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Migrant language education in a Nation of Sanctuary

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent reports and research evidence on the organisation and provision of language education for migrants in the UK have illuminated numerous shortfalls. Challenges have been identified not only in the ability of providers to deliver enough English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes to meet need, but also in the way that ESOL ...
Mike Chick
wiley   +1 more source

The myth of the Humanities in crisis

open access: yesDigithum, 2004
Denying from the start that Humanities are in crisis, the author examines certain aspects of this statement, reflecting on what is meant by stating that the Humanities are in crisis, arguing for the growing interest in human sciences and looking more ...
Josep Maria Terricabras
doaj  

REALISM OR IDEALISM? PERSPECTIVES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY FROM A PRACTICING HISTORIAN

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review essay argues that the realist philosophy of history, as represented by Adam Timmins in Towards a Realist Philosophy of History, raises interesting questions about the nature of historical writing and challenges some of the foundations of idealist philosophy of history.
Stefan Berger
wiley   +1 more source

Bioethics: Reincarnation of Natural Philosophy in Modern Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The theory of evolution of complex and comprising of human systems and algorithm for its constructing are the synthesis of evolutionary epistemology, philosophical anthropology and concrete scientific empirical basis in ...
Cheshko, Valentin Teodorovich   +2 more
core  

ON HISTORICAL (ANTI‐)REALISM

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The problem of historical realism has gained some new momentum recently, with a fresh challenge to what is taken to be an anti‐realist hegemony in the theory and philosophy of history. Unfortunately, this has also provided the opportunity for the reheating of old polemics and lazy scholarship that characterized the 1990s reaction to ...
João Ohara
wiley   +1 more source

UNIVERSALITY IN THE CLIMATE CATASTROPHE: RETHINKING CHAKRABARTY'S ANTHROPOCENE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY WITH MERLEAU‐PONTY'S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article critically examines Dipesh Chakrabarty's concept of Anthropocene history, a philosophy of history that is designed to respond to the universal challenge of the Anthropocene. It uses the work of Maurice Merleau‐Ponty to mitigate the pitfalls of Chakrabarty's concept and to propose an alternative relation between nature and history.
Andréa Delestrade
wiley   +1 more source

Good Public Theology is Twilight Theology. A Constructive Deconstruction of Public Theology

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article outlines the basic features of a good public theology that is inspired by Paul’s description of the situation of the church and Christians: ‘The night has passed, the day is not far distant’ (Rom 13:12). In his analysis of the present, the author identifies eight specific challenges of contemporary culture – challenges that have so
Günter Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda

open access: yesInformation Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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