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Ambivalent Relationship (ambivalent + relationship)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	75%

Selected Abstracts

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Selecting Textbooks for College-Level Language Programs

FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS, Issue 3 2008
John Angell
Abstract: This article examines the process by which college-level foreign language programs evaluate and select instructional materials for beginning level courses. A review of the relevant literature reveals an ambivalent relationship with textbooks, often the default curriculum for language courses. Despite textbooks' apparent key role in language programs, there is a surprising lack of cohesive recommendations from the field on evaluating and selecting textbooks. Results of an informal survey illustrate how the textbook selection process, individuals involved, and individuals' satisfaction with the selection process varied across programs. Respondents with established selection processes involving more stakeholders tended to be more content with process and selection. The authors conclude that there is a need for greater transparency and a broader professional discussion of this critical matter in language learning and teaching. [source]

Public partnerships, governance and user involvement: a service user perspective

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSUMER STUDIES, Issue 5 2010
Peter Beresford
Abstract This paper explores public partnerships and governance from a service user perspective, drawing both on the author's own involvement in service user organizations and movements and on material associated with and produced by these organizations and movements. It addresses the ambivalent relationship between service user organizations and movements and the idea and practice of ,partnerships', and explores their preference for ideas of ,alliance'. It charts the different approaches to and ideologies underpinning user involvement and their implications for partnership between state and service users and their organizations. It offers a set of components for improving such partnerships as well as highlighting the growing interest of service users' organizations and movements in developing and extending alliances. [source]

Meret Oppenheim , or, These Boots Ain't Made For Walking

ART HISTORY, Issue 3 2001
Edward D. Powers
Meret Oppenheim's point-blank rejection of the sexy sobriquet André Breton conjures up for her fur teacup ,Breakfast in Fur, and again, for her pair of boots , by her simply called Das Paar, but by him Undressing, a war of words more importantly veiling a battle of the sexes. At stake is not only Oppenheim's spectacularly ambivalent relationship to the Freudian theorizing which informs Breton's titles, and in turn, Surrealism far more generally. For even disavowing Freud in word, yet she avows the quintessential stuff of his fetish in deed, or more accurately, in fur and feet. But also at stake is a kind of literalism , an immediate, self-referential quality to the bodily material support of her objects , which both sets them apart from the endlessly metaphorical play of man -made Surrealist objects of these years, and even anticipates contemporary Feminisms. [source]

Negotiating Grit and Glamour: Young Women of Color and the Gentrification of the Lower East Side

CITY & SOCIETY, Issue 2 2007
CAITLIN CAHILL
This paper examines experiences of gentrification from the perspective of young working class women of color who have grown up on the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1980s and 90s. In a participatory action research project entitled "Makes Me Mad: Stereotypes of young urban womyn of color", six young women researchers investigate the relationship between the gentrification of their community, public (mis)representations, and their self-understanding. Focusing on how young women negotiate processes of disinvestment and gentrification, this paper offers insights into how globalization is worked out on the ground and in their everyday lives. Bridging the material and psychological, I explore the socio-spatial constitution of young women's identities as they interpret their experiences growing up on the Lower East Side having to live up both to the grittyness of ghetto life and the glamour of the club, café and boutique life. Drawing connections between the white-washing sweep of gentrification, and socioeconomic disinvestment of their community, the women express a nuanced understanding of neighborhood change. I maintain that we can learn about the contradictions of globalization from these young women's ambivalent relationship with neighborhood change. [source]