Democratic Paradoxes: Thomas Hill Green on Democracy and Education

Green Logistics ( The Paradoxes of )

Logistics are an important function of modern transport systems. Contemporary technological and spatial developments have improved the cost, efficiency and reliability of freight and passenger transport systems. At the same time, the negative environmental impacts of transportation have gained wide recognition and are at the core of issues of sustainability, especially in urban areas. Since the...

and Thomas Green Methodological Development

One feature of Human–Computer Interaction research is that a broad range of methods have been developed to support the design and evaluation of interactive systems. In this chapter, we focus on evaluation methods – not because they are more important than design methods, but because we have more experience of them. In particular we consider the excitements and challenges of research on developi...

Reading Democracy and Education

What is John Dewey’s Democracy and Education? In a literal sense, it is a study of education and its relation to the individual and society. Moreover, Dewey tells us, it is a philosophical rather than historical, sociological, or political inquiry. His original title for the work was An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education. That was the heading he had in view when he signed a contract to...

Deliberative Democracy and Education

green politics and deliberative democracy

As part of the self-reflective movement in which green politics has been engaged for the last decade, the construction of green democracy has been submitted to increasing scrutiny. Relationship between democracy and environmentalism has traditionally been problematic, but once green committment to democracy has proven to be firm enough, the search for that model of democracy more suitable for t...