Institutional Ideologies Research Articles

The linguistic landscape in China: a case study of Shangri-La ethnic primary school

ABSTRACT In this article, drawing on Gorter & Cenoz’s framework for analysing the functions and quantitative distribution of languages in signage, we explore the linguistic landscape of an ethnic primary school in China. The finding reveals a diverse distribution of languages, encompassing monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual contexts. The creators of the linguistic landscape adhere to various laws, regulations, and policy documents, which in turn reflect institutional ideologies in the linguistic landscape’s purposes and functions. However, the linguistic landscape of the school does not accurately reflect students’ language practices. The study finds that teachers predominantly value Chinese for its perceived importance and utility for students, while students themselves regard Chinese as beautiful, useful, and important, and express a strong desire to learn English. There is widespread support among both teachers and students for the standardised use of Chinese, Tibetan, and English in public signage within the school’s domain. These linguistic landscapes are indicative of a multifaceted interplay between language ideology, language choices, language education and implicit curriculum, making it a representative case study in the educational field. It also mirrors a tenuous link between the translanguaging and linguistic landscape.

Digital opportunities for promotion of multi-door Courthouse concept

The article presents the prospects and new horizons of realization of a multi-door courthouse concept concerning modern digitalization processes. The legal system of contemporary Russia, deprived of several ideological institutions of the Soviet-era past, faced the same problem, which was relevant for the U.S.A. when creating the multi-door courthouse concept. The procedural legislation in force up to October 2019, which provided the possibility of non-judicial forms of protection of rights since the codification of 2002, proved ineffective in creating a worthy alternative to the state judicial procedure for protecting rights. Ground has been established to introduce the multi-door courthouse concept into Russian realities in a new way: a digital multi-door courthouse. This paper analyzes the modern approach to a “multi-door courthouse” in the Russian Federation, addressing its evolution, current issues and future perspectives. To achieve the paper’s aim, the authors used comparative legal analysis to show the development of the concept in different countries and a systemic approach to study the implementation of a “multi-door courthouse” in the Russian Federation.

Epilogue: The traces and tracings of language ideologies

Abstract This epilogue highlights and bundles some major points and perspectives that have been identified in the papers of this special issue and locates them in the wide field of language ideology research. By doing that, the epilogue sets out to sketch major trends in the past, present and (anticipated) future of the research field, thereby showing (sometimes hidden) traditions, achievements and challenges of language ideology research (and related fields). Particularly, the (re-)emerging interest in affectual dimensions, social positioning, institutional ideology brokerage, social inequality, and power, which are at the center of a number of papers each, are being highlighted and discussed. In a historical contextualization, the epilogue furthermore shows how these topics and interests can be traced back in the fields history and even further to long-standing engagements with language ideologies avant la lettre.

The Business of Virtues: The Theological Virtues in the Moral Conception of Commercial Organizations

In her 2006 book, The Bourgeois Virtues, economist and philosopher Deirdre McCloskey argued that what fundamentally drives economic development and growth is not so much government intervention or unrestricted libertinism but a set of “bourgeois virtues” that celebrates classical liberalism while powering the innovation that gave rise to modern economies. Drawing on the seven virtues proposed by St. Thomas Aquinas, McCloskey discusses the ways in which each virtue interfaced with the other six and their critical roles in the history of economic development. This article builds on her insights by making two moves. McCloskey, a skeptic of neo-institutional philosophies, does not consider significantly virtue’s application to commercial organizations. I argue, however, that these ideas do matter to the organization and operation of businesses and similar institutions. In fact, I suggest that the ideology and ethics of institutions function as part of a dialectical conversation between the institutional “ontology” that forms the moral character of its members and those members, who, in turn, (re)form the institution’s ethics. Second, if institutions can embody virtues, how the cardinal virtues—prudentia, temperantia, fortitudo, and iustitia—figure institutionally is not difficult. More challenging is how the theological virtues—love, faith, and hope—which seem to apply to individuals, can apply. Thus, this article argues for how these virtues can be embodied in business organizations, concluding that such a framework allows for a “trinitarian” understanding of the economy as a perichoretic dynamic between the consumer, business organizations, and political/legal structures. In doing so, it criticizes and provides a way out of prevailing political dynamics that often pit individual freedom against institutions.

The Visual Economy of Cultural Consecration

Abstract This article explores the impact of the Nobel Prize on the visual economy of literary culture by analysing how photographic author portraits are used by the Nobel Foundation and the Swedish Academy to construct a visual pantheon of literary laureates. The photographic Nobel pantheon is here conceptualised as a transnational visual construction that has a unique symbolic function in demarcating, homogenising, and essentialising the global literary field. It is argued that the images, together with their use by the consecrating institutions, ‘mythologise’ the author persona as a timeless, supra-national essence rather than presenting the more accurate picture of an historically, nationally, and culturally specific and contingent conception of literature. In analysing the semiotic structures and functions, as well as aesthetic patterns of photographic author portraits in relation to implicit notions of authorship, the article thereby shines a critical light on institutional ideology and its relation to visual culture.

Persecution of the Indonesian Ahmadiyya Congregation through the MUI Fatwa, Tuan Guru, and the Lombok Community

<p>Ahmadiyya has taken refugee in the Transito Dormitory since the end of 2005 and 2010. They tried to return to their homes in West Lombok but drove out by the community. This article will discuss Ahmadiyya, who experienced persecution in Lombok, and the basis for the MUI to issue deviant fatwas against the Ahmadiyya Congregation in 1980 and 2005. The process of the persecution of the Ahmadiyya in Lombok and the influence of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia and Tuan Guru on society are revealed in this study. The theories of Louis Althusser about state ideological institutions, in this case, the Majelis Ulama Indonesia, and Johan Galtung's theory about direct violence perpetrated by the community and indirect violence through the SKB 3 Menteri (Joint Decree of Three Ministers) being operate in this study. The research uses in-depth interviews with Ahmadiyya members in the Mataram Transito Dormitory. This study finds that the MUI Fatwa serves as legitimacy for society in carrying out violence and persecution of the Lombok Ahmadiyya Congregation and the influence of Tuan Guru through their daily life and lectures at the mosque.</p>

Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®

ABSTRACT Drawing on insights from philosophy and theology, we explore the relationship between religion, data and global education policy through an analysis of the career of Sir Michael Barber, widely regarded as an authority on the reform of public services and an influential policy entrepreneur. The analysis provides a novel perspective which illuminates how secularised salvation narratives and apocalyptic symbolism have become more prominent in his work as he rose to become a global actor. The story is entwined with the turn towards New Public Management (NPM) in education, the rise of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs), and the transition from speculative faith to salvation through the ‘science of delivery’. We follow Barber's role in formalising the faith as a secular political theology, and promoting it globally through Delivery Units and the management doctrine of Deliverology®. The analysis closes by reflecting on the practical implications of the movement, which is now woven into the institutional ideologies and reform strategies of major international organisations, agencies and corporations as part of a wider shift towards New Global Management (NGM) in global education governance.

Professional identity struggle and ideology: A qualitative study of residents' experiences.

To enter a profession is to take on a new identity. Professional identity formation can be difficult, with medical learners struggling to adopt professional norms. The role of ideology in medical socialisation may offer insight into these tensions experienced by medical learners. Ideology is the system of ideas and representations that dominates the minds of individuals or social groups and calls individuals into certain ways of being and acting in the world. In this study, we use the concept of ideology to explore residents' experiences with identity struggle during residency. We conducted a qualitative exploration of residents in three specialties at three academic institutions in the United States. Participants engaged in a 1.5-hour session involving a rich picture drawing and one-on-one interview. Interview transcripts were coded and analysed iteratively, with developing themes compared concurrently to newly collected data. We met regularly to develop a theoretical framework to explain findings. We identified three ways that ideology contributed to residents' identity struggle. First was the intensity of work and perceived expectations of perfectionism. Second were tensions between the developing professional identity and pre-existing personal identities. Many residents perceived messages regarding the subjugation of personal identities, including the feeling that being more than physicians was impossible. Third were instances where the imagined professional identity clashed with the reality of medical practice. Many residents described how their ideals misaligned with normative professional ideals, constraining their ability to align their practice and ideals. This study uncovers an ideology that shapes residents' developing professional identity-an ideology that creates struggle as it calls them in impossible, competing or even contradictory ways. As we uncover the hidden ideology of medicine, learners, educators and institutions can play a meaningful role in supporting identity development in medical learners through dismantling and rebuilding its damaging elements.

The Third Reich’s Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas

In The Third Reich’s Elite Schools Helen Roche explores an aspect of the Third Reich’s education system so secretive and selective that even contemporaries were barely aware of its existence. The National Political Education Institutes (or ‘Napola’) were designed to mirror the English public school system with elements borrowed from the Prussian cadet schools and the rigours of ancient Spartan discipline. These forty-four schools—the last opening in April 1944—trained boys from the age of ten through to their Abitur (final school exams), and aspired to produce an elite next generation of leaders for the regime. They were distinct from the well-known attempts to achieve this in the Ordensburgen for adults and the Adolf Hitler Schools set up by the Hitler Youth; these latter, Roche reveals, being deliberate copies of most of the Napola curriculum. Yet Roche makes the claim that where much existing literature has grouped these schools together and branded them ineffectual, the Napolas were instead cohesively organized, well-funded and well-supported ideological institutions and, given their success in training loyal officers, ‘the Nazi dictatorship’s most effective educational experiment’ (p. 425).

El Reglamento General de la Convención Constitucional chilena: entre la retórica del multilingüismo y el monolingüismo hegemónico en la práctica

In this article I analyze the Rules of Procedure of the Chilean Constitutional Convention as a document that promoted a multilingual policy of deliberation and participation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention. I show how this text interacts with the discourses of a number of social actors and with the communicative practices observed in the Convention. I conclude that the rhetoric of multilingualism in the text is insufficient to disrupt the hegemonic monolingualism in the Convention and that it operates, rather, as a type of discursive legitimation of the Convention itself. However, given the political-historical context in which this text emerges, I argue that it has an important symbolic and political-ideological value as a disruptor of the monolingual institutional ideologies in Chile.

Information on refugees in the European Parliament’s virtual press room: A critical analysis

This research offers a critical perspective on the news coverage by the European Parliament’s virtual press room (VPR) of the refugee issue during the European migrant crisis, from 2015 to 2017. Recent social media research has focused on systematizing a theoretical approach to VPRs, but there is a remarkable lack of critical approaches that link news production to the institutional ideologies operating in the news industry. A content analysis is conducted on the characteristics and tone of news articles published by the VPR, followed by a comparison with the European Union’s regulatory framework and actual response to the issue. The research reveals a positive treatment in news coverage of the refugee issue, which suggests an imbalance between the European Union’s institutional news policy on refugees and the weak and fractured response of European organizations when taking action on the issue.

Gray Matters in Institutional Ideology: How Ideological Dilemmas Affect Orthodox Teachers in North American Community Schools

ABSTRACT This paper looked at ideological dilemmas for Orthodox Bible teachers in pluralistic Jewish high schools in North America. A phenomenological approach was used to identify sources of tension and drew on data from 30 semi-structured interviews conducted with teachers of diverse Orthodox affiliations. Findings indicated that teacher tension resulted from inconsistencies in institutional lived and intellectual ideologies, with regard to hiring practices, goals and missions of the school, and curricular and pedagogical autonomy. Tensions were exacerbated by teachers’ outsider status, which caused them to have difficulty interpreting religious, cultural, and social nuances of the school context.

Do Racial and Ethnic Disparities Exist in Management of Pediatric Mandible Fractures? A 30-Year Outcome Analysis.

Mandibular fractures are the most common of pediatric facial fractures. The effect of race on management/outcomes in these injuries has not been previously studied. Given the significant association between race and healthcare outcomes in many other pediatric conditions, an in-depth study of race as related to mandibular fractures in the pediatric patient population is warranted. This was a 30-year retrospective, longitudinal study of pediatric patients who presented to a single institution with mandibular fractures. Patient data were compared between patients of different races and ethnicities. Demographic variables, injury characteristics, and treatment variables were analyzed to find predictors of surgical treatment and posttreatment complications. One hundred ninety-six patients met inclusion criteria, of whom 49.5% were White, 43.9% were Black, 0.0% were Asian, and 6.6% were classified as "other." Black and "other" patients were more likely than their White counterparts to be injured as pedestrians (P = 0.0005). Black patients were also more likely than White patients or "other" patients to be injured by assault than by sports-related injuries or animal-related accidents (P = 0.0004 and P = 0.0018, respectively). Race or ethnicity were not found to be a predictor of receiving surgical treatment (ORIF) or of posttreatment complications. The posttreatment rates for all the complications observed were comparable among all race and ethnic groups. Higher mandible injury severity score (odds ratio [OR], 1.25), condyle fracture (OR, 2.58), and symphysis fracture (OR, 3.20) were positively correlated with receiving ORIF as treatment. Mandible body fracture (OR, 0.36), parasymphyseal fracture (OR, 0.34), bilateral mandible fracture (OR, 0.48), and multiple mandibular fractures (OR, 0.34) were negatively correlated with receiving ORIF as treatment. Only high mandible injury severity score (OR, 1.10) was identified as an independent predictor of posttreatment complications. Lastly, Maryland's transition to an all-payer model in 2014 also had no impact on treatment modality; treatment of fractures among race and ethnicity were not significantly different pre- and post-2014. There is no difference in how patients are treated (surgically vs nonsurgically) and no difference in outcomes for patients based on race at our institution. This could be due to institutional ideology, services provided by a tertiary care center, or simply the more diverse patient population at baseline.

Tussen politiek en zelfpromotie

Between politics and self-promotion. The pro-Boer lantern lectures of Johannes Adam Wormser (1899-1900) The projection lantern played a prominent role in the Second Boer War (1899-1900) as a ‘media war’. In the Netherlands, this technology was widely used to fuel pro-Boer sentiment. Politician and publisher Johan Adam Wormser jr. (1845-1916) can be considered a pioneer in this development. This article poses the question: which rhetorical strategies did Wormser use in his lantern lectures and which purposes did they serve? The answers shed light on the specificity of lantern lectures, as well as pivotal aspects of lantern culture in the Netherlands of the fin-de-siècle. The projection lantern offered involved citizens and mass audiences new opportunities to engage in the visual culture and public debate surrounding the war that were not dictated by the state, ideological institutions, nor by the press or the entertainment economy.

Pre-Columbian cultivation of vegetatively propagated and fruit tree tropical crops in the Atacama Desert

South America is a megadiverse continent that witnessed the domestication, translocation and cultivation of various plant species from seemingly contrasting ecosystems. It was the recipient and supplier of crops brought to and from Mesoamerica (such as maize and cacao, respectively), and Polynesia to where the key staple crop sweet potato was exported. Not every instance of thetrans-ecological expansion of cultivated plants (both domesticated and wild), however, resulted in successful farming. Here, we review the transregional circulation and introduction of five food tropical crops originated in the tropical and humid valleys of the eastern Andes—achira, cassava,ahipa, sweet potato, and pacay—to the hyper-arid coastal valleys of the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, where they have been found in early archeological sites. By means of an evaluation of the contexts of their deposition and supported by direct radiocarbon dating, stable isotopes analyses, and starch grain analysis, we evaluate different hypotheses for explaining their introduction and adaptation to the hyper-arid soils of northern Chile, by societal groups that after the introduction of cultigens still retained a strong dependence on marine hunting, gathering and fishing ways of life based on wide variety of marine coast resources. Many of the studied plants were part of a broader package of introduced goods and technological devices and procedures, linked to food, therapeutic medicine, social and ritual purposes that transformed previous hunter-gatherer social, economic, and ideological institutions. Based on archeological data, we discuss some of the possible socio-ecological processes involved in the development of agricultural landscapes including the adoption of tropical crops originated several hundred kilometers away from the Atacama Desert during the Late Holocene.

Genesis of ideologies through the prism of intensive development of information and communication technologies

The new milestones should be expected with the formation of digital civilization, in the development of all institutions of social relations. Within the mainstream of present study, the authors aim to trace the evolution of ideological institutions, to describe the potential threats and risks for a government institution associated with the introduction of digital technologies resulted in the modern transformation of the value and regulatory foundations of society through the new challenges of digital transformation of international, state-law and social relations. Presently, the two definitions are constituting the concept of ideology. The first one is claiming the “false consciousness” (K. Marx); the second one -“enlightened false consciousness” (P. Sloterdayk). This constructional evolution of the relationship between phenomenology and ideology that is at the center of the study of numerous scholars exists over a century. Along with this story, philosophy itself as a science had been considerably changed. Such a sharp deviation of the various theories of knowledge of the last two centuries was caused exclusively by the practical orientation of ideological consciousness. The present study is focused on the clarification of this urgent for modern political philosophy issues being strongly influenced by the intensive development of information and communication technologies.

Interpretation of Political Inclination in Online Newspapers: An Ideological Disposition through Transitivity Analysis

The language of newspapers depicts the ideology of news institutions. The online alternative Malaysian newspaper, ‘Malaysiakini’, and mainstream online newspaper ‘The New Straits Times (NST)’ had shown different stances through grammatical terms during 100 days of Pakatan Harapan (PH), which leads to uncovering the news institutions’ ideology by observing their past performances and current representation. Norman Fairclough’s (1995) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was employed on hard news reports, which were analyzed with the Halliday Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) tool. ‘Pakatan Harapan (PH)’ as a political party was found as main ‘doer’ in ‘100 days’ performance after winning election 2018 in both newspapers through their linguistic stances, which were collected from 5 (3,334 words) news reports from ‘Malaysiakini’ and 3 (2,478 words) from ‘NST’ based on social actor’s performances on 17th and 18th August 2018. ‘Malaysiakini’ had maintained its neutral stance, while ‘The New Straits Times’ had shifted its stance towards PH in their ruling government.

‘Siento que el inglés esta tumbando mi español’: A transfronteriza child’s embodied critical language awareness

ABSTRACT For many minoritized communities, sustaining or at least holding on to their home language and cultural identity has been a constant uphill battle. Nevertheless, Latina/o/x who speak Spanish, for example, have demonstrated to be linguistically and culturally resilient against hegemonic societal, institutional, political, and monolithic national ideologies. This article explores a single case study of a Latina transfronteriza child’s embodied critical language awareness. Merging Critical Language Awareness and Chicana Feminist Theory, the findings demonstrate how a Latina child makes sense of linguistic hierarchies, language loss, and how she challenges deficit perspectives imposed on her home language by relying on her senses and feelings. The article concludes by offering ways to understand and support critical language awareness with Latina/o/x students that stems from knowledge rooted in the brown body and their lived experience.

Academic writing centres in multilingual settings: Intermediary agents of higher education language policy?

Academic writing centres in non-Anglophone countries navigate language policies that encourage the development of local languages and English within multilingual university settings. These policies entail diverging language ideologies that connect language use to diversification and standardisation aims. Although writing centres are stakeholders in academic language development and therefore participants in the policy process, their role and agency in this process has been neglected. The study explores how writing centre staff perceive their work in relation to university language policies and aims. Data were collected via a nation-wide survey of centres in Sweden and seven focus groups. The results demonstrate that the staff claim agency as language brokers. Institutional ideologies of monolingualism and assessment regimes that value the text product over the learning process provide limitations. The reported practices illuminate the special status of Swedish for English text production, and opportunities for grassroots agency as intermediaries between students, lecturers and policies.

A need to belong: the impact of institutional diversity ideologies on university students’ belonging and interracial interactions

A need to belong: the impact of institutional diversity ideologies on university students’ belonging and interracial interactions