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A “Voodoo Doll in Diapers”: Deconstructing the Cruel Child in Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)
2018
This chapter examines the ways in which Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) complicates mainstream representations of young high school shooters. The central argument is that Shriver offers her readers a critical and informed meta-perspective which conceives of childhood as a discursive construct. The chapter illustrates how constructivism arises as a highly ambivalent practice in the novel. One the one hand, it allows the novel to dissect and challenge the patterns according to which school shooters are commonly constructed in the media without, however, confirming any of them as Kevin’s “true” nature. On the other hand, the novel’s engagement with constructivism is b…
Freirismo, desigualdad social y educativa
2021
Este artículo pretende dar respuesta a las siguientes cuestiones: ¿Por qué el presidente de Brasil, J. Bolsonaro, criticó la presencia de freiristas en la universidad? ¿Qué enuncia el freirismo que merezca el reproche de la primera autoridad de la república?¿Por qué sobrevive el freirismo? Para ello, se elabora un argumento genera, a partir de pruebas matemáticas, que pone el acento en la vigencia y en la centralidad de la desigualdad educativa, que Freire ya había desvelado y denunciado en la expresión de “pedagogía del oprimido”.
 This article seeks to answer the following questions: Why did the president of Brazil, J. Bolsonaro, criticize the presence of Freiristas in the university…
Cosmopolitanism as Nonrelationism and Relevant Duties of Justice
2021
This chapter clarifies the new concept of cosmopolitanism as nonrelationism and embeds it in the academic debate. In defence of the new concept, it clarifies how personal relationships can be valued without treating them as a basis for justifying special responsibilities between related individuals. The argument distinguishes between different kinds of responsibilities based on a responsibility framework developed from conceptual considerations of Hart and O’Neill as well as Pettit and Goodin. It reveals that not all kinds of responsibilities are equally relevant with regard to matters of justice.
Refuting the Relationist Challenge: Room for Partiality Rather Than Advocating Special Duties
2021
Building on the responsibility framework developed in the previous chapter, this chapter completes the argument. It refutes the relationist challenge that personal relations require special responsibilities qualifying as relevant for matters of justice. The argument focuses Scheffler’s relationist arguments and demonstrates how his critique of nonrelationism can be resolved by differentiating between different types of responsibility.
The Principle of the Transcendental Deduction. The First Section of the Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding
2019

 This paper considers the transcendental deduction of the categories from a specific point of view: the First Section of the Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding. In this passage, Kant not only explores the task and the method of the transcendental deduction, in form of the principle of the transcendental deduction, but also implements it. The subsequent section(s) of the deduction proceed(s) to build on the argument, and do(es) so in different ways in the A- and the B-deduction. Accordingly, the principle of the transcendental deduction has a crucial function for the entire deduction because it builds a transition between the first and the following section(s) in whic…
Domestic Policies in Self-Enforcing Trade Agreements
2012
If all cross-country externalities travel through the terms-of-trade, efficient trade agreements target the terms-of-trade but ignore domestic policies. This argument has been advanced by prominent studies on trade agreements. The present paper shows that its logic fails if production possibilities are intertemporally linked -- for example, under dynamic factor accumulation. In this case, past policies shape current production possibilities and thus affect defection temptations. Therefore, self-enforcing trade agreements that leave the choice of domestic policies to individual countries risk that countries abandon the zone of voluntarily cooperation while optimizing their policies. Conseque…
Technologies of Re-familization
2019
In this chapter, the notion of re-familization is introduced, to allow for a better grasp of the cohesive impact of digital technologies in the context of extended and geographically distributed families. In the field of social policy, the notion of re-familization implies a reversal of the politics of de-familization that once was the hallmark of the golden-era welfare state. The argument is made that family-initiated uses of digital media and communication technology in response to (older) family members’ daily help and care needs resonate well with the idea behind re-familization. In conclusion, the chapter presents several ways in which re-familization manifests itself in the everyday l…
Joy of Mathematical Modelling: A Forgotten Perspective?
2020
We argue the relevance of including an affective perspective in the mathematical modelling education research and emphasise its importance for the teaching and learning of mathematical modelling at all levels, especially at the university. Our argument is supported by a recent survey of mathematics lecturers’ views on mathematical modelling, several follow-up interviews, and a review of literature on mathematical modelling that relates to enjoyment, pleasure, and appreciation. Findings from the survey and the follow-up interviews indicate that there is a group of practitioners who hold strong views on the importance of enjoyment in doing and teaching mathematical modelling.
Jatkosodan retoriikka : argumentaatioanalyysi pääministeri Rangellin ja pääministeri Linkomiehen puheista
2009
Tutkimuksen tehtävänä on selvittää, millaista retoriikkaa Suomen jatkosodan aikaiset pääministerit JW Rangell sekä Edwin Linkomies puheissaan käyttivät. Tarkastelen tutkimuskysymystä analysoimalla kaksi puhetta, joista toisen puheen piti Rangell syksyllä 1941. Toinen on Linkomiehen kesällä 1944 pitämä puhe. Analysoin puheet erittäin tarkasti käyttämällä metodina valtio-opin alalla yleistä argumentaatioanalyysia. Pääasiallisena teoreetikkona käytän Chaim Perelmanin retoriikkatutkimusta ja tukena myös Aristoteleen Retoriikka-teosta sekä uudempaa retoriikka- ja sotaretoriikkatutkimusta. Aineistona työssä ovat puheet, jotka ovat kokonaisuudessaan myös gradussa mukana. Tutkimus osoittaa, että su…
Qüestions sòcio-científiques i debats per a millorar l'argumentació en classes de Física i Química
2017
En aquesta investigació s’estudia l’ús de les qüestions sòcio-científiques i els debats per a millorar l’argumentació a les classes de Física i Química. Els problemes que s’aborden al llarg de l’estudi són: Quines habilitats argumentatives en ciència tenen els alumnes d’ESO i Batxillerat? En quina mesura l’ensenyament tradicional de la Física i Química potencia l’habilitat argumentativa dels alumnes? Pot la realització de debats sòcio-científics millorar aquesta habilitat? Per a donar resposta a les dos primeres preguntes a manera de diagnòstic es proposa la següent primera hipòtesi: Els alumnes de Secundària tenen un baix nivell d’habilitat argumentativa perquè l’argumentació és un procedi…