Abstract This paper raises a critical argument on the normativity of data-driven curriculum policy-making in shaping and reshaping education at all levels along an evaluative rationale. The critique evolves two steps, first step is deconstructive character draws work Porter (Trust numbers: pursuit objectivity science public life. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1995) research education. ...

We study a dynamic coordination process in which agents are uncertain about the actions of their fellow agents, and anticipate strategically relevant information. Because of the uncertainty and learning, (ir)reversibility of actions has important strategic consequences. We find that the reversibility option can either enhance or hamper efficient coordination, and we characterize the direction o...

In order to achieve a complete image description, we introduce no-feature-features (NF-features) representing object regions where regular interest point detectors do not detect features. As these regions are usually non-textured, stable re-localization in different images with conventional methods is not possible. Therefore, a technique is presented which re-localizes once-detected NF-features...

Globalisation as a process of increasing internationalisation based on the dominance of finance capital is a material process. This article, however, focuses on globalisation as a discourse, distinguishing between discursive strategies as deliberate efforts of social actors and discursive structures as stabilized social orders unaffected by simplistic voluntarist attempts at change. Taking Braz...

investigating the discursive construction of efl learners’ motivation is a relatively new area of inquiry. hence, there is a dearth of research into how foreign language learners’ discourse mediates their motivation construction. this study attempted to examine the discursive construction of two (one male and one female) iranian efl learners’ motivation in shiraz university, iran by examining t...

This article describes the use of latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), or topic modeling, to explore the discursive makeup of the eighteenth century Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert (1751–1772). Expanding upon previous work modeling the Encyclopédie’s ontology, or classification scheme, we examine the abstractions used by its editors to visualize the various “systems” of ...

Personal identity requires agentic mediation of overlapping social structures and categories; and further the maintenance of a coherent self across different life contexts. A central means of achieving/maintaining identity is through self-narratives and modes of discursive positioning. In this article, we examine the intersection of two key identity categories, gender and nationality, in the bi...