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Identity and power in Türkiye–EU relations: a poststructuralist analysis of the Turkish authoritarian turn
Publication . Levy, Caio; Matos, André
This article investigates the extent to which the European Union’s (EU) exercise of power has contributed to Türkiye’s political identity transformation, with particular focus on the period surrounding the 2015 refugee crisis. Drawing on post-structuralist theory, especially Michel Foucault’s conceptions of power, discourse, and subjectivity, the article explores how asymmetrical identity constructions operate within EU–Türkiye relations. Through a qualitative discourse analysis of EU reports, official statements, and Turkish political rhetoric, this article argues that the EU’s conditionality-based approach reproduces a hierarchical relationship, reinforcing Türkiye’s status as a normative outsider. In response, Türkiye has developed a counter-hegemonic discourse centered on sovereignty, cultural autonomy, and strategic indispensability. This dual process reveals a dynamic of mutual identity construction: while the EU defines itself through the exclusion of Türkiye, Ankara constructs its identity in opposition to the EU’s liberal-democratic paradigm. By unpacking these discursive formations, the article contributes to a critical understanding of enlargement politics, power asymmetries, and the relational nature of identity
in international relations. The findings underscore how discourse functions not only as a mode of interaction but as a site of resistance, reproduction, and symbolic struggle.
Emerging technologies as sociotechnical–immersive systems: a framework and research agenda for K–12 online learning
Publication . Beck, Dennis; Elmendorf, Doug; Morgado, Leonel
K-12 digital learning is increasingly shaped by emerging technologies layered onto existing digital infrastructures. In practice, the technologies that dominate attention, especially generative and assistive AI, arrive bundled with new assessment tensions, data flows, acquisition constraints, and inequities in access and support. This article proposes a practitioneroriented framework for understanding emerging technologies as sociotechnical-immersive systems rather than standalone tools. The framework connects the following three lenses: (1) a macro sociotechnical circle that foregrounds policy, markets, equity, and governance; (2) a meso environment-design circle that analyzes how learning experiences are configured through system, narrative, and agency; and (3) a micro educational-approaches circle that focuses on the instructional activities educators enact within those environments, using the Immersive Learning Brain as a map of practice and strategies. We developed this framework through practitioner sensemaking grounded
in practitioner focus group data and aligned it with recent research syntheses on emerging technologies. We illustrate the framework through one worked example and two comparative mini-cases. We conclude with an agenda for researchers and practitioners focused on assessment, equitable infrastructure and support, data stewardship, and environment-design descriptions that move beyond technocentric labels.
Deus joga às cartas: a ideia de jogo no pensamento do Padre António Vieira
Publication . Franco, José Eduardo; Thimoteo, Saulo
Relatório de análise estudos de caso portugueses projeto AECED
Publication . Neves, Claudia; Oliveira, Juliana Gazzinelli de; Abelha, Marta; Almeida, Ana Patrícia; Abrantes, Pedro
Relatório de análise estudos de caso portugueses projeto AECED.
Respostas ao inquérito desenvolvido no âmbito dos estudos caso portugueses do projeto AECED
Publication . Neves, Claudia; Oliveira, Juliana Gazzinelli de; Abelha, Marta; Almeida, Ana Patrícia; Abrantes, Pedro