BibSonomyburst/group/lkl_kss/politicsBibSonomy RSS feed for /group/lkl_kss/politics2012-02-16T12:54:21+01:00http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26a4e854f28c89a3936d9d72880d0dfeb/yishyish2010-10-14T10:53:27+02:00critical design designapproaches math mathgamespatterns mythesis participatory philosophy politics theory <span class="authorEditorList"><a href="/author/Asaro">P. M. Asaro</a> </span><em>Accounting, Management and Information Technologies</em> <em>10(4):257-290</em> (<em>2000</em>)Thu Oct 14 10:53:27 CEST 2010Accounting, Management and Information Technologies4257-290Transforming society by transforming technology: the science and politics of participatory design102000critical design designapproaches math mathgamespatterns mythesis participatory philosophy politics theory This article attempts to shed historical light on some of the social, political, and ethical issues that have arisen from two disparate perspectives on technology which have both come to integrate an explicit consideration of social factors into systems design. It presents two distinct historical traditions which have contributed to the current field of participatory design methodologies—Joint Application Design (JAD®), and the British “socio-technical systems” and Scandinavian “collective resources” approaches—and which in practice integrated the end-users in different ways consequent upon their differing perspectives on workers, professional relationships to technology, and stated goals. One interest in examining the independent development of methodologies from these two perspectives is that, despite their differences, the approaches ultimately converged on a set of shared concerns and very similar practices. The paper also examines the relation of these traditions to transformations in the theorization of business organization and trends of corporate restructuring which helped to secure a place for variants of related methodologies in major US and multinational corporations. It concludes with an examination of some broader issues in the relationship between technology and society and the prospects for the critical study of technology. I argue that participatory design and its related methodologies are best understood as a model for involving users, designers and the technology itself in a process of technological development. Rather than seeing participatory design as merely the insertion of public dialog within technological design practices, as several observers have done, we should see it as a model for the critical practice of developing technological designs.http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26906546d4c93165a1d83b14206df73fd/yishyish2009-10-30T19:58:17+01:00education empowerment ethics justice learning mathematics philosophy politics postviva social <span class="authorEditorList"><a href="/author/Sriraman">Bharath Sriraman</a>, and <a href="/author/Steinthorsdottir">Olof Steinthorsdottir</a> </span><em>Information Age Publishing, Incorporated, </em>(<em>2009</em>)Fri Oct 30 19:58:17 CET 2009Critical Issues in Mathematics Education319–336Social Justice and Mathematics Education: Issues, Dilemmas, Excellence and Equity 2009education empowerment ethics justice learning mathematics philosophy politics postviva social This article explores reasons for educational research and practice in social justice from evolutionary, ideological and philosophical viewpoints. The tension between nihilistic and empathetic tendencies within our history is used to reflexively examine the origins and causes of inequity with emphasis on the works of giants such as Paolo Freire, John Dewey, Karl Marx, and Vivekananda. Finally we address one particular issue in depth, namely the tension between excellence and equity in talent development in schools, east and west.http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/25db8abaeaf11d9d76a57d60fd1b9ed3e/yishyish2006-07-08T22:28:00+02:00programming history education logo politics review historical <span class="authorEditorList"><a href="/author/Agalianos">Angelos Agalianos</a>, <a href="/author/Whitty">Geoff Whitty</a>, and <a href="/author/Noss">Richard Noss</a> </span><em>Social Studies of Science</em> <em>36(2):241-267</em> (<em>2006</em>)Sat Jul 08 22:28:00 CEST 2006Social Studies of Science2241-267The Social Shaping of Logo362006programming history education logo politics review historical Logo' is the name for a philosophy of education and for a continually evolving family of computer languages that aid its realization. Developed in the USA in the late 1960s, it became the material embodiment of a radical educational philosophy and a potential vehicle for the transformation of education. In the early 1980s, Logo was introduced into mainstream education in both the USA and the UK. Within an increasingly conservative social and political context with different education policy priorities, Logo was gradually stripped of its radical potential, marginalized and, where it survived, remoulded as harmless to the mainstream educational system. This paper draws on empirical research that explored the evolution of Logo between the late 1960s and the late 1990s. The paper focuses on the social processes involved in the initial development and evolution of Logo. It shows that these processes were heavily contested. Logo was the product of complex social, technical, political and economic decisions, and the product of negotiation shaped by the concerns of the social players involved. The evolution of Logo was not linear or even primarily technical. Rather, it was a seamless web in which the technical was interwoven with the social, economic and political in ways that illustrate the dialectical interaction between historical contingency and the intentions and aspirations of individuals and communities. http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23325d67d704753c483f3d69edd0b136d/yishyish2006-05-26T01:14:43+02:00empowerment patterns designpatterns activism society design politics <span class="authorEditorList"><a href="/author/Schuler">Doug Schuler</a> </span><em>MIT Press, </em>(<em>2007</em>)Fri May 26 01:14:43 CEST 2006Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution2007empowerment patterns designpatterns activism society design politics