(Re)acting together: Grexit as revival of intellectuals

‏‎intellectuals: utopias of dystopias‎‏

‏‎‏‎utopia has, for four centuries, accompanied that hope of progress and that striving for betterment. it now straggles against a widespread sense that this has been an illusion, or an impossible dream. the utopian idea can never entirely disappear, but utopia as a form of the social imagination has clearly weakened. if it cannot instill its vision in the public consciousness, the consequences...

Beyond ‘talking out of school’: educational researchers as public intellectuals

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Challenging the orthodoxy: union learning representatives as organic intellectuals

Intellectuals and New Technologies

Critical intellectuals were traditionally those who utilized their skills of speaking and writing to denounce injustices and abuses of power, and to fight for truth, justice, progress, and other positive values. In the words of Jean-Paul Sartre (1974: 285), "the duty of the intellectual is to denounce injustice wherever it occurs." The modern critical intellectual's field of action was what Hab...

Amnioscopy Revival as a Fetal surveillance tool

Background: This study was carried out to explore whether amnioscopy could help us to management of the uncertain date fetus to differ the prematurity from growth-restriction and assessment of post term pregnancies as well. Notify the meconium staining of amniotic fluid is another aspect of amnioscopy, too. Study Design: This was a descriptive study of 80 pregnant women from 2007 to 2008 at a u...