Ritualism and disempowerment of education: social semiotics of the educational experience of young Iranian girls

IF 0.9 3区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Semiotica Pub Date : 2023-06-07 DOI:10.1515/sem-2023-0036

M. Kermani, Zahra Baradarankashani

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Abstract

Abstract Despite recent noticeable changes in women’s educational opportunities in developing countries such as Iran, there is still much controversy surrounding the common assumption that a direct relationship exists between women’s empowerment and formal literacy. According to the social semiotic method, the present research explores the hidden side of the female educational experience and its relationship with empowerment. In the current study, we conducted 39 interviews and analyzed the collected data using Van Leeuwen’s semiotic approach. The results are based on the analysis of three semiotic sources, all of which are ubiquitous in the daily life of Iranian students: uniforms, queues, and homework. The findings indicate that the emphasis on the ideological aspects of educational experiences, in the form of a ritualistic approach by the educational system’s agents, causes a gradual semantic break between students and educational goals. Such an emphasis also instills an ambiguous and contradictory understanding in the student’s mind, of which the final result is the alienation and internalization of passive patterns of social action.

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仪式主义和剥夺教育权力:伊朗年轻女孩教育经历的社会符号学

尽管最近在伊朗等发展中国家，妇女的教育机会发生了明显的变化，但围绕妇女赋权与正式识字之间存在直接关系的普遍假设仍然存在许多争议。本研究运用社会符号学方法，探讨女性受教育经历的隐性一面及其与赋权的关系。在本研究中，我们进行了39次访谈，并使用Van Leeuwen的符号学方法分析收集到的数据。研究结果基于对三种符号学来源的分析，这些符号学来源在伊朗学生的日常生活中无处不在:制服、排队和家庭作业。研究结果表明，教育系统的代理人以仪式的方式强调教育经验的意识形态方面，导致学生与教育目标之间的语义逐渐断裂。这种强调也在学生的头脑中灌输了一种模棱两可和矛盾的理解，其最终结果是社会行动被动模式的异化和内化。

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Semiotica Multiple-

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1.30

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期刊介绍： Semiotica, the Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, founded in 1969, appears in five volumes of four issues per year, in two languages (English and French), and occasionally in German. Semiotica features articles reporting results of research in all branches of semiotic studies, in-depth reviews of selected current literature in this field, and occasional guest editorials and reports. From time to time, Special Issues, devoted to topics of particular interest, are assembled by Guest Editors. The publishers of Semiotica offer an annual prize, the Mouton d"Or, to the author of the best article each year. The article is selected by an independent international jury.