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Sufficient Grounds (sufficient + ground)
Selected AbstractsLearning science through technological designJOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING, Issue 7 2001Wolff-Michael Roth In the course of a decade of research on learning in technology-centered classrooms, my research group has gained considerable understanding of why and how students learn science by designing technology. In this article I briefly review two dimensions in which science and technology share fundamental similarities: (a) the production and transformation of representations and (b, the action-oriented language describing the two domains. Because it is fundamentally problematic to derive what ought to happen in science classrooms from other dimensions, I provide three episodes to illustrate what and how students know and learn science during technological design activities. Episodes and analyses embody the two dimensions previously outlined. Because these episodes are representative of the database established during an extensive research program, I suggest there is sufficient ground for using and investigating science-through-technology curricula. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 38: 768,790, 2001 [source] Discursive constructions of terrorism in Spain: Anglophone and Spanish media representations of EtaINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, Issue 1 2009Roberto A. Valdeón separatista; terrorista; medios de comunicación; noticias; enfoque crítico This paper studies the use of the terms ,separatist' and ,terrorist' in the aftermath of Madrid's 3/11 attacks and their discursive implications from a critical perspective, and attempts to throw some light on whether there are sufficient grounds to substantiate the voices against ,separatist' when reporting on attacks carried out by the militant group Eta that involved killings. The study is divided into three sections, which examine, first, the choice(s) made by Spanish news websites and the intratextual cohesion devices used by the authors, and, secondly, the terms and devices used in British and American news websites. Finally, we shall discuss the ideological implications that might lie beneath the preference for ,separatist' in Anglophone media, and comment on the problems derived from it. En este artículo se analiza el uso de las palabras ,terrorist' y ,separatist' tras los atentados terroristas que tuvieron lugar en Madrid en marzo de 2004, así como sus implicaciones discursivas desde un enfoque crítico. Se comprobará si existen razones para justificar las críticas al uso del término ,separatista' para definir los atentados perpetrados por la banda Eta. El trabajo se divide en tres secciones. En la primera se estudian medios de noticias españoles en internet para establecer qué elementos léxicos se utilizan así como las estrategias de cohesión intratextual presentes. En el segundo se analizan medios de noticias de habla inglesa, tanto británicos como americanos. Por último se comentarán las implicaciones ideológicas del uso de ,separatist' en los medios de habla inglesa así como los problemas que ocasiona. [source] CULTIVATING JUST PLANNING AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL FARM STRUGGLE IN LOS ANGELESJOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 1 2009CLARA IRAZÁBAL ABSTRACT:,The South Central Farm (SCF) in Los Angeles was a 14-acre urban farm in one of the highest concentrations of impoverished residents in the county. It was destroyed in July 2006. This article analyzes its epic as a landscape of resistance to discriminatory legal and planning practices. It then presents its creation and maintenance as an issue of environmental justice, and argues that there was a substantive rationale on the basis of environmental justice and planning ethics that should have provided sufficient grounds for the city to prevent its dismantling. Based on qualitative case study methodology, the study contributes to the formulation of creation and preservation rationales for community gardens and other "commons" threatened by eventual dismantlement in capitalist societies. [source] GENETIC TIES: ARE THEY MORALLY BINDING?BIOETHICS, Issue 2 2006GIULIANA FUSCALDO ABSTRACT Does genetic relatedness define who is a mother or father and who incurs obligations towards or entitlements over children? While once the answer to this question may have been obvious, advances in reproductive technologies have complicated our understanding of what makes a parent. In a recent publication Bayne and Kolers argue for a pluralistic account of parenthood on the basis that genetic derivation, gestation, extended custody and sometimes intention to parent are sufficient (but not necessary) grounds for parenthood.1 Bayne and Kolers further suggest that definitions of parenthood are underpinned by the assumption that ,being causally implicated in the creation of a child is the key basis for being its parent'.2 This paper examines the claim that genetic relatedness is sufficient grounds for parenthood based on a causal connection between genetic parents and their offspring. I argue that parental obligations are about moral responsibility and not causal responsibility because we are not morally accountable for every consequence to which we causally contribute. My account includes the conditions generally held to apply to moral responsibility, i.e. freedom and foreseeability. I argue that parental responsibilities are generated whenever the birth of a child is a reasonably foreseeable consequence of voluntary actions. I consider the implications of this account for third parties involved in reproductive technologies. I argue that under some conditions the obligations generated by freely and foreseeably causing a child to exist can be justifiably transferred to others. [source] | ||||||||||