Intellectual Work (intellectual + work)

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Selected Abstracts


CRITICAL ADULT EDUCATION AND THE POLITICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE BETWEEN NANCY FRASER AND AXEL HONNETH

EDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 4 2007
Rauno HuttunenArticle first published online: 28 NOV 200
For him, the aim of the pedagogy of the oppressed is to emancipate people from social and economic repression. Critical adult education is intellectual work that aims to make the world more just. One might ask what exactly justice and injustice mean here, however. Is the work against social injustice mainly concerned with the redistribution of material goods or recognition and respect? This is the issue debated by Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth. Honneth claims that in the context of social justice, recognition is a fundamental, overarching moral category and redistribution is derivative. Fraser denies that distribution could be subsumed under recognition and introduces a "perspectival dualist" analysis of social justice that considers the two categories (redistribution and recognition) as equally fundamental, mutually irreducible dimensions of justice. In this essay, Rauno Huttunen reflects on the relation between maldistribution and misrecognition, in order to think through critical adult education's task in fighting against social injustice. [source]


Male reproductive health research needs and research agenda: Asian and Pacific perspective

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY, Issue S2 2000
Yi-Fei Wang
Enhancing male reproductive health, and increasing men's participation in it, involves encouraging a range of positive reproductive health and social behaviour by men to help ensure women's and children's well-being. More intellectual work,including research programmes,is urgently needed to clarify the conceptual framework for male reproductive health. At the Asia and the Pacific Symposium ,Intra-regional Cooperation in Reproductive Health Research' (Shanghai, China, 12,13 October 1998) the Symposium participants identified regional research needs and recommended a regional reproductive health research agenda, which addresses six key issues related to male reproductive health: (i) male contraceptive technology; (ii) reproductive tract infections/sexually transmitted diseases and male infertility; (iii) male involvement in reproductive health; (iv) male adolescent reproductive health; (v) male reproductive ageing; and (vi) environment and male reproductive health. One of the major challenges now facing us is the elaboration of a comprehensive, yet realistic, male reproductive health research agenda that reflects the needs and demands of Asian developing countries. Making full use of an interdisciplinary approach is of strategic importance to achieve this. [source]


Does the Public Intellectual Have Intellectual Integrity?

METAPHILOSOPHY, Issue 5 2002
Linda Martín Alcoff
This article is concerned with the devaluation of the work of public intellectuals within the academic community. The principal reason given for this devaluation is that the work of the public intellectual does not have intellectual integrity as independent thought and original scholarship. I develop three models of public intellectual work: the permanent,critic model, the popularizer model, and the public,theorist model. I then consider each model in relation to the concern with intellectual integrity and conclude that both independent thought and original scholarship are possible within work that is engaged with nonacademic publics. [source]


The Eye of the Expert: Walter Benjamin and the avant garde

ART HISTORY, Issue 3 2001
Frederic J. Schwartz
In ,The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility' of 1935/36, Walter Benjamin considers the effects of new conditions of production and commerce on the response to visual stimuli and on the structure of works of art, contrasting reception characterized by ,aura' with that characterized by ,distraction', the gaze of the (bourgeois) art lover with that of the working ,expert'. This essay represents Benjamin's theory of a new and positive form of mass spectatorship; in it he seeks to rise to the challenge of conservative critiques of culture, finding revolutionary potential and cognitive value in seemingly debased modes of apperception. By focusing on the notion of the ,expert', this article seeks to plot new coordinates by which to map the complex conceptual work involved in Benjamin's influential theses. The ,expert' was a key figure in the radical retheorization of cultural values in Weimar Germany, one implicated in the crisis of the traditional intelligentsia as well as in the processes of professionalization that affected fields from the arts to the sciences. Benjamin and those close to him in the Constructivist avant garde felt the pressures of new conditions of intellectual work, and traces of this can be found in the essay. There is also evidence of another process affecting the nature of thought in modernity: as objects of knowledge came to be approached within the parameters of narrowly defined professional concerns, both the origins and uses of the knowledge produced inevitably tended to fall into the blind spots of professional vision. By studying his contact with and borrowings from bodies of professional expertise, this article will question the extent of Benjamin's awareness of changing conditions of knowledge in the twentieth century. [source]


Untersuchung zur Lärmbelastung von Patienten und Pflegepersonal auf Intensivstationen

BAUPHYSIK, Issue 4 2007
Jörg Arnold Dipl.-Ing.
Zur Untersuchung der Lärmbelastung auf Intensivstationen in Krankenhäusern wurden Schalldruckpegelmessungen sowohl in einem Patientenzimmer als auch in dem Foyer einer Intensivstation durchgeführt. Im Patientenzimmer wird eine hohe Lärmbelastung festgestellt. Zudem belegen die Messergebnisse, dass in jeder untersuchten Stunde Lärmereignisse auftraten, die leicht zum Aufwachen führen. Diese hohe Lärmdichte hat einen dramatischen Einfluss auf den Schlaf und damit auf die Erholung und Gesundung des Patienten. Es wurde eine für gesunde Patienten "sichere Aufwachschwelle" definiert, die auch in der Nacht im Mittel 5 mal je Stunde überschritten wird. Allerdings existieren in Deutschland bisher keine Grenzwerte zur Beurteilung der Lärmeinwirkung auf Patienten. Im Foyer ist in jeder untersuchten Schicht die geistige Arbeit des Pflegepersonals nach den Vorgaben der Richtlinie VDI 2058 deutlich beeinträchtigt und die zulässige Grenze für überwiegend mechanisierte Tätigkeiten wird fast erreicht. Nach dem aktuellen Arbeitsrecht sind allerdings alle Vorgaben eingehalten, da lediglich ein Grenzwert zum Schutz vor Lärmschwerhörigkeit angegeben wird. Das Ausmaß des Lärms und der dadurch verursachte Stress, sowohl für Patienten als auch für das Pflegepersonal, zeigen den dringenden Bedarf nach gesetzlichen Regelungen auch in Deutschland. Investigations on noise nuisance of patients and nursing staff. The aim of this study was to assess the exposure to noise in intensive care units. Therefore, sound pressure level measurements have been carried out in both the sickroom and the ward corridor. A high noise exposure in the sickroom was found. In addition the measurement results proves that sleep disturbing noise is occurring at all hours. This high noise density has a dramatic impact on the patients' convalescence and recovery process. One for healthy patients "certain wake-up threshold" was defined, which is exceeded 5 times per hour also in the night. There is no regulation by the German law regarding the patients' exposure to noise in hospitals. While in the ward corridor the intellectual work of the nursing staff according to VDI 2058 is disturbed significantly in every shift investigated, the permissible guideline limit for mechanical works in this specific working environment is almost achieved. But the guidelines of the current labour law are always complied with, because there is only one limit for protection against noise induced hearing loss. The magnitude of noise and stress caused thereby, for both the patients and the nursing staff, show the urgent need of specific regulations by German law. [source]


Scholarly work and the shaping of digital access

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Issue 11 2005
Carole L. Palmer
In the cycle of scholarly communication, scholars play the role of both consumer and contributor of intellectual works within the stores of recorded knowledge. In the digital environment scholars are seeking and using information in new ways and generating new types of scholarly products, many of which are specialized resources for access to research information. These practices have important implications for the collection and organization of digital access resources. Drawing on a series of qualitative studies investigating the information work of scientists and humanities scholars, specific information seeking activities influenced by the Internet and two general modes of information access evident in research practice are identified in this article. These conceptual modes of access are examined in relation to the digital access resources currently being developed by researchers in the humanities and neuroscience. Scholars' modes of access and their "working" and "implicit" assemblages of information represent what researchers actually do when gathering and working with research materials and therefore provide a useful framework for the collection and organization of access resources in research libraries. [source]