عنوان

Learning to be 'Good': The Ethics of Socialization and the Socialization of Ethics in Amman, Jordan

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TL49465

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Learning to be 'Good': The Ethics of Socialization and the Socialization of Ethics in Amman, Jordan

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Haleema Nazir Welji

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Haviland, John B.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, San Diego

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

331

Text of Note

Committee members: Herbst, Matthew T.; Kayali, Hasan; Varma, Saiba; Woolard, Kathryn

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-06905-1

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Anthropology

Body granting the degree

University of California, San Diego

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

While much of the rest of the world looked upon Jordan and surrounding regions in 2013 with fear of continual revolt and religiously motivated violence, Jordanians continued to live their everyday lives, attending to ordinary concerns, such as the raising and socialization of children. The central question that this dissertation explores is: how are children in Amman, Jordan, socialized into matters of morality? Though moral education is rooted in Islam, the source of moral education is found not only in formal religious education, but also in the way Islam is lived in the everyday. Moral education is integrated into interactions between children and their caretakers. Through activities such as answering questions in the classroom, to misbehaving and then being scolded, children are absorbing values about how to be members of the community and, specifically, how to be good, moral community members. But this preparation for adulthood is done within a context of change. Amidst political, social, and economic instability, what it means to be good is in flux. Jordan is also in the midst of large-scale educational reforms, which have led to new curriculums and methods of teaching. Economic reforms have fallen short in creating jobs for the increasingly educated population. In my dissertation, I look closely at language-starting at the interactional level and moving to broader discourses about bilingualism-and argue that children are caught between what it means to be good in a moral, Islamic, and cultural sense, and what it means to be good in a globalized sense where English and the pressure toward individual achievement take on tremendous power in Jordan's move into the future. While the particulars of the balancing act differ across Jordan and even within the population I worked with, moral education is about finding a balance between local values and concerns (like who are you and how you relate to others) and progress (tied to leaving Jordan, learning English, and achieving individual success in education). The dissertation analyzes classrooms at Al-Dawran, a mid-sized private school in Amman, and interactions between children and their caregivers at home, including parents and extended family.

Islamic Studies; Sociolinguistics; Ethics; Caregivers; Question answer sequences; Classroom communication; Bilingualism; Education policy; Language teaching methods; English as a second language learning; Parent child interaction; Occupations; Political factors; Socialization

Subject Term

Social sciences;Islam;Language learning;Moral education;Primary education;Socialization

Yeck, Amanda T.

Haviland, John B.

Subdivision

Anthropology

University of California, San Diego

Call Number

1928947478; 10287457

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[Thesis]

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