This paper provides an analysis of developmental discourses underpinning preschool physical education in Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence. Implementing a poststructural perspective, I examine the preschool experiences and outcomes related to physical education, as presented in the Curriculum for Excellence ‘health and wellbeing’ documentation. I interrogate the ways in which developmental d...

In this article, we describe the major findings of an ethnographic study undertaken to investigate nurses' experiences of managing nurses and being managed by nurses in an Australian critical care unit. Our purpose was to valorize and make space for nurses to speak of their experiences and investigate the cultural practices and knowledges that comprised nursing management discourses. Subjugated...

~ S T R A C T THESTUDY OF SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES is dominated by philosophies and sociologists. These disciplines naturalIy take different approaches to the subject, the one epistemological and the other sociological. While recognizing the role of society in shaping science, this article emphasizes the way that the epistemology of science influences scientific society. The epistemol...

It is our belief that processes of innovation, if they shall lead to sustainable solutions, must be open for participation, clear and fair. They must be designed so that everyone, persons involved, affected or interested, can contribute to their issues in the most effective way. Action spaces must remain open, development and design options must be recognizable and usable. Innovation processes ...

Reflections on normative discourses on sexuality, family and reproduction are shown, promoted by medical and juridical knowledge in modern society. This study was based on the assumption that changes and maintenance of values and practices coexist in the current discourses on the desire to have children, expressed as claims in the dimension of sexual and reproductive rights, with new demands in...

The ongoing debate about the identity of the Information Systems (IS) discipline is examined from a new perspective. Two recent studies are contrasted to demonstrate the limits of retrospective analysis for defining the discipline of IS. A new model for discovery transdisciplinary IS research, based on concepts and discourses is suggested. Latent Semantic Analysis is proposed as an approach to ...

Neoliberal policies such as new public management (NPM) have been pivotal to the Swedish elderly care system for two decades. This article explores the discourses of NPM and work by focusing on how a good workplace is represented by professionals and managers in Swedish elderly care. Using qualitative interviews with 31 managers, nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists at nine wor...

1/12 1 New cod war of words: ‘cod is God’ versus ‘sod the cod’ two opposed discourses on the North 1 Sea Cod Recovery Programme 2 3 Tim Gray (a), Jenny Hatchard (b), Tim Daw (c) and Selina Stead (d) 4 5 (a) School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle, NE1 7RU 6 (b) JH Fishery Management Services, PO Box 17336, Edinburgh, EH12 1BZ 7 (c) School of Development Stud...

with the beginning of the 19th century, england entered into a transitional period. sociologists believe that in each era of transformation, the ruling class tries to establish its own values, but some resistance to these new values is inevitable. thomas hardy's novels in general, and under the greenwood tree specifically, are no exception. based on these notions, this paper tries to interpret ...