MinervaPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s11024-022-09480-x
Karen Kastenhofer, Anja Bauer
{"title":"\"Are You a TA Practitioner, Then?\" - Identity Constructions in Post-Normal Science.","authors":"Karen Kastenhofer, Anja Bauer","doi":"10.1007/s11024-022-09480-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-022-09480-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Technology assessment (TA) is a paradigmatic case for the manifold and, at times, ambiguous processes of identity formation of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary settings. TA combines the natural, technical, and social sciences and follows the multiple missions of scientific analysis, public outreach, and policy advice. However, despite this diversity, it also constitutes a genuine community with its own discourses, conferences, and publications. To which extent \"being a TA practitioner\" also provides for a genuine scholarly identity is still unclear. Building on interviews with technology assessment practitioners at an academic TA institute, we ask what inter/trans/disciplinary identification patterns emerge in this field. Our analysis shows that TA practitioners adopt multiple identities, from \"enthusiastic TA practitioner\" to \"strong interdisciplinarian\" or \"disciplinarian\" - with distinct identity troubles inherent in all these options. We find that generational affiliation plays a vital role in identity formation. It relates to different primary orientations (towards research or advisory practices), inter/disciplinary backgrounds, contracting modes, and lengths of time spent at the TA institute. We conclude firstly, that disciplinary categories figure strongly in transdisciplinary identities; secondly, that the relation of <i>chronos</i> and identity warrants more substantial consideration: as time spent at a transdisciplinary institute as or as perceived options for \"futuring one's identity\"; thirdly, that our understanding of academic generations could profit from a more sociological conception; and, fourthly, that TA's multidisciplinary setup and threefold orientation towards science, society, and policy result in multiplying possible identities and thus making it difficult to form a stable community.</p>","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9918560/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9287788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MinervaPub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2022-12-21DOI: 10.1007/s11024-022-09481-w
Monica Di Fiore, Marta Kuc-Czarnecka, Samuele Lo Piano, Arnald Puy, Andrea Saltelli
{"title":"The Challenge of Quantification: An Interdisciplinary Reading.","authors":"Monica Di Fiore, Marta Kuc-Czarnecka, Samuele Lo Piano, Arnald Puy, Andrea Saltelli","doi":"10.1007/s11024-022-09481-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11024-022-09481-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present work looks at what we call \"the multiverse of quantification\", where visible and invisible numbers permeate all aspects and venues of life. We review the contributions of different authors who focus on the roles of quantification in society, with the aim of capturing different and sometimes separate voices. Several scholars, including economists, jurists, philosophers, sociologists, communication and data scientists, express concerns or identify critical areas of our relationship with new technologies of 'numericization'. While mindful of the important specificities of the different families of quantification, we use our broad and holistic canvas to explore possible spaces for a more systematic investigation of incumbent and novel quantifications, as to increase communication among disciplinary communities, and among these and society, in the pursuit a democratic agency and self-defence.</p>","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9768395/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9268705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ENSINO MÉDIO NO BRASIL: PERCURSO DESDE A SUA ORIGEM ATÉ A IMPLANTAÇÃO DA BNCC E NOVO ENSINO MÉDIO","authors":"Pedro José Alcantara de Mendonça","doi":"10.31070/pja02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31070/pja02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135596016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FORMAÇÃO DE PROFESSORES E AS TECNOLOGIAS","authors":"Pedro José Alcantara de Mendonça","doi":"10.31070/pja01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31070/pja01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135596715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MinervaPub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-02-25DOI: 10.1007/s11024-023-09489-w
Josephine B Schmitt, Anne Goldmann, Samuel T Simon, Christoph Bieber
{"title":"Conception and Interpretation of Interdisciplinarity in Research Practice: Findings from Group Discussions in the Emerging Field of Digital Transformation.","authors":"Josephine B Schmitt, Anne Goldmann, Samuel T Simon, Christoph Bieber","doi":"10.1007/s11024-023-09489-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11024-023-09489-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, we have been observing the phenomenon of an emerging scientific field: <i>digital transformation research</i> (DTR). Due to the diversity and complexity of its object of research digital, transformation is not effectively researchable if confined to the boundaries of individual disciplines. In the light of Scientific/Intellectual Movement theory (Frickel and Gross 2005), we wonder how interdisciplinarity could and should be mobilized to further advance the development of the field of DTR. To answer this question, we (a) need to understand how interdisciplinarity is conceived and (b) how it is considered in research practice by researchers in the emerging field. This is important, as scientists' application of interdisciplinarity will highly influence an emerging field, shape its growth, consolidation as well as its academic establishment. We conducted six group discussions with 26 researchers from different disciplines and career levels (PhD students, postdocs, professors). The discussions were studied with a structuring qualitative content analysis. The results reflect the vagueness of the concept of interdisciplinarity. Interdisciplinarity is largely conceived as multidisciplinarity. Further, the interviewees mentioned more challenges than opportunities when it comes to interdisciplinary DTR. The present study widens the scientific understanding about how researchers of different career levels perceive, learn, and practice interdisciplinarity in DTR. It further provides valuable indications of how interdisciplinary research in an emerging field can be profitably shaped for practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9957685/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9490707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A IMPORTÂNCIA DA LUDICIDADE NO CONTEXTO ESCOLAR: BREVES CONSIDERAÇÕES","authors":"Cristiano de Miranda Gomes","doi":"10.31070/cmg01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31070/cmg01","url":null,"abstract":"This research had as main objective to investigate and investigate the contribution of ludicity as an important element in the development of learning in Education. Thus, this study used a bibliographical and descriptive investigation. It was verified through scientific research that many thinkers defend that playfulness has always been part of human life and since the first years of life they are mediators of the child in his relationship with the things of the world, just as they are ways for the child to manage experiences, create situations to master your reality and experience it. For experiments show positive relationships between recreational activity, cognitive functions and school performance of students. Allied to this, games and games have been gaining space and importance in all approaches related to childhood, especially as an instrument that strengthens the development and learning of cognitive, social, affective and motor skills. It was concluded that ludicity through games and games has been gaining space and importance in all approaches related to childhood, especially as an instrument that strengthens the development and learning of cognitive, social, affective and motor skills.","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135595118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"METODOLOGIAS ATIVAS: PERSPECTIVAS NA EDUCAÇÃO CONTEMPORÂNEA","authors":"","doi":"10.31070/apbk01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31070/apbk01","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to present through a literature review the different possibilities in contemporary education, stimulating teachers in the search for actions that provoke the students in the process of teaching and learning. Understanding the usual changes in students, the article exposes the need for the educator to direct himself to new pedagogical actions facing the updates of the century, thinking about arousing the interest of the students of this generation. In order to identify contemporary paths, the","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135312284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MinervaPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s11024-022-09485-6
Elina I Mäkinen, Adi Sapir
{"title":"Making Sense of Science, University, and Industry: Sensemaking Narratives of Finnish and Israeli Scientists.","authors":"Elina I Mäkinen, Adi Sapir","doi":"10.1007/s11024-022-09485-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-022-09485-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Academic entrepreneurship and the commercialization of science have transformed higher education in recent decades. Although there is ample research on the topic, less is known about how individual scientists experience and perceive the transformation. Drawing on a narratological approach to sensemaking, this study examines how entrepreneurial scientists in Finland and Israel make sense of and narrate the perceived changes in the interface between science, university, and industry. An analysis of 53 semi-structured interviews reveals three sensemaking narratives demonstrating how scientists' interactions with the industry have engendered perceived shifts in 'regimes of value' in universities. These narratives focus on: (1) bi-directional learning between academy and industry; (2) the use of new valuation devices and practices; and (3) changing relationships between scientists and universities. Our findings advance research on academic entrepreneurship by highlighting the coexisting regimes of value and the consequences they have for science, value, and power.</p>","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9880373/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9505449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"O BRINCAR COMO POTENCIALIZADOR NA EDUCAÇÃO: UMA FERRAMENTA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DO JOGO VOLTADO AO ESPORTE","authors":"Cristiano de Miranda Gomes","doi":"10.31070/cmg02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31070/cmg02","url":null,"abstract":"This research had as main objective to investigate the contribution of the game/sport as a potentializer in the development and learning in Education. Thus, this study used a bibliographical, descriptive and exploratory investigation, with field research in (4) four municipal schools from Belém do Pará to verify how playfulness is used by educators as a potentializing method of learning, through the application of questionnaires com 42 profesores. It was verified through scientific and field research that teachers defend that the benefits of sports education within schools go beyond a healthy life. Allied to this, games and games have been gaining space and importance in all approaches related to childhood, especially as an instrument that strengthens the development and learning of cognitive, social, affective and motor skills. It was concluded that playing is a potentiator in education and in the development of games aimed at sports, it is a teaching methodology that allows the educator to observe the different levels of development that the student presents and, in addition to promoting the stimulus to learning","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135596033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MinervaPub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1007/s11024-022-09479-4
Yaffa Shir-Raz, Ety Elisha, Brian Martin, Natti Ronel, Josh Guetzkow
{"title":"Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics.","authors":"Yaffa Shir-Raz, Ety Elisha, Brian Martin, Natti Ronel, Josh Guetzkow","doi":"10.1007/s11024-022-09479-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11024-022-09479-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The emergence of COVID-19 has led to numerous controversies over COVID-related knowledge and policy. To counter the perceived threat from doctors and scientists who challenge the official position of governmental and intergovernmental health authorities, some supporters of this orthodoxy have moved to censor those who promote dissenting views. The aim of the present study is to explore the experiences and responses of highly accomplished doctors and research scientists from different countries who have been targets of suppression and/or censorship following their publications and statements in relation to COVID-19 that challenge official views. Our findings point to the central role played by media organizations, and especially by information technology companies, in attempting to stifle debate over COVID-19 policy and measures. In the effort to silence alternative voices, widespread use was made not only of censorship, but of tactics of suppression that damaged the reputations and careers of dissenting doctors and scientists, regardless of their academic or medical status and regardless of their stature prior to expressing a contrary position. In place of open and fair discussion, censorship and suppression of scientific dissent has deleterious and far-reaching implications for medicine, science, and public health.</p>","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9628345/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40471231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}