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It’s hard to ignore the data when the data is in the room: Examining the role of students as partners in critically-oriented reform of tertiary mathematics
Full text linkA growing body of research demonstrates the benefits of engaging students as partners to improve tertiary education. Yet, more research is needed to understand how students can support critical transformations outside of the classroom context. In this qualitative study, we explored how a networked improvement community (NIC) engaged students as partners toward critically transforming introductory tertiary mathematics courses in spring 2023. Using an open coding process, we analyzed field notes, interviews, and journals from NIC members to develop themes describing the NIC’s positioning of students. We compared these themes to Holen et al.’s (2021) framework on student-institutional partnerships. Findings reveal four positions students may adopt in critical transformation efforts: democratic participant, apprentice, consultant, and beneficiary. This study contributes to the field’s understanding of ways students can influence larger structural and cultural systems that impact student success, as well as challenges inherent in this work
Reimagining our relationships in the university: Using Play-Doh to hold generative community gatherings for co-creating meaning
Full text linkInspired by our dreams of transformation for higher education and bell hooks’ (1994) vision for the classroom, we have attempted to move away from traditional learning and teaching methods, which often mirror the imbalanced power dynamics in universities. To do so, we have experimented with different methods of creating space and holding community gatherings to reimagine our relationships in the institution. We argue for using creative and generative methods, such as Play-Doh, to develop the foundation of student-staff partnership programmes and centre student-staff partnership relationships on trust and care. In this article, we conceptualise the phases of the process we follow in community gatherings, and we present the values that shape them, as well as the practical elements we consider. Finally, we present three examples of how we co-produce outputs and visions for transformation. We conclude by offering what we have learned about these methodological choices and what using them means for our work towards transformation in higher education
The Alternative Father of the Specious Present: The Experience of Time from E. Robert Kelly’s The Alternative: A Study in Psychology
No full textThe now common, if not uncontroversial, terminology of ‘the specious present’ was coined in Kelly’s The Alternative (Clay 1882). Through returning to Kelly’s work, I have three aims. First, to make the case for there being two distinct motivations behind an appeal to a temporally extended experience as of the present: a phenomenological sense in which an interval of time invariably seems temporally present; and a need to account for the experience of succession. Second, to bring into focus—explaining and dissolving—a puzzle of temporal experience encapsulated in Kelly’s appeal to ‘paradoxic’ and ‘anti-paradoxic’ experience. The third and subsidiary aim is to provide the first substantial outline of Kelly’s account of temporal experience. Despite the common usage of Kelly’s terminology in contemporary discussions of the experience of time, there is no dedicated discussion of Kelly, and of his view of our experience of time, in the literature. This is, no doubt, in large part due to the identity of Kelly being shrouded in mystery until very recently; it is also, plausibly, because of Kelly’s standing as an amateur philosopher. Nevertheless, the minor aim of the present paper is to remedy this neglect
Does the ‘Infoproletariat’ Include Systems Analysts? Organising IT Workers in the Brazilian Banking Sector: Challenges and Opportunities
Full text linkAs labour struggles around the impact of technology on working conditions heat up across various countries and sectors, myriad studies argue that the technologically based restructuring of workplaces has contributed to increasing precariousness in the new world of work. However, technology workers themselves have often been assessed as resistant to collective organising. This article explores the work experiences of IT workers in Brazil’s banking industry, many of whom are the most sought-after workers in the country — but who, from their own testimonies, confront a range of conditions that could form a basis for strong collective action. We analyse how technology work is organised within the largest private banks operating in the country and reflect on workers’ actual experiences, based on dozens of in-depth interviews, survey responses, and secondary literature. Our primary research objective is to better understand the scope of obstacles confronted by financial sector technology workers in Brazil, wherein may lie the potential for future collective action
Book Review of Jens Arnholtz and Bjarke Refslund (eds) (2024) Workers, Power and Society. Power Resource Theory in Contemporary Capitalism. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
No full textFive guiding principles for navigating artificial intelligence in students as partners practice to preserve pedagogical trust: Navigating artificial intelligence in students as partners practice
Full text linkAcousmatic Warfare: Staging Sound in the Play(game)house of A Midsummer Night\u27s Dream
No full textAcousmatic warfare, the use of sound without a visible source as a means of force, is presented in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as sonic play akin to that of an innocuous, ephemeral play, game, or dream, prompting audiences to engage carefully with the play’s uncanny sonic effects. The staging of acousmatic sound makes possible the coexisting presence of both racialization and resistance. The inset play, Pyramus and Thisbe, presents a competitive and interactive play that both racializes and protects the artisan players by allowing them to use their authorial skills to stage sonic resistance against aristocratic powers
The Dangers of Idealized Femininity in Early Modern Sophonisba Tragedies
No full textThis article examines early modern English dramatic representations of Carthaginian noblewoman Sophonisba as a model of idealized, white femininity. Through an analysis of John Marston’s The Wonder of Women, Thomas Nabbes’s Hannibal and Scipio, and Nathaniel Lee’s Sophonisba, or Hannibal’s Overthrow, I argue that Sophonisba’s chaste, fair body functions as the embodiment of idealized femininity while paradoxically exerting destabilizing power over men such as Masinissa, Syphax, and Scipio. These plays illuminate the irony of glorifying white, virginal femininity, which ultimately disrupts military and political pursuits
Conversion as Nonperformative Speech in The Jew of Malta
No full textChristopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta presents religion and religious conversion as a tool of state power, rather than as a religious process. This play’s representation of false conversions lays bare the central paradox that plagued Reformation conversion narratives: how do you know someone has truly been converted? Marlowe’s play radically transforms acts of conversion into nonperformative speech. By staging coerced, dissembling, and honest conversions in a single play, with little ritualized action to distinguish one conversion from another, Marlowe challenges the religious work of conversion, exposing it as an early modern political tool that could be manipulated by both the state and individuals
Ruth Lumney, ed. Dido, Queen of Carthage, by Christopher Marlowe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, The Revels Plays, 2023.
No full textThis review considers Ruth Lunney\u27s edition of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe