From Humanizing the Educational Process to Professionally Mobile Specialists Training by T. A. Fugelova

“…For overcoming the technocratic trends, the author recommends to cultivate the value of professionalism in the humanization context.Professionalism is defined by using the «professional service» idea as a «purpose acknowledgment, supertask, even a mission». …”
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Call and Response by Jesse Foster Honsa

“…If that were the case, the solution would be to simply open the pipes and build more houses, a regulatory action delegated to technocrats. But as Reinhardt Koselleck reveals, crisis is a concept constructed by special interest groups with the aim of challenging absolute power, enlarging a sphere of popular criticism towards business-as-usual. …”
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Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano by Mete Han Arıtürk, Mehmet Büyüktuncay

“…This study scrutinizes how the technocratic state in Vonnegut’s novel utilizes technology to pacify and disempower the masses, challenging the notion that technology is merely a value-free accumulation of know-how. …”
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‘What are people for?’ by Yat Shun Kei

“…I also discuss the infiltration of eugenic and technocratic views in this reconceptualisation of the environment. …”
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La difficile « naturalisation » du causse Méjean by Julien Blanc

“…Our explanation for this failure is that, one the one hand, biodiversity remains a technocratic and highly normative way of designing nature elements and natural processes that doesn’t fit in the breeders “lived environment”. …”
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Consideration of Digital Divide in Societies of Globalised Control (Extension of Social Contract) by Hüseyin Tolu

“…What the current reality is that we cannot escape from a global prison even if we do know we are in one, in this sense, this paper is interested in arguing how the definition of DD leads technocratic reasoning in which societies of globalised control cannot be separated from speculation, accumulation and circulation of technological commodities that actually lead an unspecific but an extension of social contract in any developed or developing nations throughout technological education.…”
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Maastricht Overcome: An Evolving Disconnect Between the ECB’s Power and Independence by Anna-Lena Högenauer, Joana Mendes

“…Many critical voices warned—long before the crisis—that the ideal of highly independent central banks with narrow technocratic mandates would not work in the long term and would come under particular pressure during periods of instability. …”
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REFORMING OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UK: VALUE AND NORMATIVE DIMENSIONS by Elizaveta V. Zolotareva

“…Evolution strategy for reforming higher education in the UK during the transition from binary to a unitary system is considered in the context of existing alternative approaches to the choice of strategic priorities, forms and methods of educational process regulation, set out in the policy reports of Lord Robbins (1963), Lord Dearing (1997) and Lord Browne (2010).The contradictory nature of neoliberal policy reforms in the last 25 years is seen as a reflection of tensions between the socioBcultural and economic functions of education, the underlying conflict between technocratic, social and humanistic approaches to solving the problem of higher education to adapt to the new technological and social reality of the twentyBfirst century. …”
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Sur la circulation du modèle corporatif fasciste dans le monde : agents, réseaux, effets by Matteo Pasetti

“…Fascist Italy thus became the point of reference for the ongoing debate on corporatism as a possible solution to some crucial issues of modern mass society: the workers’ union organisation and class conflict; economic development and the technocratic management of the production system; the search for a ‘third way’ between liberal democracy and communist revolution.This article examines how fascist corporatism was presented as an exemplary case on a global scale, intended to influence both the political, legal and economic debate and similar legislative experiments in other regimes. …”
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An ecological crisis of reason: using creative and arts-based research methods for exploring affective-emotional life and just transitions by Clifton Evers

“…The arts-based research (ABR) challenges prevailing technocratic and rational frameworks, aligning with ecofeminist Val Plumwood’s call to address the ‘ecological crisis of reason’ that serves to inhibit achieving sustainable futures. …”
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Pérou : le rêve de l’Etat-nation des intellectuels de la génération de 1900 by Patricia Salinas Desmond

“…Thanks to their pretension of ethical elevation and technocratic know-how, they were convinced of making accurate analysis and able to administer the right remedies to sort out what they called the national problem, the social problem and the native problem. …”
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About Problems and Prospects of Humanities and Humanitarian Education in Russia by O. V. Vorobieva

“…It is noted that in this situation it is very important to move away from a predominantly technocratic and economic understanding of the priorities and results of the scientific and technological development of Russia for a historical perspective, to avoid reducing information about the progress of a person, society, and the state to technological and economic criteria; to recognize a special status of Humanities, social sciences, and education as the most important resource confronting the technologically accelerated destruction of nature and society, to view them as a factor of cognition, dialogue and management.…”
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The Knitwear Archive as a Tool to Explore New Technologies by Giovanni Maria Conti, Diego Dani, Martina Motta, Irene Sapuppo, Federica Vacca

“…Two main innovation areas are identified: new manufacturing technologies, developed by knitting machine producers, and virtualization and 3D modeling softwares, enabling virtual garment prototyping on avatars.This paper explores the role of design as a “cultural mediator” between the present and the past and, through a research conducted at the Gianfranco Ferré Research Center, it proposes the use of the archive as a tool to explore the new trajectories of technological innovation in knitwear and to guide them through the perspective of the Industry 5.0, refusing a technocratic idea of the future. Two approaches are highlighted: the ri-materialization of archival pieces through 3D modeling and the reinterpretation of archival material experimenting with new technologies. …”
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Policies and Strategies for Green Tourism Development of the Jeneberang River Area in Makassar City by Faisal Faisal

“…Operationally, this policy has not been supported by technocratic planning in the form of the Jeneberang River Development Masterplan as a Green Tourism Destination …”
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Contested local power in influencing regional development planning in Nabire Papua, Indonesia by Ch. M. Lewerissa, Edyanto Edyanto

“…The research reveals that the Regional Development Planning Agency (Bappeda) contributes significantly (83.1%) to the development planning process, indicating a strong technocratic influence. However, Bappeda faces challenges including unprofessional human resource management, limited budget and infrastructure, poor administrative organization, and inadequate planning and implementation of community-focused development programs. …”
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Le matin des sociologues. Entretien avec Alain Touraine by Michel-Antoine Burnier

“…Technicians, young workers, college and high-school students rose up against the grips of the big technocratic systems: the old discourses had to be affected by it and a new sociology could be born. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Turbulent Flows through a Solar Air Heater Having Square-Sectioned Transverse Rib Roughness on the Absorber Plate by Anil Singh Yadav, J. L. Bhagoria

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Organisation management in the digital economy: graduation according to the degree of using digital technologies by A. V. Veretyokhin

“…The author has analysed and summarised approaches to  the interpretation of  the digital economy, has grouped them and allocated as   follows: technocratic, specific, scientific and industrial, industrial and sectoral, information and spatial, evolutionary. …”
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Balancing Technology, Ethics, and Society: A Review of Artificial Intelligence in Embryo Selection by Roberto Aufieri, Francesco Mastrocola

“…The literature reveals that some authors perceive AI as an extension of a technocratic paradigm that commodifies embryos, considering that any embryo selection methods undermine the dignity of human life. …”
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Policy Considerations on the Interplay Between State Aid Control and Competition Law by Maria João Melícias

“…Such popular, less technocratic approach can be instrumental in bringing competition enforcement “down to earth”. …”
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