Theorizing the affective regime of “best practice” in education policy

This paper theorizes the affective and moral grounding of “best practice” policymaking, particularly how best practice operates as an affective regime that encourages certain affective norms. To illustrate this, the author takes up the example of best practices promoted by the CoE’s Digital Citizenship Education Handbook for the acquisition of digital citizenship competences. It is shown that the distribution of best practices creates a set of affective conditions—especially through cultivating certain affective skills/competences and ethics/morals—that govern the ways in/though which best practices ought to be appropriately materialized. The paper discusses two implications of this analysis for education policymaking and policymakers. The first implication suggests that there needs to be work informing policymakers how affect works to create regimes of best practice; the second implication emphasizes the importance of working with policymakers to explore how they could challenge affective regimes of best practice.

An Aristotelian Interpretation of Bojo Jinul and an Enhanced Moral Grounding

This paper explores the eclecticism of Bojo Jinul (1158–1210 CE), who is arguably the most influential historic figure in establishing and developing the Buddhist monastic institution of Korea. As a great harmonizer of the conflicting Buddhist trends in the late Goryeo period, Jinul not only shaped the foundation of the traditional monastic discipline balanced between theory and practice but also made Korean Buddhist thoughts known to a larger part of East Asia. I revisit the eclecticism of Bojo Jinul on harmonizing the two conflicting understandings of enlightenment represented by Seon (Cha’n) and Gyo (Hwaeom study) schools: the former stressing sudden enlightenment by sitting mediation and oral transmission of dharma and the latter stressing gradual cultivation by the formal training of textual and doctrinal understanding specifically on the Hwaeom Sutra. Utilizing the metaphysics of Aristotle, I confirm the logical validity of his eclecticism and address some of its moral implications.

Purely Formal Wrongs

This chapter cautions against the moral grounding of private rights and duties and, in turn, private law's response to wrongs. The argument is framed as a rebuke to those who suppose that private law must be interpreted from an internal, rather than instrumental, point of view. According to this chapter, interpretive theorists assume that the deontic structure of private law implies deontological moral grounding. But it argues that there is no good reason to think this, and, indeed, there are plenty of reasons to think otherwise. Private law may be formally deontic but nevertheless have instrumental moral justification. The interesting and difficult question is what to make, normatively, of the deontic structure of private law. Against the view that civil wrongs are moral wrongs, this chapter asserts that they are purely formal.

In the service of a higher good: Resilience of academics under managerial control

This article extends the literature of resistance in organisational settings by examining the forms and sources of resistance that endure even in the face of successive adversities. This article characterises such resistance as resilience and elaborates on this concept empirically in the university context by showing how academics find new ways to maintain and promote their professional agendas despite successive, unpredictable managerial interventions typical of the contemporary university. In our analysis, we identify three forms of resilience – protective, independent, and adaptive – each of which draws on specific professional values that we term constitutive goods. The focus on constitutive goods highlights the moral grounding of resistance that comes into play, especially in situations in which the actors have something fundamentally valuable at stake, and which they feel compelled to defend. Moreover, resilience extends the focus beyond situated resistance tactics to a process geared towards protecting constitutive goods against control over the long term.

Engaging with Forst’s Right to Justification

This chapter engages with Forst’s treatment of justification and how this relates to a fundamental ‘duty’ to justification. It raises doubts on the equation that he establishes between the unconditionality of a Kantian moral imperative and the pretense of unconditionality of the duty to justification. As a result, it contests that the right to justification stands as a ‘fundamentum inconcussum’ of a justificatory theory of justice, and suggests that the Kantian account takes the justification of morality and law as elements of a cooperative scheme of justice. It argues that at times, Forst’s moral grounding of justice might raise concerns with a truly post-metaphysical doctrine of justice.

Political morality and neutrality

The article gives the reasons why a distinction between political morality and ethical conceptions needs to be drawn, as well as the reasons for which political liberalism is a substantial moral conception, and as such in tension with certain understandings of the neutrality. Further, the text analyzes the definition of personality through capacity for action (above all ethical). Recognition of this capacity is necessary, but not sufficient to attribute to a person a special status from the standpoint of political morality, since individuals also must be capable to coordinate their ethical actions with moral principles of others. Further, the text critiques Charles Larmore?s moral grounding of the theory of justice on respect of persons by arguing that the concept of respect should be considered as part of the complex interrelationships with other moral concepts, such as equality. In this way, neutrality regarding content of respect, as well as neutrality regarding capacity for ethical action turns out to be insufficient.

MEKANISME PENYELESAIAN PELANGGARAN KODE ETIK JURNALISTIK PADA DEWAN PERS DI KOTA SERANG

Journalism is an activity of gathering news and reporting events. Delivery of news or information in general often also called the press. To protect journalistic activities and freedom of the press, the press council established by law. Press Council as an independent agency to establish guidelines which must be done by any reporter or journalist in writing or delivered the news. Journalistic ethics is a guideline to behave in journalistic activity compiled by journalists, press organizations to be ethical or moral grounding in journalistic activities. The purpose of this study, to find a model settlement of violations of journalistic ethics in the press council. This research method using descriptive analytical research model with normative juridical approach. Collecting data using literature study by collecting data and legal regulations. Besides the interviews to the parties concerned to complete the data. Press Council in resolving violations of journalistic ethics, to maintain the freedom of the press with a mechanism that provides power to the press council to decide a case arising from journalistic activities completed by the press council. Settlement due to journalistic activities outside the press council will shut down and eliminate the freedom of the press as mandated by law. The right model is the removal of press offenses perspective that may affect national press by giving power and authority to the press council to resolve matters arising from journalistic activities.