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Whose life is it anyway? The life course as an observational medium in the education system
No full textSystem theory defines the life course (Lebenslauf) as the medium of education. It is a medium, because the educator sees it as a potential for intervention, impressing pedagogically acceptable forms onto it. Yet the single individuals who are educated are autonomous observers who are exposed to an immense quantity of possible configurations of their lives. This raises a first question: how can education legitimate intentions and motivate pupils to accept the forms with which they collaborate, but which they have not chosen for themselves? A further question is raised by the fact that the life course does not coincide with the ‘career’ that each individual constructs for himself during his lifetime, when he is oriented towards roles in organisational terms (such as jobs) or that are in any case external to the system of education. This paper proposes the hypothesis that the life course and the career are coupled to each other by means of educational selection (certificates and qualifications). While this increases the potential available to the individual, it also increases uncertainty, the burden of decision-making and related risks. One skill that could be developed during education is the ability to manage this potential for combinations
Una strategia per la valutazione in rete nella didattica universitaria. Dall'ipotesi al prototipo
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No full textThe image of constitutions that derives from a socio-legal perspective assumes a profoundly different standpoint. A constitution can be considered a milestone in the internal evolution of a legal order, as well as in the external processes of the legitimation of law. The relations between formal rationality and the capitalist economy, which should be reconstructed referring to the constitutional principle of the freedom of contract, can actually be limited in the most advanced Western legal orders and in their constitutions by apparently contrasting perspective. From a socio-legal perspective, the legal order is presented as compatible with other organised social norms. According to Luhmann, legal structures are connected with processes of normative experience, generalisation and abstraction. The selective inclusion of external elements into social systems is so important for Luhmann that he elaborates specific concepts, so as to designate different ways of mapping the borders of the legal system
Biological monitoring of workers with past lead exposure. Biochemical findings.
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Asymptotic approach to a rotational Taylor swimming sheet
Full text linkThe interaction of a viscous fluid and a circular, pre-stressed active shell is studied in the limit of low Reynolds numbers. A seminal paper of Taylor represents a benchmark for this class of problems. Here, inspired by the same approach, we determine with asymptotic techniques the possible swimming motions of the shell for the particular changes of curvature that it can achieve when actuated. We confirm numerical results obtained previously, and highlight the structure of a problem that turns out to be similar to that of Taylor, and as such represents a simple example of Stokesian swimming
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