scholarly journals Towards a General Theory of Agricultural Knowledge Production: Environmental, Social, and Didactic Learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Davis Stone
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Agricultural Knowledge

scholarly journals Application and Autonomy: The Reach and Span of Contemporary Art Didactics

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Boel Christensen-Scheel
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
Specific Teaching

Aesthetics, as both a variety of practices and a field of research, has now begun a journey toward society and more applied thinking – that is, how can art, art thinking, and different forms of sensuousness interact with or interfere in societal contexts. In this special issue of InFormation we explore the frame of a possible contemporary art didactics, where knowledge production and dispersion in and through art and aesthetics are promoted. Here the qualities of responding to societal needs and challenges are negotiated with the particular qualities of art. The field of didactics is often tied to specific teaching methods, but can also be seen as a more general theory of learning. With the term ‘contemporary art didactics’, we want to propose a relational field of communication and interaction based on aesthetic activity and competence. In addition, we seek to emphasize the contemporary quality and engagement of this activity and competence. In this first article by the editor of the issue, some of the related discussions on application, autonomy and criticality are presented alongside a proposition to formulate certain specific art based qualities.

Layer upon Layer: Mao-Era History and the Construction of China’s Agricultural Heritage

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid Schmalzer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Agricultural Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
A Site ◽  
China Today ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Mao Era

Abstract Chinese scientists and scholars are actively engaged in a transnational movement to preserve agricultural heritage. The author places this current phenomenon in historical context to explore the changing epistemological assumptions undergirding the agricultural heritage concept. She shows that the discourse on agricultural heritage in China today quietly draws on Mao-era projects; however, the earlier focus on peasant experience has given way to an emphasis on culture more resonant with global currents today. The article further traces the influence of systems theory and ecoagricultural engineering, along with the transformations accompanying the rise of the market economy and tourism industry. Focusing on the celebrated terraces of Wangjinzhuang as a site of agricultural heritage preservation, the author argues that today’s cultural systems paradigm captures the collective character of knowledge better than the experience paradigm did, but that it has simultaneously produced an artificial binary between tradition and modernity that flattens history and especially obscures Mao-era contributions to knowledge production. She proposes that scholars adopt a critical historical approach to recognize the significance of the Mao era in the construction of both agricultural knowledge and the agricultural heritage paradigm, while resisting efforts to co-opt that history in the service of state power.

Extreme self-sacrifice beyond fusion: Moral expansiveness and the special case of allyship

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Crimston ◽  
Matthew J. Hornsey
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Biological Markers ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Relevant Dimension ◽  
Special Case

AbstractAs a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice, Whitehouse's article misses one relevant dimension: people's willingness to fight and die in support of entities not bound by biological markers or ancestral kinship (allyship). We discuss research on moral expansiveness, which highlights individuals’ capacity to self-sacrifice for targets that lie outside traditional in-group markers, including racial out-groups, animals, and the natural environment.

Review of A General Theory of Crime.

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1225-1225
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
General Theory Of Crime ◽  
Theory Of Crime
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