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Learning as a precondition of migrants’ interest and engagement

Greco Morasso, Sara

In: Human Affairs, 2012, vol. 22, no. 3, p. 313-324

This paper considers the complex relation between migrants’ interest in their host country and their consequent civic or social engagement in the framework of processes of transition following the rupture of international migration (cf. Zittoun 2006). In phases of transition, migrants live processes of identity definition, sense-making of the situation and learning new knowledge and...

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Learning under prior ignorance

Piatti, Alberto ; Trojani, Fabio (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2006 ; 2006ECO004.

It is well known that a state of prior ignorance is not compatible with learning, at least in a coherent theory of (epistemic) uncertainty. What is less widely known, is that there is another state of beliefs, called near-ignorance, that resembles ignorance very closely by satisfying some principles that can arguably be regarded as necessary in a state of ignorance, and that allows learning to...