In the Maghreb region, the unemployment rate of young university graduates is greater than 30% in Morocco, 30.5% in Tunisia and 22% in Algeria (the official figures for 2014 give us 10%), which is to say that the issue of unemployment is at the heart of social movements. The paper highlights the limitations of technological determinism and closes by arguing for readings of educational technologies that pay close attention to students’ voices. Students largely rejected the app, constructing it as unfitting for the context, a socially uncomfortable experience and an unacademic way of learning.
The study explores students’ constructions of a mobile learning app that was introduced into lectures during a year-long university course. construct, arguing that students construct discursive meaning of, rather than simply respond to, technologies for learning. This study approaches technology as a social. However, in recent years there has been a move by sociologists of education to highlight how the contexts in which educational technologies are introduced are not tabula rasa but socially and culturally complex. Scholarly literature on education technology uptake has been dominated by technological determinist readings of students’ technology use. Keyword: Standpoint, Bifurcation of consciousness, Relations of ruling, Voices of the other This paper is an interpretation of the events in the movie from the standpoint of Unnimaya. In the movie the male standpoint or the masculine point of view is the dominant ideology propagated and the one that is taken as the objective voice of the main stream society. The study focuses on the standpoint of a seventeen-year old Namboodiri girl, Unnimaya, who is married off to a sixty four year old Namboodiri. Dorothy Edith Smith CM is one of the pioneers of the Standpoint theory, a branch of the Black Standpoint Theory introduced by Patricia Hill Collins. The film attempts to give out a perspective from the position of a woman by focusing on their journey, the challenges posed by their community, the male-oriented societal system and its impact on their lives. It is an empathetic portrayal of the silenced voices of women inhabiting the Namboothiri Illam and the social and moral conventions of patriarchy that confined to the dark spaces of the time-honoured Brahmin ménage. The movie Parinayam directed by Hariharan, is an adaptation of the Malayalam novel ‘SmarthaVicharam’ by Kuriyedath Thathri.
The paper attempts to put forth a sociological, literary and feminist reading of the National award winning movie, Parinayam (1994).The movie depicts the lives of Namboodiri women and their social, cultural, moral conditioning in the society.