Ever greater scrutiny: Researching the bureaucracy of educational accountability
This is the title of a book chapter in the following book: Education Governance and Social Theory:...
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Tag: Jürgen Habermas
Habermas on the tasks of a critical sociology
[this is an extract from a forthcoming edited collection ‘Habermas and social...
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What theories can accomplish – and what they can’t
This is the title of a chapter in a book called Jürgen Habermas: The past as future, most of which...
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An Awareness of What is Missing
Discussion over reason and religion has been so overshadowed by the work of Richard Dawkins and...
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The public sphere: Paradise lost, in more ways than one
Article: Laura Knoppers (2014) Gender and the Public Sphere in Habermas and Milton: New Critical...
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The role of the public sphere in the Jasmine Revolution: The struggle over women’s rights in Tunisia
Article: Mounira M. Charrad & Amina Zarrugh (2014) Equal or complementary? Women in the new...
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Digital citizenship: creating a deliberative pedagogical context
Digital citizenship and digital literacies are topics with a growing popularity, given the impact...
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The web and the academic divide
Some blogposts ago I ruminated on what Bourdieu would have said about the Web. Without more...
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Parsons’ neglect of social pathologies, part 2.
Readings taken from Habermas, J: Chapter 7, Section 3: The theory of modernity, Theory of...
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Readings taken from Habermas, J: Chapter 7, Section 3: The theory of modernity, Theory of Communicative action, Volume 2, 1987 As we have witnessed in the previous set of posts on Parsons (see here for a full list), the major...
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Paradigm v. Paradigm: From ‘culture’ to communication
Readings from: B (PP215-225): The Action-Theory of the Early Middle Period (from Volume 2 of...
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Parsons and his own version of the cultural turn
Readings from: B (PP215-225): The Action-Theory of the Early Middle Period (from Volume 2 of...
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