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Beyond Decontextualisation and Cynicism
Some see schools primarily as places where students learn academic skills that are crucial to individual and social development. Others see them primarily as places where students are stigmatised and where social inequality is reproduced. Despite their differences, both views of schooling tend to assume the same unrealistic conception of schooled knowledge as being decontextualised, as being se...
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We live in irrational times. Astrology and crystal healing have never been stronger. Political argument is gradually eroding, to be replaced by mudslinging and the repetition of half-baked opinion. Recently a sweet-looking old lady sitting next to me in an aircraft told me how glad she was that the experimental medication she was taking hadn’t been tested on animals. I didn’t point out that if ...
متن کاملThe development of cynicism.
Two experiments explored the development of cynicism by examining how children evaluate other people who make claims consistent or inconsistent with their self-interests. In Experiment 1, kindergartners, second graders, and fourth graders heard stories with ambiguous conclusions in which characters made statements that were aligned either with or against self-interest. Older children took into ...
متن کاملDispositional Predictors of Organizational Cynicism
Researchers have suggested that organizational cynicism is increasing among employees. Although cynicism has been examined from a situational perspective, little work has examined the dispositional roots of this attitude. In this paper we explore the dispositional variables that predict organizational cynicism and suggest that future research explore the development of cynical attitudes from bo...
متن کاملOrganizational Cynicism: Its Relationship with Job Satisfaction
The nature of the employment relationship is changing fundamentally. Organizations and employees have to find ways to respond to the new realities in the workplace such, that work continues to provide meaning and organizational success. Organizational cynicism is a somewhat controversial issue; frequently brings confusion, irritation, among those who fail to acknowledge cynicism as something th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 1993
ISSN: 1180-2332
DOI: 10.1155/1993/274616