Learning and Calamities: Practices, Interpretations, Patterns

ISBN-13: 9780415334907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 314 str.

Heike Egner; Maren Schorch; Martin Voss

Opis

This text looks at the theory and practice of learning and how universities can improve their quality and competence. It tackles the past failure of the quality and competence movements and encourages a move towards "universities of learning".

Spis treści

Foreword  Kathleen Tierney.  Acknowledgments.  1. Introduction: Can Societies Learn from Calamities?  Heike Egner, Marén Schorch, and Martin Voss  Part I: Opening the Fields of Learning and Calamities  2. Learning from Disasters in an Unsafe World: Considerations from a Psychoanalytical Ethnological Perspective  Bernd Rieken  3. Learning About Disasters from Animals  Greg Bankoff  4. Beyond Experiential Learning in Disaster and Development Communication  Andrew E. Collins  Part II: Learning from History?  5. "The Monster Swallows You": Disaster Memory and Risk Culture in Western Europe, 1500-2000  Christian Pfister  6. A Disaster in Slow Motion: The Smoke Menace in Urban-Industrial Britain  Stephen Mosley  7. Historia Magistra Vitae, as the Saying Goes: Why Societies Do Not Necessarily Learn from Past Disasters  Uwe Lübken  Part III: Educational Concepts for Disaster Preparedness  8. Using a Spare-Time University for Disaster Risk Reduction Education  Ilan Kelman, Marla Petal, and Michael H. Glantz  9. Communicating Actionable Risk: The Challenge of Communicating Risk to Motivate Preparedness in the Absence of Calamity  Michele M. Wood  10. Critical Reflection on Disaster Prevention Education  Marla Petal  Part IV: Organizational Patterns of Interpretation and Practices of Learning  11. Normalization and its Discontents: Organizational Learning from Disaster  Sven Kette and Hendrik Vollmer  12. Analyses of Natural Disasters and Their Contribution to Changes in Natural Hazard Management in Switzerland  Michael Bründl  13. How Not to Learn: Resilience in the Study of Disaster  Benigno A. Aguirre and Eric Best  Part V: Societal Patterns of Interpretation and Practices of Learning  14. When Push Comes to Shove: The Framing of Need in Disaster Relief Efforts  Tricia Wachtendorf, Samantha Penta, and Mary M. Nelan  15. Reduced Learning Processes Due to Biopolitical Patterns of Interpretation: Michel Foucault and the Contamination Disaster  Matthias Hofmann  16. Science versus Metaphysics. The Importance of Everyday Life Experience for the Interpretation of Disaster  Elísio Macamo and Dieter Neubert  Part VI: Closing  17. Learning and Calamities—What Have We Learned?: Steps Towards an Integrative Framework  Heike Egner and Marén Schorch