April 4, 2014, 12:40 p.m.,
Groves, T.,
Allgemein.
The success of Spain’s transformation from a dictatorship to a stable democracy has triggered a lively discussion about the factors which contributed to the process. The question of civic participation in Spain’s political transformation has proved highly controversial and I suggest that observing professional domains and their implications for citizen formation processes provides a new way to evaluate the civic contribution to Spain’s democratization. Spanish teachers mobilized in the 1970s around two main issues: their working conditions and pedagogical methods. This article focuses on the implications of their common struggle to articulate, construct and disseminate democratic citizenship. It shows how they contributed to free deliberation, civic involvement and citizen empowerment, aspiring to supplement the concept of citizenship with those of active participation in community organizations, knowledge of governmental procedures, critical assessment of social, political and economic structures and addressing areas of injustice.
Quelle: http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/44/2/263?rss=1
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April 4, 2014, 12:40 p.m.,
Hanlon, G.,
Allgemein.
When the Duke of Parma, Odoardo Farnese, summoned his noble subjects to join his army with a view to joining the French alliance against Spain in 1635, he was gratified by a turnout of astonishingly high proportions. Not nearly enough of them had personal experience of modern war, and so the prince appointed military nobles from much of northern Italy to fill the cadres, alongside the French officers whose contingents on loan from Louis XIII made up a third of the infantry. Unlike Spanish nobles, Odoardo’s subjects were even willing to serve in the ranks, while waiting for their advancement. The two brief campaigns turned out to be a disaster for Odoardo and his subjects. War quickly receded from Parma’s horizon, but the experience reveals that Italy’s aristocrats had not yet consigned their weapons to display cases.
Quelle: http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/44/2/205?rss=1
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April 4, 2014, 12:40 p.m.,
Lyons, M.,
Allgemein.
Although historians of modern literacy acknowledge the presence of ‘scribes’, they leave several questions unanswered: Who had recourse to ‘scribes’? For what specific purposes did delegated writing take place? Who were the ‘scribes’? What was their relationship with authors? In offering some answers, I draw on what we already know about delegated writing in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Europe, supplemented by original research on the writing of ordinary people in the First World War and in the age of mass migration. In identifying the main types of delegated writing – namely, the local notable, the family member or close colleague and the professional writer – I stress the power of the writer. Delegated writing was not a mechanical process of dictation, but a collaborative project, in which the ‘scribe’ deployed stock phrases, censored and gave advice. Calling on a ‘scribe’ inevitably implied a partial surrender of authorial autonomy. In conclusion, I outline ways in which the ‘scribe’ has made a comeback since the late twentieth century.
Quelle: http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/44/2/244?rss=1
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April 4, 2014, 12:40 p.m.,
Kenney, P.,
Allgemein.
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April 4, 2014, 12:40 p.m.,
Verhoeven, G.,
Allgemein.
Files of the local criminal court in Antwerp – the Hoogere Vierschaar – are used in this article to assess the evolution of literacy and numeracy in Antwerp. Both forms of human capital are habitually seen as strongly intertwined, yet our evidence shows that they were not always geared to one another. Literacy did not grow significantly in Antwerp during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while it reached its high-water mark in other European towns. Faced by a severe economic crisis, the local government had to trim down free public education in Sunday schools, while private boarding schools (Duytsche scholen) saw their number of pupils fall abruptly as the recession impoverished a wide swath of society. Numeracy, however, followed a different course. Despite the economic crisis, people's age awareness took a huge leap forward in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as basic arithmetic skills were bound to a more informal, everyday training. Moreover, this idea, that literacy and numeracy were not always geared to each other is buttressed by marked social and gender variations.
Quelle: http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/44/2/223?rss=1
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April 4, 2014, 12:40 p.m.,
Gonthier, U.,
Allgemein.
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April 4, 2014, 12:40 p.m.,
Collis, R.,
Allgemein.
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April 3, 2014, 11:00 p.m.,
New Global Studies,
Allgemein.
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April 3, 2014, 9:59 p.m.,
Susan Snell,
Allgemein.
Providing an overview of poetic contributions by women to the Freemasons’ Magazine, or General and Complete Library, the first English Masonic periodical published between 1793 and 1798, this article identifies an anonymous verse by the poet, Anna Jane Vardill (1781–1852). A member of the Attic Chest literary coterie of Eleanor Anne Porden (1795–1825), Vardill’s poem was set to music and performed by pupils at the Anniversary Concert of the Freemasons’ Royal Cumberland School for Girls in 1797. This poem provides a link for unravelling the ‘her’ stories of the first hundred pupils at the School, established in 1788 by Chevalier Bartholomew Ruspini (c.1728–1813) to assist the daughters of deceased or distressed freemasons in 1788, the present–day Royal Masonic School for Girls. This re-examination of previously overlooked information reveals details about the cultural and personal lives of women included in various printed and archive resources held at the Library and Museum of Freemasonry.
Quelle: https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JRFF/article/view/20849
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April 3, 2014, 9:21 p.m.,
Nicoletta Casano,
Allgemein.
ADORNI Marco, GRECO Giovanni, MONDA Davide (eds), Atti del convegno Massoneria e Risorgimento. Da Bologna per l’Italia (Bologna: Paolo Emilio Persiani Editore, 2012), 114 pp., €16.90, ISBN 978-88-96013-34-2.
Quelle: https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JRFF/article/view/18371
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