High School Ranking in University Admissions at a National Level: Theory of Action and Early Results from Chile
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DOI: 10.1057/s41307-017-0048-6
Abstract: Alternative university admissions models like the recent consideration of high school ranking by universities in Chile offer the promise of increasing access to higher education by considering academic performance in context of opportunities to learn.… read more here.
Keywords: theory action; university admissions; school ranking; high school ... See more keywords
Before ethics: scientific accounts of action at the turn of the century
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DOI: 10.1080/13869795.2017.1421696
Abstract: This paper traces the intellectual trajectories of the first stand-alone theories of action, understood as both axiologically neutral and quasi-scientific from a methodological point of view. I argue that the rise of action theory of… read more here.
Keywords: scientific accounts; ethics scientific; philosophy; theory action ... See more keywords
Theory of action: The care and feeding of your mission
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DOI: 10.1177/00317217221136598
Abstract: In education, we share a common commitment to supporting students’ growth and development, but we often have different ideas about what that support looks like. A theory of action describes how a specific education organization… read more here.
Keywords: action care; care feeding; feeding mission; action ... See more keywords
Book review: Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980221137003
Abstract: as genuinely realistic, one may still see it as perpetuating the very exclusion he seeks to avoid by denying the input of actual women from Wimoa’s depicted social class. Pani’s decades spent conducting research among… read more here.
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Microfoundations of Institutions and the Theory of Action
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DOI: 10.5465/amr.2018.0339
Abstract: In this article, I argue that progress with microfoundations in institutional theory requires a suitable theory of individual action—i.e., one which overcomes the shortcomings of how agency and structure are typically conceived of. I contend… read more here.
Keywords: institutions theory; theory; theory action; action ... See more keywords