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Journal articles on the topic "Lifeworld theory"
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Roche, Maurice, Thomas Luckmann, and Anthony Giddens. "Social Theory and the Lifeworld." British Journal of Sociology 38, no. 2 (June 1987): 283. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/590538.
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Schaefer, Donovan O. "You Don’t Know What Pain Is: Affect, the Lifeworld, and Animal Ethics." Studies in Christian Ethics 30, no. 1 (October 22, 2016): 15–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0953946816674146.
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Affect theory is a subfield that encourages us to think about how we interact with each other and the world along registers that are not reducible to language. This has suggested to some scholars that affect theory can also be used to better understand the experience of animals. This article explores a merger between affect theory, animal studies and the lifeworld tradition of phenomenology. The upshot of this is a way of seeing how animals, like humans, have rich religious worlds that are shaped by pre-linguistic textures of affect. This perspective indicates that animals can be thrown into a state of trauma by being deprived of these lifeworlds. In light of this, the article considers the ethical implications of the modern factory farm system, particularly the practice of mass confinement.
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Leanza, Yvan, Isabelle Boivin, and Ellen Rosenberg. "The Patient’s Lifeworld: Building meaningful clinical encounters between patients, physicians and interpreters." Communication and Medicine 10, no. 1 (February 16, 2014): 13–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/cam.v10i1.13.
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In this paper, our objectives are first to explore the different ways physicians and interpreters interact with patients’ Lifeworld, and second, to describe and compare communication patterns in consultations with professional and those with family interpreters. We used a qualitative design and conducted analyses of transcriptions of 16 family practice consultations in Montréal in the presence of interpreters. Patterns of communication are delineated grounded in Habermas’ Communicative Action Theory and Mishler’s operational concepts of Voice of Medicine and Voice of Lifeworld. Four communication patterns emerged: (1) strategically using Lifeworld data to achieve biomedical goals, (2) having an interest in the Lifeworld for itself, (3) integrating the Lifeworld with biomedicine and (4) referring to another professional. Our results suggest physicians engage with patients’ Lifeworld and may benefit from both types of interpreters’ understanding of the patient’s specific situations. A professional interpreter is likely to transmit the patient’s Lifeworld utterances to the physician. A family member, on the other hand, may provide extra biomedical and Lifeworld information, but also prevent the patient’s Lifeworld accounts from reaching the physician. Physicians’ training should include advice on how to work with all type of interpreters and interpreters’ training should include mediation competencies in order to enhance their ability to promote the processes of co-construction of meaning.
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Flynn, Jeffrey. "System and lifeworld in Habermas’ theory of democracy." Philosophy & Social Criticism 40, no. 2 (January 3, 2014): 205–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0191453713518326.
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Ivkovic, Marjan. "Habermas' concept of systemic colonization of lifeworld." Sociologija 52, no. 1 (2010): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/soc1001001i.
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This paper aims at comprehending the specific nature of Habermas' critical perspective on modernization, defined through the concept of systemic colonization of the lifeworld. The comprehension should be reached through a relatively detailed analysis of the fundamental elements and insights of the theory of communicative action. The first to be analyzed should be the conceptual apparatus that Habermas develops on the basis of synthesizing Mead's symbolic interactionism and Durkheim's concept of social development. Then the paper focuses on the complex concept of lifeworld, that Habermas formulates on the grounds of this conceptual apparatus. The focus of the paper is on understanding Habermas' concept of colonization as a specific communicative-theoretic reinterpretation of the analysis of reification. In the final part, the weaknesses of Habermas' approach to the phenomenon of colonization are considered, such as neglecting the question of contemporary forms of colonization, as well as the overall defensive nature and rationalistic reductionism of his theory.
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Zhao, Shanyang. "Internet and the lifeworld: updating Schutz's theory of mutual knowledge." Information Technology & People 20, no. 2 (June 12, 2007): 140–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09593840710758059.
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Knutsson, Susanne, Maria Lundvall, and Elisabeth Lindberg. "Participating in reflection seminars: Progressing towards a deeper understanding of caring science described by nursing students." Nordic Journal of Nursing Research 38, no. 2 (August 3, 2017): 111–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2057158517721832.
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Few studies focus on how reflection seminars can support the learning of knowledge in caring science when inserted throughout the curriculum. The aim of this study was to describe students’ experiences of participating in reflection seminars, using lifeworld theory and focusing on caring science. A qualitative descriptive study based on interviews was carried out, and ten students between 21 and 33 years of age volunteered to participate. A reflective lifeworld research approach was used. Reflection seminars contribute to developing students’ ability to relate to caring and life. A deeper understanding is obtained when reflection sessions are spread over a longer period and when reflection becomes a process. The process helps caring science to become more natural and useful. Reflective seminaries based on a theoretical foundation contribute to facilitate learning more readily. A good atmosphere pervaded by a lifeworld perspective characterized by openness and thoughtfulness contributes to learning.
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Griffero, Tonino. "There Are More Things in (Life) World…" Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2018, no. 3 (May 27, 2019): 135–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/yewph-2018-0010.
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Abstract Through an approach primarily inspired by the Aisthetik (Gernot Böhme) and the Neue Phänomenologie (Hermann Schmitz) I define the atmospheric perception as the first pathic impression and investigate the relationship between this kind of perception (possibly initially immersive, then reflective) and the expressive qualities of our lifeworld. Pathic aesthetics therefore ceases to be just a theory of works of art. It considers the perceiver as a being first of all emotionally and felt-bodily touched by atmospheric feelings widespread in her (lived) space but these atmospheric feelings are also affordances, ontologically rooted in things and quasi-things of her lifeworld. By exploring how she unintentionally exposes herself to what happens in this lifeworld, man turns out to be not a “subject of something” but rather a “subject to something”: a human being who is “sovereign” to the extent she is free from the claim of rational autonomy imposed by the western Modernity.
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Savage, Robert. "Review Essay: Laughter From the Lifeworld: Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Nonconceptuality." Thesis Eleven 94, no. 1 (August 2008): 119–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513608093281.
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Kataeva, O. V. "DIGITALIZATION AND VIRTUALIZATION OF THE LIFEWORLD: ASSESSMENTS AND POSITIONS." Intelligence. Innovations. Investment, no. 6 (2020): 129–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.25198/2077-7175-2020-6-129.
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The development of digital technologies, the emergence of digital objects, their increasing influence on society, culture and people determine changes in various spheres of social and human life. The concepts of digitalization and virtualization are used to describe these processes. The article is aimed at consideration of the impact of modern technologies on the culture and lifeworld of a person. For this, an analysis of the concepts of digitalization, virtualization and virtualization of the lifeworld is carried out, as well as approaches and assessments of these processes presented in the philosophical literature are proposed. The article uses the works of Russian (Ivanov D. V., Kasavina N. A., Mironov V. V., Leshkevich T. G., Sokuler Z. A., Frolov A. V.) and Western researchers (A. Kirby, Yuk Hui, O. Ollinaho, E. Schmidt, J. Cohen). The methodological basis is the principle of sociocultural determination, which determines the impact of the modern digital era on the lifeworld of a person, as well as the semantic analysis of the concepts. The main findings are as follows. First, digitalization and virtualization are two interconnected processes, while virtualization is driven by digitalization. Secondly, the concept of digitalization means the modern stage of scientific, technical and technological development, the concept of virtualization is endowing all spheres of human life with the features of virtual reality, the concept of virtualization of the lifeworld is the addition and change of the lifeworld of a person with the world of virtual reality. Thirdly, digital objects and technologies determine the emergence of new research areas — digital ontology and digimodernism. Fourthly, digitalization and virtualization of the lifeworld receive both positive (expanding the possibilities for personal development, saving resources, etc.) and negative assessments (replacing the real world with a virtual one, lack of integrity of consciousness, Internet addiction). Opposite assessments problematize the study of these processes from the standpoint of both ontology and the theory of knowledge, and axiology, ethics, philosophy of science and technology.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Lifeworld theory"
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Al-Ariefy, Abdullah S. "E-Business assimilation in the context of Saudi Arabia : utilising Habermas' lifeworld and system theory." Thesis, University of Hull, 2011. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5127.
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E-business assimilation in Saudi Arabia becomes critical due to the overarching social issues that the stakeholders encounter. Grounded in Habermas‘ Critical Social Theory (CST), this study applies the theory of lifeworld and system to understand the relevance of the Islamic faith as well as the Arab culture in the conduct of businesses in Saudi Arabia, which in turn, would make e-business assimilation a success. This study seeks to contribute to the IS literature‘s lack of research in which the aim is to emphasise social factors as the main determinants of e-business assimilation. We point out that inherent to the other important factors (e.g., technological, organisational, and cultural), people‘s actions (emancipated or regulated) are most critical to realising business‘ innovation and growth through utilising e-business technology. The sample of the study was composed of 1071 SAP end-users from the three leading Saudi companies, namely, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), and Saudi Iron and Steel Company (Hadeed), an affiliate of SABIC. Also, seven consultants contributed their knowledge and expertise regarding e-business adoption, on which they have been working for many years. The necessary data were collected through two methods: (1) distributed survey questionnaire for the SAP end-users; and (2) face – to - face (semi-structured) interview for the consultants. The value of Habermas‘ theory of lifeworld and system is shown by the development of a business model that can be used to achieve e-business assimilation success in the context of Saudi Arabia because it has the ability to distinguish the actions in various social situations – whether the actions reflect emancipation or restriction of the actors‘ way of living; and consequently, whether the actors‘ way of living should remain as it is or should undergo necessary changes. The newly developed ―E-Business Assimilation Model‖ (EAM) includes as its constructs the most important factors relevant to e-business success as well as the concepts of lifeworld and system: that is, all factors are subject to be ―filtered‖ through both the lifeworld and the system constructs. Through EAM, it was found that it could be easy for the project team to execute an e-business project if they will give critical consideration II to the people‘s social and cultural beliefs, aspirations, perspectives and preferences. Understanding the people‘s social and cultural means allows the project team to customise the e-business systems to be installed, and to make sure that the new system really fits the organisational setting. For every challenging lifeworld and system situation, the top management can provide improved solutions to be applied. The findings show how SAP implementation in the selected companies was affected by social factors such as age and gender; cultural factors such as religion; organisational factors such as performance motivating, management support and consultancy; and technological factors. The companies‘ change management programmes had enabled resolution of problems by the adoption of measures suited to each company‘s holistic characteristics and needs. Evidence of system-lifeworld interactions was demonstrated in each of these cases. Saudi society was shown to be strongly lifeworld oriented, such that ‗system‘ comes into conflict with a member of lifeworld and there are some lifeworld elements (such as gender roles and constraints) that system cannot change but must work within. The findings demonstrate the value of a system – lifeworld perspective in analysing factors influencing a change such as e-business assimilation and result in development of an elaborated model for holistic analysis of pertinent factors.
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Chang, Chih-Yao. "Resident Attitudes toward Community Development Alternatives." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/622.
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Utilizing survey data collected in four communities in the State of Utah, this study examined the extent to which rural resident perceptions and attitudes toward local community circumstances influence their own expectations and attitudes subjectively toward future community development alternatives. Understanding perceptions of community and community development, as well as the patterns of localized community development, is crucial and needs to consider residents' opinions and attitudes toward unique rural economic, environmental, and social conditions in order to help preserve the unique characteristics of the way of life while continuing economic improvement and social betterment in rural areas. Three conceptual frameworks of development (economic, environmental, and social) are applied in this study to explore the relationship between local residents' general attitudes toward the current conditions in their community and their attitudes toward development alternatives. I examine how these three development frameworks guide rural scholars to understand whether the pattern of community development is consistent across the region or localized from community to community. Four different types of rural communities were selected in a Utah-wide community survey in the summer of 2008. These communities are facing four different change patterns: an increasing senior community, an energy-development community, a recreational community, and a constant community that has remained stable over the last five decades. Each type of community has its unique economy, lifestyle, culture, and environment, in which local residents have developed a way of life in response to these changes in social and economic structures. Research findings indicate that the local residents' self-perceptions of community economic situation are not significant indictors to support the arguments of the economic development framework. However, indexes of environmental and social development frameworks are found to have strong associations with locals' environmental and social development alternatives. Also, different types of rural community show different demands for community development strategies, implying that a single development framework would not be sufficient to explain the complex of local residents' perceptions and attitudes toward community development unless the researchers integrate other perspectives into the model.
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Hjälm, Michael. "Liberation of the Ecclesia : The Unfinished Project of Liturgical Theology." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kyrkovetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-158782.
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This dissertation is a critical study of the paradigm of Liturgical Theology. Focus in this systematic inquiry has been on the Russian school with the focal point in the works of Alexander Schmemann, who was active in the late 20th century. The main question of the thesis concerns the relation between theory and practice in Liturgical Theology. It is claimed that the relation between theory and practice corresponds to the relation between ritual action and communicative action. The former concerns the identity founded on the unavoidable alterity immanent in life, but also transcending life through a holistic encounter with life, which enables us to express a holistic attitude to life and the entire world. The latter concerns the equally unavoidable rationalization of life which gives rise to a continuous atomization of life through science and the process of acquiring facts and data. The thesis makes use of different theories for the reaching of an explanatory theory in connection to theory and practice. Foremost the Theory of Communicative Action in the works of Jürgen Habermas and the re-interpretation of disclosure by Nikolas Kompridis is used. It is claimed tthat ritual action is connected to a primary disclosure attached to otherness with the intention of revealing the identity of the Ecclesia. Without identity, we are left with a never-ending debate and a continuous atomization where every answer exponentially provokes more questions. Communicative action then is connected with a secondary co-disclosure with the intention for the reaching of mutual understanding, making subjects accountable and responsible. Without communicative action we are bound on a long walk into the never ending sea of being. The missionary imperative in the Ecclesia is dependent on the co-existence of ritual action and communicative action.
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Filho, Josà Alves de Souza. "A metamorfose humana no mundo da vida: reconstruÃÃes epistemolÃgicas da perspectiva de identidade na Psicologia Social CrÃtica." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2017. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=20185.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de NÃvel SuperiorNa presente dissertaÃÃo reconstruÃmos as discussÃes entre a perspectiva de identidade humana, postulada como uma metamorfose na Psicologia Social CrÃtica, e as intersecÃÃes da Teoria CrÃtica da Sociedade de Habermas com as vertentes histÃrico-sociais da Fenomenologia. Esta problematizaÃÃo à relevante por aprofundar teoricamente, por meio de uma investigaÃÃo epistemolÃgica, os enunciados explÃcitos e implÃcitos nas discussÃes sobre a constituiÃÃo das identidades nos processos de construÃÃo de suas metamorfoses no Mundo da Vida. Nossa pesquisa empreendeu uma reconstruÃÃo, por um lado, do processo de criaÃÃo e solidificaÃÃo do sintagma Identidade-Metamorfose-EmancipaÃÃo, dentro da Psicologia Social CrÃtica, e, por outro lado, da proposiÃÃo de Habermas sobre o Mundo da Vida em sua Teoria da AÃÃo Comunicativa (2012a e 2012b) a partir de suas leituras sobre o pensamento histÃrico-social da Fenomenologia de Husserl, Schutz, Berger e Luckmann. Nossas fontes de pesquisa foram livros, artigos, teses, dissertaÃÃes e manuscritos dos referenciais teÃricos e epistemolÃgicos acima descritos. As discussÃes encontram-se estruturadas em: âPrÃlogoâ, uma explanaÃÃo da intersecÃÃo defendida por Ciampa, Almeida e Lima entre as metamorfoses humanas e o mundo da vida, alÃm de uma apresentaÃÃo do percurso de reconstruÃÃo enquanto mÃtodo; o capÃtulo âO Sintagma Identidade-Metamorfose-EmancipaÃÃoâ, no qual analisamos, por uma construÃÃo histÃrica e epistemolÃgica, o processo de formaÃÃo, evoluÃÃo e solidificaÃÃo do construto da metamorfose humana como busca de emancipaÃÃo, enquanto teoria de identidade na perspectiva da Psicologia Social CrÃtica; no capÃtulo âAcepÃÃes sobre o mundo da vidaâ reconstruimos a teoria social do Mundo da Vida de Habermas a partir de uma anÃlise e uma discussÃo sobre os alcances das leituras habermasianas sobre a Fenomenologia de Husserl, Schutz, Berger e Luckmann. Por fim, no âEpÃlogoâ, apresentamos acepÃÃes fenomenolÃgicas para a construÃÃo de discussÃes crÃticas sobre os processos de significaÃÃo das identidades, a partir de condiÃÃes subjetivas e intersubjetivas do mundo, que vislumbrem processos emancipatÃrios de (r)existÃncia.
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Kling, Sackerud Lili-Ann. "Elevers möjligheter att ta ansvar för sitt lärande i matematik : En skolstudie i postmodern tid." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Matematik, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-26608.
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This dissertation examines the ‘individual perspective’ of the Swedish school system’s policy documents by studying compulsory schooling’s stated aim of developing students’ ability and opportunities to assume responsibility for, be actively involved in and influence their own learning. Its main objective is to investigate the opportunities of compulsory school students to assume responsibility for their learning with regard to mathematics. In order to understand these opportunities, I have initially investigated how the school system in general and instruction in mathematics, in particular, are organised and carried out. I have also examined what forms student responsibility for, influence on and participation in their learning take in the context of instruction in mathematics. This study also intends to highlight questions related to understanding the social circumstances that affect students’ opportunities for assuming responsibility for their learning. The empirical material used for this study was collected via interviews and observations. The study was conducted as a case study using students from early schoolyear classes to the ninth school year at a Swedish compulsory school, with the purpose of analysing education in mathematics throughout the course of the compulsory schoolyear one to nine education. In considering the question of how responsibility, influence and participation is presented in the Swedish school system, it was also important to study the way students, teachers and school heads express and implement the idea of students assuming responsibility for their education both in general and more specifically with regard to their learning in mathematics. An important theoretical starting point for the study has been the phenomenological lifeworld concept. The concept has contributed to the study’s design and has provided the tools with which to examine student circumstances in an individual perspective. The adoption of a design theory perspective has also been important, especially in carrying out and analysing classroom-based observations. The most common methods and forms of work used in the classroom involved individual work using a mathematics textbook. The textbook itself proved to greatly determine the course and nature of instruction in mathematics, with the teacher’s role being one of assisting and supporting the students to progress through the book. The study also reveals obvious changes taking place in schools at present – from having previously focused on group-based, collective activities, the trend is moving increasingly toward more individual forms of work, e.g. that which is labelled ‘individual study’. The challenges faced by mathematics education in compulsory schools relate to the school’s position vis-à-vis the individual in relation to the group; how the exchange of experience between teachers can be made possible both within and across year levels in compulsory schools; and how mathematics education can reduce its dependence on textbooks and perhaps thereby strengthen the didactic roles and duties of teachers.
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Gray, Kevin William. "Problems with the system-lifeworld binary in Habermas's thought." Thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2011/28120/28120.pdf.
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Tilak, Shantanu Amod. "Alternative lifeworlds on the Internet: Habermas and democratic distance education." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587177594821112.
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Pentarchou, Konstantina. "Web 2.0 tools integration in Online Public AccessCatalogue (OPAC) : users desires and motivation." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-36326.
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This research aimed to investigate the desires of the users of the Greek public Library on Gender and Equality (LGE) about a future Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) containing Web2.0 functionalities. The concepts of participation, information pluralism and community building in relation with Web 2.0 tools in libraries’ catalogues were introduced under the theoretical approach provided by Social Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas. Aqualitative research based on semi-structured interviews with users of the LGE wasconducted and the collected data that were analysed with the thematic analysis method,revealed positive users’ impressions regarding the introduction of Web 2.0 tools in theLGE’s OPAC. The research also disclosed users’ desires and suggestions regarding specific Web 2.0 features and their common motivation to participate and contribute to be the opportunity of communicating with like-minded people.
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Mills, Kathy Ann. "Multiliteracies : a critical ethnography : pedagogy, power, discourse and access to multiliteracies." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16244/.
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The multiliteracies pedagogy of the New London Group is a response to the emergence of new literacies and changing forms of meaning-making in contemporary contexts of increased cultural and linguistic diversity. This critical ethnographic research investigates the interactions between pedagogy, power, discourses, and differential access to multiliteracies, among a group of culturally and linguistically diverse learners in a mainstream Australian classroom. The study documents the way in which a teacher enacted the multiliteracies pedagogy through a series of mediabased lessons with her year six (aged 11-12 years) class. The reporting of this research is timely because the multiliteracies pedagogy has become a key feature of Australian educational policy initiatives and syllabus requirements. The methodology of this study was based on Carspecken's critical ethnography. This method includes five stages: Stage One involved eighteen days of observational data collection over the course of ten weeks in the classroom. The multiliteracies lessons aimed to enable learners to collaboratively design a claymation movie. Stage Two was the initial analysis of data, including verbatim transcribing, coding, and applying analytic tools to the data. Stage Three involved semi-structured, forty-five minute interviews with the principal, teacher, and four culturally and linguistically diverse students. In Stages Four and Five, the results of micro-level data analysis were compared with macro-level phenomena using structuration theory and extant literature about access to multiliteracies. The key finding was that students' access to multiliteracies differed among the culturally and linguistically diverse group. Existing degrees of access were reproduced, based on the learners' relation to the dominant culture. In the context of the media-based lessons in which students designed claymation movies, students from Anglo-Australian, middle-class backgrounds had greater access to transformed designing than those who were culturally marginalised. These experiences were mediated by pedagogy, power, and discourses in the classroom, which were in turn influenced by the agency of individuals. The individuals were both enabled and constrained by structures of power within the school and the wider educational and social systems. Recommendations arising from the study were provided for teachers, principals, policy makers and researchers who seek to monitor and facilitate the success of the multiliteracies pedagogy in culturally and linguistically diverse educational contexts.
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Bursian, Olga, and olga bursian@arts monash edu au. "Uncovering the well-springs of migrant womens' agency: connecting with Australian public infrastructure." RMIT University. Social Science and Planning, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080131.113605.
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The study sought to uncover the constitution of migrant women's agency as they rebuild their lives in Australia, and to explore how contact with any publicly funded services might influence the capacity to be self determining subjects. The thesis used a framework of lifeworld theories (Bourdieu, Schutz, Giddens), materialist, trans-national feminist and post colonial writings, and a methodological approach based on critical hermeneutics (Ricoeur), feminist standpoint and decolonising theories. Thirty in depth interviews were carried out with 6 women migrating from each of 5 regions: Vietnam, Lebanon, the Horn of Africa, the former Soviet Union and the Philippines. Australian based immigration literature constituted the third corner of triangulation. The interviews were carried out through an exploration of themes format, eliciting data about the different ontological and epistemological assumptions of the cultures of origin. The findings revealed not only the women's remarkable tenacity and resilience as creative agents, but also the indispensability of Australia's publicly funded infrastructure or welfare state. The women were mostly privileged in terms of class, education and affirming relationships with males. Nevertheless, their self determination depended on contact with universal public policies, programs and with local community services. The welfare state seems to be modernity's means for re-establishing human connectedness that is the crux of the human condition. Connecting with fellow Australians in friendships and neighbourliness was also important in resettlement. Conclusions include a policy discussion in agreement with Australian and international scholars proposing that there is no alternative but for governments to invest in a welfare state for the civil societies and knowledge based economies of the 21st Century.
Books on the topic "Lifeworld theory"
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Maude, Falcone, ed. A wrong life: Studies in lifeworld-grounded critical theory. Stamford, CT: Jai Press, 1998.
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Williamson, Bill. Lifeworlds and learning: Essays in the theory, philosophy and practice of lifelong learning. Leicester [England]: NIACE, 1998.
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Habermas, Jürgen. Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and System : A Critique of Functionalist Reason (Theory of Communicative Action). Beacon Press, 1987.
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Dandaneau, Steven. Social and Cultural Theories: A Wrong Life: Studies in Lifeworld-grounded Critical Theory Vol 1 (Social and Cultural Theories , Vol 1). 7th ed. Elsevier Limited, 1996.
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Habermas, Jürgen. The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2: Lifeword and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason. Beacon Press, 1985.
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Anderson, Greg. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190886646.003.0001.
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The book’s point of departure is Dipesh Chakrabarty’s (2000) claim that the analytical tools of our mainstream historicism are irredeemably Eurocentrist, thereby causing us to lose the experiences of non-western peoples in translation. It aims to build on this postcolonial critique of historicism in three ways. First, our conventional historicist devices are not just Eurocentrist but essentially modernist. They cause us to lose in translation the experiences of all non-modern peoples, non-western and western alike. Second, this modernism is problematic specifically because it authorizes us to align non-modern realities with our own peculiarly modern ontological commitments, fundamentally altering the contents of those realities in the process. Third, to produce histories that are more ethically defensible, philosophically robust, and historically meaningful, we need to take an ontological turn in our practice. We need to analyse each non-modern lifeworld on its own ontological terms, in its own metaphysical conjuncture, according to its own particular standards of truth and realness. To support these three claims, the book uses the proverbially western lifeworld of classical Athens (ca. 480-320 BC) as its primary case study.
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Kukkonen, Karin. 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190913045.001.0001.
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The early novel developed modes of writing that are considered gripping and immersive, because they foreground physical states, meaningful gestures, and emotional excitement. This monograph shows how these changes relate to “embodied” and “enactive” cognition, “embed” themselves into the cultural and material contexts, and “extend” readers’ thoughts. In an investigation of works from Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Sarah Fielding, and Frances Burney, it traces the ways in which such “4E cognition” can contribute to a new perspective on stylistic and narrative changes in eighteenth-century fiction. The embodied dimension of literary language is then related to the media ecologies of letter writing, book learning, and theatricality in the eighteenth century. As the novel feeds off and into these social and material contexts, it comes into its own as a lifeworld technology that might not answer to standards of nineteenth-century realism but that feels real because it is integrated into the lifeworld and its embodied experiences. Together with the issue of realism, this book revisits traditional understandings of the “rise of the novel” and earlier historical perspectives in cognitive literary studies. And the perspective from 4E cognition, it is argued, opens links to book history and media ecologies that can launch historically situated cognitive approaches to literature.
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Partridge, Christopher. Occulture and Everyday Enchantment. Edited by James R. Lewis and Inga Tøllefsen. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466176.013.23.
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Debates around disenchantment and secularization have been central to sociological analyses of religion over the past five decades. While it has been widely argued that modernization leads to secular societies, such arguments have been challenged by empirical evidence to the contrary. The persistence of non-secular beliefs, such as those relating to the paranormal, suggests that theories of progression towards an absolutely secular condition are mistaken. Engaging these ideas, the theory of occulture, which highlights the significance of popular culture and everyday life in the construction of enchanted versions of reality, contributes to an understanding of the development and plausibility of contemporary non-secular lifeworlds.
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Atkinson, Will. Bourdieu and Schutz. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.17.
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Chapter abstract This chapter considers the relationship between the sociologies of Pierre Bourdieu and Alfred Schutz. It begins by making plain the shared rootedness of many of their ideas in the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and tracing the different directions in which they took that influence, given the dissimilar states of the intellectual fields they were positioned in. It then goes on to compare the two thinkers on philosophical anthropology and epistemology, making the case that Bourdieu’s relational worldview fills in significant gaps in Schutz’s account. However, the author subsequently argues that Schutz’s vocabulary can, in turn, help plug holes in Bourdieu’s perspective too, pushing the latter toward becoming a “relational phenomenology.” These holes are, first, the sketchy depiction of conscious activity associated with the concept of habitus and, second, the neglect of how individual lifeworlds are structured by multiple fields.
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Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph, and Dana Mahr. The Lived Genome. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0004.
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From a medical perspective, the genome can today be used primarily as a source of health information for diagnoses and prospective disease risk management. Gene therapy may be an option in the future. For scientists, the genome is the sum of an organism’s DNA molecules, which can be sequenced and used to explain heredity and development. What is a genome for those who have it in their bodies and who live it? How do they make sense of it? What meanings are associated with the genome in their lifeworlds, where identities are formed and decisions taken in personal, family and cultural contexts? It is a matter of perspectives. We all live a genome, but the questions that arise from people who live a genome are different from those raised by doctors and scientists who look at the genome as a functional part of cells. From the perspective of their own embodiment, people act
Book chapters on the topic "Lifeworld theory"
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Cudworth, Erika. "Domination in a Lifeworld of Complexity." In Developing Ecofeminist Theory, 156–78. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230509276_7.
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Nemirovsky, Ricardo. "Lifeworld as Category for the Learning Sciences." In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–6. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_669-1.
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Fong, Jack. "Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action and the Colonization of the Lifeworld." In The Death Café Movement, 53–86. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54256-0_3.
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Scambler, Graham. "Jürgen Habermas: Health and Healing Across the Lifeworld-System Divide." In The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine, 355–69. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137355621_23.
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Wójcik, Anna Iwona. "Lifeworld: A Comparative Study of Some Aspects of Chinese and Husserlian Theory." In Does the World Exist?, 675–82. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0047-5_42.
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Müller, Francis. "The Everyday World and Intersubjectivity." In Design Ethnography, 13–19. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60396-0_3.
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AbstractWe have learned through processes of socialization how to name and identify things, which helps us continually reduce complexity and bring order to the contingent world around us in our everyday life. At the same time, we move within many “small” social lifeworlds, or “multiple realities,” that are disconnected from one another and each have a particular cultural grammar in which “things” are loaded with quite a variety of meanings that impact and alter our identities. Design ethnographers also move within these small social lifeworlds. They should neither judge these morally nor overwrite them with their own values, but rather meet them with openness and sensitivity.
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Buchholz, Wolfgang, and Dirk Rübbelke. "The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods: The Lifework of Richard Cornes." In The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods, 1–5. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49442-5_1.
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Schorch, Philipp. "Introduction." In Ethnografische Perspektiven auf das östliche Europa, 11–28. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839455906-002.
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Philipp Schorch introduces 'Curating (Post-)socialist Environments', which addresses questions such as: In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual and aesthetic dimensions of these (post-)socialist enactments or interventions? And how do such (post-)socialist interventions in environments become (re)curated? This volume releases 'curation' from its usual museological framing and carries it into urban environments and private lifeworlds, from largely state-sponsored institutional settings with often normative orientations into spheres of subjectification, social creativity and material commemorative culture.
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Cradden, Conor. "System, Lifeworld and Points in Between." In A New Theory of Industrial Relations, 93–117. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315648071-4.
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"Implications for Environmental Theory and Design." In A Geography of the Lifeworld (Routledge Revivals), 66–72. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315715698-18.
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