Commencement of Roma Civic Emancipation

Keat: Psychoanalysis and Human Emancipation 1
 PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HUMAN EMANCIPATION

In the Introduction I noted how Habermas presented psychoanalysis as ‘the only tangible example of a science incorporating methodical self-reflection’, and thus as a model for the general epistemological features of a critical social theory guided by the emancipatory interest in human autonomy. I will now examine his account in more detail, especially its claims about the relations between auto...

Computational Emancipation of Problem Domains

In this paper we show how cloud computing can be used as a mechanism that supports computer integration within the problem solving process, independent of problem domain. The paper is organized as follows: Section II discusses the domain based problem solving process; Section III presents the domain algorithmic language, to be used by domain experts to develop domain algorithms for solving thei...

Emancipation or workability ? : Critical versus

In this article a distinction between a pragmatic and a critical orientation of action research is made. These orientations can be considered, implicitly or explicitly, to be the main alternatives in AR today. What are the assumptions behind, and practical implications for, AR projects with different orientations? A number of themes are introduced where a tension between the two are identified ...

The Roma/non-Roma Test Score Gap in Hungary

This paper documents and decomposes the test score gap between Roma and non-Roma 8 graders in Hungary in 2006. Our data connect national standardized test scores to an individual panel survey with detailed data on ethnicity and family background. The test score gap is approximately one standard deviation for both reading and mathematics, which is similar to the gap between African-American and ...

EMANCIPATION: Elements of a Critical Realist Approach