, interestingly, gradually go beyond the peculiar Jewish experience in order to reach a universal level. With such activities they try to promote pluralism and multicultural experience, shape inclusive attitudes, give voice to minorities, speak out against all the manifestations of discrimination and exclusion. Since these museums deal with such sensitive challenging issues, they have to well master the structure of their message on every level: that of architecture, script, exhibition layout, and accompanying programmes, thanks to which they unquestionably contribute to creating new standards and marking out new trends in today’s museology as well as in museum learning.
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Juhászová, Tereza. "The Troubled Pasts of Hungarian and German Minorities in Slovakia and Their Representation in Museums." Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics 12, no. 1 (July 30, 2018): 52–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2018-0002.
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Abstract In the 20th century, the two world wars reshaped the map of Central Europe as well as the status of Central Europe’s diverse societies. In my article, I focus on the Hungarian and German minorities in Slovakia and the representation of their problematic historical past in contemporary Slovak museums. More specifically, I zoom in on the exhibition Exchanged Homes displayed in Bratislava, which aims to commemorate the fate of Hungarians, Germans, and Slovaks, all of whom were affected by the population transfers after World War II. Based on the concept of memorial museums theorized by Paul Williams, I aim to show how the different exhibitions engage with the traumatic past of forceful resettlement. By offering multifaceted memories of a troubled past, these exhibitions avoid categorizing “victims” and “perpetrators” along national or ethnic lines. My paper thus analyzes the concepts and components of the exhibitions—the context of the postwar events, oral history interviews, and objects of everyday use that should bring the visitor closer to the experience of the people who were forced to leave. I argue that exhibitions of this sort have the ability to challenge the dominant historical narrative focusing on a national “Slovak” history and help the process of reconciliation between the Slovak majority society, and the Hungarian and German minorities.
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Varutti, Marzia. "A Chinese Puzzle: The Representation of Ethnic Minorities in the Museums of Kunming, Yunnan Province of China." International Journal of the Inclusive Museum 1, no. 3 (2008): 35–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1835-2014/cgp/v01i03/44520.
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Constantin, Marin. "Artisanship and Ethnicity in the 2000s Romania." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 45, no. 1 (2011): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221023911x552025.
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AbstractThis article is concerned with the social, economic, and cultural process of the folk artisanship among the ethnic minorities of Hungarians, Turks, and Croatians in contemporary Romania. Ethnographic information is provided on the peasant artisans' professional framework (private workshops), as well as on their crafts development under socialism and in times of market economy in Romania. Similarly considered are the craft traditions, the folk arts, and the ethnic representativeness of artisanship. Relevant categories of analysis are also paternity in crafts and the relationships that the craftsmen engage with the ethnographic museums and the national centers for the conservation of folk culture. Description and interpretation in this text contribute to the understanding of artisanship as complex and dynamic pattern of civilization among the minority ethnic groups in Romania.
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Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza. "Postkoloniální, dekoloniální a genderové paralely v možnostech reprezentace ženství a tzv. druhých." Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia 75, no. 1-2 (2022): 18–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/amnph.2021.003.
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Intersectional perspectives in postcolonial theories and gender studies have long argued that femininity represented in museums and exhibitions is subjected to multiple forms of othering. 1) Acquired social modes of looking at artifacts, women and/or Others correlate with androcentric male gaze that passivizes the object being looked at. 2) Women’s social roles in binary androcentric system further render femininity and feminine activities as associated with passivity. Thus, reproduction, care, and socialization as women’s tasks are symbolically relegated to domestic, immanent sphere as a type of work that merely maintains the continuity of a society’s life. 3) In traditional patriarchal schemes, then, transcendental masculine activity is linked with political, economic, scientific, and decision-making realms that are socially constructed as more influential and significant factors in shaping history, thereby being viewed as more worthy of remembering and recording. 4) Representations of minorities in terms of their gender, racial, class, sexual and/or indigenous identities in institutions safeguarding knowledge and historical memory take place in a pre-defined and pre-mediated context shaped by Euro-centric, Judeo-Christian, orientalist epistemologies, which inherently relate knowledge to power and objectification. Tackling such a value system and epistemological bias posits a major challenge for today’s museums, institutions of memory and educational approaches. The following article follows suit in discussing the theoretical and practical potentials of decolonial methodologies which have been formulated from bellow by (formerly) othered, gendered, racialized and objectified positions. The text seeks to demonstrate some of the opportunities this standpoint offers in analyzing a case of (more or less) good practice in the American Museum of Natural History in its attempt to contrast historical narratives pertaining to early European settlements in what is now New York City. Further, elaborating on the tradition of quilting in the U.S., human zoos and exhibits of the Berlin Wall beyond Europe, the article argues for nuanced contextualization and intersectional methods in current musem work.
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Alge, Barbara, and Julio Mendívil. "Über Ziele und Ansätze der angewandten Musikethnologie als Ausdruck sozialer Verantwortung." Die Musikforschung 72, no. 4 (September 22, 2021): 298–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.52412/mf.2019.h4.36.
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This article functions as an introduction to the following articles of this themed issue of Die Musikforschung. It frames the idea of an applied ethnomusicology, understood as an approach guided by principles of social responsibility, and as scholarship, knowledge and understanding put to practical use. The article discusses the emergence and relevance of applied ethnomusicology in Anglophone academia as well as the German-speaking world and gives insight into different fields in which applied ethnomusicology can be practiced: from traditional areas such as musical archives and museums to activism against social justice and for the rights of indigenous people and minorities, activism for musical and cultural sustainability or health, to musicological interventions in conflict situations and, finally, ethnomusicological contributions to music pedagogy. The authors do not claim to present a final definition of applied ethnomusicology, but rather aim to demonstrate the potential of this field and to show problems emerging in the course of ethnomusicological projects of an applied character.
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Cai, Pei. "Spatial Differentiation of Intangible Cultural Heritage in South China and Its Influencing Factors." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2022 (October 10, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7714161.
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In recent years, a lot of work has been done in the protection and utilization of intangible cultural heritage in South China, while there are dilemmas such as the variation of inheritance content, the extinction of heritage, and the absence of inheritors, it is urgent to strengthen the protection of intangible cultural heritage with realistic reasons. This paper adopts human geography research methods, based on SPSS mathematical statistics, GIS spatial analysis, and econometric models, to analyze the spatial differentiation characteristics of 10 types of intangible cultural heritage in the region and their influencing factors based on 1,708 intangible cultural heritage data from various regions in South China, according to five regions, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Hong Kong, and Macao. It was found that (1) the intangible cultural heritage in South China is distributed in clusters, with the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong and Guinan in Guangxi being the core areas of high-density intangible cultural heritage; (2) the characteristics of spatial differentiation of intangible cultural heritage in the region are influenced by a combination of factors, among which the pattern distribution is obviously influenced by cultural factors such as the distribution of ethnic minorities and the number of museums. Finally, from the perspective of revitalization, protection, and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, the government should propose dialectical and integrated protection of intangible cultural heritage in South China while continuously enhancing its living and contemporary flavor.
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Pease, James L. "Parks and Underserved Audiences: An Annotated Literature Review." Journal of Interpretation Research 20, no. 1 (April 2015): 11–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/109258721502000103.
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In the 1970s, there began to be a realization that parks, monuments, and other recreational areas were not visited by people from minority racial and ethnic groups in proportion to their representation in the U.S. population. Parks personnel realized that the demographic trends in the U.S. would accentuate the problem in the decades to come. They worried that, as traditional white, middle-class visitors became less dominant in the population, support for parks would erode. Further, if the intention is to have Americans be ecologically and historically literate and parks are to be an important part of that effort, the lack of visitation by other racial and ethnic groups will mean a significant part—maybe a majority—of the population will lack that literacy. Social scientists studied the problem throughout the last third of the 20th century. While initial studies worried that racial and ethnic minorities didn't have the same concern for the environment as the dominant white culture, later studies showed the fallacy in those early findings. At the end of the 20th century, Floyd (1999, 2001) wrote about the four major theories in the literature that attempted to explain reasons for low visitation rates to parks and other wild settings among racial and ethnic minorities. The theories explaining such non-use included: 1. the marginality hypothesis (groups lack the resources to participate socially, from past discrimination, and economically); 2. the subcultural hypothesis (racial and ethnic groups have different value systems and socialization practices that preclude some from participation in outdoor recreation, independent of socioeconomic factors); 3. assimilation theory (the degree to which a group is assimilated into the dominant society—acculturated—is reflected in their park use); and 4. discrimination hypothesis (park use is affected by actual or perceived discrimination, past discrimination, and institutional discrimination, both real and perceived). Studies of various sub-groups and cross-cultural studies continued throughout the first decade of the 21st Century. While the marginality hypothesis has gained prominence, all four of the explanatory theories have proven to be explanatory for some groups in some locations at some times. The barriers that prevent many underserved groups from using parks, monuments and other recreation areas have been identified. Roberts summed them up well in her 2007 paper: 1. access limitations (including transportation or lack thereof, costs, and fear of the outdoors); 2. communication challenges (including language barriers of printed materials, signs, etc.); 3. fear of discrimination (cultural, actual verbal and non-verbal messages from other visitors, overwhelming posted park rules, signs and brochures not reflective of their culture/race); 4. lack of knowledge, experience, awareness (what to do, where to go, how to get there, equipment needed, etc.); and 5. lack of diversity on staff (their group is not represented on staff or only in janitorial or maintenance positions). While research is continuing to sort out the reasons, more attention is being paid to solving the problem. Potential solutions remain difficult, but are possible and are suggested by many authors. They include possible solutions that address each of the major barriers above. In sum, they involve beginning the hard work of changing the culture of the parks, monuments, and museums, moving organizations to become a part of the larger community contexts in which they reside, and engaging those communities. While each park, museum, historic site, aquarium, nature center, etc. is unique in its geographical context, all can benefit from introspection, examining their unique strengths, the audiences they serve and don't serve, and how to become relevant and valued by a true cross-section of the communities in which they exist. It involves learning more about the multi-cultural context in which the site exists, valuing that context, forming authentic partnerships, and being open to change. It will cost money to modify the variety of media utilized in these settings and to mentor and change staff. It will mean, no doubt, a great deal of discomfort for many people. Change is like that. In the end, however, parks, monuments, and museums will be better for it, as will the broader spectrum of people who will come to visit. This review includes articles from peer-reviewed journals primarily from the years 2000 through 2010, some non-peer-reviewed journals that interpreters read regularly, some conference proceedings, and some technical reports. Also included are some articles from prior to 2000 to add some historical perspective. Chapters from books relevant to the topic also are reviewed. While this review does not include every relevant article published, it hopefully gives the reader a sense of the current state of the profession with regard to serving underserved racial and ethnic audiences.
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Morozova, T. I. "Ways and Tools of Channeling the Official Image of Soviet Authorities to the Population of Siberia during the Period of the New Economic Policy." Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 21, no. 8 (October 25, 2022): 119–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2022-21-8-119-131.
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The article analyzes one of the key aspects of the representation of authorities, i. e. channeling their official image to the population. Based on the achievements of Russian historiography and information from published and newly found archival sources, it identifies ways and tools used by the Soviet Authorities to deliberately and purposefully construct the idea about itself in the minds of Soviet citizens in Siberia and effectively channel it during 1921–1929. Among the main translators of the official image of the Soviet authorities were such institutions as the Communist Party, Soviets, trade unions, the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol), various public organizations, media press, cultural and political educational institutions. The article shows that these translators used tools that generally can be divided into three groups. The first one is traditional or universal tools, including congresses, conferences, meetings, elections, theaters, museums, clubs, libraries, books, newspapers, and magazines. The second group – tools established by the Soviet regime, including illiteracy elimination organizations, Izba Chitalnya (“village reading rooms”), Soviet party schools, Peasant Club, and “red” corners. The third group – unique or innovative tools: “nomination”, patronage of the city over the village. The article concludes by arguing that in the early years of the New economic policy (NEP) the efficiency of the majority translators and tools of the representation of the Soviet authorities were limited. However, as the Central committee of the RCP(b) abandoned the emergency policy in Siberia and the economic situation in the country and in the region had been improved, their work and influence were gradually restored. Because of this, the authorities got back their abilities of self-presentation in different forms, in different languages, among urban and rural residents, men and women, Russians and national minorities, and literate and illiterate citizens.
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Dashchuk, Y., L. Matviichuk, М. Lepky, and S. Sidoruk. "FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF CULTURE, TOURISM AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES IN UKRAINE: OPPORTUNITIES AND PROSPECTS." Financial and credit activity problems of theory and practice 5, no. 40 (November 8, 2021): 620–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18371/fcaptp.v5i40.245257.
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Abstract. In the article the main sources of funding for cultural, tourism and creative industries in Ukraine were defined. The importance of building effective financial support for initiatives in this area was justified. The activities of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation as a state institution responsible for the preservation of cultural heritage and development of Ukrainian culture in the context of current world trends were also analyzed. It was determined that the amount of funds allocated to the sphere of culture occupies a larger share in the budgets of most EU countries, compared to Ukraine. The importance of creative industries as a tool to intensify tourism activities at the regional and national levels was revealed. It was proved that the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation is an institution designed to create a new model of competitive promotion and multi-vector support of initiatives in the field of culture and creative industries. In these industries professionals, institutions and communities — the main groups of beneficiaries — act as partners for generation. new meanings and preservation of cultural capital necessary for the dynamic development of society. The analysis of state strategic documents, in particular the State Strategy for Regional Development 2020, showed that the areas of probable common interests of tourism, culture and creative industries are quite clearly defined and relate to historical and cultural heritage, museums, historical and monumental arts, architecture, archeology; original folk culture, customs, traditions, rituals, including national minorities. The new state strategy for regional development — 2027 focuses on the role of national and regional cultural and tourist routes. Sectoral strategies and international programs operating in Ukraine provide a detailed description of the area of probable common interests of culture and tourism. It was proved that an effectively built state financial support for initiatives in the field of culture, tourism and creative industries promotes cooperation between government, business and civil society, creates favorable conditions for effective and efficient investment, ensuring transparent, effective dialogue between all stakeholders to achieve stable results in the creation of a cultural product, the development of civil society and the internationalization of Ukrainian culture. Keywords: tourism financing, financial cultural policy, creative industries, project management, grant activities, budget funds, tourism development. JEL Classification L83, R5, Z18 Formulas: 0; fig.: 3; tabl.: 9; bibl.: 12.
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Luo, Pan. "Report on Heritage and Community." Museum Worlds 10, no. 1 (July 1, 2022): 216–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/armw.2022.100118.
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Organized by the Chinese National Museum of Ethnology and Yunnan University, the Third Biennial International Museum Anthropology Conference took place 30–31 October 2021. Seventy-six scholars in the fields of museum studies and anthropology from around the world joined the conference online to explore the theme of “Heritage and Community.” The purpose of this conference is to take museum anthropology as an analytic framework to explore how ethnic minorities, nation-states, and the global community engage with the values of integrity, harmony, strength, and vitality through materials and cultural heritage.
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Nissimi, Hilda. "Danish museum, Jewish museum: the Danish Jewish Museum as discourse on a minority’s integration." Journal of Jewish Studies 71, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 161–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.18647/3443/jjs-2020.
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Zheng, JingJing, Huawen Shen, Ka Yin Chau, Ting Liu, and EnLong Li. "Factors influencing conative loyalty in anthropology museum tourism." Tourism & Management Studies 17, no. 2 (April 30, 2021): 29–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18089/tms.2021.170203.
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Although service quality and customer satisfaction have been frequently discussed by scholars in tourism research, their connections with emotional factors have rarely been investigated in a museum context. The Anthropology Museum of Guangxi focuses on unique ethnic minorities, which is used as the case study in this paper. This study examines the relationships among the factors that influence visitors’ emotional attachment, satisfaction, conative loyalty, and perceived quality. Structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to model the relations among these four constructs, a 184-visitor sample is assessed, and the conceptual model supports all the proposed hypotheses. The results show positive influences among emotional attachment, visitor satisfaction, and perceived quality, which may indeed affect visitors’ conative loyalty to a specific museum. The practical applications are suggested based on findings that the conative loyalty of museum visitors is relatively influenced by their emotional connection and that emotional arousal can promote the acceptance of museum tourism.
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Hendrik, Herman. "NARASI TENTANG KEBUDAYAAN BADUY DI TIGA LEMBAGA KEBUDAYAAN." Kebudayaan 14, no. 1 (November 28, 2019): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.24832/jk.v14i1.237.
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Tulisan ini membahas tentang narasi yang disajikan oleh tiga lembaga yang merepresentasikan kebudayaan Banten dalam rangka merepresentasikan kebudayaan Baduy, suatu komunitas adat yang hidup di wilayah Banten. Lembaga-lembaga tersebut yaitu Anjungan Provinsi Banten di Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Museum Negeri Provinsi Banten, dan Museum Situs Kepurbakalaan Banten Lama. Narasi tentang kebudayaan Baduy dalam hal ini dipahami sebagai cara-cara yang ditempuh oleh masing-masing lembaga untuk bercerita tentang atau mendeskripsikan kebudayaan Baduy. Kajian mengenai hal ini penting mengingat komunitas Baduy merupakan salah satu elemen yang membentuk masyarakat dan kebudayaan Banten. Hal yang membuat diskusi lebih menarik yaitu bahwa komunitas Baduy merupakan minoritas di Banten, baik dalam hal jumlah maupun kebudayaan, tetapi menjadi salah satu ikon dari kebudayaan Banten. Mereka minoritas dalam segi jumlah karena mereka memang komunitas yang menghuni suatu wilayah kecil di wilayah Kabupaten Lebak. Dalam segi kebudayaan, status minoritas mereka dapat dilihat setidaknya dari dua hal, yaitu kepercayaan (baca: agama) dan tradisi. Komunitas Baduy menganut kepercayaan Sunda Wiwitan, yang tentu saja berbeda dengan mayoritas masyarakat Banten yang beragama Islam. Sementara itu, secara tradisi, komunitas Baduy masih menjalani cara hidup warisan leluhur secara ketat, pengaruh modernisme masih relatif kecil dalam kehidupan mereka. Dalam konteks seperti itu, menarik untuk memahami bagaimanakah lembaga-lembaga yang bertugas merepresentasikan kebudayaan Banten bernarasi tentang kebudayaan Baduy. Penelitian untuk tulisan ini dilakukan di Anjungan Provinsi Banten TMII, Museum Negeri Provinsi, dan Museum Banten Lama pada bulan Mei tahun 2018. Metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan yaitu pengamatan terhadap berbagai objek/koleksi museum yang dijadikan representasi kebudayaan Baduy.
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Li, Qiang, Bin Li, and Jian Qiang Li. "A Further Study on Bamboo-Cage Loom in Guangxi Province of China." Advanced Materials Research 627 (December 2012): 173–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.627.173.
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The bamboo-cage loom in Guangxi province in China is a great invention in the textile history of the Chinese minorities. However, the previous studies on the bamboo-cage loom were not very clear, and led to much misunderstanding. Based on our investigation on the spot of some ethnic villages in Guangxi province and in Guangxi Museum of Nationalities, at first, the structure of bamboo-cage loom was introduced in detail. Secondly the characters of Zhuang brocade on the bamboo-cage loom were presented. At last, the operational processes on the bamboo-cage loom were explained.
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Senkāne, Olga, and Karīne Laganovska. "ACQUISITION OF JEWISH CULTURAL HERITAGE OF LATGALE IN REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS: DISCOURSE OF CULTURAL MEMORY." SOCIETY, INTEGRATION, EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 1 (May 9, 2015): 515. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2012vol1.78.
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In the context of culture and history discourse and sociological analysis the interdisciplinary research reveals the significance of Jewish cultural heritage in the multinational Latgale region. Therefore, there are described topical tools in the research and preservation of Jewish cultural values and evaluated the necessity for acquisition of this culture at regional educational establishments. Prior to holocaust the ethnical group of Jews was one of the largest minorities in Latgale and had significant impact on the socio-economic and cultural development of the region. As a result of the research, it was found out that pupils and students possess knowledge about holocaust, but they have no clue about the life of this minority in Latgale before World War II and nowadays. In order to solve the problem the authors of the article offer to integrate the respective cultural and historical material into the interdisciplinary link because the tool forming memory culture are the contemporary realia – museum exhibits, photos, exhibitions, cultural and historical monuments, former Jewish squares and streets, architectonics of preserved houses, etc. RHEI REGI has created a virtual museum “Jews in Latgale” as an interactive tool offering teachers, museum staff and other interested persons video films, witnessing interviews and other materials.
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Petrov, Julia. "The new Phrygian cap: Pussy hats, feminism and anti-fashion." Clothing Cultures 7, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 49–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cc_00027_1.
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The international wave of Women’s Marches in 2017 (and subsequent years) was fuelled by anger about the misogynist tone of the American election (aimed at contender Hillary Clinton) and a sense that the rights of women and sexual minorities were being threatened. In particular, protests were triggered by the newly elected president’s unearthed comments about female genitalia: ‘grab ‘em by the pussy’. Following the instigation of craftivists in California, women around the world donned pink knitted hats with points resembling cat ears, which became known as ‘pussy hats’. This chapter uses examples collected as rapid response collecting after the marches in Edmonton and Calgary (Alberta, Canada) for the Royal Alberta Museum to argue that the pussy hat is an example of anti-fashion in its embrace of anti-consumption, and its role to promote political accountability. The pussy hat, in effect, is the uniform of a feminist political ethics.
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Waligórska, Magdalena. "Jewish Heritage and the New Belarusian National Identity Project." East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures 30, no. 2 (April 5, 2015): 332–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325415577861.
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Focusing on three contemporary grassroots initiatives of preserving Jewish heritage and commemorating Jews in Belarus, namely, the Jewish Museum in Minsk, Ada Raǐchonak’s private museum of regional heritage in Hermanovichi, and the initiative of erecting the monument of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in Hlybokae, the present article discusses how local efforts to commemorate Jews and preserve Jewish heritage tap into the culture of political dissent, Belarus’s international relations, and the larger project of redefining the Belarusian national identity. Looking at the way these memorial interventions frame Jewish legacy within a Belarusian national narrative, the article concentrates in particular on the institution of the public historian and the small, informal social networks used to operate under a repressive regime. Incorporating the multicultural legacy of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth into the canon of Belarusian national heritage and recognizing the contribution of ethnic minorities to the cultural landscape of Belarus, new memory projects devoted to Jewish history in Belarus mark a caesura in the country’s engagement with its ethnic Others and are also highly political. While the effort of filling in the gaps in national historiography and celebrating the cultural diversity of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania overlaps in significant ways with the agenda of the anti-Lukashenka opposition, Jewish heritage in Belarus also resonates with the state authorities, who seek to instrumentalize it for their own vision of national unity.
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Trinh, Ngoc Thi Kim. "Cultural diversity of Chut Ethnic minority in Vietnam in front of the threats of the fades." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 4, no. 4 (April 30, 2016): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol4.iss4.527.
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Chut is official name of special ethnic community in Viet Nam, who consists of 5 local groups: May,Sach, Ruc, A Rem and Ma Lieng in the end of 1973 year. They are li ving in the western border of central provinces Quang Binh and Ha Tinh of Viet Nam. These minorities groups left their wild life in the high mountains very late in comparison with the other ethnic groups in Viet Nam. In the years 60 of Century XX, the Chut was considered as the secluded group and in that time they have brought to return to concentrated village. Previously, due to war, disease and extremly difficult economical life, the population of ethnic minority Chut have declined much. So the internatio nal and Vietnamese scholars had worry about their danger of extinction. Nowadays, ethnic Chut is belonging to 16 smallest ethnic groups in Viet Nam and standing in 42 orders in the List of 54 Vietnamese ethnic minorities. The most important of Chut minorit y is that, in their language still preserved lots of elements of proto Viet Muong as the ancient Vietnamese language. So Vietnamese scholars call “Chut minority as National live museum in Viet Nam” and these ethnic groups have a huge significance for inter national and Vietnamese scholars to study the history of Vietnamese Nation and language, also. Vietnamese Government and the whole community are trying to support Chut ethnic minority in development and preservation their original culture. But nowadays, in the process of integration with other ethnic groups living in central provinces of Vietnam, while the Chut population is developing sustainable, but the ancient features of Chut's traditional culture are standing in front of the risk of fades. Our researc h paper will indicate the current situation of cultural diversity of Chut ethnic minority and the challenges in their cultural preservation.
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Pavlenko, Lyudmila. "Scientific Research on Czech Presence in Ukraine in the 1920s." Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia 73, no. 1-2 (2022): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/amnph.2019.006.
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The purpose of this article is to analyse the scientific work on the study of Ukrainian Czechs in the 1920s. The body of work under analysis is found to highlight the reasons and premises for the growing interest in the state and society as driving issues of Czech colonization of Ukrainian lands. The research stems from the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, local scientists and historians, and public activists. The text deals with the Czech national-cultural revival in Ukraine in the 1920s, discussing the history, economic activity, culture, traditions, and lifestyle of Ukranian Czechs. A significant contribution to the work has been made by Volodymyr Kravchenko, Head of the Ethnographic Department of the Volhynia State Research Museum in Zhytomyr, and his assistant and postgraduate student Nykanor Dmytruk, as well as Kornii Cherviak, Director of the Korosten Museum, Antonín Vodseďálek, Head of the seminar for Czech teachers at the Zhytomyr Education Institute, Stefan Křižánek, writer and inventor from the village of Krošna Česká, and others. This work would not have been possible without the fundamental achievements of Yevhen Rykhlik, a prominent Ukrainian Slavic-scientist of Czech origin as well as a famous philologist, ethnologist, teacher and public figure. Rykhlik founded and directed the Cabinet of National Minorities of Ukraine, carried out a number of expeditions to Czech settlements, collected an archive of the Czech press, organised the collection of materials on Czech colonization of Ukrainian lands, and published scientific articles on the subject. He also contributed to the field with his monograph “Czechs of Volhynia”, which was destroyed in the early 1930s.
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Godley, Bria Adimora, Diana Dayal, Elizabeth Manekin, and Sue E. Estroff. "Toward an Anti-Racist Curriculum: Incorporating Art into Medical Education to Improve Empathy and Structural Competency." Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development 7 (January 2020): 238212052096524. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2382120520965246.
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Background: There is an urgent need for medical school curricula that address the effects of structural influences, particularly racism, on health, healthcare access, and the quality of care for people of color. Underrepresented racial minorities in the United States receive worse health care relative to their White counterparts. Structural competency, a framework for recognizing and understanding social influences on health, provides a means for understanding the structural violence that results from and perpetuates racism in classroom and clinical education. Some medical schools have incorporated art into their curricula to increase empathy generally, yet few programs use art to address racial disparities in medicine specifically. Objective: “Can We Talk About Race?” (CWTAR) aims to increase medical students’ empathy for racial minorities and increase the ease and ability of students to address racial issues. CWTAR also provides a unique context for ongoing conversations about racism and structural inequality within the health care system. Methods: Sixty-four first-year medical students were randomly selected to participate in CWTAR. The on-campus Ackland Art Museum staff and trained student facilitators lead small group discussions on selected artworks. A course evaluation was sent to all participants consisting of 4 questions: (1) Likert scale rating the quality of the program, (2) the most important thing learned from the program, (3) any differences between discussion at this program versus other conversations around race, and (4) suggestions for changes to the program. Free text responses were content coded and analyzed to reveal common themes. Results: Out of 64 students, 63 (98%) responded to at least one course evaluation question. The majority (89%) of participants rated the program quality as either “Very Good” or “Excellent.” Of the 37 students who responded to the free text question regarding the most important thing they learned from the program, 16 (44%) responses revealed students felt that they were exposed to perspectives that differed from their own, and 19% of respondents reported actively viewing a subject through another’s perspective. Of the 33 students who responded to the free text question regarding any differences between discussion at this program versus other conversations around race, 48% noted an increased comfort level discussing race during the program. A common theme in responses to the question regarding suggested changes to the program was a more explicit connection to medicine in the discussion around race. Conclusions: Student responses to CWTAR suggest that the program is effective in engaging students in discussions of racial issues. More investigation is needed to determine whether this methodology increases empathy among medical students for racial minorities specifically.
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Panayi, Panikos. "The imperial war museum as a source of information for historians of immigrant minorities: The example of Germans in Britain during the first World War." Immigrants & Minorities 6, no. 3 (November 1987): 348–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02619288.1987.9974666.
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Raffai, Judit, and Ferenc Németh. "Representation of 19th century Serbian folk architecture from Banat in the ethnographic village of the Hungarian Millennium Exhibition (1896)." Zbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke, no. 166 (2018): 281–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/zmsdn1866281r.
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In the last quarter of the 19th century, national exhibitions had become popular in Hungary as well, following the examples of world exhibitions around Europe. A part of this process was the Hungarian Millennium Exhibition set up in 1896, which mobilised enormous energy and presented the ethnographic values of the region with special emphasis. In the Ethnographic Village of the exhibition, the counties of the country set up valid copies of 24 furnished farmhouses from their regions. Twelve of these houses were intended to present the folk culture of national minorities living in Hungary. The Toront?l County, among other things, exhibited a Serbian house type from Crepaja village and a copy of its furniture, as well as Serbian folk costumes from villages Melenci and Crepaja. A research preceded the exhibition. J?nos Jank?, an ethnographer from Budapest, conducted a fieldwork in the above mentioned settlements in 1894, with the support of the Toront?l County. During his trip, he made notes, photos and drawings. He summarised the results of his research on several occasions. After the closing of the exhibition, the objects were placed in the collection of the then-formed Museum of Ethnography in Budapest, where they can be found even today. In our work, we would like to publish the results of this research and exhibition in a wider context, since these data, drawings and photos, which are mostly unknown for the ethnography and cultural history of the region, originate from the earliest stage of professional ethnographic research in Banat.
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Tang, Chunxiao, and Sook-Jin Kim. "A Study on the 3D Virtual Costume for the Construction of the Museum of Virtual Clothing for Ethnic Minorities - Focusing on the costumes the Miao ethnic group in China -." Journal of the Korean Society of Costume 72, no. 2 (April 30, 2022): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7233/jksc.2022.72.2.001.
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Toms, Ozalle Marie, Kim Reddig, and Stephanie Jones-Fosu. "Assessing the diversity-related professional development needs of pre-service teachers." Journal for Multicultural Education 13, no. 3 (August 12, 2019): 236–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jme-03-2019-0029.
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Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess the diversity-related professional development needs of pre-service teachers in our college. According to a report released in 2017 by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), minorities accounted for 20 per cent of all public elementary and secondary school teachers in the United States during the 2015-2016 school year. The same report noted that 51 per cent of all public elementary and secondary school students in the USA were nonwhite during the same school year. Schools will continue to become increasingly more diverse as it relates to the student population. Students of color are expected to make up 56 per cent of the student population by 2024 (Digest of Education Statistics, 2013). With the changing demographics of US schools, pre-service teachers must be prepared to teach, interact and support students and families whose cultures, beliefs and lifestyles may differ from their own. Cultural competence is having an awareness of one’s own cultural identity perceptions and views about difference, and the ability to learn and build on the varying cultural and community norms of students and their families (Muñoz and Graybill, 2015). The mere presence of diverse communities on college campuses is not sufficient in promoting positive educational outcomes related to diversity (Museus, 2008). Design/methodology/approach Qualitative survey research was used to assess diversity related professional development needs of pre-service teachers. Students were asked an open-ended question: ‘Please list topics of diversity training that should be offered to students in the college’ After the question, a text box was provided to allow respondents to provide a unique answer. This approach, as opposed to providing a list of predetermined responses to select from gave respondents the freedom to say exactly what they felt should be offered. Findings After analyzing the 163 open-ended responses provided by students six themes emerged. The themes were offering diversity-related professional development in the areas of disability/mental illness, cultural competence/awareness, LGBTQAI+/gender, facilitating conversations about diversity, discrimination and race/ethnicity. Research limitations/implications The sample came from one university; therefore, the results may not be generalizable to other predominantly white universities. Future research should collect data at other universities or the schools within the university system to determine the needs for other campuses. The results of such a study will always be limited in scope but they do describe the needs at the targeted University. The response rate was low, 24 per cent. The reasons for the low response rate are unclear. Other survey techniques, such as mail surveys or face-to-face meetings, may be more successful in obtaining a higher response rate. Practical implications Teacher preparation programs should assess students’ perceptions, knowledge and experiences as it relates to diversity, and survey pre-service teachers to determine gaps in the diversity training currently being offered. Diversity training must be intentional to prepare pre-service teachers to meet the demands of the diverse classroom. Social implications Future research should aim to assess pre-service teachers’ beliefs about diversity throughout the entirety of teacher preparation programs by assessing pre-service teachers in multiple classes and participants who attend independent diversity training opportunities. To address the rapid increase in cultural and ethnic diversity in education worldwide, pre-service programs should target and challenge pre-service teachers’ beliefs to assure equitable education to diverse students. Originality/value The paper that has been submitted is an original research that was conducted by the first author. The first and second authors used manual coding for data analysis.
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Ward, Doriel D., Orsolya Garrison, Chamia Gary, Memory Bacon, and Tim Sobotka. "2468 CTSI 500 Stars Initiative (CTSI of SE-Wisconsin)." Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 2, S1 (June 2018): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2018.201.
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OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Our Goal is to enroll 500 students over 10 years into the CTSI 500 Stars Initiative. Student family members and community members are essential to career achievement and success; as such, the program also engages student families, along with key community members, as part of an Advisory Group, throughout the entire student experience. Besides programmatic and planning activities, students, family, and community members participate in our CTSI Community Engagement Science Café monthly series, where students may also present on a number of research and health-related topics of interest. The Advisory Group meets every 3–4 months in ensuring continuous engagement and overall program success. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Our Initiative takes both direct and supportive roles in offering 2 educational and training pathways; namely, our Summer Internship Program (6–8 wk duration) and our Students Modeling a Research Topic (SMART) Year-round Education Program (usually offered in Fall and Spring academic semesters) for high school students only. In the SMART Teams program, we work with regional public and private school districts to train science teachers, and assist them in developing and/or enhancing their science curriculum, thus creating pathways towards careers in translational science settings. Our aim is that students who participate in the year-round program (along with additional students) subsequently participate in our summer program. Therefore, overall program engagement is continuous throughout the year. In Summer, 2017 we engaged with well-established regional partners and collaborators (CTSI affiliated numerous public school districts, and community-based organizations) to move the translational workforce along existing regional diversity education and training pipelines. A Kick-off event was held on June 15, 2107 and attended by students and family members. We offered 6–8 weeks of hands-on experiences working with faculty researcher mentors and their research teams conducting real-life studies, in addition to professional experiences in research “support” settings, as well as in the community. We also developed established a “Summer” SMART (Students Modeling a Research Topic) Teams Program and a Summer “Advanced” SMART Teams Program, where a number of students were placed at 2 CTSI partner and collaborator institutions. The primary goal of the SMART Teams experience is to introduce students to translational science by building upon laboratory research to better understand clinical and community impact of disease within a patient population. Overall, internship sites included research labs, protein modeling labs, numerous research support settings, clinical care settings, and community sites for those students who were interested in population health sciences. In addition, students were offered career enrichment and professional development lunch and learn sessions, career panel sessions presented by long term, expert professionals in various fields translational science, and confidence building and networking sessions. Students also participated in a community volunteer day activity, a trip to the Chicago Science Museum, and numerous CTSI engagement activities (Science Cafés, simulation lab tours, etc.). RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: The 2018 year-round program will initiate in the Fall. Our 2017 Summer Internship Program received 192 students/trainees applications of whom 133 were underrepresented minorities (URMs). We enrolled 109 participants, including 83 URMs (84 high school students and 25 college students). A total of 53 Wisconsin high schools and 19 colleges and universities (local and out of state) participated. Students engaged in all activities as outlined in the Methods section. At the end of the summer program, students created and presented posters as part of the closing ceremony. Certificates of completion were given to the students by program leadership and the Al Hurvis/ADAMM leadership (program funding agency). Students wore white lab coats to create an atmosphere of cohesion and accomplishment. Parents and other family members attended the closing ceremony, demonstrating strong support for students and the program. Our anticipated results for CTSI 500 Stars Initiative is to increase diversity in the Translational Science Workforce via education and training of 500 high school and college students over 10 years. We will also remain engaged and track student’s various venues for at least 10 years to determine the outcome of their experiences towards careers in Translational Science settings. We will continue to engage community members and community-based organizations as collaborators and advisors to participate in every stage of our activities. Moreover, we plan to broaden our reach by establishing additional relationships with additional high schools and middle schools to further enhance the 500 Stars Initiative. In addition, we will develop metrics by which to measure the validity and success of our program. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: The aim of the CTSI 500 Stars Initiative is to provide real-life, practical experiences in translational science settings as a part of our efforts to train and cultivate the translational science workforce, while also engaging patients, families and community members in every phase of the translational process. Targeting under-represented minority students contributes towards increasing diversity in the workforce. It is also our hope that by increasing URMs in the workforce, there will be positive impact on communities of color, with respect to increasing participation in their health care decision making and in clinical/translational research; thus, ultimately leading to better health outcomes in the communities we live and serve. Our overall framework is to engage, educate, enrich, empower, elevate, enable students towards careers in clinical and translational settings.
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Jávor, Anna. "Johann Lucas Kracker: új kutatási eredmények." Művészettörténeti Értesítő 70, no. 1 (March 17, 2022): 5–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/080.2021.00001.
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The study surveys the investigations carried out since the publication of the author’s Kracker monograph (Budapest, 2004, in German 2005), and rectifies certain data and the oeuvre catalogue in the book at several loci. New findings are mainly contributed by the Czech Republic: Václav Mílek and Tomáš Valeš explored archival data in Nová Riše and Znojmo, which add to the currently elaborated register entries studied in Vienna and to a lesser extent in Jászó (Jasov, SK). The latter shed light on the network of social relations of the known family of artists, and lead – by virtue of Johann Lucas Kracker’s sculptor father and sculptor stepfather – from Johann Lucas Hildebrandt via relatives employed in the court to the circle of the provincial chief architect Franz Anton Pilgram. The painter got married in Znojmo in the summer of 1749, where he settled, presumably helped by his painter brother-in-law many years his senior, Dominic Clausner; perhaps it was he who mediated him to the Premonstratensians. Based on archival data, Tomáš Valeš attributed two upper pictures of the Capuchine high altar to Franz Xaver Karl Palko from among so-far defined Znojmo works of Kracker, while Petr Arijčuk has discovered several ensembles of paintings convincingly attributed to Kracker in the Moravian region. These works display the strong influence of Paul Troger.The Pauline church of pilgrimage at Sasvár (Šaštin, SK) was renovated by favour of the Habsburgs; its fresco decoration was entrusted to Viennese court artists: the figure painter of the composition signed by Joseph Chamant was Joseph Ignaz Mildorfer. In the summer of 1757 Kracker delivered two (signed) altar pictures for the pair of chapels in the middle and, in my view – contradicting somewhat the Mildorfer monograph – decorated their lateral walls in grisaille and on the ceilings of the first pair from the sanctuary he painted frescoes of hovering angels. Portraits by Kracker are also known from this period: the imaginary portrait of King of Hungary Béla IV, preserved by the Fáy family since the suppression of the Premonstratensian monastery in Jászó, has recently been identified by researcher of the family genealogy Tünde Fáy. A fine bust of a Moravian noblewoman signed in 1751 has cropped up in Rome’s art trade.Kracker arrived in Eger from Jászó in the autumn of 1764, only for an occasion. His first job was to decorate the bishop’s private chapel in Eger: the fresco of the resurrected Christ perished in the 19th century. Its only visual trace is a water colour copy signed in 1816 and inscribed by Franz Hauptmann, which was rediscovered after long latency and put on display in 2017 by Petra Köves-Kárai. In 1767 Kracker was working for the Premonstratensians in Geras again from Znojmo: in that year he signed the fresco of the parish church of nearby Japons and decorated that votive chapel at Elsern (the frescoes of the latter perished during reconstructions). Sharing the opinion of Wilhelm Georg Rizzi, the book of 2004 disputed that the presbytery ceiling of Japons was Kracker’s work and thus it was included as the work of Paul Troger in the monograph of the Tirolean painter published in 2012. However, the sources published by Rizzi in 2011 are not convincing enough; the homogeneity of the decoration suggests the authorship of Kracker in all four bays, I think.The largest increment has been added to Kracker’s graphic oeuvre. Thanks to Tamás Szabó, we know increasingly more of the historical provenance of the Szeged collection of drawings, including the key role of a Szeged painter Ferenc Joó’s studies in Eger. He also directed attention to Joó’s friend from Tiszafüred, painter and graphic artist Menyhért Gábriel who also studied in Vienna and copied works in the archiepiscopal gallery in Eger, and to his estate in Debrecen. That latter contains 144 sheets. Amidst the engravings and 19th century drawings the baroque drawings clearly emerge as a separate group, most of which – 12 compositions – proved to be by Kracker. In addition to the first sketch of the Jászó high altar, the St Sophia praedella picture of the St Anne side altar in the Minorite church of Eger can be accurately identified; an Assumption picture is conditionally associated with the high altar picture of 1774 in the parish church of Besztercebánya (Banská Bystrica, SK). No models of the St Augustine and St John Nepumecene drawings are known, and another two sheets together with a sheet in Szeged lead to the altar pictures in the church of Olaszliszka, but they must have been painted after Kracker’s death, in his workshop. A coherent series copied the ceiling fresco of the refectory in the Praemonstratensian monastery of Geras, painted by Troger in 1738. The quality of draughts-manship is outstanding, coming close to the model.Together with the baroque drawings, some old copperplate engravings also got into the museums of Szeged and Debrecen. It cannot be excluded that they can also be traced to Eger and they might have been pieces of Kracker’s collection. No inventory survives of Kracker’s estate but when his pupil Johann Zirkler died, a great amount of drawings and prints were inventoried which he might have inherited from his master. For lack of concrete correspondences this provenance cannot be proven, but in another way – by defining the graphic antecedents to Kracker works – we have compiled a virtual collection of the painter’s models. The revised catalogue of Johann Lucas Kracker’s drawings is appended to the study.
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Bartram, Robin, Japonica Brown-Saracino, and Holly Donovan. "Uncertain Sexualities and the Unusual Woman: Depictions of Jane Addams and Emily Dickinson." Social Problems, January 17, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spz058.
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Abstract How does contemporary society deal with uncertainty about sexualities in the past? We investigate how two museums manage uncertainty about the sexual histories of two female biographical subjects. Contributing to understandings of how cultural institutions handle such uncertainty, and, in particular, how museums depict gender and sexualities, our paper brings together current debates in literatures on queer histories, collective memory, and sexualities and gender. Our observations at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum and the Emily Dickinson Museum reveal that both museums handle uncertainty about their subject’s sexuality by conflating ambiguous sexuality with non-normative gender performance. This conflation results in the depiction of the character of the “unusual woman.” While one museum relies on the “unusual woman” to evade discussions of non-normativity, the other uses the same device to acknowledge and politicize uncertainty. Our research thus reveals institutional depictions of the “unusual woman” even in an era in which many cultural institutions work to frame sexual minorities as “normal” or the “same.” At the same time, our work intervenes in gender and sexualities scholarship by demonstrating that unusualness can be either obfuscatory or provocative; conflations of gender and sexuality are multifaceted and can either reproduce or disrupt normativity.
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Correa Serrano, Manuel, and Macarena Ponce de León. "Sentidos de nación, reflexión pedagógica en el cambio de guion en el Museo Histórico Nacional de Chile." Encounters in Theory and History of Education 21 (November 19, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/encounters.v21i0.14458.
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This article, accompanied by the video of the temporary exhibition of the Museo Histórico Nacional de Chile, MHC (National Historical Museum of Chile), called “Sinopsis, sentidos de nación” (Synopsis, senses of the nation), reflects upon the challenges that a national history museum faces in the 21st century. This museum, created in 1911, still exhibits a story almost exclusively focused on the feat of the Nation-state and groups of power; an urban, male and military history, which ignores the historical character of minorities. Today, this historical construction results in the difficulty that national history museums, such as the Chilean one, have in transforming themselves into spaces for public dialogue about the past. The temporary exhibition of the MHN “Sinopsis, sentidos de nación”, seeks to advance towards new museological proposals that incorporate this reflection. To achieve this, it proposes a temporary journey on the different senses of belonging in the history of Chile. While the video takes us on a tour of the exhibition, this article seeks to clarify the declaration of intention of its museological and museographic approach in educational, narrative and political terms, with the aim of answering pedagogical questions about the role of a museum with a national vocation and historical dedication, as well as to incorporate minorities in an inclusive and intersectional perspective.
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Robinson-Jones, Charlie. "Tension in the linguistic landscape: the implications of language choices for diversity and inclusion in multilingual museums representing minorities." International Journal of Multilingualism, October 19, 2022, 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2022.2135710.
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Seljamaa, Elo-Hanna. "Diversities Claimed, Displayed and Silenced: Encounters at the new Estonian National Museum." Special issue: Culture and Heritage under Construction 51, no. 1 (July 8, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/ee.1903.
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Inspired by Barbro Klein’s research on silences and exclusions in the Swedish folklife sphere, this article explores how diversity is handled at the new Estonian National Museum, which opened in 2016. While its permanent exhibition Encounters makes the bold claim of representing the Estonian territory and its inhabitants from the Stone Age to the present day, a closer look at its contents and design suggests that it does so by repeating, sometimes inadvertently, broader societal silences and stereotypes surrounding ethnic minorities past and present and by sustaining essentialist notions of ethnocultural discreteness. Preference is given to historical minorities already included in the Estonian folklife sphere.
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Bora, Anisa, Grace Choi, Thomonique Moore, Rongwei Tang, and Yiming Zheng. "The ARt of Inequality: A Youth Social Justice Exhibition in Augmented Reality." Current Issues in Comparative Education 23, no. 2 (October 29, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.52214/cice.v23i2.8541.
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The substantive development in the role of augmented reality (AR) technologies in public spaces provides new opportunities for digital arts and arts activism as a means of increasing awareness of critical social issues. However, because of the digital divide and dominant narratives in the museum, there is an existing racial and socioeconomic gap in (digital) art, activism education, and museum curation. In this paper we present a curriculum that aims to empower high-school-aged youth from minoritized backgrounds through art activism in museum spaces via the development and exhibition of augmented reality art pieces that address social justice issues relevant to youth interests and experiences.
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Danto, Anatole, and Léa Pertel. "Ecology of Finnic minority languages: Comparative analysis of post-communist trajectories." Slovo Unlabeled volume, Langues en mouvement :... (June 9, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.46298/slovo.2022.9678.
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Épisciences - Slovo This article aims to compare the trajectories of Finnic minority or dialect languages within the post-communist area of Latvia, Estonia, the Leningrad oblast and the Republic of Karelia. It is based on an interdisciplinary work in social sciences. This study analyzes materials kept in museums or research institutions, but also uses ethnographic survey in the field, in medium-term immersion within communities (native speakers, researchers, NGOs). It focuses on Livonian, Votic, Ingrian, Kihnu and Manilaid, Karelian and Vepsian communities. This study seeks to compare the post-communist evolution of these languages, by examining their vitalities, in both quantitative and qualitative evolutions of speakers, but also in terms of areal evolution, or linguistic policies (such as imposed uniformization and standardization, etc.). Thus, the public policies put in place, and the major changes taking place within them, are exposed, as well as the actions of actors who are invested in defending those languages and dialects. It raises the question of the legitimization of knowledge, with the perspective of the knowledge of these NGOs (and their networking) and the knowledge produced by scientists studying these communities. At the end, a typology of the ecology of these languages is drawn up, making it possible to categorize them and compare them according to different types of trajectories. Cet article analyse comparativement les trajectoires de langues fenniques minoritaires ou dialectales au sein de l’espace postcommuniste constitué de la Lettonie, de l’Estonie, de l’oblast de Leningrad et de la république de Carélie. Il s’appuie sur un travail interdisciplinaire en sciences sociales. Cette étude analyse à la fois des matériaux conservés au sein de musées ou d’institutions de recherche, mais emploie également l’enquête ethnographique de terrain, en immersion de moyenne durée au sein des communautés (locuteurs, chercheurs, ONG). Elle s’intéresse aux communautés lives, votes, ingriennes, de Kihnu et Manilaid, caréliennes et vepses. Elle cherche à mettre en regard l’évolution postcommuniste de ces langues, en s’intéressant à leur vitalité, en termes d’évolutions quantitatives et qualitatives des locuteurs, mais aussi en termes d’évolution aréales ou de politiques linguistiques (uniformisation et standardisation imposées, etc.). Ainsi, sont décryptées les politiques publiques mises en place et les grands changements intervenants en leur sein, mais également les actions d’acteurs investis dans la défense de ces langues et ces dialectes. La question de la légitimation des savoirs est posée, avec la mise en perspective des savoirs de ces ONG (et leurs mises en réseau) et des savoirs produits par les scientifiques étudiant ces communautés. À l’issue, une typologie de l’écologie de ces langues est dressée, permettant de les catégoriser et de les comparer selon différents types de trajectoires. Cтатья посвящена сравнительному анализу траектории развития финно-саамской группы языков (фенических языков) и диалектов на посткоммунистическом пространстве (в Латвии, Эстонии, Ленинградской области и Республике Карелия). Данное исследование является междисциплинарной работой в области общественных наук. В статье анализируются как материалы, хранящиеся в музеях и исследовательских центрах, так и материалы, собранные в ходе полевых этнографических исследований, в частности интервью с представителями коренных сообществ (носителями языка, исследователями, членами общественных организациий). Особое внимание уделяется таким коренным народам, как ливы, водь, ижоры, карелы и вепсы, а также народам с островов Кихну и Манилаид. Целью статьи является сравнение изменений в данных языках, их жизнеспособности с точки зрения количественной и качественной эволюции носителей, а также с точки зрения ареальной эволюции и языковой политики (навязанные унификация и стандартизация и пр.) Отдельное место уделяется изучению проводимой государствами политики и происходящим в ней изменениям, а также действиям людей и огранизаций, занимающихся защитой этих языков и диалектов. Поднимается вопрос о легитимизации информации (и обмену ею благодаря сетевому взаимодействию), поступающей, в частности, от НПО, а также от учёных, изучающих эти сообщества. Результатом работы является составление типологии экологии изучаемых языков, позволяющей классифицировать и сравнить их в соответствии с различными типами траекторий.
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Picciano, Anthony G., and Robert V. Steiner. "Bringing the Real World of Science to Children: A Partnership of the American Museum of Natural History and the City University of New York." Online Learning 12, no. 1 (February 9, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.24059/olj.v12i1.1708.
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Every child has a right to an education. In the United States, the issue is not necessarily about access to a school but access to a quality education. With strict compulsory education laws, more than 50 million students enrolled in primary and secondary schools, and billions of dollars spent annually on public and private education, American children surely have access to buildings and classrooms. However, because of a complex and competitive system of shared policymaking among national, state, and local governments, not all schools are created equal nor are equal education opportunities available for the poor, minorities, and underprivileged. One manifestation of this inequity is the lack of qualified teachers in many urban and rural schools to teach certain subjects such as science, mathematics, and technology.The purpose of this article is to describe a partnership model between two major institutions (The American Museum of Natural History and The City University of New York) and the program designed to improve the way teachers are trained and children are taught and introduced to the world of science. These two institutions have partnered on various projects over the years to expand educational opportunity especially in the teaching of science. One of the more successful projects is Seminars on Science (SoS), an online teacher education and professional development program, that connects teachers across the United States and around the world to cutting-edge research and provides them with powerful classroom resources. This article provides the institutional perspectives, the challenges and the strategies that fostered this partnership.
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Picciano, Anthony G., and Robert V. Steiner. "Bringing the Real World of Science to Children: A Partnership of the American Museum of Natural History and the City University of New York." Online Learning 12, no. 1 (February 7, 2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.24059/olj.v12i1.43.
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Every child has a right to an education. In the United States, the issue is not necessarily about access to a school but access to a quality education. With strict compulsory education laws, more than 50 million students enrolled in primary and secondary schools, and billions of dollars spent annually on public and private education, American children surely have access to buildings and classrooms. However, because of a complex and competitive system of shared policymaking among national, state, and local governments, not all schools are created equal nor are equal education opportunities available for the poor, minorities, and underprivileged. One manifestation of this inequity is the lack of qualified teachers in many urban and rural schools to teach certain subjects such as science, mathematics, and technology. The purpose of this article is to describe a partnership model between two major institutions (The American Museum of Natural History and The City University of New York) and the program designed to improve the way teachers are trained and children are taught and introduced to the world of science. These two institutions have partnered on various projects over the years to expand educational opportunity especially in the teaching of science. One of the more successful projects is Seminars on Science (SoS), an online teacher education and professional development program, that connects teachers across the United States and around the world to cutting-edge research and provides them with powerful classroom resources. This article provides the institutional perspectives, the challenges and the strategies that fostered this partnership.
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Syed Sheriff, Rebecca J., Matti Vuorre, Evgenia Riga, Andrew K. Przybylski, Helen Adams, Catherine J. Harmer, and John R. Geddes. "A co-produced online cultural experience compared to a typical museum website for mental health in people aged 16–24: A proof-of-principle randomised controlled trial." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, September 8, 2022, 000486742211156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674221115648.
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The mental health of young people (YP) is a major public health concern that has worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Whilst engaging with culture and the arts may have mental health benefits there is a dearth of experimental research regarding the impact of online arts and culture on depression and anxiety in YP. In particular online interventions, which may improve accessibility. Objective: We aimed to compare a co-produced online intervention encompassing the diverse human stories behind art and artefacts, named Ways of Being (WoB), with a typical museum website, the Ashmolean (Ash) on negative affect (NA), positive affect (PA) and psychological distress (K10). Methods: In this parallel group RCT, 463 YP aged 16-24 were randomly assigned, 231 to WoB and 232 to Ash. Results: Over the intervention phase (an aggregate score including all post-allocation timepoints to day-five) a group difference was apparent in favour of WoB for NA (WoB-Ash n=448, NA -0.158, p=0.010) but no differences were detected for PA or K10 and differences were not detected at week six. Group differences in NA in favour of WoB were detected in specific subgroups, e.g. ethnic minorities and males. Across participants (from both groups) mean K10 and NA improved between baseline and six weeks despite increased COVID-19 restrictions. Trial recruitment was rapid, retention high and feedback positive with broad geographical, occupational and ethnic diversity. Conclusions: Online engagement with arts and culture has the potential to impact on mental health in a measurable way in YP with high unmet mental health needs.
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Skiles, Jeffrey. "EAA FlightLink 2G." Proceedings of the Wisconsin Space Conference, December 14, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.17307/wsc.v0i0.35.
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Founded over half a century ago in Milwaukee, WI, by a pro-active group of aviators interested in building their own aircraft, the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) has subsequently expanded its mission to include the history, preservation, display, and ongoing research on antiques, classics, warbirds, aerobatic aircraft, ultralights, helicopters, and contemporary manufactured aircraft. Hundreds of thousands of aircraft and aerospace enthusiasts gather each summer for EAA’s AirVenture Oshkosh, the world’s largest aviation event. Each year, AirVenture re-creates and reinforces its founding atmosphere of challenge, excitement and achievement through educational workshops that promote personal initiative and accomplishment, the gathering of hundreds of exhibitors who share state-of-the-art technology related to the science of flight, and the daily airshow that celebrates the attraction, beauty, and skill of flight past, present and future. Ongoing EAA programs and initiatives available to amateurs and professionals alike include the EAA AirVenture Museum, the Young Eagles, SportAir Workshops, Timeless Voices, the Air Academy, and, since 2005, Women Soar. The Experimental Aircraft Association’s programs serve all demographics from school-age children through adults, with an organizational goal of reaching out to those populations under- represented in aviation, including women and minorities.Â
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Skiles, Jeffrey. "EAA Space Week – Lab for Exploring Teachers." Proceedings of the Wisconsin Space Conference, December 14, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.17307/wsc.v0i0.36.
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Founded in 1953 in Milwaukee, WI, by a small group of enthusiastic aviators interested in building their own aircraft, the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) now brings together hundreds of thousands of people each year at the EAA AirVenture, the world’s largest aviation event. This international celebration recreates, on a grand scale, the atmosphere of challenge, anticipation, and accomplishment that inspired its founders. Over the decades, the organization’s mission has expanded to include other aircraft types including antiques, classics, warbirds, aerobatic aircraft, ultralights, helicopters, contemporary manufactured aircraft, and the continuing, expanding frontier of aerospace. AirVenture features educational workshops that promote personal achievement, hundreds of exhibitors who share state-of-the-art technology related to the science of flight, and a daily air show that celebrates the beauty and thrill of flight past, present, and future. Other EAA programs and resources include the EAA AirVenture Museum, the Young Eagles, SportAir Workshops, Timeless Voices, the Air Academy, Women Soar, and Space Week. These EAA programs are designed to serve all ages – from school-age children to adults – with an organizational effort to reach out to those demographic groups that are under-represented in aviation including women and minorities.Â
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Gylling, Sofia Joons. "Estlandssvenskar på Sverigeturné med körsång och ett bondbröllop på Skansen." Musikk og Tradisjon 36 (December 14, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.52145/mot.v36i.2133.
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This article discusses the formation of Estonia-Swedish musical self-images during the interwar period. The question that is raised is what influence the relation between a cultural minority, Estonia-Swedes, and its historical land of origin, Sweden, had on the minority’s image-creation. The case-study analyses the first Sweden tour ever with an Estonia-Swedish music group. The tour consisted of performances both in churches and in the open-air-museum Skansen in Stockholm among a couple of other places. At Skansen, the choir performed the play Ett bondbröllop från Wormsö (A Farmers’ Wedding from Ormsö) that was written specially for the tour. The research material consists of archive material with the musical expressions used on stage, articles in newspapers about the performances and other texts related to the persons and organisations behind the arranging of the tour. Seen as a whole, the tour expresses two cultural belongings: the pan-Swedish and the Estonia-Swedish. Pan-Swedishness focuses on bounds with an imagined pan-Swedish community expressed by spritual and patriotic songs in standard Swedish. Estonia-Swedishness, on the other hand, is based on a revived repertoire of wedding songs and dances from the mid-19th century that expresses uniqueness using a well-known cultural mould – the farmers’ wedding.