Niklas Rosenblad

Zohran Mamdani Is Elected Mayor of New York City

When a democratic socialist and millennial becomes mayor, there is hope! Let freedom ring!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

Relational Agency in Competency-Based Vocational Education Explore the complexities of relational agency in vocational education, addressing challenges in competency-based training and student counselling.

Just noted that @crnetwork.bsky.social has listed my doctoral thesis (2023) in the library of contributions to #CriticalRealism

criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/10/29/k...

At the excellent @jvetjournal.bsky.social 2025 conference in Oxford 🇬🇧, I had the opportunity to present ongoing work with my colleagues @leesawheelahan.bsky.social, Antti Seitamaa and Penni Pietila. We draw upon critical realist philosophy, further developing the concept of #reflexivity.

The ontology of personhood and a realist critique of the policy discourse based on skills This paper uses the critical realist concept of human reflexivity to dev­elop a theoretical critique of the notion of ‘skills’ in current policy discourses, particularly in vocational education. We...

Hello @crnetwork.bsky.social, with @leesawheelahan.bsky.social we published an article in @bjse.bsky.social. We theorise the person envisaged in the global education policy discourse based on #skills and propose an alternative based on #CriticalRealism. It's open access. See, doi.org/10.1080/0142...

Yes, it's unbelievable. What sustainability and inclusion were meant for when they were coined in the 1960s was to promote economic growth policy, not decline it. Thus far Trump's policy is not just socially disastrous, it backfires in the face of their own agenda.

US authorities now demanding Helsinki University to remove words like "climate change" and "equal society" from a Fulbright scholarship call. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

What was desired with #inclusion when it was coined in the 1960s was to PROMOTE economic growth policies. Not DECLINE them, as the Trump administration does now. #DEI

The view that improving freedom of speech by forbidding words to be spoken is really something. It must go to history the greatest paradox of the bourgeois far-right populists ever #DEI #Fulbright #SocialJustice

@leesawheelahan.bsky.social

The ontology of personhood and a realist critique of the policy discourse based on skills This paper uses the critical realist concept of human reflexivity to dev­elop a theoretical critique of the notion of ‘skills’ in current policy discourses, particularly in vocational education. We...

In this article with Leesa Wheelahan, we use the critical realist concept of depth-ontology to examine personhood which is related to, but distinct from, human agency, social structure and the social context in which people practise their skills.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I would say we stand behind the same beliefs here in Finland 🇫🇮

Two things are certain: yesterday was not a good day, and I will never buy a Tesla!!

What I like most about this UK school of humanism is that it is based on realism, the philosophy of real people living in a real world and not a fantasy one.

I'd love to be added 🙏🏼

Yes, include me on the CR Starter Pack list too, please. 🙏🏼 I've had difficulties reaching out, don't know if this is the right way.

Can you add me to the starter pack list please 🙏🏼