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Critical Investigation of the Sierra Leone Conlfict: A Moral Practical Reconstruction of Crisis and Colonization in the Evolution of SocietyKabba, Munya 06 December 2012 (has links)
This Sierra Leone Conflict arose from the society’s failure to institutionalize the requisite post-conventional organizing principle for collective will formation and for conflict resolution. In this post-traditional society - one artificially constructed from diverse political and cultural groups, without a shared ethos – only mutual (communicative) understanding can resolve differences and ensure solidarity. A lack of mutual understanding overburdens the adaptive capacity of the society, creating crises tendencies. Repression only intensified these tendencies, ensuring their eventual catastrophic explosion, 11 years civil conflict.
State hindrances to social (communicative) interaction rendered the society incapable of realizing the requisite post conventional moral learning i.e. the social intelligence or problem-solving equipment required to resolve conflict, decolonize itself, neutralize normative power, shed dogmatic consciousness, change oppressive conventions, and influential customs. Thus, the study promotes civic virtues of post conventional morality (justice, truthfulness, moral rightness) as the key for liberating the society from its crisis-inducing colonial organizing principle.
As the basis of sociology, the discipline the remains focused on society-wide problems, the theory of social evolution is adopted here to reconstruct the crisis in Sierra Leone’s constitutional democratic development. The study uses the rational reconstructive method to explicate problematic validity claims of norms, policy decisions, or the social order. The social order was rendered crisis-ridden because the reasons - the axis around which mutual understanding revolve - adduced for it cannot admit of consensus. The emerging social disintegration exemplifies use of deficient logic in social interaction, one below the requisite categorical moral cognitive consciousness.
For this research, colonization is not necessarily externally induced, but forms of understanding in the political, legal, social, and educational interactions. The key point of the study is this: today Sierra Leone achieves solidarity, and decolonize from its conventional organizing principle, only if the state, economy, and civil society can find their limit in the socio-cultural domain.
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Experiences of participants in the field of food insecurity through the lens of Bourdieu's cultural capital : practical and theoretical explorationsGough, Margot 02 1900 (has links)
Ce mémoire utilise des données qualitatives provenant d’entretiens semi-structurés pour examiner les ressources qu’utilisent les individus qui font face à l’insécurité alimentaire sous l’angle du capital culturel de Pierre Bourdieu. Les participants étaient choisis parmi les usagers des organismes alternatifs qui œuvrent en sécurité alimentaire à Montréal. Tous étaient en situation d’insécurité alimentaire. Des analyses inductives et déductives étaient exécutées. Seize indicateurs de la forme du capital culturel incorporée, et trois indicateurs de chacune des formes institutionnalisées et objectivées ont été trouvés à être reliés aux stratégies qu’utilisaient les répondants pour améliorer leur situation alimentaire. Cette recherche nous indique que le capital culturel individuel joue un rôle dans les stratégies utilisées, incluant la participation dans les organismes communautaires. De plus, un manque de capital approprié peut servir comme barrière à la participation dans certaines stratégies ce qui pourra avancer des réflexions sur la justesse et l’efficacité des stratégies actuelles. / Using qualitative semi-structured interview data, this thesis examines the resources used by food insecure Montrealers through the lens of Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital. Respondents were chosen among users of alternative community food security organizations and all were food insecure. Inductive and deductive analyses were performed. Sixteen indicators of embodied cultural capital and three indicators of each of institutionalized and objectified cultural capital were found to be related to the strategies respondents used to try to improve their situation of food insecurity. This research demonstrates that cultural capital plays a role in the strategies employed by food insecure Montrealers, including the participation in community-based organizations. In addition, a lack of appropriate capital can serve as a barrier to participation in certain strategies. Further examination of these barriers could help to deepen understanding of the appropriateness and effectiveness of the current community strategies to face food insecurity.
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Teachers' professional identity in the digital world : a digital ethnography of Religious Education teachers' engagement in online social spaceRobson, James January 2014 (has links)
This thesis presents an ethnographic investigation of teachers’ peer-to-peer engagement in online social spaces, using the concept of teachers’ professional identity as a framework to shape and focus the study. Using Religious Education (RE) as a strong example of the wider phenomenon of teachers’ online engagement, three online social spaces (the Times Educational Supplement’s RE Forum, the National Association of Teachers of RE Facebook Page, and the Save RE Facebook Group) were investigated as case studies. A year was spent in these spaces with digital ethnographic research taking place simultaneously in each one. Data gathering primarily took the form of participant observations, in depth analysis of time-based sampled text (three 8-week samples from each space), online and offline narrative based interviews and, to a lesser extent, questionnaires, elite interviews and analysis of grey literature. The study finds that engagement in the online social spaces offered teachers opportunities to perform and construct their professional identities across a variety of topics ranging from local practical concerns to national political issues. In more practical topics the spaces could often be observed as acting as communities of practice in which professional learning took place and identities were constructed, with such online professional development influencing offline classroom practice. However, engaging across this spectrum of topics afforded users a broad conception of what it means to be a teacher, where professional identity was understood as going beyond classroom practice and integrating engagement with subject-wide, political and policy related issues at a national level. Such engagement provided many users with a feeling of belonging to a national community of peers, which, alongside political activism initiated in online interaction and meaning making debates concerning the future and identity of the subject, provided teachers with feelings of empowerment and a sense of ownership of their subject. However, the study found that teachers’ online engagement took place within structures embedded in the online social spaces that influenced and shaped engagement and the ways in which users’ professional identities were performed and constructed. These structures were linked with the design and technical affordances of the spaces, the agendas of the parent organisations that provided the spaces, and the discourses that dominated the spaces. These aspects of the spaces provided a structure that limited engagement, content and available online identity positions while additionally projecting ideal identity positions, distinctive in each space. These ideal identity positions had a constructive influence over many users who aspired to these ideals, often gaining confidence through expressing such socially validated ideals or feeling inadequate when failing to perform such ideal identity positions. Thus, this study finds a complex relationship between agency linked with active online identity performance and the constructive influence of embedded structures that contributed to the shaping of users’ engagement and their understandings of themselves as professionals and their subject.
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Análise da utilização do mapa conceitual com proposições incorretas como instrumento avaliativo em uma sala de aula invertida / Analysis of the use of conceptual map with incorrect propositions as an evaluation tool in an flipped classroomCorrêa, Ronise Ribeiro 15 February 2019 (has links)
Os mapas conceituais são organizadores gráficos utilizados no processo de ensino e de aprendizagem. Sua efetividade em sala de aula é pouco explorada como instrumento avaliativo por alguns motivos como o treinamento dos alunos, na sua elaboração e na devolutiva do professor aos alunos, que pode ser influenciada pela forma de abordagem e recepção. Essa pesquisa teve por objetivo investigar a utilização dos mapas conceituais com proposições incorretas como instrumento avaliativo em uma sala de aula invertida Flipped Classroom. Foi investigado também quais as estratégias de ensino e de aprendizagem utilizadas pelo professor e pelos alunos para se planejarem e se organizarem dentro da disciplina. Três estudos foram realizados para analisar o efeito do mapa conceitual com proposições incorretas no desempenho dos alunos (Estudo 1), como os alunos se prepararam para as aulas e para as provas em uma disciplina cuja metodologia da sala de aula foi invertida (Estudo 2) e quais foram as estratégias de ensino e de aprendizagem utilizadas pelo professor e pelos alunos nessa organização pedagógica (Estudo 3). Participaram dessa pesquisa 86 alunos ingressos na Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades da Universidade de São Paulo, no primeiro semestre de 2016, na disciplina de Ciências da Natureza. O referencial teórico fundamentou-se na Teoria da Carga Cognitiva de Sweller (1988) e na Teoria Social Cognitiva de Bandura (1986). A abordagem utilizada para a pesquisa foi mista sendo no Estudo 1 e Estudo 2 quantitativa e no Estudo 3 a qualitativa e o procedimento escolhido foi o estudo de caso. Os resultados obtidos evidenciaram que: o mapa conceitual com proposição incorreta pode ser mais uma ferramenta avaliativa agregada às que são usualmente utilizadas pelos professores em sala de aula; o mapa conceitual com a demanda da tarefa sem direcionamento instrucional foi considerado mais difícil pelos alunos do que o que possuía uma demanda com direcionamento instrucional; a metodologia da sala de aula invertida causou um efeito favorável para que os alunos participassem e se preparassem mais para as aulas e para as provas mesmo que no início tenha havido uma relutância por parte deles; quanto mais estratégias de ensino o professor disponibiliza em suas aulas mais satisfatória e mais eficiente é a interação entre ele e seus alunos, o que propicia devolutivas mais pontuais e assertivas para os alunos promovendo a ressonância pedagógica entre eles professor e aluno. As análises revelaram que os mapas conceituais com proposições incorretas são muito bons para serem utilizados como um instrumento avaliativo, que a diversidade metodológica da sala de aula influenciou positivamente no processo de ensino e de aprendizagem e que as escolhas de estratégias podem potencializar esse processo permitindo a regulação do ensino pelo professor e autorregulação da aprendizagem por parte dos alunos. / Concept maps are graphic organizers used in the teaching and learning process. However, their effectiveness in the classroom is little explored in the literature mainly in the evaluation for some reasons such as the training of students in their elaboration, the amount of differentiated maps for the teacher to correct and in the composition of a scoring system so that they do not become a tool for the superficial and memoristic understanding of the content addressed in the classroom. The objective of this work was to investigate the effect of using conceptual maps in an unusual way: elaborated by the teacher of the discipline with incorrect propositions as an evaluation tool within an inverted methodological proposal - Flipped Classroom. The study also verified the teaching and learning strategies used by the teacher and the students to plan and organize their formative process within the discipline. Three studies were conducted to analyze the impact of this conceptual map on student performance (Study 1), as students prepared for classes and for tests with a discipline that inverted classroom methodology (Study 2) and which were the teaching and learning strategies used by the teacher and the students in this pedagogical organization (Study 3). A total of 86 students participated in the study of the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of the University of São Paulo, in the first semester of 2016, in the discipline of Natural Sciences and the professor of the discipline. The theoretical framework was based on Sweller\'s Theory of Cognitive Load (1988) and on Curative Social Theory of Bandura (1986). The case study approach was used and the methodology adopted was differentiated for the studies: in Study 1 and Study 2 it was the quantitative one and in Study 3 it was used the qualitative one. The results obtained showed that (1) this conceptual map style can be an additional evaluative tool that is usually used by teachers; (2) task instruction on the conceptual map influences the student\'s understanding of knowledge; (3) the methodology of the inverted classroom has a favorable impact on the quantity and quality of time invested by the students in the preparation for the classes and proof; (4) the inverted classroom is a methodology that generates a more active and dynamic participation of the students, which in the first moment causes a reluctance on their part; (5) the more teaching strategies the teacher offers in his classes, the more interaction and punctual feedbacks occur between students and him promoting pedagogic resonance and (6) the more students use learning strategies, the more they excel in the subject. The analyzes revealed that the conceptual maps with incorrect propositions are very good to be used as an evaluation tool, that the methodological diversity of the classroom influenced positively in the teaching and learning process and that the strategies choices can potentiate this process allowing the teacher regulation and self-regulation of student learning.
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Die Grenzen sozialer und räumlicher ZugehörigkeitSchultze, Henrik 26 July 2017 (has links)
Diese Dissertation diskutiert am Beispiel der symbolischen Kämpfe zwischen kürzlich Zugezogenen und den Resten alteingesessener subkultureller Gruppen im Berliner Stadtteil Prenzlauer Berg die Frage, welche Rolle Orte bei der Konstruktion räumlicher und sozialer Identitäten spielen und entlang welcher Grenzziehungen diese Identifikationen organisiert werden. Empirisch stützt sich die Arbeit auf Tiefeninterviews mit den oben genannten Gruppen und einer Mediendiskursanalyse zum umstrittenen Symbol „Prenzlauer Berg“. Soziale Identität, das simultane Wechselspiel interner Identifikation und externer Kategorisierung (Jenkins 1996), ist eng verbunden mit der Frage nach Zugehörigkeit. Das Konzept des elective belonging (Savage et al. 2005) zeigt die Verbindung von Lebensstil und Wohnort. Diese Arbeit weist darüber hinaus auf den Zusammenhang zwischen einer starken symbolischen und praktischen Nachbarschaftsnutzung (Blokland 2011) der Zugezogenen und deren hoher Ortsidentifikation hin. Die eingesessene Subkultur Prenzlauer Bergs interpretiert diese symbolische Nutzung als einen Angriff auf die alte Ordnung im Kiez und bezieht ihre Verbindung mit dem Ort, infolge der fundamentalen Wandlungsprozesse, aus dem Erinnern (Halbwachs 1991) an eine Zeit, in der sie selbst sich den Raum aneigneten. Damit stellen sie der neuen Bedeutung Prenzlauer Bergs eine frühere Bedeutung, d.h. eine spezifische Vorstellung räumlicher Normalität, entgegen. Ausdruck dieser konkurrierenden Definitionen von Zugehörigkeit sind symbolische Grenzziehungen (Lamont; Molnár 2002) gegenüber neuen Bewohner_innen, die sich auch im medialen Diskurs über den Prenzlauer Berg wiederfinden. Dabei wird klar, dass die subkulturellen Stimmen zwar die Definition von Zugehörigkeit dominieren, der identifikatorische Zugriff auf die Nachbarschaft aber nur noch selektiv gelingt. Demgegenüber müssen die kürzlich Zugezogenen stetig um die Legitimation ihrer Zugehörigkeit kämpfen. / This thesis explores the role of place within constructions of social and spatial identities, and symbolic boundary work using the case of existing subcultural groups and affluent newcomers in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg. Empirically, this work draws on in-depth-interviews with both groups as well as a media discourse analysis of the contested meanings of the symbol ‘Prenzlauer Berg’. Social identity, understood as the simultaneous interplay of internal identification and external categorization (Jenkins 1996) is strongly related to a sense of belonging. While the concept of elective belonging (Savage et al. 2005) shows a connection between lifestyle and neighbourhood, this thesis also points to the strong relationship between symbolic and practical neighbourhood use (Blokland 2011), and place identification of newcomers. Subcultural groups read the newcomers’ symbolic neighbourhood use as an attack on the old order of the “Kiez”. Due to substantial neighbourhood change, these subcultures draw on remembering times (Halbwachs 1991) when their neighbourhood use was strong, both symbolically and practically. In this process, an old meaning of the neighbourhood (i.e. a specific notion of what the place used to be) is constructed in contrast to new meanings. These constructions are expressed in symbolic boundary work (Lamont; Molnár 2002) towards newcomers, a process which powerfully connects to media discourse. It becomes clear, then, that although a definition of belonging is dominated by the subculture, their access to the neighbourhood in terms of identification is only selective. In contrast, newcomers have to constantly defend their legitimacy to belong.
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Antes que seja queimada a última tonelada de carvão fóssil: sustentabilidade e mudanças climáticas no Brasil / Before the last ton of coal is burnt: sustainability and climate change in BrazilMozine, Augusto Cesar Salomão 04 May 2009 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2009-05-04 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / To approach the subject of relationship between natural and social world from the construction of the modern way of life and its main elements based on rationality. This way, confronts the core of modernity historical project with the question of environmental rationality and of sustainable development, concerning the opposition between modernity and nature. In this context, study the nexus among sustainable development and modern and environmental rationalities in order to certify an environmental crisis expressed as a crisis of the current way of life. For that, analyzes the incorporation of the environmental question on the contemporary social debate, from international discussion initiated on 1970 s. In this sense, to demonstrate how the institutionalization of the discussion on global warming results in a policy on climate change, embodied on the implementation of Kyoto Protocol to United nations Framework-Convention on Climate Change and its mechanism. Finally, to approach the construction of a national regime on climate change in Brazil, from a legal-political bias, in which the sustainable question is inferred / Aborda a temática da relação entre mundos natural e social, através da construção do modo de vida moderno e seus principais elementos, calcados na racionalidade. Dessa maneira, confronta o âmago do projeto histórico da modernidade com a questão da racionalidade ambiental e do desenvolvimento sustentável, através da oposição entre modernidade e natureza. Nesse contexto, estuda o nexo entre desenvolvimento sustentável e racionalidades moderna e ambiental para se constatar uma crise ambiental, expressa como crise do modo de vida vigente. Para tanto, analisa a incorporação da questão do meio ambiente no debate social contemporâneo, a partir das discussões internacionais iniciadas na década de 1970. Nesse sentido, demonstra como a institucionalização da discussão sobre o aquecimento global resulta em uma política pública internacional sobre mudanças climáticas consubstanciada na implementação do Protocolo de Quito à Convenção-Quadro das Nações Unidas sobre Mudanças Climáticas e seus mecanismo. Por fim, aborda a construção de um regime nacional de mudanças climáticas no Brasil, por meio de um viés de jurídico-político, no qual se infere a questão da sustentabilidade
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Antes que seja queimada a última tonelada de carvão fóssil: sustentabilidade e mudanças climáticas no Brasil / Before the last ton of coal is burnt: sustainability and climate change in BrazilMozine, Augusto Cesar Salomão 04 May 2009 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2009-05-04 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / To approach the subject of relationship between natural and social world from the construction of the modern way of life and its main elements based on rationality. This way, confronts the core of modernity historical project with the question of environmental rationality and of sustainable development, concerning the opposition between modernity and nature. In this context, study the nexus among sustainable development and modern and environmental rationalities in order to certify an environmental crisis expressed as a crisis of the current way of life. For that, analyzes the incorporation of the environmental question on the contemporary social debate, from international discussion initiated on 1970 s. In this sense, to demonstrate how the institutionalization of the discussion on global warming results in a policy on climate change, embodied on the implementation of Kyoto Protocol to United nations Framework-Convention on Climate Change and its mechanism. Finally, to approach the construction of a national regime on climate change in Brazil, from a legal-political bias, in which the sustainable question is inferred / Aborda a temática da relação entre mundos natural e social, através da construção do modo de vida moderno e seus principais elementos, calcados na racionalidade. Dessa maneira, confronta o âmago do projeto histórico da modernidade com a questão da racionalidade ambiental e do desenvolvimento sustentável, através da oposição entre modernidade e natureza. Nesse contexto, estuda o nexo entre desenvolvimento sustentável e racionalidades moderna e ambiental para se constatar uma crise ambiental, expressa como crise do modo de vida vigente. Para tanto, analisa a incorporação da questão do meio ambiente no debate social contemporâneo, a partir das discussões internacionais iniciadas na década de 1970. Nesse sentido, demonstra como a institucionalização da discussão sobre o aquecimento global resulta em uma política pública internacional sobre mudanças climáticas consubstanciada na implementação do Protocolo de Quito à Convenção-Quadro das Nações Unidas sobre Mudanças Climáticas e seus mecanismo. Por fim, aborda a construção de um regime nacional de mudanças climáticas no Brasil, por meio de um viés de jurídico-político, no qual se infere a questão da sustentabilidade
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The small rural school and community relations in Scotland, 1872-2000 : an interdisciplinary historyYoung, Helen Louise January 2016 (has links)
Seeking to fill a gap in the historiography, this study provides a closely-observed but contextualised social history of Scotland’s rural schools from the late nineteenth century through to the end of the twentieth century. Though particularly concerned with the period following the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, consideration is given to earlier developments to ensure a depth of understanding and an appreciation of the subtleties of local experience. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, and combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the thesis draws together three layers of research: a detailed regional case study of the Highland Perthshire parishes of Fortingall, Kenmore and Killin; a quasi-random sample of sixty-six rural districts from across Scotland; and a national overview. In doing so, it challenges oft-made generalisations about rural life and provides a more nuanced picture of change and continuity in educational policy and practice across Scotland. Focusing in on the relationship between the small rural schools and their communities, the social dimensions of educational provision are explored in depth with special attention being paid to who taught, attended and supported the schools, and how they operated as educational and social spaces. To frame and guide discussion, three core themes – gender, culture and citizenship – are explored throughout and elements of social theory are drawn on to aid analysis and interpretation.
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As novas formas de controle em One Dimensional Man, de Herbert MarcuseJannarelli, Vicente Claudio 01 October 2010 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2010-10-01 / One-Dimensonal Man deals with certain basic tendencies in contemporary industrial society which seem indicate a new phase of civilization. These tendencies have engendered a mode of thought and behavior which undermined the very foundations of the traditional culture. The main characteristic of this new mode of thought and behavior is the repression of all values, aspirations, and ideas which cannot be defined in terms of operations and attitudes validated by the prevailing forms of rationality. The consequence is the weakening and even the disappearance of all genuinely radical critique, the integration of all opposition in the established system.
Herbert Marcuse develops, in One-Dimensional Man, a model both of his critical social theory and of his critical philosophy inspired by his philosophical studies and his work with the Frankfurt School. Also describes a the mechanisms through which the advanced industrial society integrates individuals into its world of thought and behavior. Identifying these mechanisms - the new forms of control , according to Marcuse - their origin, the relationship and synergy amongst themselves are the main scopes of this present job / One-Dimensional Man trabalha com certas tendências básicas da sociedade industrial avançada que parecem indicar uma nova fase de civilização. Tais tendências geraram uma forma de pensamento e comportamento que minou a base da cultura tradicional. A principal característica dessa nova forma de pensamento e de comportamento é a repressão de todos os valores, aspirações, e idéias que não podem ser definidas em termos de operações e atitudes validadas pelas formas prevalecentes de racionalidade. A conseqüência é o enfraquecimento e mesmo o desaparecimento de toda crítica genuinamente radical, a integração de toda oposição no sistema estabelecido.
Herbert Marcuse desenvolve, em One-Dimensional Man, não apenas um modelo de crítica social, como também sua filosofia crítica inspirada por seus estudos filosóficos e por trabalho desenvolvido junto à Escola de Frankfurt. Descreve também os mecanismos através dos quais a sociedade industrial avançada integra indivíduos em seu mundo de pensamento e comportamento. Identificar esses mecanismos as novas formas de controle , conforme Marcuse sua origem, o relacionamento e sinergia entre eles são os principais objetivos da presente dissertação
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Recognition of Prior Learning in Health Care : From a Caring Ideology and Power, to Communicative Action and Recognition / Validering i omvårdnadssektorn : från en omvårdande ideologi och makt, till kommunikativt handlande och erkännandeSandberg, Fredrik January 2012 (has links)
During the last decades Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) has become a more frequently used method to recognise adult’s prior learning. This thesis analyses a process of RPL in health care, where health care assistants are assessed against subjects in the upper-secondary health care program. Prior research on RPL is to a high degree non-theoretical and focus is primarily on policy level research. This thesis adds to the field by progressing a critical social theory perspective on RPL. In the thesis the RPL process is analysed through Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action and Axel Honneth’s Recognition theory. General questions posed are: What are the power issues in the RPL process? What implications does the tension between the lifeworld of work and the system of education have? What consequences does mutual understanding and communication have for the outcome of the RPL process? What part does recognition play for the participants? The results disclose the power relations that emerge in the relationship between participants and teachers. A caring ideology is developed and problematized. Further, the importance of mutual understanding between participant and teachers in the assessment of prior learning is discussed focusing on the consequences a lack of mutual understanding could have for the outcome in such assessments. On a macro level the analysis demonstrates the tension between the participants prior learning and the educational systems demand for formalising prior learning. In addition, analyses of a more developmental character that intends to show the potential for critical learning, change and recognition are progressed. The results suggest that communicative action can be used to develop RPL into processes focusing on critical learning and change. Recognition of traits and abilities could also enhance individual’s positive relations with the self. Such recognition could develop self-confidence and thus RPL could encourage learning and cultivate continuing self-realisation through work. / Validering har under de senaste decennierna blivit en alltmer använd metod för att erkänna vuxnas tidigare lärande. Denna avhandling analyserar en valideringsprocess inom omvårdnadssektorn för vårdbiträden med mångårig erfarenhet. Vårdbiträdena valideras mot ämnen inom omvårdnadsprogrammets karaktärsämnen. Tidigare forskning om validering är i hög grad icke-teoretisk och mycket fokus har legat på policynivå. Denna avhandling bidrar till forskningsfältet genom att problematisera validering utifrån ett kritiskt samhällsteoretiskt perspektiv. I avhandlingen analyseras valideringsprocessen utifrån Jürgen Habermas teori om det kommunikativa handlandet och Axel Honneths erkännandeteori. Exempel på mer generella frågor som ställs är: Vilka är maktfaktorerna i valideringsprocessen? Är handlingarna i processen koordinerade mot gemensam förståelse? Hur ser förhållandet mellan system och livsvärld ut? Vilken roll spelar erkännandet i validering för deltagarna? Resultatet synliggör de maktförhållanden som uppstår mellan deltagare och lärare i bedömningsprocessen. En omvårdande ideologi lyfts fram och problematiseras. Därtill diskuteras betydelsen av gemensam förståelse mellan deltagare och lärare vid bedömning, samt vilka konsekvenser brist på gemensam förståelse kan få. På ett makroplan åskådliggör analysen spänningen mellan deltagarnas erfarenheter och utbildningssystemets krav på formalisering. Vidare genomförs mer utvecklingsfokuserade analyser som vill visa på möjligheterna för kritiskt lärande och förändring i validering. Resultatet demonstrerar också, bland annat, betydelsen av att bli erkänd för sina förmågor och hur detta kan utveckla individens självuppskattning och främja lärande. I studien föreslås det att kommunikativt handlande kan utgöra en norm för hur validering kan utvecklas mot mer kritiskt lärande och positiv förändring. Men också att erkännande av tidigare förmågor kan gynna individens positiva relation till sig själv, hur detta främjar lärande, självuppskattning och hur validering därmed kan utgöra en grund för ett vidare självförverkligande genom arbete.
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