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Conférence de Max Edling
No full textMax Edling, chercheur à l'université d'Uppsala (Suède), interviendra le lundi 8 février à 14h au séminaire de N. Barreyre, R. Huret et A. Rios-Bordes sur l'État contemporain aux États-Unis à l'EHESS. Son intervention portera sur la création d'un État militaro-fiscal dans la jeune république américaine. Auteur d'un ouvrage remarqué sur l'Etat dans la Jeune République américaine, A Revolution in Favor of Government, Max Edling s'intéresse désormais à la création d'un Etat fiscal
Broadening and Deepening Teachers' Professional Vision through Science and Scientific Theories: A Conversation between John Dewey and Hans‐Georg Gadamer
No full textWhile some researchers argue that theories and abstract knowledge are unreliable bases for teachers' work, a wide range of research stresses the need to overcome the gap between theory and practice, or abstract academic knowledge and experience-based knowledge. Here, Silvia Edling maintains that it is relevant to ask why the relationship is necessary in the first place and in so doing revive the notions of teacher seeing in education. The purpose of this article is to contribute knowledge about the role of teacher vision by turning to how two different theoretical researchers, John Dewey and Hans-Georg Gadamer, approach the notion of vision and its related concepts in relation to science. Aided by a hermeneutic conversation, the article provides a roadmap of similarities and differences between Dewey and Gadamer that can facilitate more nuanced reflections and deliberations among teachers and educational researchers on the meaning and usefulness of stimulating a broad and deep repertoire for teacher's professional vision.
A Hercules in the Cradle:War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867
No full textTwo and a half centuries after the American Revolution the United States stands as one of the greatest powers on earth and the undoubted leader of the western hemisphere. This stupendous evolution was far from a foregone conclusion at independence. The conquest of the North American continent required violence, suffering, and bloodshed. It also required the creation of a national government strong enough to go to war against, and acquire territory from, its North American rivals.In A Hercules in the Cradle, Max M. Edling argues that the federal government’s abilities to tax and to borrow money, developed in the early years of the republic, were critical to the young nation’s ability to wage war and expand its territory. He traces the growth of this capacity from the time of the founding to the aftermath of the Civil War, including the funding of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War. Edling maintains that the Founding Fathers clearly understood the connection between public finance and power: a well-managed public debt was a key part of every modern state. Creating a debt would always be a delicate and contentious matter in the American context, however, and statesmen of all persuasions tried to pay down the national debt in times of peace. A Hercules in the Cradle explores the origin and evolution of American public finance and shows how the nation’s rise to great-power status in the nineteenth century rested on its ability to go into debt
Första linjens chefers erfarenheter av arbetet med den psykosociala arbetsmiljön : - en kvalitativ studie i en universitetsmiljö
No full textAbstract Author: Cecilia Edling Title: First line managers’ experiences of work with the psychosocial work environment - a qualitative study in a university environment. Course: Master thesis of the main area work and health University: University of Gävle, Sweden Aim: Explore and describe experiences first line managers at universities and colleges have of working with the psychosocial work environment. Background: Problems with the psychosocial work environment are growing and is a diffuse area that can be difficult to know how to handle. First line managers have an important role by being a link between higher managers and subordinate employees, but it can also be a complex and difficult role. Metod: Qualitative method with qualitative content analysis. Result: Experiences are that conflicts are difficult to handle and that clarity in the role is affected by the organization of responsibility. The psychosocial work environment is perceived as difficult to work with and structural factors create stress for employees and difficulties for managers to handle. Conclusion: Many of the experiences, and which first line managers experience affects their work with the psychosocial work environment, are specific for universities and colleges. Keywords: psychosocial work environment, first line managers, university and colleg
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Conscious and Unconscious Forces in Democratic Relationships : Implications for the Range of Teacher Responsibility
No full textIn this paper Edling and Frelin strive to incorporate the features of complexity in discussions about democracy as a form of life and especially teachers’ moral responsibility for others. By placing the unconscious in relation to mainstream educational policy documents (deliberate democracy) the authors strive to illuminate the conditions these imply for teacher responses. In this paper they discuss the restrictions present in a predefined democratic model and argue for a view of responsibility and learning that takes its beginning in the complexity of the educational process in which the unconscious is a significant force.</p
A revolution in favor of government origins of the U.S. Constitution and the making of the American state
No full textIn this new interpretation of America's origins, Max Edling argues the the Federalists were primarily concerned with building a government that could act vigorously in defense of American interests. The Constitution transferred the powers of war making and resource extraction from the states to the national government thereby creating a nation-state invested with all the important powers of Europe's eighteenth-century "fiscal-military states." A strong centralized government, however, challenged the American people's deeply ingrained distrust of unduly concentrated authority. To secure the Constitution's adoption the Federalists had to accommodate the formation of a powerful national government to the strong current of anti-statism in the American political tradition. They did so by designing a government that would be powerful in times of crisis, but which would make only limited demands on the citizenry and have a sharply restricted presence in society. The Constitution promised the American people the benefit of government without its costs
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
A Revolution in Favor of Government:Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State
No full textIn this new interpretation of America's origins, Max Edling argues the the Federalists were primarily concerned with building a government that could act vigorously in defense of American interests. The Constitution transferred the powers of war making and resource extraction from the states to the national government thereby creating a nation-state invested with all the important powers of Europe's eighteenth-century "fiscal-military states." A strong centralized government, however, challenged the American people's deeply ingrained distrust of unduly concentrated authority. To secure the Constitution's adoption the Federalists had to accommodate the formation of a powerful national government to the strong current of anti-statism in the American political tradition. They did so by designing a government that would be powerful in times of crisis, but which would make only limited demands on the citizenry and have a sharply restricted presence in society. The Constitution promised the American people the benefit of government without its costs
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