Papers by Michael Nagenborg
Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
There is a growing awareness of the (potential) tensions between urban resilience and justice. Th... more There is a growing awareness of the (potential) tensions between urban resilience and justice. This paper provides a systematic account of justice issues in the context of urban resilience to natural disasters. On the one hand, I will demonstrate that the underlying understanding of resilienceas bouncing back/forwardshapes our understanding of the interplay between justice and resilience. On the other hand, I will argue that we should not only avoid unjust outcomes in the process of building resilience but also consider resilience engineering as a way of promoting urban justice.
Journal of Philosophy in Schools
Personalised learning systems—systems that predict learning needs to tailor education to the uniq... more Personalised learning systems—systems that predict learning needs to tailor education to the unique learning needs of individual students—are gaining rapid popularity. Praise for educational technology is often focused on how technology will benefit school systems, but there is a lack of understanding of how it will affect the student and the learning process. By uncovering what the meaning of ‘personal’ is in educational philosophy and as embodied in the technology, we illustrate that these two understandings are different regarding the autonomy of the student. Personalised learning technology, therefore, bears the risk of failing to achieve its educational ideal of what personalisation should be. We also illustrate how personalised learning technology effects student autonomy by requiring the intensive tracking of the learning process, exposing them to privacy and data protection risks. We do not claim that education does not need technology, but we want to illustrate the importan...
International Review of Information Ethics, 2010
NFD Information-Wissenschaft und Praxis
der Frage nach Strukturen professioneller Onlineberatung in Selbsthilfeforen nachgegangen. In ein... more der Frage nach Strukturen professioneller Onlineberatung in Selbsthilfeforen nachgegangen. In einer qualitativen Analyse wurde nach Aspekten professioneller Beratung und nach Zeichen der Selbsthilfe in einem großen Forum für partnerschaftliche ...
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Papers by Michael Nagenborg