REFORMING OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UK: VALUE AND NORMATIVE DIMENSIONS by Elizaveta V. Zolotareva

“…Evolution strategy for reforming higher education in the UK during the transition from binary to a unitary system is considered in the context of existing alternative approaches to the choice of strategic priorities, forms and methods of educational process regulation, set out in the policy reports of Lord Robbins (1963), Lord Dearing (1997) and Lord Browne (2010).The contradictory nature of neoliberal policy reforms in the last 25 years is seen as a reflection of tensions between the socioBcultural and economic functions of education, the underlying conflict between technocratic, social and humanistic approaches to solving the problem of higher education to adapt to the new technological and social reality of the twentyBfirst century. …”
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What is at stake? Practices of linking actors, issues and scales in environmental politics. by Linda Soneryd

“…Efforts to include a broader set of actors, knowledges and values in environmental decision-making have been promoted as a key remedy to technocratic decision-making and environmental degradation, and as instrumental for better decisions and democratic empowerment. …”
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What shapes the influence evidence has on policy? The role of politics in research utilisation by Porter, C

“…In order to influence the policy process, the research community must understand both the technocratic and the political aspects of policymaking, and how these shape the choices and incentives of policy elites. …”

Integrating participation into research and consultancy: A conservation example from Arabia by Chatty, D

“…Finally I examine the way in which an effort to introduce the concept of participation through a series of consultancies has resulted in some encouraging collaboration between the indigenous human population, the conservation experts, the local government technocrats and higher authorities.…”

There is no vacuum under austerity: the militarisation of the public administration in Mexico by Zepeda Gil, R, Vargas Pineda, LR, Lima, RC

“…Several governmental technical capacities have been dismantled or diminished as part of a crusade against technocratic bureaucracy. This process created a bureaucratic vacuum that later provoked the replacement of bureaucrats and governmental agencies with military officers and generals, militarising several parts of the federal government’s public administration. …”

The tidal wave of populism(s): a view from and on Europe by Weller, P

“…The article then identifies a number of factors which provide fertile ground for the rise of populism, before arguing the importance of being able to articulate political visions capable of offering more than technocratic management of social and economic systems that are experienced by so many as unjust, but without falling into the kind of alternative populist utopianisms that can then themselves, on their first contact with reality, lead to further disenchantment and cynicism around the political process which it is possible could metamorphosise into even more dangerous developments.…”

Maintenance space: the political authority of garbage in Kampala, Uganda by Doherty, J

“…Far from a short-lived inconvenience, its exception becomes the foundational norm of technocratic authority. Not limited to Kampala, the enduring exception of maintenance space, I conclude, identifies a widespread mode of urban spatial production and depoliticization.…”

Communicative entrepreneurs: the case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ dialogue with national judges by Gonzalez-Ocantos, E

“…Unlike norm entrepreneurs, communicative entrepreneurs do not project normative or technocratic certainty. They use nudges and networking strategies to trigger debates that define the contours of emerging normative scripts. …”

Safety of Information and Communication Technologies in the Context of the Sustainable Development of Human Society by V. A. Artamonov, E. V. Artamonova, L. A. Kulak

“…In this regard, in the development and application of ICT, it is necessary to implement the integrated level of ICT fusion with the evolutionary development of personality and society that would not lead to the suppression of the human thought process by the services of technocratic means.…”
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Adopting e-government to monitor public infrastructure projects execution in Nigeria: The public perspective by Peace Afieroho, Robert Perkins, Xiyu (Thomas) Zhou, Bogdan Hoanca, Greg Protasel

“…This study also provides recommendations to policy makers, government technocrats, and project engineers on the need for policy changes, creation of interactive and up-to-date project websites for PIPs in Nigeria.…”
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Academic expectations of MARA stakeholders on the Ulul Albab curriculum at a MARA Junior Science College / Umi Kalthom Abdul Manaf, Nurul Fitriah Alias and Ady Hameme Nor Azman by Abdul Manaf, Umi Kalthom, Alias, Nurul Fitriah, Nor Azman, Ady Hameme

“…The MRSM Ulul Albab education programme is designed to produce professional experts, entrepreneurs and technocrats that are well versed in the field of religion that is based on Al-Quran and Sunnah known as the Ulul Albab generation. …”
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Academic Expectations of MARA Stakeholders on the Ulul Albab Curriculum at a MARA Junior Science College / Umi Kalthom Abdul Manaf...[et al.] by Abdul Manaf, Umi Kalthom, Alias, Nurul Fitriah, Nor Azman, Ady Hameme

“…The MRSM Ulul Albab education programme is designed to produce professional experts, entrepreneurs and technocrats that are well versed in the field of religion that is based on Al-Quran and Sunnah known as the Ulul Albab generation. …”
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Academic expectations of MARA stakeholders on the Ulul Albab curriculum at a MARA Junior Science College by Abdul Manaf, Umi Kalthom, Alias, Nurul Fitriah, Nor Azman, Ady Hameme

“…The MRSM Ulul Albab education programme is designed to produce professional experts, entrepreneurs and technocrats that are well versed in the field of religion that is based on Al-Quran and Sunnah known as the Ulul Albab generation. …”
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“Conheceis a verdade, e a verdade vos libertarás”: teoria da conspiração ambiental-climática e populismo no início do governo Bolsonaro (2018-2020) by Klaus Ramalho von Behr

“…From this qualitative analysis, we evidenced a conspiratorial structure as follows: global, intellectual, technocratic, and left-wing elites seek to instrumentalize the environmental-climate agenda – in particular by ideological indoctrination and alarmism – to justify widespread control over the nations sovereignties and the individuals freedoms. …”
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Le matin des sociologues. Entretien avec Alain Touraine by Michel-Antoine Burnier

“…Technicians, young workers, college and high-school students rose up against the grips of the big technocratic systems: the old discourses had to be affected by it and a new sociology could be born. …”
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Inter-Branch Relations in US Trade Policymaking: Balance of Power or Authoritarian Drift? by Jean-Baptiste Velut

“…Beyond the US case, this means that efforts to curtail protectionism cannot be confined to policy recommendations and technocratic solutions, but must address the political and ideological roots of the current globalization fatigue.…”
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Between mysticism and industry: Breuer, the Benedictines and a binder by Samuel O’Connor Perks

“…In much of the recent literature covering the interaction between religion and aesthetic modernity, modern ‘sacred’ architecture has been understood as an initiative to safeguard an autonomous, separate notion of ‘sacred space’ against the reifying effects of a technocratic modernity. Within this historiographic lens, modern ‘sacred’ architecture is placed in opposition to what the historian of religion Mircea Eliade refers to as the ‘junk space’ of modern profane architecture. …”
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Posting Traditional Ecological Knowledge on Open Access Biodiversity Platforms: Implications for Learning Design by Johanna Funk, Kathy Guthadjaka, Gary Kong

“…The existence of this project on the interface between traditional knowledge and western technocratic information management also has implications for how information is presented and valued. …”
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Pérou : le rêve de l’Etat-nation des intellectuels de la génération de 1900 by Patricia Salinas Desmond

“…Thanks to their pretension of ethical elevation and technocratic know-how, they were convinced of making accurate analysis and able to administer the right remedies to sort out what they called the national problem, the social problem and the native problem. …”
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Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Last Savage: Opera, Science, and Relevance in Cold War American Culture by Cynthia Lisa Dretel

“…Contextualizing this opera with the science play canon reveals that the changing portrayals of scientists and technocratic elites in Cold War American media partially led to politically biased critical reception. …”
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