The paper explicates the concept of innovation through the lens of social action. It is argued that the term ‘innovation’ carries within it certain semantic contradictions that cannot be resolved without recourse to the theory of social action underlying the process of innovation. By revisiting a number extant concepts and applications within innovation studies and unpacking these in the light ...

Social justice education involves promoting critical awareness of social inequalities and developing skills that work against these inequalities. This article describes a general theoretical framework for social justice education, describes general strategies for facilitating students' social justice awareness and engagement, identifies challenges to social education, and highlights articles in...

While there are a wide variety of studies about communicative action theory of Habermas, there is the need for building of indicators and variables for quantitative methods of assessing this concept in a particular case study. Especially as the development of communicative action theory has created new perspectives in urban planning, it is necessary to assess and promote this concept in cities ...

Abstract In its most recent report, the Academy of Social Sciences Australia (ASSA, 2021: 10) identified social inequality as a “grand challenge” for sciences, arguing that scientists have pivotal role to play in “understanding, addressing and guiding us towards narrowing two‐tier society.” Nevertheless, sciences continue be regularly positioned “soft” esoteric relation natural while also susta...