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Holistic Learning Versus Instrumentalism in Teacher Education: Lessons from Values Pedagogy and Related Research

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2020
This article constitutes a literature review, focusing on the idea of holistic learning, as found in key sources, and its essential contrasting with instrumentalist approaches to learning.
Terence Lovat
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Prediction paradigm: the human price of instrumentalism. [PDF]

open access: yesAI Soc, 2020
Reflecting on the rise of instrumentalism, we learn how it has travelled across the academic boundary to the high-tech culture of Silicon Valley. At its core lies the prediction paradigm.
Gill KS.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Logical Instrumentalism and Anti-exceptionalism about Logic

open access: yesErkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy, 2023
This paper critically examines logical instrumentalism as it has been put forth recently in the anti-exceptionalism about logic debate. I will argue that if one wishes to uphold the claim that logic is significantly similar to science, as the anti ...
Leon Commandeur
semanticscholar   +1 more source

School‐as‐Institution or School‐as‐Instrument? How to Overcome Instrumentalism without Giving Up on Democracy

open access: yesEducational Theory, 2022
In contemporary societies, there is a strong push toward seeing education as an instrument for the delivery of particular societal agendas. On such a view, the only questions that remain are how effective education is at delivering such agendas and how ...

semanticscholar   +1 more source

Citizenship without identity? Instrumentalism, nationalism and naturalization in Chinese men's football

open access: yesInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2023
Representing the nation in sports mega events has become a highly contested issue with the acceleration of the transnational movement of athletes. This research has examined Chinese people's attitudes to the naturalization of football players.
Peizi Han, Shengying Tang, A. Bairner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Embedded Epistemic Instrumentalism: An Account of Epistemic Normativity

open access: yesPhilosophers' Imprint, 2022
We are bombarded with epistemic norms. Respect your evidence. Don’t believe in contradictions. Don’t arbitrarily change beliefs. But how do such norms get their normative force? Why should we respect our evidence, for example?
J. Willoughby
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Beyond instrumentalism: Broadening the understanding of social innovation in socio-technical energy systems

open access: yesEnergy Research & Social Science, 2020
Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes, participatory governance approaches to energy questions, or new discourses.
Julia M. Wittmayer   +20 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Más allá de la dicotomía realismo-instrumentalismo

open access: yesCrítica, 2019
My main purpose is to show that (1) the standard characterization of instrumentalism (Duhem) fails to grasp adequately the complexity of the cognitive status of important scientific theories in the past, e.g.
Ricardo J. Gómez
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Instrumentalism Revisited

open access: yesCrítica, 2018
Instrumentalism Revisited 
Elliott Sober
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The Philosophy of Technology: a survey in essentialist and instrumentalist approach to technology of media [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه, 2012
As a result of going behind tradition and criticizing its foundations and based upon objective and subjective elements established through centuries, modern rationality has determined a special kind of life-style, an important feature of it is the ...
hoseyn hushangi, mohammad reza ruhani
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