SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - General Issues in Science
In: Peace research abstracts journal, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 427
ISSN: 0031-3599
In: Peace research abstracts journal, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 427
ISSN: 0031-3599
Over recent years the higher education sector has been encouraged to find different, effective and flexible ways of teaching. This enthusiasm is apparent more than ever before, as the current British Conservative government have produced a white paper on the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). The Teaching Excellence Framework intends to measure and improve the quality of teaching and learning within the higher education sector. With this proposed framework being introduced, universities will have to think of new ways of teaching and learning. This paper examines the pedagogical approach to self-determined learning within the dynamic of the tutor and the learner. In the paper, the authors argue for a fundamental rethink of how students learn in the higher education sector. Moreover, the authors call for a greater emphasis on a self-determined approach to learning and the integration of heutagogy, as this approach challenges the pedagogical approach to teaching and learning.
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In: Soviet review: a journal of translations, Band 4, S. 49-70
ISSN: 0038-5794
Tackling infectious disease, coping with climate change, boosting growth – the major challenges facing our society and economy demand sharp social science. This 2015 pre-election report from the Campaign for Social Science makes urgent recommendations – on research funding, social science capacity and use of expert advice by government – to maximise social science's contribution through the next Parliament and beyond.
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Recently, the need to contribute to the evaluation of the scientific, social, and political impact of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research has become a demand of policy makers and society. The international scientific community has made significant advances that have transformed the impact of evaluation landscape. This article reviews the existing scientific knowledge on evaluation tools and techniques that are applied to assess the scientific impact of SSH research; the changing structure of social and political impacts of SSH research is investigated based on an overarching research question: to what extent do scholars attempt to apply methods, instruments, and approaches that take into account the distinctive features of SSH? The review also includes examples of European Union (EU) projects that demonstrate these impacts. This article culminates in a discussion of the development of the assessment of different impacts and identifies limitations, and areas and topics to explore in the future.
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In: The Soviet review, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 49-70
Solution-oriented social science makes solving problems the object of social science, and working on other people's problems becomes the key driver of the problems to be solved. These solutions may be of relevance for everyday citizens or actors working in government, non-profits, or for-profits. Mark Western argues that approaching research in this way would influence how we choose problems, how we build teams and collaborate, and what methods, tools and techniques we employ.
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In: Cultural Challenges of Migration in Canada- Les défis culturels de la migration au Canada
In: Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences Ser.
In: Political studies review, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 438-438
ISSN: 1478-9302
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. School Building -- PART ONE Blurred Genres: Reflections on Disciplinary Practices -- CHAPTER 1 Political Theory after the Enlightenment Project -- CHAPTER 2 Twenty-five Years of Social Science and Social Change -- CHAPTER 3 Economic History as a Cure for Economics -- CHAPTER 4 Can the "Other" of Philosophy Speak? -- CHAPTER 5 Reflections on Interdisciplinarity -- PART TWO The State of the Art: New Methods and New Questions -- CHAPTER 6 After History? -- CHAPTER 7 The Global Situation -- CHAPTER 8 Modernity and Identity -- CHAPTER 9 The Role of Norms and Law in Economics: An Essay on Political Economy -- CHAPTER 10 Material Culture, Theoretical Culture, and Delocalization -- CHAPTER 11 Science as Alchemy -- PART THREE Thick Description: Field Overviews and Institutional History -- CHAPTER 12 Whatever Happened to the "Social" in Social History? -- CHAPTER 13 Postcolonialism and Its Discontents: History, Anthropology, and Postcolonial Critique -- CHAPTER 14 Structure, Contingency, and Choice: A Comparison of Trends and Tendencies in Political Science -- CHAPTER 15 Interdisciplinarity at New York University -- PART FOUR The World in Pieces: Political Philosophy and World Governance -- CHAPTER 16 Political Theory and Moral Responsibility -- CHAPTER 17 A "Moral Core" Solution to the Prisoners' Dilemma -- CHAPTER 18 Reinterpreting Risk -- CHAPTER 19 Retrotopia: Critical Reason Turns Primitive -- CHAPTER 20 International Society: What Is the Best that We Can Do? -- AUTHOR NOTES
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1 American Social Science: Moralism and the Scientific Method -- 2 Wesley Mitchell and the Quantitative Approach -- 3 Charles Merriam and Technical Expertise -- 4 Robert Lynd and Knowledge for What? -- 5 Charles Beard and Activist Social Science -- 6 Harold D. Lasswell and the Lost Opportunity of the Purposive School -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
In: Current perspectives in social theory v. 39
What do we mean by the word "social?" In The Centrality of Sociality, scholars respond to themes of The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities in dialogue with Michael E. Brown. The Centrality of Sociality provides analyses of important distinctions between individual and society, agency-dependent and agency-independent objectivity, subject and object, theory and theorizing, and action and "course of activity." Apart from its theoretical interest, the book raises questions about the compelling idea that "the individual is the ultimate referent of moral discourse," formulating the question "what is human about human affairs" in such a way that the difficulties involved in defining the word individual appear to place in jeopardy the idea of the individual. The chapters analyze themes such as the conceptualization of the social vis-a-vis the individual, theories of action, and notions of subject-object relations. A thought-provoking collection of research, this edited volume is key reading for scholars and researchers in sociology.
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: a three-layered approach to social science; Part I Our epistemic engagement with the world; 1 Reconstruction of the scientific view of the world and the revival of human subject; 2 Historicity: a foundation for scientific knowledge and philosophical understanding; 3 Historicity as the process of understanding science: a two-level reflection; Part II Social science in its methodological engagement; 4 Meaning, human action and the nature of social explanation