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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Political Correctness"”.
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Official Social Studies Curriculum Standards: An Analysis of Southern Political, Cultural, and Historical Contexts
… materials as well as the respondents' view of political correctness within social studies. The author conducted a critical analysis (Apple, 1991, 1993; Apple & Christian-Smith, 1991; Giroux, 1995; Kincheloe, 2006) of the South Carolina social studies of 2005 and 2001, of the survey responses …
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What are they gabbin about?: A relational realist approach to small stories (re)told on Gab
… this paper, I detail many 'small stories' about political correctness, censorship, affirmative action, 'invasions,' and the dissolution of the traditional white, nuclear family that transform into one big story of the so-called '(((communists')))' plot to manufacture a 'white genocide.'
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Rhetoric and Ethics of Free Speech Discourse on Gab
… contextual analysis to examine key exigencies of political correctness, trolling, Constitutional fundamentalism, and the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump; danah boyd’s ethnographic technique of “deep hanging out” to select representative textual samples; and Dana Cloud’s theory of …
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Goodbye to All That Again
… also considers adjustment concerns raised by the political correctness movement, a bar to civilian reintegration unknown by prior generations of veterans. In doing so, the writer hopes to adjust the zeitgeist, a major concern of his practice as detailed in his STATEMENT OF PURPOSE, toward a more …
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Attitudes towards the disabled in destination marketing organizations
… not fully forthcoming because of the issue of "political correctness" in the destination marketing organization. Because of this the issue was raised that it may be difficult in the future to do this kind of research dealing with issues of discrimination toward disabled persons.
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Reading the Culture Wars in the New Academic Novel, 1984-Present
… to engage much more directly with the social and political import of universities and the people who work in them. I argue that an important strand of this development centres on a group of novels that through their depiction of recent developments in academia—the threat of political correctness, …
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The Ha-Ha Holocaust: Exploring Levity Amidst the Ruins and Beyond in Testimony, Literature and Film
… Jewish humour sheds a crude light on the social, political, and historical realities of the Holocaust. Paradoxically, contentiously, doses of levity during this period were very much a reality, and even a psychological necessity. The purpose of my thesis is to explore the historical, social, and …
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Social skin : initiation through the bodily transformation of four South African women : an exploration using documentary photography
… This is not meant as a patronising gesture of political correctness, but as a means of attaining a more complete narrative while at the same time exploring complexities inherent in the play between 'inside' and 'outside' perspectives. My editing of their self-portraits positions me as a curator …
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An investigation into the application of corporate governance principles at selected public enterprises in Namibia
… reversed governance and the relationship between political correctness and corporate governance
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Tempered radicals and porous boundaries: the challenges and complexities of anti-harassment work in Canadian universities
… This shift is underscored by concerns about “political correctness” that arise within institutional communities and the broader social context. Perhaps the most obvious of the changes relates to the shift from a focus on equity and human rights to what is termed the “respectful workplace …
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Amplifying a public's voice : online news readers' comments impact on journalism and its role as the new public space
… to flourish without the constraints of political correctness and within the safe confines of anonymity.
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Forced to teach: teachers negotiating their personal and professional identities when addressing forced marriage in the classroom
… discourses; neutrality, professionalism and political correctness, which are underpinned by emotions. Some teachers suppressed their personal identities to allow their professional identities to prevail. All participants agreed that FM should appear on the national curriculum and, preferably, …
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School Uniform Design Preferences of Uniform Wearers and Terminal Values Attributed to Them
… once traditional values have been abandoned for political correctness. With reports of personal crimes committed on juveniles on school property on the rise, clearly, these shifts away from tradition have trickled down from society at large to the sphere of the public school. Students no longer …
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South African boys in New Zealand: Immigrants' retrospective accounts of adapting to life in a new country during adolescence
… the mass media and politicians are dominated by ‘political correctness’, but fail to focus on the main issue of how newcomers and their children will function in their new location after arrival. Whilst the discourses of assimilation are becoming more pronounced, the question might then …
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Covenantal Ethics: A Living System for Living Systems
… Human ideas like scientific advancement, political correctness, religious pluralism and philosophical relativism have replaced the Church with respect to swaying ethical opinion. However, even within this modern pluralistic society, there are still two dominant ethical forces. They are …
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Towards a philosophy of theatre inspired by Aristotle’s poetics and post-structuralist aesthetics in relation to three South African plays
… psychoanalytically understood personal and political unconscious placed in the ethos – the character on the stage. The aesthetics of tragedy relate to both peripeteia (reversals) and anagnorisis (recognition of responsibility) which occur within an arc of development, crisis and denouement …