The archaeology of knowledge
01 Sep 1989-pp 227-260
TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.
Abstract: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.
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TL;DR: In this article, a genealogical account of safeguarding in sport is presented, drawing specifically on Foucault's work, examining the politics of touch in relation to the social and historical formation of child protection policy in sports coaching.
Abstract: This paper offers a genealogical account of safeguarding in sport. Drawing specifically on Foucault's work, it examines the ‘politics of touch’ in relation to the social and historical formation of child protection policy in sports coaching. While the analysis has some resonance with the context of coaching as a whole, for illustrative purposes it focuses principally upon the sport of swimming. Our analysis demonstrates how the linked signifiers of ‘abuse’, ‘protection’ and ‘safeguarding’ produce both continuity and change in the philosophy and meaning around coaching practice, giving rise to particular notions of ‘government’ and regulation, risk aversion and prohibitions, and values. Within a culture of fear in sports coaching and society, the analysis traces the development of swimming policy following the exposure of select high-profile cases or critical incidents, where such historical events prompted a series of authoritative statements about the nature of child protection discourse in sport and edu...
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...It also shows the ‘reciprocal determination’ (Foucault, 2002a, p. 33) of policy, through publications like Working Together; a guide for inter-agency cooperation for the protection of children from abuse (DHSS, 1988), then prevalent in the field of health and social work....
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...…outcome is a sanitised and somewhat cleansed version of ethics in swimming, characterised, in Foucauldian terms, as a new ‘enunciative homogeneity’ (Foucault, 2002a, p. 162) or lexicon of abuse signifiers, presented here as a series of sub-title headings: ‘recognising abuse’ . . . ‘the main…...
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...In this evolving social context, child protection policy in sport is neither static nor preordained, but has rather transformed as a ‘subject that constitutes itself within history and is constantly established and re-established by history’ (Foucault, 2002b, p. 4) and events within society....
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...Indeed, the discontinuity in discourse between the documents*Code of Conduct and Ethics for Sports Coaches and Child Protection Procedures in Swimming*gives the appearance and impression that ‘everything is effaced in order to begin again’ (Foucault, 2002a, p. 163)....
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TL;DR: Given critiques of postfeminism as a neoliberal and patriarchal discourse that has taken considerable tolls on professional life, its popularity in organisational practice seems out of place as discussed by the authors, given the fact that "postfeminism is a critique of post-feminism".
Abstract: Given critiques of postfeminism as a neoliberal and patriarchal discourse that has taken considerable tolls on professional life, its popularity in organisational practice seems out of place. This ...
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...In light of these conflicting uses of postfeminism, Lewis (2014b) has suggested that it is more insightful to understand postfeminism as a discursive formation (Foucault, 1972) produced through hegemonic ideas of gender relations....
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Dissertation•
01 May 2019
TL;DR: University of the Free State: Post-Graduate School, and the School for Allied Health Professions - Research Committee
Abstract: University of the Free State: Post-Graduate School, and the School for Allied Health Professions - Research Committee
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...Knowledge cannot altogether escape these dimensions....
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...However, I chose this analogy more to show the relation between Savoir can be identified as “demonstrations…fiction, reflexion, narrative accounts, institutional regulations and political decisions” (Foucault, 1969/2011, p. 202)....
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...1 Savoir is the general, pre-existing, implicit origin of what is regarded as being known in any scientific discipline or, for the purpose of this study, profession (Foucault 1998, p. 261; Foucault, 1969/2011, p. 16)....
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...The first is savoir: the general, preexisting, implicit origin of what is regarded as being known in any society or scientific discipline (Foucault 1998, p. 261; Foucault, 1969/2011, p. 16)....
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TL;DR: The authors analyzed interview discourses with 26 female immigrant faculty members from multiple disciplines in the U.S. academy, and found that the majority of the participants were female immigrants from the Middle East.
Abstract: In light of limited attention to immigrant faculty (aka, international faculty) in the U.S. academy, we analyze interview discourses with 26 female immigrant faculty members from multiple disciplin...
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TL;DR: Trust between culture is a salient issue to tourism studies as discussed by the authors. But the effect of tourism on culture is disputed, and surrounded by a basic lack of trust, as tourists as well as hosts categorise 'others' by their most immediately functional role, which is economic.
Abstract: Trust between culture is a salient issue to tourism studies. But the effect of tourism on culture is disputed, and surrounded by a basic lack of trust. Tourists as well as hosts categorise 'others' by their most immediately functional role, which is economic. Yet difference is an unavoidable social fact and does not exempt one from the responsibility of social relationships. For tourism, simulations of 'the other' are desired but must be always kept distant. So difference is accentuated by commerce, maintained by role identification and exacerbated by the brevity of the tourist's encounter. Therefore, the social alchemy between host and tourist is marked with dominance, power and alienation. Trust is engagement with 'the other', a reflexive relationship of engagement over time. Trust can exist in the tourist's encounters when differential power relationships are recognised - and negotiated through sincere engagement and natural communication. Professionals and intellectuals as well as the tourist must tak...
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Book•
18 Jul 2003
TL;DR: Part 1: Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Texts, Social Events, and Social Practices 3. Intertextuality and Assumptions Part 2: Genres and Action 4. Genres 5. Meaning Relations between Sentences and Clauses 6. Discourses 8. Representations of Social Events Part 4: Styles and Identities 9. Modality and Evaluation 11. Conclusion
Abstract: Part 1: Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Texts, Social Events, and Social Practices 3. Intertextuality and Assumptions Part 2: Genres and Action 4. Genres 5. Meaning Relations between Sentences and Clauses 6. Types of Exchange, Speech Functions, and Grammatical Mood Part 3: Discourses and Representations 7. Discourses 8. Representations of Social Events Part 4: Styles and Identities 9. Styles 10. Modality and Evaluation 11. Conclusion
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TL;DR: A set of principles for the conduct and evaluation of interpretive field research in information systems is proposed, along with their philosophical rationale, and the usefulness of the principles is illustrated by evaluating three publishedinterpretive field studies drawn from the IS research literature.
Abstract: This article discusses the conduct and evaluatoin of interpretive research in information systems. While the conventions for evaluating information systems case studies conducted according to the natural science model of social science are now widely accepted, this is not the case for interpretive field studies. A set of principles for the conduct and evaluation of interpretive field research in information systems is proposed, along with their philosophical rationale. The usefulness of the principles is illustrated by evaluating three published interpretive field studies drawn from the IS research literature. The intention of the paper is to further reflect and debate on the important subject of grounding interpretive research methodology.
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01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: In Sorting Things Out, Bowker and Star as mentioned in this paper explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world and examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary.
Abstract: What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification -- the scaffolding of information infrastructures. In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis. The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Much as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. Sorting Things Out has a moral agenda, for each standard and category valorizes some point of view and silences another. Standards and classifications produce advantage or suffering. Jobs are made and lost; some regions benefit at the expense of others. How these choices are made and how we think about that process are at the moral and political core of this work. The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.
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TL;DR: In this article, two such metaphors are identified: the acquisition metaphor and the participation metaphor, and their entailments are discussed and evaluated, and the question of theoretical unification of research on learning is addressed, wherein the purpose is to show how too great a devotion to one particular metaphor can lead to theoretical distortions and to undesirable practices.
Abstract: This article is a sequel to the conversation on learning initiated by the editors of Educational Researcher in volume 25, number 4. The author’s first aim is to elicit the metaphors for learning that guide our work as learners, teachers, and researchers. Two such metaphors are identified: the acquisition metaphor and the participation metaphor. Subsequently, their entailments are discussed and evaluated. Although some of the implications are deemed desirable and others are regarded as harmful, the article neither speaks against a particular metaphor nor tries to make a case for the other. Rather, these interpretations and applications of the metaphors undergo critical evaluation. In the end, the question of theoretical unification of the research on learning is addressed, wherein the purpose is to show how too great a devotion to one particular metaphor can lead to theoretical distortions and to undesirable practices.
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TL;DR: Problematization is proposed as a methodology for identifying and challenging assumptions underlying existing literature and, based on that, formulating research questions that are likely to lead to more influential theories.
Abstract: It is increasingly recognized that what makes a theory interesting and influential is that it challenges our assumptions in some significant way. However, established ways for arriving at research questions mean spotting or constructing gaps in existing theories rather than challenging their assumptions. We propose problematization as a methodology for identifying and challenging assumptions underlying existing literature and, based on that, formulating research questions that are likely to lead to more influential theories.
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