Surfing the Long Waves of Global Capital with Chang Rae-Lee’s Native Speaker : Ethnic Branding and the Humanization of Capital

Narkunas, J. Paul

doi:10.1353/mfs.0.0006

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“…At the same time, according to VCIOM, the indicator of involvement in corporate volunteering is higher in cities with a population of more than a million, it is 21% [3]. It can be noted that a modern employee should have not only highly specialized knowledge, but also management and communication skills, which is less provided for by university educational programs of technical specialties [4]. All this makes it possible to speak about the relevance of the problem of technical education's humanitarization, the need to include the resource of humanitarian disciplines in the practice of teaching students of technical specialties [5].…”

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Humanitarization of technical university education: effective strategies and practices

Dyachkova¹,

Novgorodtseva²,

Tomyuk³

2020

P Sci Edu

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Last changes in the education system impose certain requirements for the training of technical specialties students, taking into account individual – personal characteristics, social orders of regions, countries, as well as international integration processes. Due to such trends, the humanitarization of technical education can become multidimensional and predictive. The article is aimed at identifying and analyzing the dominant strategies for the humanitarization of higher education of technical students through the prism of universal competencies. The set of methods was used to the analysis of the humanitarization’s strategies of higher education of technical students: the case-study method, the object – Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia); method for obtaining and analyzing primary and secondary data. Based on the system and structural-functional approaches, not only strategies are considered, but also such forms of their implementation as purposeful efforts (in educational activities) and spontaneous practices (in extracurricular activities). Research results: the ratio of "4 C's" competencies, the group of universal competencies and universal competencies in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Education (version 3++) is found; taking into account the data from the Atlas of new professions, the connection of the competence group "4 C's" with soft skills required in the professions of technical industries is revealed; effective strategies and practices are identified, including the mandatory bachelor's degree "core" of humanities studies for technical specialties; the role of the center for the universal competencies development as a university structural unit for the promotion of humanitarian minors is justified; the resource of the institute of mentoring and supervision, student scientific, social, and creative associations in the formation of the humanitarian environment of the university is revealed.

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Humanitarization of technical university education: effective strategies and practices

Dyachkova¹,

Novgorodtseva²,

Tomyuk³

2020

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Maria's Rebellion: Gayl Jones's Mosquito and the Problem of Recognition

Orihuela¹

2017

Arizona Quarterly

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Asian-Americans in New York: Two Men’s Adventures in Immigrant-Land

Chevereşan

2013

Arcadia

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Gish Jen’s Typical American and Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker are two essentially urban novels that focus on issues of (ethnic) identity construction and performativity in metropolitan New York, at the end of the twentieth century. Belonging to two distinct immigrant communities (Chinese and Korean), their protagonists are Americans in the making, whose personal evolutions and involutions are shaped by the social and cultural dilemmas of transition and (mal)adjustment. The present article scrutinizes the fictional interplay of public and private (hi)stories and discourses, and analyzes the ways in which stereotypical definitions and representations of otherness, investigations and exploitations of memory, and manipulations of individual and communal belief are called upon to illustrate the intricate mechanisms of contemporary United States. Citizenship, ethnicity, education, language, power relations, discrimination, consumerism and, last but not least, politics, are important elements that this comparative approach questions. By studying the two novels together, the article argues that the two writers capture different, yet equally relevant hypostases of the (Asian) immigrant’s self-questioning and self-inscription into the American nation, whose updated versions of the “Dream” have been dominated by the material rather than the spiritual concerns.

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Surfing the Long Waves of Global Capital with Chang Rae-Lee’s Native Speaker : Ethnic Branding and the Humanization of Capital

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Humanitarization of technical university education: effective strategies and practices

Humanitarization of technical university education: effective strategies and practices

Maria's Rebellion: Gayl Jones's Mosquito and the Problem of Recognition

Asian-Americans in New York: Two Men’s Adventures in Immigrant-Land

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