This paper explores a possible line of dialogue between Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt through the presentation of some intermittences between two relevant figures of their thought about history, ...the figure that Benjamin determines in his approach to Angelus Novus painted by Paul Klee, and the figure of Er in the terms in which Arendt elaborates it from a Kafkaesque parable. We return to both figures with the aim of showing in them the philosophical attempt to organize a critical thought that resists the sclerosis of the modern and progressive concept of history: in a context in which the past seems to dissolve in the impotence of its presence and the future is presented as an apocalyptic reproduction of the disaster, we maintain that Benjamin and Arendt summon the Angelus Novus and the Kafkaesque Er as images capable of dislocating the stagnation of criticism and the epistemological flux implied in the modern crisis of experience
Este trabajo explora una línea posible del diálogo entre Walter Benjamin y Hannah Arendt mediante la presentación de algunas intermitencias entre dos figuras relevantes de su pensamiento sobre la historia, la figura que Benjamin determina en su abordaje del Angelus Novus pintado por Paul Klee, y la figura de Er en los términos en que Arendt la elabora a partir de una parábola kafkiana. Retomamos ambas figuras con el objetivo de mostrar en ellas el intento filosófico de organizar un pensamiento crítico que resista la esclerosis del concepto moderno y progresivo de historia: en un contexto en que el pasado pareciera diluirse en la impotencia de su presencia y el futuro se presenta como reproducción apocalíptica del desastre, sostenemos que Benjamin y Arendt convocan al Angelus Novus y al Er kafkiano como imágenes capaces de dislocar el anquilosamiento de la crítica y el flujo epistemológico implicado en la crisis moderna de la experiencia.
Because of pressing issues such as teacher attrition, we explored differences in student teachers’ expectations and perceptions as they entered teacher education. Thirty-five narrated self-concepts ...of student teachers in a post-graduate teacher education program were studied. From these we identified four types of past perceptions and four types of future expectations.
Combinations of perceptions and expectations were found to be illustrative of three types of sensed dis/continuity in student teachers. The findings assemble into a framework that can be beneficial for researchers and teacher educators in diagnosing dis/continuities in the self-concept and consequent expectations about further development as a teacher.
•Self-concepts of student teachers include a large variety of characteristics.•Their sense of (dis)continuity shows variance in professional identification.•The framework of (dis)continuity can be beneficial for adaptive supervision.
This review essay examines the ambitious thirty-volume series Science and Civilization in Korea (SCK), published between 2010 and 2022. Input from over sixty Korean scholars traces the evolution of ...Korean science and technology, from elementary tools to advanced semiconductor technology. Inspired by Joseph Needham's series Science and Civilization in China, SCK seeks to reveal the "universal value" embedded in Korean civilization, extending to the tumultuous eras of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This review essay probes SCK's implications and boundaries, elucidating the influences molding its narrative and identifying omissions. It also considers alternative narratives. Albeit rooted in use-centered historiography, such narratives would not be restricted to the local but underscore an array of practices striving for compatibility with global resources. Moreover, they could bridge the "imagined discontinuity"-the notion of rupture around 1900-between "tradition" and "modern" and thus cultivate a more seamless chronicle of Korea's history of technology.
The author and his co-workers have recently shown that for materials with several to all co-continuous phases, effective elastic moduli were well approached from microstructure descriptions combining ...“laminate and fibre systems” as introduced in the seventies and that, provided either a moduli or a compliance approach, laminate systems were likely to describe materials with either all co-continuous or all co-discontinuous phases (sample spanning clusters of all or of none phases resp.). Aside of aggregate assemblages or of inclusion/matrix structures, they represent two other important classes of material architectures. The effective properties of such “co-(dis) continuous composites” for short, as described by laminate systems, are here examined in the enlarged context of coupled Magneto-Electro-Elastic (MEE) properties in overall transversal isotropy (TI). One illustrates and comments in the two-phase case significant comparisons of property estimates from laminates systems (LS) with the extensions to the MEE context of the classical Hashin–Shtrikman (H–S) and Self-Consistent (S-C) estimate types in the simplest but representative situation of axially fibered composites along the TI symmetry axis. The here pointed importance of the introduced two LS estimates is that, while for two phases, the H–S estimate types correspond with two of the only four possible phase arrangements, the LS estimate types correspond with the two other ones. As a consequence, provided the occurrence probability of each of the four arrangements, using all four (H–S and LS) estimate types as extended for a given coupling context must allow to approaching the effective properties of any two-phase mixture in this coupling context. In support to this claim, a simple example is given, anticipating a forthcoming paper to be fully dedicated to this opened new way for modeling and tuning, from two to more phases, the effective properties of complex architectures.
The literature on industrial policy in Africa has generally explained its political origins in terms of ruling elites' distribution of benefits to their supporters. However, in competitive political ...contexts in which policies are deeply political and designed to satisfy clients, such as policies that support party donors, the problem of policy discontinuity is bound to arise because a change in ruling party is bound to alter the direction of distributional policies. The current paper uses Nigeria's backward integration policy (BIP), an industrial policy on cement production, to sharpen the analytical distinction between the origins and persistence. Although the ruling elites' political quest for survival explains the origin of Nigeria's industrial policy on cement (ruling elites were in search of re-election funds and teamed up with domestic capitalists for donations, who in turn influenced the political elites to create policies in their area of business), it does not explain the continuation.
Routine maternity care visits (MCVs) such as antenatal care (ANC), institutional delivery, and postnatal care (PNC) visits are crucial to utilisation of maternal and newborn health (MNH) ...interventions during pregnancy-postnatal period. In Nepal, however, not all women complete these routine MCVs. Therefore, this study examined the levels and correlates of (dis)continuity of MCVs across the antenatal-postnatal period.
We conducted further analysis of the 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey. A total of 1,978 women aged 15-49 years, who had live birth two years preceding the survey, were included in the analysis. The outcome variable was (dis)continuity of routine MCVs (at least four ANC visits, institutional delivery, and PNC visit) across the pathway of antennal through to postnatal period. Independent variables included several social determinants of health under structural, intermediary, and health system domains. Multinomial logistic regression was conducted to identify the correlates of routine MCVs. Relative risk ratios (RR) were reported with 95% confidence intervals at a significance level of p<0.05.
Approximately 41% of women completed all routine MCVs with a high proportion of discontinuation around childbirth. Women of disadvantaged ethnicities, from low wealth status, who were illiterate had higher RR of discontinuation of MCVs (compared to completion of all MCVs). Similarly, women who speak Bhojpuri, from remote provinces (Karnali and Sudurpaschim), who had a high birth order (≥4), who were involved in the agricultural sector, and who had unwanted last birth had a higher RR of discontinuation of MCVs. Women discontinued routine MCVs if they had poor awareness of health mother-groups and perceived the problem of not having female providers.
Routine monitoring using composite coverage indicators is required to track the levels of (dis)continuity of routine MCVs at the maternity care continuum. Strategies such as raising awareness on the importance of maternity care, care provision from female health workers could potentially improve the completion of MCVs. In addition, policy and programmes for continuity of maternity care are needed to focus on women with socioeconomic and ethnic disadvantages and from remote provinces.
Standards are linked to specifications about scaling, safety, feasibility and suitability. The threshold setting process defines the environment in which the standards are meaningful to a given ...community and the conditions of vulnerability implied by their absence. This paper will discuss the role of standards in defining safety conditions for endangered bird species in urban environments and in designing closed environments for polio patients during the 1950s, the infamous iron lungs, which are still rarely used today. The aim is to explore how standards are involved in defining preservation strategies and the shortcomings of their systematic implementation in this regard. The interdependence of technological standards and the increasing amount of information handled are joining cultural assemblages to question the objectives of preservation in artificial environments, urging the question of what we are preserving. This raises the issue of the relationship between stabilisations through epistemic tools and ontological continuity and robustness in dense technological environments.
Initiatives aimed at supporting student teachers for entering and staying in the teaching profession require a better understanding of the nature of student teachers' development as it unfolds during ...teacher education. Accordingly, we focused on changes in the extent to which student teachers perceive and expect dis/continuity in their development during the programme. The design of the study included 25 authentic supervision dialogues/conversations, enabling the analysis of development within and across six student teachers' developmental trajectories. Findings showed that student teachers' initial sense of dis/continuity is not necessarily predictive of progress and (un)successful completion of teacher education. Furthermore, sensed dis/continuity varies differently over time in student teachers, both in terms of when it changes as well as in terms of with what types of past perceptions and future expectations these changes occur.
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