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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Communicative rationality"”.
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A Study of Juergen Habermas's Communicative Rationality: An Educational Interpretation
… find an educational basis of the conception of rationality from the perspective based on Jurgen Habermas's idea of communicative rationality. The study starts from a critical review of the instrumental aspect of rationality first conceptualized by Max Weber's analysis of modern Western society's …
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Academic perceptions of educational technology: towards communicative rationality in the higher education institution
… framework around lifeworld, systemworld and communicative rationality. Adapting his theory of social pathologies, the thesis suggests that there are corollary values, predominantly unarticulated by the participants, which may ameliorate these pathologies. The Educational Technology …
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An examination of the Children’s Rights Alliance (CRA) as a new social movement (NSM) utilising Habermas’ communicative rationality and core periphery theories
… Further, utilising Habermas’ theories of communicative rationality and Peters’ core periphery, this thesis will interrogate how the CRA moved from a position of little or no influence (outer periphery) to a position of influence (inner periphery) where it became a ‘supplier’ of information …
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Critical Dialogues and Reflections
… Power/Knowledge and Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action. In the second part, I advance the conversation on Habermas’s distinction between communicative and strategic actions, leveraging Hegel’s early writings on morality. This paper develops a methodological framework that gives the …
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A Habermasian-based critical discourse analysis of the ICT strategies of the Centre for e-Innovation, Provincial Government of the Western Cape
… Habermas' validity claims to assess communicative rationality, I conducted a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the five Cel strategic documents to determine whether or not these are distorted, e.g. through claims of technological determinism. The study found a large number of …
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Reaching Constituents in the Digital Age
… symmetrical communications methods and foster communicative rationality; moreover, such communications offer part of the solution to the democratic deficit. Based on interviews with MPs and office staff, as well as a survey of MPs across the federal parties, what emerges is a draft of a …
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Daisaku Ikeda's philosophy of peace: Human revolution, dialogue and global civilization.
… of Humanistic Psychology (Human Revolution), Communicative Rationality (Dialogue) and Cosmopolitan Democracy (Global Civilization). It is also argued that while being inspired by Ikeda's Buddhist spirituality and his loyalty to his mentor Josei Toda, this secular humanist approach to peace …
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Using Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action to analyze the Changing Nature of School Education in Hong Kong (1945-2008)
Abstract Based on Habermas’s theory of communicative action, a study of school education in Hong Kong was conducted, with a span more than sixty years from 1945 to 2008. It focused on how social reproduction was possible in school education, how school education was worked in general, and how …
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Counselling psychologists perspectives on professionalism
… professionalism. Habermas's theory of communicative rationality is suggested as ,a philosophical basis for ethical practice and as an appropriates substitute for the scientist-practitioner model. I The case study explores therapeutic work with a student who had been refused refugee …
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The concept rationality in the work of Jurgen Habermas
… "re-thinks" or "reformulates" the concept of rationality and rationalization processes. The method is analytical. The early, later and most recent works of Habermas are analysed with the aim of showing that he approaches the c6ncept of rationality from an unusual perspective which has not been …
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De hjälper oss till rätta : normaliseringsarbete, självbestämmande och människor med psykisk utvecklingsstörning
… of adaptive behavior since it requires a form of communicative rationality. The latter run the risk of developing into strategic decision-making and objectifica-tion of the client. The two clus-ters of group homes did not differ in respect to age and sex distribution, nor substantially in the …
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Ways of seeing: Conflicting rationalities in contested urban space - the N2 Gateway in the context of Langa
… notions of community and a rules-governed communicative rationality in favour of more situated sense-making through agonistic conceptions of planning and development rooted in ‘the geography of what happens’.