Niklas Rosenblad
@rosenik.bsky.social
PhD, lecturer at the University of Helsinki, critical realist, worker's rights activist, ethnographer, practitioner, perhaps on your side, parent, overthinker — an ordinary person.
When a democratic socialist and millennial becomes mayor, there is hope! Let freedom ring!
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Zohran Mamdani Is Elected Mayor of New York City
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November 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
When a democratic socialist and millennial becomes mayor, there is hope! Let freedom ring!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
Just noted that @crnetwork.bsky.social has listed my doctoral thesis (2023) in the library of contributions to #CriticalRealism
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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.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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...
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.
July 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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.
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...
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...
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February 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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...
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US authorities now demanding Helsinki University to remove words like "climate change" and "equal society" from a Fulbright scholarship call. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
"Amerikanska myndigheter har kontaktat universitetet och krävt att en del termer tas bort ur beskrivningar i stipendieannonser.
– Det handlar om ord som ”klimatförändringen”, ”jämlikt samhälle”, ”ett inkluderande samhälle” och ”kvinnor i samhället”, säger kansler Kaarle Hämeri."
– Det handlar om ord som ”klimatförändringen”, ”jämlikt samhälle”, ”ett inkluderande samhälle” och ”kvinnor i samhället”, säger kansler Kaarle Hämeri."
Alltså va!?
February 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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
February 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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
February 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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
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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I would say we stand behind the same beliefs here in Finland 🇫🇮
February 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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!!
January 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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.
'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.'
Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher, humanist, and our former patron.
Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher, humanist, and our former patron.
January 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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.