Cultural-historical Perspective Research Articles

Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936 by Ricky W. Law

Reviewed by: Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936 by Ricky W. Law Ken Ishida (bio) Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936. By Ricky W. Law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019. xvi, 343 pages. $120.00, cloth; $28.99, paper; $24.00, E-book. Ricky Law's new book has two unique characteristics. First, the author assumes there existed civil societies in both Japan and Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. Second, he uses a symmetrical approach as a basis for comparison and contrast. Many scholars engaged in the history of cultural intercourse often analyze processes of negotiation or points of contact between two countries. However, this author focuses on the sociopolitical and intellectual milieu of each society. The book has two parts. Part 1 contains chapters 1 to 4 which are concerned with the narratives of Germany in Japanese newspapers, lectures and pamphlets, nonfiction, and language textbooks. In part 2, chapters 5 to 8 cover the public utterances of views on Japan in German newspapers, films, nonfiction, and voluntary associations. The two parts consist of 136 pages and 128 pages, respectively. The parallel analysis of the cultural tendencies in both countries highlights their differences. As the author considers transnational Nazism to be an ideological outlook, his stated objective is to write "an ideologically and culturally contextualized history" (p. 10) instead of describing short-term power politics or relying on generalized structural history. Hence, the book deals with the rhetoric and imagery which influenced the popular views in Taisho Japan and Weimar Germany. In connection with learning from Germany in the 1920s, "admiration for Nazi Germany without necessarily advocating the Nazification of Japan" (p. 128) took place in the 1930s. In addition, the author's cultural-historical perspective emphasizes the ideological background of the German-Japanese entente, which led to the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1936. In order to situate specific events such as the Sino-Japanese conflict and the Nazi seizure of power within an intellectual milieu, Law tries to pay balanced attention to the reciprocal interest or indifference of both nations. Ironically, the book suggests that the influence was quite one-sided from Germany to Japan; however, its comparative analysis putting the two countries on equal footing brings into relief the asymmetrical trend of their foreign relations more clearly (pp. 17, 301). Since the book underlines public discourse in Japan and Germany rather than diplomatic negotiations or plain propaganda, its readers can find valuable peculiarities in each country, which have been ignored in previous [End Page 220] historiography. For example, the existence of personality cults in Japanese journalism is revealed in articles reporting even trivia related to the ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II, as well as Paul von Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler (p. 35). Moreover, the Japanese papers strongly opposed prosecution of the German emperor and still considered Hitler's putsch in 1923 as a monarchist plot (p. 40). Furthermore, almost every Japanese language textbook contains the phrase "Long Live the Kaiser" in German (p. 154). In contrast to the Japanese personality-driven style, the German press amplified common stereotypes of traditional Japan. The chapters suggest that despite the progress of technology, democracy, and internationalism during the Taisho and Weimar periods, narratives in the two countries did not change their basic positions but shifted in the 1920s from political and economic topics to social and cultural ones. During the Nazi period, the image of Japan as a powerful modern state distinct from the "Asiatics" supplanted the anthropological accounts of missionaries and travelers (p. 203). From the viewpoint of social history, Transnational Nazism is also informative and interesting. The development of communication tools such as the return to the regular operation of the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1927, the arrival of the airship Graf Zeppelin in Japan in 1929, and a two-way radio broadcast in 1933 accelerated the cultural exchanges between Japan and Germany. Every chapter gives us helpful facts, such as how much such infrastructure cost, how deep the influence of the media was in both countries, and what kind of prejudices were revealed in their reciprocal public images (pp. 42–47, 57, 110, 199, 212–17). The book...

‘We make stories one meter long’: children’s participation and meaningful mathematical learning in Early Childhood Education

By taking a cultural-historical perspective, the present case study put participatory pedagogies into practice for early mathematical learning and sought to delve into children’s emerging mathematising and the teacher’s role who attentively follows children’s initiatives. Drawing on a series of selected critical incidents that evolved as the children of a kindergarten classroom engaged with the investigation of linear measuring tools, we analysed both children’s mathematising processes and teacher’s responsive and mediational acts aiming to promote young learners’ mathematical thinking. With respect to children, the analysis demonstrated how through a series of ongoing mathematising processes, they elaborated and gradually developed key measurement concepts. Regarding the teacher's role, it was found that children’s emerging mathematising was supported by five lines of action enacted by her: (a) documenting thoroughly children’s actions, (b) posing challenging or clarifying questions, (c) introducing activities to the plenary as a response to children’s actions, (d) motivating children to ask their classmates for help, and (e) creating connections between children’s funds of knowledge and key mathematical ideas.

Teoría de la subjetividad y psicoterapia: Una propuesta desde la Perspectiva Histórico Cultural

En este artículo se discute el valor de la teoría de la subjetividad, desde la Perspectiva Histórico Cultural (PHC), para el campo de la psicología clínica y la psicoterapia. Para esta discusión se explora cómo la traducción y difusión de la obra de Vygotsky en Occidente se vio afectada por diversos factores históricos e ideológicos que impidieron que la PHC se extendiera al campo de la psicología clínica. Además, se discute la propuesta teórica de la subjetividad, la psicoterapia y la Epistemología Cualitativa que elaboró González Rey como una alternativa para generar un puente entre la PHC y la psicología clínica. Al final se discuten aspectos que deben elaborarse en la propuesta de González Rey en su implementación en el campo clínico.

Sentidos subjetivos de pacientes idosos na hemodiálise

Muitos idosos com Doença Renal Crônica (DRC) são submetidos à hemodiálise. O tratamento acarreta modificações no cotidiano, além daquelas vividas na velhice. O objetivo do estudo foi analisar como a vivência com a DRC interfere nos sentidos subjetivos produzidos pelos idosos em hemodiálise. O estudo, de abordagem qualitativa, foi realizado com 10 idosos em hemodiálise num hospital universitário. Os instrumentos utilizados foram: questionário sociodemográfico/clínico e entrevista semiestruturada. Os referenciais, metodológico e teórico, foram: a Análise de Conteúdo de Bardin e a perspectiva cultural-histórica de Gonzalez Rey. Os idosos tinham entre 60 e 83 anos: feminino (sete) e masculino (três); tempo de hemodiálise entre um ano e meio e 30 anos. Os aspectos sociodemográficos e clínicos demonstraram: a dependência do suporte familiar e a presença de comorbidades prévias à DRC. Categorias temáticas: Tratamento hemodialítico: sentidos subjetivos ambivalentes; Enfrentamento de contexto vivido: suporte familiar e espiritualidade; O “ser velho”. A vivência com a DRC interferiu na produção de sentidos subjetivos dos idosos em hemodiálise através das repercussões no cotidiano, modificando os papeis sociais e os planejamentos para a vida, bem como acarretou sentimentos ambivalentes em torno do tratamento e sobre eles próprios.

보타사 마애보살좌상과 제석신앙의 문화사적 고찰

보타사 마애보살좌상과 제석신앙의 문화사적 고찰

Enhancing inclusion through the collective activity of collaboration: a cultural historical activity theory perspective

ABSTRACT This research study focuses on how teachers experience, negotiate and resolve tensions through the collaboration with other teachers and members of staff and the factors which may influence, support or undermine their role as inclusive teachers. For the purposes of this study, we drew upon Cultural Historical Activity Theory framework to examine the interconnectedness of the factors that may influence teachers’ collaborative activities. We used Cyprus as our case study to explore the collective activity of collaboration (or lack of) between teachers and other members of staff in the school system. Research data revealed that teachers are increasingly aware of the value the collaboration with other teachers as a means to achieve inclusion more successfully. However, a number of factors including professional factors and contextual factors such as increased workload, lack of additional personnel in classrooms, curriculum demands and home-school relationship were found to create tensions in the activity of collaboration and consequently to affect the implementation of inclusion in the school system.

Cultivating a Self-Centered Sociality?

Abstract The present study uses texting interactions from different digital contexts to reconstruct the structural features of everyday digital interaction between young people in order to examine the socializing tendencies of growing up in the digital age. Secondly, it will be reflected which of these characteristics is cultivated by the structure of the digital communication platforms, that is, stimulated and encouraged by the architecture of the platforms. Third, in order to further differentiate this question, it is considered in a cultural-historical perspective which technically cultured structures of interaction build on and promote long-lasting cultural tendencies. Finally, all three focuses on the impact of these interaction structures and tendencies on the experience, attitude and development of adolescents.

Understanding the complexity of young children's learning and development in science: A twofold methodological model building on constructivist and cultural-historical strengths

Abstract Young children's learning and development in Science is a complex process. Although a wide range of epistemological, theoretical and methodological frameworks have informed research in Early Childhood Science Education, capturing this complexity remains a challenge. New ways of conceptualizing and researching young children's engagement with Science are needed for responding to this fundamental challenge. The present study brings together the strengths of constructivist and cultural-historical research perspectives to provide deeper insight and a holistic understanding of the unique way young children experience, make sense of, and conceptualize the natural world. In line with the two basic research approaches, a twofold methodological model is introduced. Empirical data were collected in an early childhood setting during a collective science experience centred on the natural phenomenon of cloud formation. Following a constructivist perspective, the data on children's conceptual understanding of the phenomenon was initially analysed. Then, the same data set was analysed from a cultural-historical perspective. In this second step, the children's whole experience of the phenomenon was also captured. Findings reveal the critical role of the children's overall reality in the science concept formation. The study argues that a dialectical interrelation between the two research perspectives is feasible and essential for understanding children's conceptualizations in the moment, as well as how science concepts are formed in the overall reality of everyday life. This adds to the literature on Early Childhood Science Education, where studies have primarily focused on dividing, rather than bringing together the strengths of the two perspectives. The study contributes to the continual challenge of rethinking and overcoming traditional dichotomies in educational research.

O periódico O Estandarte enquanto veículo de educação presbiteriana entre os anos de 1893 e 1903

O objetivo do presente trabalho é o estudo d’O Estandarte enquanto veículo de educação da Igreja Presbiteriana entre 1893 e 1903. É importante observar que 1893 foi o ano de fundação do periódico e que 1903, por divergências das mais variadas possíveis, houve um cisma no presbiterianismo brasileiro e O Estandarte passou a ser dirigido pela nova denominação que nascia com aquela divisão: Igreja Presbiteriana Independente. A metodologia utilizada na pesquisa tem caráter qualitativo, na qual selecionamos as propostas educacionais presentes no periódico em questão. Além disso, leituras de uma bibliografia especializada nos ajudam nas análises das fontes, bem como no entendimento da mentalidade evangélica nacional entre o final do século XIX e o início do século XX. Temos encontrado discussões relativas a instituições, a moralidade, a teologia e a política. Em todos os casos, os redatores exortavam os leitores a adotarem as posturas indicadas nos artigos que eram publicados. Entendemos que naquelas publicações estavam presentes propostas educacionais de forma direta ou indireta. Concluímos que o referido periódico serviu como um educador para os que a ele tinha acesso, em um período de transformações políticas e sociais no Brasil, no qual os presbiterianos buscavam angariar adeptos entre os diversos setores da sociedade objetivando, dessa forma, consolidar seu projeto de expansão no país. Acreditamos que a temática aqui abordada pode contribuir com as discussões relativas à educação protestante dentro da perspectiva da História Cultural.

A apropriação de conceitos metafísicos por alunos surdos

A metafísica, assim como as demais disciplinas filosóficas, demanda capacidade de abstração. No ensino da metafísica para surdos, duas questões devem ser elencadas: a limitação auditiva, que dificulta o acesso direto aos conceitos e a interpretação do Tradutor e Intérprete de Língua de Sinais/Língua Portuguesa ou do professor, pois podem ocorrer equívocos na interpretação da Língua Portuguesa para a Libras ou, ainda, na recepção do aluno surdo, por falta de domínio da Língua de Sinais. Dessa forma, indaga-se: seria possível desenvolver um modelo de interpretação dos conteúdos de metafísica para os surdos? Sob a perspectiva histórico-cultural, realizou-se um estudo de abordagem bibliográfica, com apresentação de proposta pedagógica, observando-se que o surdo pode se apropriar dos conceitos metafísicos ao utilizar associações.

Mosaic Landscape Structures in Relation to the Land Use of Nitra District

Abstract Mosaic landscape structures with traditional forms of land use are currently the most important landscape features, especially from the point of landscape and cultural-historical perspective. Their typical features are the alternation of the areas of narrow-field fields, meadow vegetation and permanent cultures, especially vineyards and orchards. Their presence in the territory is mainly related to the rich vineyard and fruit-growing tradition. On the territory of the Nitra district, we record the most extensive mosaic landscape structures from the south to the north-eastern part. These are heterogeneous units, typical of the rotation of small-area land management, scattered by non-woody vegetation and habitat. In the mosaic landscape structures, we also find elements of the traditional settlement architecture of the houses ‘hajloch’. Significant landscape elements in the form of mosaic structures survive thanks to the rich viniculture tradition. In the long run, however, there are changes in their use: they are often the subject of inheritance, they are converted into holiday homes or they are used for the needs of an expanding residential development. The aim of our study is to point out the dynamic and changes that occurred in the mosaic landscape structures between the two-time horizons (the 50s of the 20th century and the present). For this purpose, we use geospatial analysis to evaluate their area representation, spatial characteristics in relation to the surrounding settlement structure and selected properties of relief forms. The analysis and evaluation of the spatial diversity of mosaic landscape structures as important landscape elements play a significant role in protecting the natural and cultural heritage values of the area from the aspect of species diversity and rich gene pool, visual perception of the landscape, preservation of ecological stability of landscape, landscape potential and overall landscape diversity.

A Educação do Campo nos Simpósios Nacionais de Ensino de Física (1999-2019)

Este trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar e discutir os resultados de uma revisão de literatura em trabalhos que estão na confluência entre o Ensino de Física e a Educação do Campo, apresentados nos Simpósios Nacionais de Ensino de Física entre 1999 e 2019. Para a revisão foi adotado o Modelo Sistemático para Pesquisas em Bancos de Dados com Acesso Livre para a Revisão Sistemática de Literatura. Os resultados mostraram que o diálogo entre o Ensino de Física e a Educação do Campo foi iniciado, mas ainda está em estágio preliminar, com relativamente poucos trabalhos publicados. O panorama da produção acadêmica analisada revela a predominância de estudos na Educação Básica, na Região Nordeste, em instituições e cursos que adotam a Pedagogia da Alternância, privilegiando a perspectiva freireana e histórico-cultural, com destaque para a Etnofísica.

Learning to teach across the boundary: A cultural historical activity theory perspective on a university-school partnership in Vietnam

Featuring a fundamental component in initial teacher education (ITE), the practicum also presents pre-service teachers (PSTs) with challenges arising in the process of crossing the boundary between the university and school. This paper draws on the Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) to analyse case study data on a university-school partnership in Vietnam. Findings reveal a ‘separatist’ partnership, characterised by marked division of labour, and insufficient communication between the partners. In light of CHAT, the paper offers a renewed understanding of partnership, whereby contradictions are viewed as valuable for learning as consistent ideas and values held by the partners.

A mulher e o cigarro: representações de feminilidade nos anos 1920

O presente trabalho visa à investigação do hábito tabagista de mulheres noinício do século XX, entre as décadas de 1910 e 1920, como prisma privilegiado para vislumbrarformas de elaboração da feminilidade. Sob uma perspectiva da História Cultural,a observação da utilização do cigarro pelas mulheres é capaz de descortinar aspectos importantesdo processo de transformação do feminino, evidenciando o balanço entre antigoscódigos morais e o desejo de liberdade e a equiparação de gêneros. Em um períodode aceleração da vida metropolitana, a disseminação de práticas até então condenadassocialmente provoca reflexões acerca da construção do arquétipo da “mulher moderna” eseu papel social em meio ao incremento do consumo, da industrialização e da comunicaçãode massa.

Cattle Plague and Society

This article presents the findings of a study showing that rinderpest and anthrax were rife among cattle in eighteenth century Sweden and Finland. These diseases, which caused a widespread loss of animals, were the scourge of owners, medical practitioners and the authorities alike. The study also shows that the epizootic legislation and disease control that evolved at government level was influenced by the particular characteristics of rinderpest and anthrax. Previous research has identified the endemic nature of rinderpest and its far-reaching consequences for society. Yet major outbreaks of anthrax, and the degree to which the disease influenced the development of State epizootic control, were previously unknown. The study uses the perspectives of cultural history and the history of veterinary medicine, a wide range of historical sources, and a method of text analysis for making retrospective diagnoses.
 In this article the findings are compared with the results of studies of eighteenth century cattle disease and epizootic control in other European countries. Similarities and differences in theoretical perspectives and research methods are identified. Here the use of retrospective diagnosis in the history of veterinary medicine is discussed in particular.

THE UNIQUE SYMBOLISM OF CHINESE AND WESTERN CULTURAL COLOUR WORDS (USING PLACE NAMES AS AN EXAMPLE)

The vocabulary of colors in different regions has quite different cultural connotations. The symbolism of colors also differs greatly in the cultural connotations expressed by the East and the West, due to the differences between the East and the West in terms of cultural historical background and aesthetic perspective. The symbolic meanings of different countries, nations and regions are expressed through their respective national languages, and these symbolic meanings form an important part of the worship, taboos which with color expressions of each nation. In place names, these meanings are also reflected.

근대 일본의 그림엽서 문화사 담론

근대 일본의 그림엽서 문화사 담론

Sociocultural evolution of feminine ideal in the works of I. S. Turgenev

The subject of this research is the feminine ideal in the works of I. S. Turgenev. The object is the female images depicted by the Russian writer, mostly of noble descent. The author examines the external traits, behavioral patterns, women’s social roles, as well as traces the changes in these categories over time. Special attention is given to the critical revolutionary time, since many transformation of the feminine ideal took place under its influence: in prerevolutionary time, woman is a caring mother, obedient and faithful wife, while in revolutionary period – a like-minded person, the master of her life. The main conclusions consist in observation of changes in feminine ideal, achieved through determination and comparison of particular categories of the ideal female image in sociocultural aspect during the indicated historical period of Turgenev’s works. The author’s special contribution consists in systematicity of presented information in accordance with the historical methods. Application of comparative analysis allows tracing the transformation of feminine ideal unfolding in the Russian culture of 1830’s – 1970’s, based on the example of literary images of the heroines in works of the Russian writer I. S. Turgenev from historical-cultural perspective. The research results are primary within the framework of studying transformations of woman’s image as a construct of Russian culture, and are valuable for further research on the topic of social transformations of a woman.

Guidelines-on-the-use-of-teaching-materials-for-teaching-fractions-in-the-brazilian-primary-course-1930-1970

The present study, conducted from the perspective of cultural history (Certeau, 1982; Chartier, 1990; Chervel, 1990; Julia 2001)), aims to investigate guidelines for the use of teaching materials to teach fractions in the primary school, present in pedagogical manuals of the period from 1930 to 1970. The research is based in references such as Hofstetter and Schneuwly (2017) - professional knowledge; Valente (2016, 2019) - history of mathematical education; Carrillo Gallego and Sanchez Jimenez (2012) - teaching materials. The analysis of these references revealed that the authors of the selected manuals, Campos (1933), Albuquerque (1958), and Porto (1967, 1968), excelled in working with professional knowledge to teach fractions, when using didactic materials before reaching abstraction. When providing guidelines for the use of teaching materials for the teaching of fractions, in tune with the principles of the New Renovated School, the examined manuals make use of training and teaching knowledge linked to children interests and understanding. Thus, the research concluded that in this sense, the analyses show that the transformation of knowledge to teach fractions occurs when the use of manipulative didactic materials decreases and the use of graphs, diagrams, equivalence tables arises from Scientific Pedagogy, in the field of Psychology, in the field of Psychology Experimental, as indicated by the pedagogical manuals of Irene de Albuquerque and Rizza de Araujo Porto.

Vivencias de las mujeres egresadas del Programa de Posgrado en Tecnología y Sociedad (PPGTE) de la Universidad Tecnológica Federal del Paraná (UTFPR)

Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo evaluar si aspectos de género interfieren en las trayectorias académicas. El refe-rencial teórico-epistemológico del estudio ha sido el histó-rico-cultural, para analizar distinciones existentes para las mujeres en el ejercicio de actividades investigativas. El método de investigación cualitativo fue de particular relevancia para analizar si existía una disolución de viejas desigualdades sociales dentro de la diversidad del ambiente académico. Como instrumento de investigación se utilizó la entrevista abierta, realizada a cinco mujeres egresadas del programa, tres de la maestría y dos del doctorado. El análisis de las narrativas permitió constatar que la carrera académica es una de las pocas alternativas en que la mujer puede trabajar y estudiar al mismo tiempo. En contraste, la asunción de múltiples papeles sociales y el esfuerzo emprendido para conciliar jornadas dobles de trabajo, y la falta de apoyo familiar y financiero para los estudios son vistos como obstáculos para la formación. Asimismo, las narrativas permitieron visibilizar un conjunto de “barreras” para seguir la carrera científica, que se refieren a: doble jornada de trabajo, maternidad, productividad en investi-gación, competencia, prejuicio y discriminación de género; de esta manera se reafirma la necesidad de desarrollar políticas públicas para ampliar no solo el acceso, sino la permanencia de las mujeres en la universidad.