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	Illuminations: Kellner
		Critical theory is thus rooted in "critical activity" which is oppositional and which is involved in a struggle for social change and the unification of theory and practice.
		Philosophy's role in critical theory is to analyze the presuppositions of a critical social theory and to criticize the presuppositions and effects of competing theories.
		Critical theory is thus deeply self-reflexive and self-critical, forcing critical theorists to continually concern themselves with reflections on method and the nature and effects of a critical social theory.
	www.uta.edu /huma/illuminations/kell5.htm (8424 words)

	Critical Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		According to these theorists, a “critical” theory may be distinguished from a “traditional” theory according to a specific practical purpose: a theory is critical to the extent that it seeks human emancipation, “to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them” (Horkheimer 1982, 244).
		Critical Theorists have always insisted that critical approaches have dual methods and aims: they are both explanatory and normative at the same time, adequate both as empirical descriptions of the social context and as practical proposals for social change.
		The lesson for a critical theory of globalization is to see the extension of political space and the redistribution of political power not only as a constraint similar to complexity but also as an open field of opportunities for innovative, distributive, and multiperspectival forms of publicity and democracy.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/critical-theory (18982 words)

	Fetterman: Ethnography Step-by-Step -- Chapter1
		Basic research is conceptualized and designed by the researcher, who seeks funding,typically a grant, from a potentially interested sponsor.
		Theories need not be elaborate juxtapositions of constructs, assumptions, propositions, and generalizations; they can be midlevel or personal theories about how the world or some small part of it works.
		Basic descriptions of events and places, however, should sound familiar to native and colleague alike (with the logical exception of accounts of aberrant behavior or newly discovered ideas or thought processes).
	www.stanford.edu /~davidf/class/Chapter1.htm (5479 words)

	Critical Theory at Northwestern University
		Critical theory plays an increasingly important role in a wide variety of disciplines.
		“Critical Theory” is a term that over the past three decades, particularly in the United States, has come to designate a particular approach to study rather than a self-contained discipline.
		Critical theory can therefore not be limited to a particular field or even to a specific content.
	www.wcas.northwestern.edu /criticaltheory (962 words)

	Engineering Technology Courses
		Critical thinking standards are studied and applied to a variety of everyday situations to develop fact-finding and sound questioning skills in order to more effectively assess and find solutions to problem situations.
		Topics include the study of elementary, analytical and practical applications of the principles and physical concepts of statics.
		A basic background in college-level general physics II is required as well as a working knowledge of complex-number mathematics, simultaneous equations, and basic trigonometry to enroll in this course.
	www.mc3.edu /aa/courses/egtcrs.htm (947 words)

	Rural Cooperatives Magazine - March/April 2001
		I believe the most serious failing of cooperative research is that economic and business (or "firm") theory for cooperatives is restricted to basic economics and is further largely restricted to traditional economics with traditional underlying assumptions.
		Examples include corporation contract theories, theories based on public policy and public good, theories based on the sharing of responsibilities among participants, theories based on stakeholder obligations and fiduciary principles, and theories that challenge the "rationality" assumptions upon which economic theories are founded.
		Indeed, some of the challenges to standard corporate theory and the economic analysis of the firm are the very reasons why cooperatives were created, why they continue to exist and why they distinguish themselves from other businesses even though cooperatives, too, are corporations.
	www.rurdev.usda.gov /rbs/pub/mar01/critical.html (2731 words)

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		It is important to distinguish between theory that is explored in studio, through projects, and theory that should be taught formally, the basis of Architecture 311w.
		Unlike studio-based theory, Architecture 311w does not endorse a particular ideological position, nor is it a historical review of selected theories, nor does it aim to use theory to justify or condemn particular architectural practices.
		Theory, on the other hand, is always concerned with explanation and understanding, but it has the ambitious aim of applying these to artistic objects, where the normative meanings of "explanation" and "understanding" are modified to accept art's specific conditions.
	art3idea.psu.edu:16080 /theory/basics/syllabus.html (1105 words)

	Legal Theory and Ethics
		Plato's Phaedrus is the topic of this course.
		Topics include doctor and hospital licensing, informed consent, medical malpractice, regulations governing health insurance and finance, public subsidies for healthcare, laws relating to death and dying, and selected issues of biomedical ethics.
		Topics include the relation between law and morality; legal reasoning; the justification of sanctions and rights; authority; the ethics and political theory of adjudication and legislation; and positive law and nihilism.
	www.law.berkeley.edu /admissions/courses/theory.html (780 words)

	Programming Languages Basic - Martin Baker
		BASIC (Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was written in 1963, at Dartmouth College, by John Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas.
		Up until that time users had to submit their programs as batch jobs on a mainframe computer, perhaps on punched cards, the punched cards had to be loaded, compiled, linked and run, the user would then get a printout with the results, perhaps several hours later.
		Later when personal computers were invented Basic was a good way to allow people to start programming quickly on their own computer.
	www.euclideanspace.com /software/language/basic/index.htm (511 words)

	Theory's Hope by Stanley Fish
		Of equal importance is that the assumption of rational, critical self-consciousness, especially in those theories espousing the claims of the irrational (in the form of psyche, power, or society) as the motor of action has also been undone.
		Much of the reaction to theory in the study of literature has indeed been a greater emphasis on the aesthetic without much sense of whether this is a psychological or social phenomenon.
		Here the function of the humanities as the fields where theories of meaning and analysis as well as methodologies that are of use across multiple objects of study and teaching may well be of greater importance than we have seen in the past.
	www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v30/30n2.Gilman.html (2805 words)

	WMU Political Science
		Topics may range from general subjects dealing with various aspects of bureaucracy in one or more countries to narrow problems at the level of a ministry or sub-ministry.
		This course surveys the core of the research field of comparative politics, which is concerned principally with the discovery and confirmation of knowledge about the institutions and behavior of the governments and their citizens.
		Topics may include contemporary forms of liberalism, contemporary theories of justice, contemporary civic republican theory, communitarian theory, critical theory, Continental theory, post-structuralist theory, feminist theory, multicultural political theory, Marxian theory, pragmatism, contemporary forms of conservatism, libertarianism, and rational choice theory.
	www.wmich.edu /politics/grad/grad.courses.html (1911 words)

	Wikipedia:WikiProject Critical Theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the humanities and social sciences, critical theory is a general term for new theoretical developments (roughly since the 1960s) in a variety of fields, informed by structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, Marxist theory, and several other areas of thought.
		At the time of writing, entries on Critical theory tend to be stubby, inaccurate, and to have sections put in that seem to be motivated heavily by an anti-postmodernist or anti-academic slant.
		I proposed what I think is a pretty standard critical theory definition of the term, based on a melding of Jameson and Lyotard, but another user insists on leaving the introduction the way it is, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me, and which I think confuses postmodernity with postmodernism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikiproject:Critical_Theory (1098 words)

	Considering Teacher Education: Critical Abandonment by Jack L. Nelson
		It is critical abandonment, not only because teacher preparation is a necessarily significant, thus critical, part of education, but also because the abandonment is by the very faculty who could contribute most to improvements – the most influential critical education scholars.
		Developing teacher competence in grappling with knowledge and critical thought, in extending teacher and student freedom to explore ideas, and in exhibiting and inspiring intellectual enthusiasm are far more important topics than lesson-planning and room arranging.
		For the teacher educator as well as for education school colleagues who prefer to ignore teacher education, the arguments are reminiscent of long-standing debates which are likely to be resolved in bureaucratic and legislative regulation without participation by those most involved in the process or the use of bodies of knowledge about teaching.
	www.pipeline.com /~rougeforum/Newspaper/Summer2004/criticalabandon.html (2967 words)

	Critical Race Theory Resource Guide
		Critical Race Theory has its roots in the more established fields of anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, and politics.
		The notions of social construction and reality of race and discrimination are ever-present in the writings of known contemporary critical race theorists, such as Derrick Bell, Mari Matsuda, Richard Delgado, Kimberlie Crenshaw, and William Tate, as well as pioneers in the field, including W.E.B. DuBois and Max Weber.
		Literature included in the databases concerns topics such as human rights (political, economic, civil, social, and cultural), labor conditions and policy, law and ethics, and population groups, popluation policy, and demographic policies.
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~jp49 (2089 words)

	English 60A: Contemporary Critical Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Basic information--a description of the content and format of the course; capsule biographies of class members; etc.
		1993 hypertext database--Information on New Criticism, Marxist criticism, and psychoanalytic criticism.
		Voice of the Shuttle theory page--Perhaps the single most comprehensive set of links to internet resources in the humanities, this one is a classic; it's maintained by Alan Liu of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/english/courses/60A (437 words)

	Theories
		A general theory of social relations is a necessary part of an ecosocial-semiotic theory.
		No adequate theory exists, primarily because it is not possible to construct such a theory from inside the system: all social theorists are enmeshed in the social relations they describe; we cannot escape being part of a gender system, a class system, a specific cultural-historical epoch, etc.
		It's basic principle is that meaning is made by the deployment of acts and objects which function as "signs" in relation to other signs.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /education/jlemke/theories.htm (2456 words)

	Erik Olin Wright's Home Page
		The basic idea is to combine serious normative discussions of the underlying principles and rationales for different emancipatory visions with the analysis of pragmatic problems of institutional design.
		The basic requirement of the course is three ten page papers on the topics in the course.
		It is a fundamental tenet of Marxist theories of the state that the state in capitalist society is deeply shaped and constrained by the class relations of capitalism, but this leaves quite open the extent to which progressive change can be achieved within those constraints.
	www.ssc.wisc.edu /~wright (3399 words)

	Theatre Theory
		Or read Virtual Theatre pages, the reseach -- from the theory's POV it was the same drive to invistgigate the nature of spectatorship, the nature of theatre...
		By contrast to classical and mimetic literature—seen as inherently authoritarian and logocentric in its ‘monologism’ (his term for Aristotelian unity and the separation of genres, in which aesthetic harmony is achieved by a singleness of voice and perspective)—Bakhtin traces a counter-culture archetype to popular street carnivals.
		The theory is a good neutral ground to jump from the past (known) to the future (which doesn't exist yet -- and you are the link between the two).
	afronord.tripod.com /thr/theory.html (2411 words)

	OLL Theory Tuesday
		Among Gagné better known ides were the nine events of instruction, the conditions of learning, learning hierarchies, and the taxonomy of learning outcomes.
		There are three basic types of self-efficacy: self-regulatory (ability to resist peer pressure, avoid high risk activities), social (ability to form and maintain relationships, be assertive and engage in leisure time activities) and academic (ability to do course work, regulate learning activities and meet expectancies).
		Understanding this theory is critical for those wanting to motivate their employees and students.
	www.southalabama.edu /oll/theoryworkshop.htm (218 words)

	phalLogocentrism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		These should be the most basic topics in the field--topics about which we'd like to have articles soon.
		Luce Irigaray proposed to offer a course on material developing in the wake of her first book on psychoanalysis and feminine sexuality and was rejected.
		This rejection was perceived as petty antagonism of a critic indicative of a further curtailment of intellectual freedom in a program seemingly shackled to Lacan's agenda.
	dks.thing.net /phalLogocentrism.html (3610 words)

	Amazon.com: Basic Set Theory: Books: Azriel Levy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Although this book deals with basic set theory (in general, it stops short of areas where model-theoretic methods are used) on a rather advanced level, it does it at an unhurried pace.
		The first covers pure set theory, including the basic notions, order and well-foundedness, cardinal numbers, the ordinals, and the axiom of choice and some of its consequences.
		Most of the books in basic set theory place too much emphasis on the basic and not enough on the more advanced topics that students need for future study.
	www.amazon.com /Basic-Set-Theory-Azriel-Levy/dp/0486420795 (1222 words)

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