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After Modernist Painting:The History of a Contemporary Practice
No full textPainting’s evolution since 1960 entailed having to continually redefine its own parameters through a negotiation with a broader set of practices, debates and artistic possibilities. Taking Clement Greenberg's “Modernist Painting” as its starting point, After Modernist Painting will be both a historical survey and a critical re-evaluation of the contested and contingent nature of the medium of painting over the last 60 years. Presenting a critical account of painting, rather than art generally, this book provides a timely exploration of what has remained a persistent and protean medium. Craig Staff focuses on certain developments including the relationship of painting to Conceptual Art and Minimalism, the pronouncement of painting’s alleged death, its response to Installation Art's foregrounding of site, how painting both images and imagines the digital and how it continues to body forth a particular set of ideas and responses to the world. After Modernist Painting is an invaluable resource for those seeking to understand the themes and issues that have pertained to painting within the context of postmodernism and contemporary artistic practice.<br/
International Academics’ Perceptions of Short-term Teaching in a Chinese University: Motives, Challenges and Academic Acculturation
Full text linkInternational mobility in academia contributes to knowledge exchange, career progression and internationalization, but limited research has investigated short term roles. This paper studies international academics who travelled to China to teach a four-week summer school program. Participants (n=44) were interviewed about motives for coming to China, challenges encountered, and academic acculturation. Findings showed that motives, challenges, and acculturation experiences were complex and diverse. While disciplinary outreach was a prominent driver, the program itself had an important role. Most challenges for long-term international academics were not applicable to short-term international academics. Instead, short-term mobile academics’ reported challenges tended to be program or discipline-related, and perceptions of difficulty were shaped by individual factors such as frequency of academic mobility and personal world view. In addition, short-term international mobile academics did not report active engagement in a mutual academic acculturation process, although there was evidence of one-way acculturation directed from home (academic staff) to host (students) and reported changing views about the host culture. Findings enrich understanding and support policy for short term international academic mobility
Prevention of violence against women/girls so as to build safe-spaces for women in educational universities in Viet Nam
Full text linkThe objectives of this research were to address these gaps and to support gender-sensitive teaching and awareness in teacher training within universities that can change Higher Education (HE) environments and change teaching and educational activities in schools. The project had four key aims to address:1. Conducting a detailed needs assessment and analysis of current teacher-training programmes to identify how gender sensitive they are, such as if the programme raises awareness of women’s rights and if the textbooks or curriculum promote non-traditional gender roles.2. Evaluate the environment and current situation of gender inequality and GBV in schools by engaging with officials, lecturers, staff and female students at five pedagogical universities from all three regions of Viet Nam (North, Central and South).3. Develop and implement training materials on gender-related issues and gender equality (prevention and response to GBV) for students and lecturers at pedagogical universities in Viet Nam.4. Make recommendations to the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), as well as HEIs more widely, on the implementation of mainstreaming curricula on gender, gender equality and prevention of violence against women/girls (at all levels of education, but especially for pedagogical university students).To address these aims, and to improve the environment within universities in Viet Nam, establishing a safe-space for students, lecturers and staff’s physicality and mentality, the partners from the UK and Viet Nam had run in-person and online training workshops; and had a roundtable policy table with representatives of MOET. This research paper provides the findings from these training workshops and evaluation of the training workshops
Breaking Down Barriers:The Role of Education Policy in Addressing Gender Disparities in Literacy
Full text linkLiteracy gaps between genders continue to exist worldwide, limiting opportunities for women and girls. This book chapter explores the role of education policy in addressing these disparities in the United Kingdom (UK). It examines how policies can be designed to promote gender equality in literacy, focusing on key areas such as access to education, curriculum development, teacher training, and community engagement. This chapter draws on existing research and case studies to highlight effective policy interventions that have successfully narrowed the gender literacy gap. By analysing the impact of these policies, this chapter aims to identify best practices and provide recommendations for future policy development. Ultimately, this chapter seeks to contribute to the ongoing efforts to create more equitable and inclusive educational systems that empower women and girls through literacy
The Role of Literacy in Shaping Gender Pay Gap Policies:Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Implications
Full text linkThe gender pay gap, a topical societal issue, is influenced by various factors, including cultural norms, societal inequalities, and educational disparities. While numerous studies have examined the direct impact of these factors on the gender pay gap, the role of literacy has often been overlooked. This chapter explores how literacy plays a crucial role in shaping gender pay gap policies. By empowering individuals to access information, understand complex issues, and advocate for their rights, literacy can contribute to a more equitable society. Historically, access to literacy has been unequal, with women often marginalized in educational settings. These historical inequities have laid the foundation for systemic gender biases that continue to influence economic opportunities and outcomes. By understanding how literacy has influenced policymaking, we can identify opportunities to leverage literacy as a tool for greater economic inclusion and gender equality
Web-based groups as autopoietic social systems. A cybernetic perspective
No full textWeb-based groups can be observed as social systems emerging from computer-mediated communication underpinned by the technological infrastructures of Web 2.0. The usage of social network platforms has been investigated from a wide array of sociological perspectives. Among many others, prominent fields of research concern the practices of presentation of the self, the emergence of social formations, the construction of knowledge, the relationships between technology and business models underpinning social networking platforms and social participation of the users. This article proposes a complementary approach advancing innovative theoretical reflections, in a commitment to answer Fuchs’ plea for new approaches to media systems and media organisation analysis. In particular, this articles discusses web-based groups as the catalyst for theoretical reflections concerning the co-evolution between the digital medium of communication and the societal capacity to handle complexity in the material dimension, temporal dimension, and social dimension. The article builds the foundation of its theoretical innovations in the first part, through an interdisciplinary combination of the theory of forms, second-order cybernetics, and autopoietic system theory. The second part of the article presents the main body of theoretical innovation by introducing web-based systems as a specific type of social group, emerging from the digital medium of communication. The ambition of the article is to offer an opportunity to contextualise sociological research on communication processes supported by social networking platforms within an ontology of web-based groups as social systems that emerge from digital media of communication
Greening the Green: An Investigation of Circular Economy in the Life-cycle of Building Thermal Insulation
No full textNurses' experiences of career pathways; would they benefit from more career guidance? An interpretative phenomenological analysis.
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