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Suplementary_Table_S1_Impact-evaluations_commissioned_by_the_Ministry_of_Employment – Supplemental material for The constitutive effects of evaluation systems: Lessons from the policymaking process of Danish Active Labour Market Policies
No full textSupplemental material, Suplementary_Table_S1_Impact-evaluations_commissioned_by_the_Ministry_of_Employment for The constitutive effects of evaluation systems: Lessons from the policymaking process of Danish Active Labour Market Policies by Niklas Andreas Andersen in Evaluation</p
Vidensgrundlaget for beskæftigelsespolitikken – fra vidensoverførsel til vidensmobilisering
No full textKapitel 7. Vidensgrundlaget for beskæftigelsespolitikken – fra vidensoverførsel til vidensmobilisering – af Niklas A. Andersen, Dorte Caswell & Mikkel Bo MadsenIndledning119Det dominerende vidensperspektiv på beskæftigelsesområdet120Behovet for nye videnstilgange122Udfordringer med videnstype122Udfordringer med vidensoverførsel124Mod nye typer af viden og anvendelsesformer126Vidensmobilisering som muligt alternativ127Vidensmobilisering i CUBB129FLIP130Vidensmæglere133Dilemmaer i praksis134Frontlinjemedarbejdernes private faglighed kontra kollektiv faglighed135Borgeren som ekspert i eget liv kontra behovet for udefrakommende ekspertise136Mobiliseringen af borgerens viden ud fra systemets eller borgerens præmis137Afrunding139Litteratur141<br/
Management as a Symbolizing Construction?
Full text linkIn this article, we outline the concept of management as a symbolizing construction. According to Niklas LUHMANN, organizations process by referring to decisions. But decisions are not simply "given" and in principle invisible. This is the reason why organizations institute formalities like protocols, signatures or other insignia of the official that symbolize the decision—without actually being a decision. These symbols allow for making decisions "process-able." And just like a protocol or a signature, management symbolizes decisions as well. Management provides an organizational practice with symbols of decision making without being the "unity" of the decisions, as decisions perpetually have to be reconstructed, redefined and rearranged in the communication of all organizational units. Therefore management symbolizes on the one hand more than it can achieve. On the other hand the importance of management as a symbolizing construction lies in allowing the reconstruction, redefining and rearrangement of decisions by making them visible and recognizable. Heroic managers, meetings, management tools and procedures are solutions to the paradox of decision making. By symbolizing decidedness they create credibilities that conceal the self-referential construction of organizational communication and the paradox of its decision praxis
Suplementary_Table_S1_Impact-evaluations_commissioned_by_the_Ministry_of_Employment – Supplemental material for The constitutive effects of evaluation systems: Lessons from the policymaking process of Danish Active Labour Market Policies
No full textSupplemental material, Suplementary_Table_S1_Impact-evaluations_commissioned_by_the_Ministry_of_Employment for The constitutive effects of evaluation systems: Lessons from the policymaking process of Danish Active Labour Market Policies by Niklas Andreas Andersen in Evaluatio
Når styringens ambitioner udfordres af praksis:Om at analysere rummet imellem styringens intentioner og situationel praksis
Full text linkStudier, der analyserer det sociale med inspiration fra Foucaults tanker om governmentality, kritiseres i stigende omfang for at afskære sig fra at analysere de praktiske relationer, som politisk styring konkret indlejres i. I artiklen tager vi afsæt i denne kritik og viser, med et studie af forholdet mellem et kommunalt jobcenter og et lokalt beskæftigelsesråd, hvordan governmental magtanalyse kan indfange styringens uforudsigelige, mangefacetterede og immanente karakter ved at fokusere på styringsintentionernes møde med den praktiske virkelighed, der søges styret. Formelt er rådet nedsat til at overvåge og kontrollere jobcentret, men i den praktiske relation er det snarere jobcentret, som overvåger og kontrollerer rådet. Artiklen viser, hvordan dette er muligt ved at analysere jobcentrets arbejde med rådet ved hjælp af en række centrale begreber fra Foucaults forfatterskab. Empirisk trækker studiet foruden formelle myndighedsdokumenter, der beskriver rådets tiltænkte rolle, på praksisinformerende empiri i form af kvalitative interviews og mødereferater over en fire-årig periode.
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Mathias Herup Nielsen and Niklas Andreas Andersen: When Praxis Challenges the Ambitions of Governing. Analyzing the Space between the Intentions of Governing and Situational Praxis
Studies working with the Foucauldian concept of ”governmentality” are frequently criticized for their apparent disregard of empirical reality. This article takes this critique as its point of departure and demonstrates the application of the concept of governmentality in a concrete empirical case study in order to grasp the unpredictable and multifaceted nature of modern day power. The case investigated here is the relationship between a Danish Jobcentre and a so-called local employment council (LBR). The latter was created to ”control” and ”monitor” the former organization. However, in practice, it is rather the other way around – the Jobcentre is controlling and monitoring the members of the LBR. This article draws on a number of well-known Foucauldian concepts to show how this relation of power is practically structured. Empirically the article draws on documents from central authorities as well as on a number of qualitative interviews with the actors involved – hence, the article attempts to meet with the dominant overall critique of the governmentality perspective for disregarding empirical reality.
Keywords: governmentality, Michel Foucault, unemployment policy, jobcentre
[[alternative]]Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems and Its Implication to the Educational Analysis
No full text[[abstract]]Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems and Its Implication to the Educational Analysis
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This thesis aims to study Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems and its educational implications. The first chapter explores major problems and predicament in the study of education. It also points out contributions of Luhmann to educational studies. The second chapter traces sources of Luhmann’s theory of intellectual traditions. The third chapter then explicates the structure of Luhmann’s theory with an analysis of important ideas and concepts implicated in his works.These ideas and concepts include , for example , system , complexity , meaning , function , communication , self-reference and others. The fourth chapter discusses how Luhmann has reflected on current educational systems on the basis of his own theory. In particular,Chapter Five takes up Luhmann’s discussion in Reflexionsprobleme im Erziehungssystem. The last chapter , in conclusion , reviews major themes of this research , identifies the difficulties thus encountered, and suggests possible directions for future studies.
Briefe aus der Verbannung / Tristia. Epistulae ex Ponto : Lateinisch - Deutsch /
No full textIm Jahre 8 n. Chr. wird Ovid aus nicht bekanntem Grund von Kaiser Augustus nach Tomis am Schwarzen Meer verbannt, an den Rand der zivilisierten Welt, in eine trostlose Gegend, in der niemand Latein spricht und die er bis zu seinem Tod 17 n. Chr. nicht mehr verlassen wird. Er beginnt, verzweifelte Briefe zu schreiben - man würde sie heute "Offene Briefe" nennen - und diese nach Rom zur Veröffentlichung zu schicken. Sie sind sorgsam dichterisch komponiert, der Stil ist geschliffen und sie haben nur ein Ziel: die öffentliche Meinung in Rom für ihn einzunehmen; erfolglos, wie wir wissen. Gleichwohl sind die Briefe bewegende Dokumente frühester Exil-Literatur. Sie wurden das ganze Mittelalter über gelesen und haben das moderne Bewusstsein Europas mitgeprägt. Die neue Einführung des Münchner Altphilologen Niklas Holzberg und die neuen besonders ausführlichen Anmerkungen zu den unzähligen versteckten Anspielungen in den Briefen untersuchen sorgfältig, was an Ovids Klagen echt und was "Literatur" ist, wo er unter der Unerträglichkeit des Exils tatsächlich leidet und wo er nur gängigen Vorstellungen über die Wildnis am Pontos Ausdruck verleiht. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Niklas Holzberg.Im Jahre 8 n. Chr. wird Ovid aus nicht bekanntem Grund von Kaiser Augustus nach Tomis am Schwarzen Meer verbannt, an den Rand der zivilisierten Welt, in eine trostlose Gegend, in der niemand Latein spricht und die er bis zu seinem Tod 17 n. Chr. nicht mehr verlassen wird. Er beginnt, verzweifelte Briefe zu schreiben - man würde sie heute "Offene Briefe" nennen - und diese nach Rom zur Veröffentlichung zu schicken. Sie sind sorgsam dichterisch komponiert, der Stil ist geschliffen und sie haben nur ein Ziel: die öffentliche Meinung in Rom für ihn einzunehmen; erfolglos, wie wir wissen. Gleichwohl sind die Briefe bewegende Dokumente frühester Exil-Literatur. Sie wurden das ganze Mittelalter über gelesen und haben das moderne Bewusstsein Europas mitgeprägt. Die neue Einführung des Münchner Altphilologen Niklas Holzberg und die neuen besonders ausführlichen Anmerkungen zu den unzähligen versteckten Anspielungen in den Briefen untersuchen sorgfältig, was an Ovids Klagen echt und was "Literatur" ist, wo er unter der Unerträglichkeit des Exils tatsächlich leidet und wo er nur gängigen Vorstellungen über die Wildnis am Pontos Ausdruck verleiht. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Niklas Holzberg.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed May 26, 2011
Data and Code for "The impacts of mid-Holocene foragers on the European oyster in southern Scandinavia"
No full textThese files include the R-code that is presented in the paper "The impacts of mid-Holocene foragers on the European oyster in southern Scandinavia" by Robson et al., which is currently under review in PNAS. It also includes the measurements and context information for all oyster shells (measured and not measured) used in the manuscript as well as the figures that present these results.
If accepted, the full citation of the manuscript will be: Harry K. Robson, Niklas Hausmann, Eva M. Laurie, Peter Moe Astrup, Karen Povlsen, Søren A. Sørensen, Søren H. Andersen and Nicky Milner (202X) "The impacts of mid-Holocene foragers on the European oyster in southern Scandinavia" PNAS X:X
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