This paper considers the ‘affective turn’ within social sciences, alongside shift to a more emotional public and political sphere, implications of these shifts for study policy. A context austerity cuts reforms welfare services contributes heightened unstable emotions surrounding services. case Sure Start Children’s Centers in UK is presented, two areas where centers were threatened with closur...

Abstract Karol Frenkel was one of Kazimierz Twardowski’s first disciples to undertake an attempt develop their own concept ethics. In his case, the process developing ethical involved questioning tradition in which he had been educated. Accordingly, able formulate original independent doctoral dissertation, analyzed two systems, formulated by David Hume and Arthur Schopenhauer respectively soug...

In 1993 the subject Care was introduced as a compulsory subject in Dutch secondary schools. This article analyzes the heated discussion preceding this decision which raised fundamental issues concerning “citizenship” and the objectives of education. Both opponents and proponents used the same oppositions in the debate, namely, the private sphere versus the public sphere, and cognitive education...

Configuring whiteness as contagion, Birdie Lee, the narrator of Danzy Senna’s Caucasia, connects assimilation to illness and disease. Separated from her African American activist father, Birdie Lee and her blue-blooded mother flee from the law in a racialized and radicalized 1970s Boston. Eventually, the two take up residence in New Hampshire, where Birdie passes as "Jesse"and for white. This a...

A report on the development of a software architecture to facilitate interactions between a person and a humanoid robot is given. The architecture employs independent, asynchronous software agents that run in parallel on a set of PCs in a local area network. It comprises four major components: a Self Agent which controls the robot’s general interactions with the world and monitors its own statu...

Bonding with animals grants access to the sphere of affectivity and facilitates therapeutic engagement. The methodological approach of donkey-assisted programs is based on mediation, which is characterized by multidirectional relationships (patient-donkey-therapist). The donkey is an excellent facilitator in the motivation-building process, being able to stimulate the child's development by way...

Background Diabetes mellitus type 1 (DM1) is an autoimmune disease that manifests in childhood or adolescence, promoted by progressive immune-mediated destruction of pancreatic beta cells, resulting in absolute insulin deficiency in the body, which makes patients dependent on insulin. The complexity of the treatment that includes: medication adjustments, nutrition education, blood glucose monit...

The narrative studies provides considerable information related to the affective sphere in individuals with antisocial and/or psychopathic personality. Narrative studies on emotions of psychopaths revisits past efforts to establish a " linguistic typology " for antisocial personality (Rieber and Vetter, 1994). The studies on emotional narratives have showed ambivalence of the scripts of love, h...

abstract in recent decades, because of the vast socio-cultural changes which occurred in iran, iranian women have experienced new values and identities and they have achieved more advanced education and consciousness, so that they oppose the gender stereotypes which attribute inferior characteristics to women and cause inequalities and limitations in their everyday life. although gender stereot...