Intellectual Agency Research Articles

Civic reasoning depends on transcendent thinking: Implications of adolescent brain development for SEL

Accumulating evidence from developmental social-affective neuroscience and educational research reveals striking affordances for adolescents’ academic, psychosocial and neural development of transcendent thinking—the disposition to integrate concrete, context-specific thinking and emotions into deliberations on the abstract, systems-level, ethical and personal implications of information, ideas, and skills. Here, we highlight the coordinated psychological and neural processes by which adolescents leverage transcendent thinking for civic reasoning. From qualitative field data, we argue that civic reasoning in the context of academic learning supports the coordination of conceptual understanding with intellectual agency, identity and communal orientation, leading youth toward process-oriented, rather than outcome-oriented, approaches to learning. From longitudinal interview and neuroimaging data, we argue that civic reasoning drives developmental coordination among brain networks involved in agency, self-awareness, and consciousness; internal reflection, abstraction and narrative; emotional feelings; memory; executive functioning and attention. These brain changes longitudinally predict resilience, identity development, and wellbeing (Gotlieb et al., 2024b). This transdisciplinary research underscores the power of civic reasoning for adolescents’ healthy development into young adulthood, and the benefits of schooling designed to center civic reasoning and personal reflection. In today’s globalized society, civic reasoning may be among the most important core social-emotional dispositions for youth and community thriving. Impact statementCivic reasoning is among the most important capacities youth must develop to sustain a functioning and equitable democratic society, and hence should be among the central aims of education. New research is demonstrating that adolescents’ dispositions toward civic reasoning, and the emotionally motivated transcendent thinking that undergirds it, are associated with a cascade of beneficial brain and psychosocial developmental effects that extend into young adulthood. Organizing adolescent education around civic reasoning and reflection could provide a powerful opportunity to support youths’ deep scholarly learning and psychosocial development in a coordinated way.

Gender Space and Collaboration Politics: Christine Longford’s The Furies (1933)

ABSTRACT In the context of intersectional gender economies, collaborative genealogies, and hierarchies of (in)visibility in theatre making, this inquiry turns to Christine Longford's little-known play-version The Furies (1933) to explore how gender exclusions, class privileges, and uneven dynamics of spousal joint authorship have historically been overlooked within modern Irish theatre history. By examining the trajectory of her partnership with the Dublin Gate Theatre's male artistic collaborators, i.e., her spouse Edward Longford as well as Hilton Edwards and Micheál Mac Liammóir (also known as The Boys), this study further attends to the ways Christine Longford created a space for herself within an androcentric/queer collective at the backdrop of the European avant-garde and the rise of fascism. Christine Longford's theatre work in 1930s post-independence Ireland countervails resonances about the political economy of intellectual agency in joint writing which make manifest a complex mosaic of uncharted women's spaces, labour, and biographies.

Computational Thinking and The Algebra Project

Through our work to examine mathematical and computational learning in authentic and convivial contexts that requires creativity, imagination, reasoning, and discourse, we have theorized an experiential learning cycle that attends to the development of voice, agency, and identity needed in young people for an earned insurgency—the right to demand change. Our work underscores how the current situation that many students face in classrooms amounts to a type of cognitive segregation that denies these students access to authentic and empowering intellectual agency. By facilitating a process whereby students, using their own creative and imaginative means, intentionally develop a type of ownership over the exploration and application of the mathematical concepts they are being taught, we help students move from simple surface level, syntactic understandings, to deeper semantic learning that is more personally significant and meaningful.

Displacement, women intellectuals and entangled knowledge in the making of global modernity

This article offers a perspective on how the proposed conceptualisation of the idea of displacement can be used to analyse processes of knowledge formation and transformation brought about by the movement of intellectuals in modernity. It develops a theoretical framework that considers the acts of cultural mediation and spatial displacement as key aspects for understanding the structures of knowledge and cultural interpretation produced in the formation of modernity. Making use of historical–sociological tools, it examines biographical information along with the intellectual contributions of two female intellectuals, Flora Tristan (1803–1844) and Nísia Floresta (1810–1855). This contribution seeks to re-address the problem how to understand modernity from a decentred point of view. It procdeds by discussing how the history of modernity and its different cultural manifestations should be analysed with greater attention to practices of mediation and theoretical interpretations as developed by lesser-known intellectuals. Thus, the article also contributes to analysing the agency of women intellectuals in the history of modernity.

Mending the divide: intellectuals and intelligentsia in Ukrainian scholarly discourse

ABSTRACT The manifestation of Russian imperial ambitions in February 2022 caught many around the world by surprise, but Ukrainian scholarly attempts at decolonization had been ongoing for years prior to the invasion. Intellectuals have strived to re-imagine Ukrainian identity beyond the conceptualization of the country in imperial discourse as ‘little Russia’. This paper examines how the phenomenon of the intelligentsia has been re-interpreted, by performing a critical discourse analysis of Ukrainian scholarly discourse on the dichotomy between ‘intellectuals’ and ‘intelligentsia’, a dichotomy previously used by the Soviet Union to juxtapose Western and Soviet academics. The study focuses on scholarship that has been underrepresented in the global science system because its research outputs have been communicated in Ukrainian rather than English. The analysis demonstrates how the scholarly discourse reclaims the agency of Ukrainian intellectuals and challenges the Soviet collectivist understanding of the term ‘intelligentsia’. Ukrainian academics approach the reassessment of colonial legacies critically. They reject the intellectuals–intelligentsia dichotomy by reconciling the two terms to accommodate the identity of Ukrainian scholars who are able to shape their individual purpose through their restored academic freedom and individual agency.

Examining the Presence of Dalit identity in Hindi Cinema

A century of Bombay’s popular cinema has overtly celebrated the upper caste hero on screen. Major genres of Hindi cinema are stuffed with the Hindu-Brahmanical cultural values, social themes and political interests. The caste and question of Untouchability not even figured as the peripheral aspects of the cinema. The narratives revolve around certain abstract upper caste Hindu identities, divorced from the idea that in the actual Hindu social order caste distinctions play a crucial role. Bombay’s popular Hindi cinema though showcased artistic and intellectual agency by representing the problems of urban poor during its ‘Golden Age’ period, however the caste question is visibly ignored. Importantly, the problems of the Untouchables were discussed in the national political spectrum and the new Constitution offered them a new identity and special provisions to facilitate their entry into mainstream civil life, the Hindi cinema of 1950s neglected their concerns and voices under the influence of nationalistsocialist rhetoric. It is only in the neo-liberal era that the cinema industry witnessed the arrival of nuanced Dalit representation on screen.

Officious Aliens: Tatars' Involvement in the Central Asian Revolution, 1919–21

Officious AliensTatars' Involvement in the Central Asian Revolution, 1919–21 Norihiro Naganawa (bio) A gentle wind of the East has brought you, angels.Look upon the sky, stars created the celestial body.Upon your arrival, the Ferghana rubs its head on the ground.You saw, flowers blossomed for you at your every step.You felt, we finally became calm before your compassionate eyes.Thanks to you, we bring our valuable aspirations into being.Not until the heavenly homeland is cleansed of devils,Not until Satan falls silent will we lay down our gunsBefore your eyes newspapers and books, weapons in hands. In the press organ of the Communist Party of Turkestan, the Uzbek poet "Chıghatay" eulogized the First Volga-Tatar Infantry Brigade, which had arrived in the Ferghana Valley in mid-January 1920 to fight the Basmachi, anti-Soviet insurgents.1 This ode sheds light on an unusual node in the establishment of Soviet power in the region, raising questions. Why were Tatars there? Why were Tatar soldiers struggling by means of newspapers and books? How did Tatars themselves see their mission? Were they mere useful pawns of the Bolsheviks who shared the locals' faith? How should we evaluate their relationship with the local population and its native elite? The Tatar Brigade's operations in the Ferghana Valley undermine a canon of Civil War literature, which has developed discretely along the lines of [End Page 63] regions and national republics.2 True, Soviet historians of the Civil War in Central Asia did not fail to mention the Tatar Brigade's praiseworthy role in battles against the Basmachi and the political education of the local population in the Ferghana Valley. But their pivotal concern was to prioritize native titular peoples' alliance and collision with the Soviets, while downplaying any coherent trajectory of the Brigade's mediating operation in Central Asia.3 More recent fundamental works, too, have inherited this line of analysis and narrative. Marco Buttino attributes the Soviets' changing tactics in their struggle with the Basmachi in the Ferghana Valley and their attempt to create a separate Muslim Red Army to a contentious rivalry among native Muslim Communists led by Turar Rysqulov (1894–1938), their Russian "colonial" counterparts in Tashkent, and representatives from Moscow; Tatar units of the Red Army appear in minor, accidental episodes showing them to be dubious elements prone to violence.4 Adeeb Khalid and Hisao Komatsu are no exceptions, either. Of course, their contribution is different, as they manifestly demonstrate the agency of local intellectuals, the Jadids, in fulfilling their own vision of modernity, which had already taken shape under tsarist colonial rule, amid their struggle with another Bolshevik vision of modernity. Although Khalid does mention Tatar agents during the Civil War here and there, their role should be clarified to provide an intricate picture of the natives' early encounter with Bolshevism.5 [End Page 64] This article excavates a hitherto fragmented and underrated layer of the Central Asian revolution. Exploring the Tatar intermediaries' predicaments when they came into contact with the Muslim population in Turkestan and Bukhara, I assess strengths and vulnerabilities in the early Soviets' transmission of power to the fractured empire's borderlands. First, I analyze the Tatar Brigade's struggles and negotiations with the Basmachi to illuminate the profound dilemmas that belied the Brigade's self-presentation as a Bolshevik "civilizer," a view that its political workers strove to impose on both the soldiers and the local population. Second, I show the rise and fall of those individuals from the Tatar Brigade who were involved in the two watersheds of the revolution in Central Asia: the replacement of leadership inside the Communist Party of Turkestan in July and the conquest of the Bukharan Emirate in September 1920. The Tatar rendering of Bolshevik language—such as reinforcement of the class struggle, liberation of the oppressed East from capitalism and imperialism, and self-determination—enabled Tatar agents to recruit indigenous men to the Red Army and to engage in elite politics well enough to harness the Turkestan Party to Moscow's will. Yet once they looked identical to Russian colonialists in the turbulent aftermath of the Bukharan Revolution, the very logic...

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Academic Identity Development of Doctoral Scholars in an Online Writing Group

Aim/Purpose: This study explores how online writing groups facilitate the academic identity development of doctoral scholars. Background: Academic institutions around the world, and especially in developing societies, are demanding increasing amounts of research and publications from their doctoral scholars. The current study used an online writing group to facilitate writing skills development, which bolstered the academic identity development of participating scholars. Academic identity is defined as the becoming and being of an academic scholar, with writing skills as a means of acquiring and performing the status and skills of a scholar. It is reflected in the confidence, contribution, and relationship carried out in writing as a member of the academic community. Methodology: This study utilizes narrative inquiry as a research methodology to capture the experiences of six doctoral scholars from two universities in Nepal. We explore the academic identity of doctoral scholars from a sociocultural perspective, employing unstructured interviews, meeting notes, and entry and exit surveys of the online writing group. Contribution: This article shows how online writing groups offer unique and impactful opportunities for networking, collaboration, and problem-solving, which can significantly enhance their writing abilities and prospects of publication, thereby fostering their intellectual agency and academic identity. Findings: This study reports three findings of the value of online writing groups: addressing gaps in formal education, community as a form of accountability, and virtual community as a platform for identity development. On the final finding of identity development, we identify and discuss four themes from data analysis: growth of self-image as scholars, strengthening of commitment to scholarship, identification of venues for expanding the scope of publication, and enhancement of digital skills. The informal and collaborative nature of online writing support facilitated socially constructivist learning, which was highly conducive to the development of academic identity among emerging scholars. Recommendations for Practitioners: It is recommended that institutions implement and encourage online writing support programs as an effective means of addressing gaps in doctoral education. While this program can fill gaps in the low-resource contexts of developing countries, it can bolster formal mentoring in any context. Recommendation for Researchers: Further research should use large-scale or longitudinal studies to explore how informal, especially online writing support and collaboration, accelerate research and writing skills, scholarly productivity, and overall academic identity formation of doctoral scholars. Impact on Society: As societies around the world accelerate their demand for doctoral degrees and also require research and publications for degree completion, new and creative approaches utilizing emerging technologies could help to fill gaps in curriculum and support systems for their doctoral scholars. Future Research: Future research could expand the scope and take a longitudinal approach for more fine-grained data and developing broader perspectives.

Art, Aura, and Admiration in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Summary Walter Benjamin famously argued that the mass public of the twentieth century would necessarily correlate with a newly politicized art. But the world has changed considerably since Benjamin’s article was written, as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer already were assessing less than a decade later. It is the purpose of this article to examine how the aesthetics of the Frankfurt school, though frequently still invoked, have lost some of their immediate relevance. The anti-establishment phase of the 60s, compounded by a pronounced taste for irony, rendered aura and exhibition outmoded values, while on the other hand, more recently, price escalation in the art market and digitization have made certain of the Frankfurt school arguments more pertinent than ever. Taking as examples Goldsworthy and Kentridge, this essay argues that a deliberate loosening of the artist’s control over both medium and reception displaces the warmed-over religious responses endorsed by Benjamin, positing instead increased intellectual agency on the part of viewers, whose identity as a mass public has become newly complicated.

LİFLİ PAMBIQ ÇİYİDLƏRİNİN KOMBİNƏ EDİLMİŞ “ADAU” ÜSULU İLƏ ÇEŞİDLƏNMƏSİ VƏ SƏPİN MATERİALI İSTEHSALI ÜÇÜN YENİ TEXNOLOGİYALARIN İŞLƏNMƏSİ

The article is devoted to the development of technologies for the production of quality sowing material, which is the main problem of cotton growing, which has a greater share in the agricultural sector, which is the basis of the economy of the republic. For this purpose, a new technology for the production of sowing material was developed as a result of the selection of biologically mature yarns during the combined sorting of fibrous cotton yarns, as well as processing of these yarns by the proposed method, and two positive decisions were made by the Intellectual Property Agency. In addition to the mentioned advantages of the proposed technology, the use of low-percentage starch solution, as well as absorbents with high absorption capacity (zeolite or bentonite) in the country to improve the quality of sowing material in the production of sowing material as a result of processing raw materials. indicates that it has indicators. Key words: fiber, cotton, yarn, combined, sorting, sowing material, production, technology

“I ain’ mad now and I know taint no use to lie”: honesty, anger, and emotional resistance in formerly enslaved women’s 1930s’ testimony

ABSTRACT This article argues that racialized and gendered emotional standards shaped formerly enslaved women’s decisions surrounding speaking honestly about slavery during their interviews in the 1930s. Scholars have demonstrated that Jim Crow racial dynamics impacted on interviewees’ decisions to speak openly, but few have considered the constraining impact of society’s emotional standards. For the three women considered in this article, however, speaking candidly about their memories of slavery was intimately connected with expressing anger about these experiences. Before they gave detailed descriptions of their experiences, they had to consider the constraints white society placed on Black Americans’ expressions of anger, alongside specific restrictions on Black women’s anger when speaking about white violence. When these women made considered decisions to speak more honestly and transgress these emotional standards they, therefore, undertook a form of “emotional resistance” that must be recognized alongside the intellectual agency they displayed.

How Do Language Learning, Teaching, and Transnational Experiences (Re)shape an EFLer’s Identities? A Critical Ethnographic Narrative

Using critical ethnographic narrative as a tool and language socialization as the theoretical stance, the article analyzes excerpts of a language teacher’s life experience and presents findings to join the existing literature. The article indicates that (a) transnational teacher identities develop in a multiple-identity system including identities as an L2 learner, teacher, user, critical thinker, and global citizen; (b) the identity development is not completely staged, but instead recurring; (c) the emergence, formation, and development of the identity system requires translanguaging, transcultural, and transnational capitals, which are accrued through socializing experiences; and (d) critical thinking and intellectual agency work as stimuli to sustain the identity development. The article contributes to the existing literature by presenting a conceptual framework in studying language teacher identities. This article ends up with some advocacy that identity as a pedagogy and tool may provide teacher educators with something innovative and helpful to conduct research in the field.

Loyalist, Dissenter and Cosmopolite: The Sociocultural Origins of a Counter-public Sphere in Colonial Hong Kong

AbstractThis paper surveys the process of discursive contestation by intellectual agents in Hong Kong that fostered a counter-public sphere in China's offshore. In the post-war era, Chinese exiled intellectuals leveraged the colony's geopolitical ambiguity and created a displaced community of loyalists/dissenters that supported independent publishing venues and engaged in the cultural front. By the 1970s, homegrown and left-wing intellectuals had constructed a hybrid identity to articulate their physical proximity to, yet social distance from, the Chinese nation-state, as well as to appropriate their sense of belonging to the city-state, through confronting social injustice. In examining periodicals and interviewing public intellectuals, I propose that this counter-public sphere was defined first by its alternative voice, which contested various official discourses, second by its multifaceted inclusiveness, which accommodated diverse worldviews and subjectivities, and third by its critical platform, which nurtured social activism in undemocratic Chinese societies. I differentiate the permissive conditions that loosened constraints on intellectual agencies from the productive conditions that account for their penetration and diffusion. Habermas's idealized public sphere framework is revisited by bringing in ideational contestation, social configuration and cultural identity.

‘Extended Arm of Reich Foreign Policy’? Literary Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy and the First German PEN Club in the Weimar Republic

This article examines the first German PEN Club (established in 1924) as a semi-formal agent of cultural diplomacy after the First World War. It shows that leading figures in the German PEN negotiated a role in the International PEN which blended PEN's ostensibly non-political literary internationalism with the national interests of the young Weimar Republic. It explores their mutually expedient relationship with the German Foreign Ministry their efforts to influence state cultural diplomacy and their use of the International PEN framework to test alternative visions of international order. The article complicates the notion that PEN was an ‘instrument’ or ‘extended arm’ of foreign policy by underlining the agency of PEN intellectuals and by showing how PEN was part of a wider search for new ways to shape international affairs and find ideological compromise in an era often seen through a dominant lens of confrontation and polarisation.

A Virtue Theoretic Ethics of Intellectual Agency

There is a well-established literature on the ethics of belief. Our beliefs, however, are just one aspect of our intellectual lives with which epistemology should be concerned. I make the case that epistemologists should be concerned with an ethics of intellectual agency rather than the narrower category of ethics of belief. Various species of normativity, epistemic, moral, and so on, that may be relevant to the ethics of belief are laid out. An account adapted from virtue ethics for an ethics that goes beyond the ethics of belief is defended. The main claim advanced here is that we should act as the virtuous agent would characteristically act in the circumstances. This claim is supported with reference to a number of examples, as well as considerations informing virtue ethics. An acknowledged feature of this account is that it provides limited guidance regarding right action in intellectual agency. While the account draws on virtue responsibilism to offer guidance, the case is made that it’s a mistake to think that an account in this area can provide a successful decision procedure.

Интеллектуал мулк объектларига нисбатан мутлақ ҳуқуқларни суд орқали ҳимоя қилиш: миллий ва хорижий тажриба

Мақолада интеллектуал мулк объектларига нисбатан мутлақ ҳуқуқларни суд орқали ҳимоя қилиш борасидаги миллий ва хорижий тажриба ўрганилган. Интеллектуал мулк объектларига нисбатан мутлақ ҳуқуқларни муҳофаза қилиш усуллари ичида суд орқали ҳимоя қилишнинг ўрни ва ўзига хослиги, мазкур масаланинг ҳуқуқий асослари, миллий қонунчилик аҳволи, судловга тааллуқлилиги, бу борадаги суд статистикаси, суд амалиёти ҳамда хорижий давлатлар тажрибаси таҳлил қилинган.
 Бугунги кунда интеллектуал мулк объектлари билан боғлиқ бўлган низоларни ҳал этиш масаласи судлар фаолиятидаги энг долзарб масалалардан бири эканлиги, чунки интеллектуал мулк ҳуқуқларининг бузилиши мавзуси бутун дунёда бўлгани каби Ўзбекистонда ҳам жиддий ижтимоий муаммога айланиб бораётганлиги эътироф этилган ҳолда унинг ижтимоий-иқтисодий ва ҳуқуқий оқибатлари асослаб берилган.
 Жаҳон мамлакатлари тажрибасида интеллектуал мулк объектлари билан боғлиқ ишларнинг судловга тааллуқлилиги масаласи қандай ҳал этилганлигини чуқур таҳлил қилиш асосида интеллектуал мулк объектлари билан боғлиқ низоларни кўришга ихтисослашган алоҳида судларнинг ташкил этилиши низоларни сансалорликларсиз, қисқа муддатларда кўриб чиқилишига ҳамда қонуний, асосли ва адолатли суд қарорлари қабул қилинишига замин яратиши тўғрисида хулосага келинган.
 Мақолада судлар амалиётида интеллектуал мулк билан боғлиқ масалаларни кўриб чиқишда асосан икки тоифадаги муаммо мавжудлиги таъкидланган. Биринчиси, субъектив омиллар билан боғлиқ бўлса, иккинчиси, объектив қийинчилар эканлиги кўрсатилган. Субъектив муаммолар қаторида судларда мазкур тоифадаги ишларнинг барчасини ҳам кўриб ҳал этиш бўйича тажрибанинг мавжуд эмаслиги айтилган. Объектив омиллар сифатида судлар томонидан ушбу тоифадаги ишларни кўриб чиқишда муайян ҳуқуқий асоснинг мавжуд эмаслиги ёхуд тегишли қонун ҳужжатларининг лозим даражада такомиллашмаганлиги, шу боис, бу борада ягона суд амалиётининг шаклланмаганлиги эътироф этилган.
 Бозор иқтисодиётига асосланган ижтимоий муносабатларнинг тобора ривожланиши, интеллектуал мулкнинг давлат ва жамият ҳаётидаги аҳамияти ва ўрнининг кескин ошиб бораётганлиги Ўзбекистонда ҳам ителлектуал мулк билан боғлиқ низоларни кўриб чиқишга ихтисослашган судларни ташкил этиш заруратини келтириб чиқараётганлиги ҳақида хулоса қилинган. Шу сабабли, Ўзбекистон Республикаси Олий судида интеллектуал мулк билан боғлиқ низоларни кўришга ихтисослашган судлов ҳайъатини ташкил этиш мақсадга мувофиқлиги асосланган. Шунингдек, Ўзбекистон Республикаси Судьялар олий кенгаши ҳузуридаги Судьялар олий мактабида судьяларни интеллектуал мулк ҳуқуқига доир низоларни кўриш бўйича қайта тайёрлаш ва малакаларини ошириш тизимини йўлга қўйиш ҳамда бу борада Бутунжаҳон интеллектуал мулк ташкилоти ва Интеллектуал мулк агентлиги билан ҳамкорликни ривожлантириш лозимлиги таъкидланган.
 Қиёсий тадқиқот усуллари асосида Ўзбекистон Республикасининг Фуқаролик процессуал кодекси, Иқтисодий процессуал кодекси, Маъмурий суд ишларини юритиш тўғрисидаги кодексига интеллектул мулк ҳуқуқига оид низоларни судда кўришнинг ўзига хос хусусиятларини акс эттирувчи нормаларни жамлаган боб киритиш, ушбу бобда даъво аризалари, аризалар, шикоятларга қўйиладиган талаблар, судга мурожаат қилиш муддатлари ва уларни кўриб чиқишнинг процессуал муддатлари, бу турдаги ишларни кўришнинг бошқа тоифадаги ишлардан фарқли бўлган жиҳатларини ёритиб берувчи барча ҳолатларни ифодаловчи нормаларни назарда тутиш, интеллектуал мулк ҳуқуқи соҳасидаги маъмурий ҳуқуқбузарликлар учун маъмурий жавобгарликни, шунингдек интеллектуал мулк объектларидан ноқонуний фойдаланганлик учун жиноий жавобгарликни кучайтириш масалаларини ҳам кўриб чиқиш зарурлиги исботлаб берилган.

Ferramentas moleculares no melhoramento genético de Megathyrsus maximus para o semiárido: uma revisão

A necessidade de ter alimentos à disposição do rebanho, ao longo do ano, gera esforços para desenvolver métodos e técnicas para adaptar forrageiras tropicais a regiões com déficit hídrico. Nessa perspectiva, o objetivo desta investigação foi realizar uma revisão de literatura sobre gramíneas forrageiras da espécie Megathyrsus maximus e ferramentas moleculares para seu melhoramento, tendo em vista a capacidade de adaptação da espécie ao ambiente semiárido brasileiro. Para tanto, obtiveram-se informações por meio de publicações em base de dados nacionais e internacionais, base de dados de patrimônio intelectual e agências detentoras de proteção de cultivar. Os resultados alcançados foram favoráveis, quanto às características, ao potencial produtivo e à capacidade de resiliência das forrageiras do gênero Megathyrsus. Sugerem-se estudos no sentido de selecionar espécies com potencial de alta tolerância ao déficit hídrico, por meio da adaptação, persistência e elevada produção de massa, auxiliado por marcadores moleculares para complementar e otimizar as informações agronômicas que levam em consideração a relação clima-solo-planta.

The Value of Teaching Critical Race Theory in Prison Spaces: Centering Students’ Voices in Pedagogy

This paper seeks to address the value of a humanities-based education, specifically focusing on a critical race theory course taught within a prison classroom. The perspectives shared are from three incarcerated students as well as their course instructor regarding the continued debate over whether vocational or academic courses are more beneficial in prison spaces. The case for vocational training has always been supported. Yet, the value of academic courses for incarcerated students, particularly within the humanities, is still questioned. Thus, this paper nuances and explains the value of a humanities-based course within a carceral setting. The voices and experiences of the three incarcerated co-authors are centered in providing the rationale for what courses like critical race theory can offer them besides just a basic focus on rehabilitation or recidivism. From their experiences with course material and discussions, a case is made that the intellectual and personal agency gained from humanity-based courses are both meaningful and relevant for incarcerated students.