By way of a case study on the regulatory role of owners and managers of brothels and rented rooms for prostitution, this study focuses on the strategies deployed by a municipality to govern these intermediaries. The analysis is based on a typology of responsibilization distinguishing between who the responsible should govern (themselves or others) and forms of power (repressive or facilitative). The regulator concomitantly renders these entrepreneurs responsible for their own possible criminal conduct (self-governing) and empowers them to keep out traffickers and pimps and to control sex-workers (others-governing). Moreover, the municipality applies both repressive and facilitative power. Although the responsibilization strategy succeeds in having entrepreneurs govern themselves, it also unintentionally undermines sex-workers’ independence and favors the largest entrepreneurs. Our study enriches the R(egulator)I(ntermediary)T(arget) model by showing how varied and contentious the interactions between regulators and involuntary intermediaries are and by demonstrating the power game that the responsibilization strategy entails
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In January 2022 the new Dutch Civic Integration programme was launched together with promises of improvements it would bring in facilitating the ‘integration’ of newcomers to the Netherlands. This study presents a critical discourse analysis of texts intended for municipalities to take on their new coordinating role in this programme. The analysis aims to understand the discourse in the texts, which actors are mobilized by them, and the role these texts and these actors play in processes of governmental racialization. The analysis demonstrates shifting complex assemblages are brought into cascades of governance in which all actors are disciplined to accept the problem of integration as a problem of cultural difference and distance, and then furthermore disciplined to adopt new practices deemed necessary to identify and even ‘objectively’ measure the inherent traits contributing to this problematic. Lastly, the analysis displays that all actors are disciplined to accept the solution of ‘spontaneous compliance’; a series of practices and knowledges, which move the civic integration programme beyond an aim of responsibilization, into a programme of internalization, wherein newcomers are expected to own and address their problematic ‘nature’, making ‘modern’ values their own.
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Rapport over schaalconstructies, onderdeel van de serie KG-publicaties van de Kenniskring Gedragsproblemen in de Onderwijspraktijk
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In dit artikel wordt het concerpt 'participatiestructuur' geïntroduceerd en als een relevant concept voor de beschrijving van de variatie in manieren waarop gesprekken in de klas gevoerd worden, nader toegelicht. Tevens wordt duidelijk gemaakt hoe de keus voor bepaalde participatiestructuren, die zichtbaar zijn in het gehanteerde taalgebruik van leerkrachten en leerlingen, leerlingen op een bepaald type toekomstige samenleving oriënteren. In dat verband wordt ervoor gepleit om dialogische participatiestructuren en discussie-structuren, die ruimte en rechten voor leerlingen impliceren, te bevorderen in de klas en in lerarenopleidingen.
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In 2020 hebben drie docentonderzoekers (Irene de Kleyn, Mariska Dinkelman en Marleen IJzerman) vanuit het lectoraat Meertaligheid en Onderwijs een inventarisatieonderzoek opgezet en uitgevoerd onder een representatieve afvaardiging van lerarenopleiders en studenten van de internationale varianten van de lerarenopleidingen Duits, Engels, Frans en Spaans van Instituut Archimedes (IA) die zijn gebundeld onder “Teacher Education” (TeacherEd). Het onderzoek had als doel inzicht te krijgen in de rol/plek van meertaligheid als leermiddel, leerdoel en context in de verschillende curricula van de TeacherEd.
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Empowerment has become a hegemonic moral horizon and key modality of governance across the global South and the global North. Whether in the realm of development or in that of welfare and urban governance, a broad range of actors, from local NGOs to social professionals and international donors, now envision the empowerment of local communities as a crucial condition and means for achieving good governance and social justice (Cruikshank 1999; Rose 1996). Anthropologists and development scholars – including ourselves – often find themselves ambivalently positioned in relation to such projects of empowerment. In this essay, we turn to the hesitancies and experimental practices of our research interlocuters in two urban settings saturated by a ‘will to empower’ (Cruikshank 1999). During ten months in the year 2017, Anick followed the everyday practices of family workers in three community centers and neighborhood associations in the northeast of Paris, who were tasked to help working-class and migrant-background parents regain confidence and agency vis-à-vis state institutions. Like the parents with whom they worked, many of these family workers hailed from the banlieue themselves and were of migrant backgrounds. Naomi worked with 15 male former gang leaders in Mombasa (Kenya) who sought to reform themselves to escape police violence. Naomi’s interlocutors were between 16 and 28 years old and worked closely with their friend Hasso during 2019 and 2022. In this period, Naomi conducted eight months of ethnographic fieldwork with these young men and with Hasso, during which she observed their weekly meetings and the individual lives of several group members, and she conducted life history interviews with five of them. These two cases thus figure actors who were differently positioned in relation to the will to empower.
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Het doel van deze handreiking is om logopedisten te ondersteunen bij het Samen Gamen, het toepassen van tabletgames in taaltherapie met jonge kinderen. We geven aanbevelingen over hoe je tabletgames op een juiste manier kunt inzetten om de communicatie en interactie tijdens het Samen Gamen te optimaliseren. Om tot deze aanbevelingen te komen is binnen het project DigiTaal onderzoek gedaan naar de verschillen in de interactie en communicatie tussen kind en logopedist tijdens taaltherapie met tabletgames en tijdens taaltherapie met traditioneel materiaal. Daarnaast hebben logopedisten onder begeleiding van een video-interactiebegeleider aan de hand van gemaakte videobeelden positieve interactiemomenten tijdens gamen geïdentificeerd en besproken. De logopedisten hebben geleerd om deze interactiemomenten vervolgens zelf te herkennen en uit te bouwen, waardoor hun expertise over Samen Gamen is vergroot. De opbrengst aan best practices hebben wij vertaald naar aanbevelingen voor logopedisten.
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Over the past few years, there has been an explosion of data science as a profession and an academic field. The increasing impact and societal relevance of data science is accompanied by important questions that reflect this development: how can data science become more responsible and accountable while also responding to key challenges such as bias, fairness, and transparency in a rigorous and systematic manner? This Patterns special collection has brought together research and perspective from academia, the public and the private sector, showcasing original research articles and perspectives pertaining to responsible and accountable data science.
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