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The Political Unity Spectrum: A Theory of Left-Right Politics, From Liberalism to Emancipatory Progressivism

Abstract: While political ideologies are often portrayed along a liberal–conservative continuum in the United States and a left–right continuum in Europe, their universal applicability is ... the lack of a proper mental representation for the people to understand the developments in political philosophy. The relative peace times we live in, after half a century of Cold War between two

POLITICAL OPINION FORMATION AMONG SECONDARY EDUCATION STUDENTS IN GUARULHOS

This article aims to understand youths’ political positions and opinion formation based on a survey with students in public schools in the municipality of Guarulhos, Brazil. We used descriptive ... position on different political issues, considering socio-economic and relational characteristics. The results show that closeness to family, to certain religious denominations or to the group of peers can

TEACHER’S APPRECIATION: POLITICAL PRIORITY, TENSION OR UNCERTAINTY?

description of the teaching profession in Brazil and its “instability”, taking the political ideology as a “social constant”. In the second part, we use the Theory of Social Representations and the ... undoubtedly instability. Such a brand refers to the valorization of “being a teacher” and has in its political ideology its macro regulation2, which functions, as Campos (2003), based on Doise (19933), as one

Philosophy of voltage-gated proton channels

In this review, voltage-gated proton channels are considered from a mainly teleological perspective. Why do proton channels exist? What good are they? Why did they go to such lengths to develop several unique hallmark properties such as extreme selectivity and ΔpH-dependent gating? Why is their current so minuscule? How do they manage to be so selective? What is the basis for our...

Performativity culture and educational research: challenges for political action

with theorists who, according to Butler (2000), bet on irrealizability, the author supports an agonistic political action in order to act in the fractures of performativity logic, as opposed to a ... . London: Verso, 2000. [ Links ] BUTLER, Judith; ANASTASIOU, Athena. Dispossession: the performative in the political. Cambridge: Polity, 2013. [ Links ] DAVIES, Bronwyn. The (im)possibility of

Performativity culture and educational research: challenges for political action

with theorists who, according to Butler (2000), bet on irrealizability, the author supports an agonistic political action in order to act in the fractures of performativity logic, as opposed to a ... . London: Verso, 2000. [ Links ] BUTLER, Judith; ANASTASIOU, Athena. Dispossession: the performative in the political. Cambridge: Polity, 2013. [ Links ] DAVIES, Bronwyn. The (im)possibility of

WOMEN AND CARE: DISPUTES AND NEGOTIATIONS IN ACADEMIC SPACE

operates both as a form of oppression, by nullifying women’s participation and visibility, and as a form of resistance, negotiation and political power to transform the university.Keywords : WORK; UNIVERSITY ... and Political Weekly, Mumbai, v. 42, n. 17, p. 1519-1526, 2007. [ Links ] RESTREPO, Eduardo. Descolonizar la Universidad. In: BARBOSA; Jorge Luis; PEREIRA, Lewis (comp.) Investigación cualitativa

Psychology, subjectivity production and political modes: conceptual clues from the actor-network theory

ABSTRACT This study aims to understand the subjectivation processes (and their political effects) concerning the modes of psi knowledge. In order to do that, some definitions about subjectivity and its ... extortives modes of articulations. The political discussion of these modes of subjectivation will be based on that. Key words: Subjectivity; Psychology; Actor-Network Theory; History; Policy RESUMEN

Democratic governmentality and the teaching of Philosophy in contemporary Brazil

This article takes the concepts of biopower and governmentality as the starting point for an analysis of certain recent Brazilian government documents about the introduction of Philosophy as a ... of Philosophy in contemporary Brazil     Silvio Gallo Professor do Departamento de Filosofia e História da Educação da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp

Vicious Cycle or Business Cycle?: Explaining Political Violence in Northern Ireland After the Troubles

There are currently two schools of thought that seek to explain the persistence of political violence in Northern Ireland, one with a sociopolitical focus and the other with an economic focus ... President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU by the editorial board of Res Publica and the Political Science Department at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information , please

“DEMOCRACY IS PRIMARILY ACHIEVED THROUGH VOTING”: SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ADOLESCENTS

Various studies have recently revealed that a political representation crisis is taking place worldwide. The aim of this study is understand the social representations of democracy showed in the ... overshadow the possibility of regarding it as a system of government, that is, a broad political institution. Key words: SOCIAL REPRESENTATION; DEMOCRACY; NARRATIVES; PIAGET’S CLINICAL METHOD Résumé

EDWARD SAİD VE 'ŞARKİYATÇILIK

on a literary-aesthetic, philosophical fields, but by placing it on a political sphere, it was doing what had never been done before: The work, ―Orientalism‖ interpreted the concept orientalism as part ... French influenced both the emergence and development of the term. The political, economic and cultural developments experienced in these two great empires of the West from the 18th to the 20th centuries

SCHOOL AND DIGITAL MEDIA: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE TRANSMEDIA LITERACY PROJECT

This essay is a political, cultural and didactic analysis of the Transmedia Literacy (TL) educational project (2015-2018). First, we described the project, evaluating its initial diagnosis, its ... historical perspective of school culture, we reviewed a series of epistemological, theoretical-methodological and political issues that we consider to have influenced it. Our main focus is on one of the

Transforming the Farm Bill: The Local Food Movement and Political Change

This study uses the political opportunity structure to measure the success of the local food movement in America. Drawing from the Political Process theory of social movements, I analyze the ability

Parallels

, in an attempt to identify possible complementarities that they, or even their most direct followers, have rarely examined. Particular emphasis is given to the themes introduced by the philosophy and ... the philosophy and sociology of science, on which both took positions potentially more convergent than divergent. Its integration will be all the more necessary as the acceleration of current scientific

A CRITICAL REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL POLICIES IN THE NEOLIBERAL ERA: THE CHILEAN CASE

quality and socio-educational inequality problems. To this end, by means of Critical Discourse Analysis and Political Discourse Analysis, it explores the corpus of presidential enactments from 2008 to date ... .). The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies, 1. Londres: Routledge, 2018, p. 7-16. [ Links ] FAIRCLOUGH, Isabela; FAIRCLOUGH, Norman. Political Discourse Analysis: a method for advanced

CAN A CURRICULUM GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF AQUILOMBAMENTO?

process of aquilombamento in its political, geographic, historical and cultural aspects constitutes practices of resistance against the colonialist impositions established by current curricular

MODES OF CONSTITUTION OF BRAZILIAN TEACHING: TRADITIONALISM, TECHNICAL COMPETENCE AND GOOD PRACTICES

about technical competence and political commitment; and, in the 1990s, centrality in teachers’ practice.Keywords : TEACHING; BASIC EDUCATION; HISTORICAL DOCUMENT; BRAZIL.

The notion of the “reflective professional” in education: relevance, uses and limits

international level, especially in the study of teaching and teacher training. The central thesis supported here is that, in the light of the tradition and philosophy of the humanities and social sciences that ... organization and management”; Fenstermacher, “Philosophy of Research on Teaching”; y Shulman, “Paradigms and research programs in the study of teaching”. Todos estos autores buscan promover una interpretación

Pedagogical lines for Corporal Education

This article aims at creating a pedagogical plan for Corporal Education taking as a frame of analysis the thought of Gilles Deleuze, a philosophy that is currently relevant for contemporary ... pedagogies dealing with a new meaning of the body within education. The study of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy in education is conducted using the rhizome method in which conceptions of body and education are