288 research outputs found
The peril and promise of China’s education internationalisation: Online education, inequality and disabled students
No full textThis paper provides a commentary on China’s latest internationalisation initiative released in June 2020. We find that accelerating online education, as part of the initiative, has several potential social benefits, including enhanced access to higher education, better social participation and improved global citizenship. We also highlight alarming and under-explored concerns relating to China’s education internationalisation, featuring education inequalities between students in different Chinese regions and rural and disabled students. We call for future research, including online education studies, to address these inequalities within the Chinese education landscape, especially involving disabled children who are currently encountering significant hurdles in accessing basic education within the prevailing system
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-arx-10.1177_17298814211044932 - Three-dimensional loading control of a pneumatic three-universal–prismatic–universal robot
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-arx-10.1177_17298814211044932 for Three-dimensional loading control of a pneumatic three-universal–prismatic–universal robot by Yu Liu, Qingling Zhu, Guoxin Zhao and Shuchao Ma in International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems</p
Sustainability as an Ethical Aspect of the Theory-Practice Gap in Business Schools
No full textThis paper aims to reframe sustainability as an ethical aspect of the theory-practice gap in business and management education for sustainable development, which should be viewed as an integral part of knowledge produced and disseminated in business schools. The paper adopts a narrative approach to review the relevant literature on two streams of research, namely, the theory-practice gap and sustainability in reforming business schools. The synthesis and discussion of the existing literature suggest that while sustainability is frequently viewed with an ethical sentiment, the existing research overlooks its significance in bringing together knowledge and practice in business schools. This paper highlights the potential of sustainability as a theoretical lens in bridging the theory-practice gap in business schools; proposing to rethink the conceptual space that lies in ethics for further theoretical developments. The author urges business and management scholars to engage in burgeoning debates on business school reforms relating to the theory-practice gap and sustainability with an emphasis on ethics. The author contends that the neglected theoretical linkages between the theory-practice gap and sustainability provide fruitful directions for future research. Through a moral lens, business schools can move toward responsible management education for a more sustainable future
Sustainability as an Ethical Aspect of the Theory-Practice Gap in Business Schools
No full textThis paper aims to reframe sustainability as an ethical aspect of the theory-practice gap in business and management education for sustainable development, which should be viewed as an integral part of knowledge produced and disseminated in business schools. The paper adopts a narrative approach to review the relevant literature on two streams of research, namely, the theory-practice gap and sustainability in reforming business schools. The synthesis and discussion of the existing literature suggest that while sustainability is frequently viewed with an ethical sentiment, the existing research overlooks its significance in bringing together knowledge and practice in business schools. This paper highlights the potential of sustainability as a theoretical lens in bridging the theory-practice gap in business schools; proposing to rethink the conceptual space that lies in ethics for further theoretical developments. The author urges business and management scholars to engage in burgeoning debates on business school reforms relating to the theory-practice gap and sustainability with an emphasis on ethics. The author contends that the neglected theoretical linkages between the theory-practice gap and sustainability provide fruitful directions for future research. Through a moral lens, business schools can move toward responsible management education for a more sustainable future
Domestic art museum service system design : take Liuhaisu Art Museum as example
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALECon il graduale miglioramento della qualità della vita delle persone e del loro gusto, i musei d'arte, come una città, cultura di una nazione e piattaforma delle arti, prende sempre più spazio nella vita quotidiana della gente. Nel frattempo, diventa gradualmente uno dei principali fattori alla base dell'istruzione pubblica, favorendo l'integrazione sociale e lo sviluppo del turismo culturale. Il museo d'arte è un luogo che trasforma l'appendere alcune immagini e il mettere alcune reliquie in un'immagine culturale della società e fornisce educazione artistica, soprattutto i musei artistici più tradizionali (tematici o collezioni). In Cina, a causa dei problemi di proprietà e servizio di gestione collezioni, è facile ignorare la vera esperienza del visitatore, specialmente verso i giovani, rendendo il museo d'arte lontano da visitatori e orientato a vecchie generazioni.
Basandosi sull'indagine e analisi del Museo d'arte di LIUHAISU, così come la ricerca profonda di simili musei d'arte in Cina, l'autore ha scoperto che uno dei maggiori problemi del Museo d'arte tradizionale è il non essere in grado di attrarre i giovani, e di conseguenza non fornire informazioni e servizi per questo cluster, costituendo un enorme divario tra giovani e arti tradizionali cinesi.
Senza dubbio, è causato da molti fattori, ma il Museo d'arte tradizionale cinese deve prendersi la responsabilità per la sua mancanza di educazione artistica verso le nuove generazioni. Per scrivere questa tesi, l'autore utilizza il "product service system design" come base teorica, prende il nuovo progetto di Museo d'arte LIUHAISU come base pratica e li combina con una ricerca approfondita e riepilogo su target groups. Inoltre, l'autore sfrutta un anno di studio al Politecnico di Milano, per visitare molti musei d'arte in Europa e per fare una ricerca approfondita nelle teorie e pratiche di progettazione nel "product service system design". Dopo il ritorno dall'Europa, l'autore studia il LIUHAISU ART MUSEUM relazionato al contesto culturale, prendendo in considerazione l'intero processo (pre-service/in service/after-service) e i touchpoints degli utenti per emergere le debolezze dell'intero sistema-servizio. L'autore si è concentrato nella creazione di punti di contatto, virtuali e fisici, per i visitatori al fine di risolvere la situazione esistente di LIUHAISU ART MUSEUM, e offrire ai visitatori, soprattutto le nuove generazioni, un ambiente di visita adeguato e un'esperienza orientata verso l'individuo. Attraverso questi interventi, più giovani sono disposti a conoscere le opere di Mr. LIUHAISU e l'arte tradizionale cinese.
Questo autore spera di poter applicare il "product service system design thinking" al nuovo progetto del LIUHAISU ART MUSEUM, e allo stesso tempo creare guide teoriche e pratiche sulla progettazione di sistemi-servizi per futuri musei.With the gradually improvement of people's life quality and taste, Art Museum, as a city,
even a nation’s culture and arts’ platform, more and more go through into people’s daily
life, meanwhile, gradually becomes the main factors of leading the base of public education, encouraging social integration and development of cultural tourism. Art museum is a place that transforming from solely hanging some pictures or putting a few relics into now playing a role of the society cultural image and delivering art education, especially those traditional art museum (thematic or comprehensive) in China, due to the problems of collections’ property and service management, easy to ignore the visitor’s real experience, especially the young, which makes the art museum far away from visitors and oriented to elders.
Based on the investigation and vista analysis of LIUHAISU ART MUSEUM, as well as the profound research of similar art museums in China. The author found that one of the biggest problems of domestic traditional art museum is unable to attract young people, also cannot provide accordingly service and information for this cluster, which forms a huge gap between Chinese traditional arts and young people.
Undoubtedly, it is caused by many factors, but Chinese traditional art museum must take responsibilities for its lack of art education to young people. The author uses product service system design thinking as theoretical basis, takes new LIUHAISU ART MUSEUM project as practice basis, as well as combines with thorough research and summarization on target groups to write this thesis. Furthermore, The author taking advantage in studying one-year in Politecnico di Milano, to visit many art museums in Europe, and to make a deep research of its advanced principle and practical experience of service system design. After coming back from Europe, the author repeatedly investigates LIUHAISU ART MUSEUM and combined with the domestic situation, taking more consideration on the whole process (pre-service/in service/after-service) and user touchpoints to find out the weakness of entire service system. Focusing on designing virtual touchpoints and physical touchpoints in order to solve the existing situation of LIUHAISU ART MUSEUM, which provides visitors, especially young cluster, a qualified visiting environment and human-oriented visiting experience. Through this way, more young people are willing to know the artworks of MR.LIUHAISU and Chinese traditional art.
This author hopes to apply product service system design thinking for new LIUHAISU ART MUSEUM project, meanwhile, theory guides practice, brings reference and guideline for designing future domestic art museum service system
Let us talk about invisible children and those who are deliberately left out: campaigning for children with special needs in China
No full textThis article criticises a marked research tendency to exclude the voices of children with special needs in China. Finding the predominant positivist tradition and ableist assumptions disconcerting, I aim to defend and campaign for Chinese children’s basic rights to be (mindfully) included in the research process. In particular, this article directs public and research attention to those Chinese children with less recognisable learning disabilities, who have been deliberately left out in the current discourses and policies with their needs remaining invisible in schools and society. In proposing a new research agenda for children with special needs in China, this article urges for an explicit research commitment to improving their lives and highlights promising directions and approaches for future research
A dualistic view of employment in China
No full textThis paper aims to bring to the fore some neglected implications of the dual employment systems in China, especially for the public sector.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reinterprets some recent developments in understanding Chinese employments and incorporates the relevant research in arguing for a dualistic view of employment in China[1].FindingsIn highlighting the unique dualistic employment contexts in China and an indigenous phenomenon of “unequal pay for equal work”, this paper finds public management studies in China to deserve a separate platform for future research.Research limitations/implicationsFuture Chinese management studies on public sector should contextualise their findings and conclusions, taking into account the employment structure at their research settings. More studies on the public sector are needed to better understand the dualistic Chinese employment relationships, especially for better public management policies and practices in China.Social implicationsIt calls for more scholarly attention on the social injustice embedded in the dualistic employment in China.Originality/valueIt extends the ongoing discussions of Chinese employment reform and its implications on organising work and employment in China, while unveils important implications of the dualistic employment for future Chinese management research, especially in the public sector
A qualitative enquiry into Chinese workers' understanding of the key psychological contract concepts of 'obligation', 'promise' and 'the other party'
No full textThis study examined Chinese workers' interpretations of the key psychological contract concepts of 'obligation', 'promise' and 'the other party'. It also explored how Chinese workers described their implicit employment terms. Although the findings of this thesis may be context-constrained, the related discussions and implications provide general and useful insights for the psychological contract and its literature.A qualitative methodology was adopted for the research. The sampling frame comprised 61 Chinese workers in Xiamen and Fushun, recruited by a variety maximisation strategy. Data were collected primarily through semi-structured interviews, whose duration (recording time) was between 22 and 98 minutes (with a mode of 30-45 minutes), and analysed with the general guidance provided by the template analysis (King, 2004).It was found that 'obligation' was an ambiguous term in the Chinese employment context, suggesting a possibility that 'obligation' may not be unambiguous in other contexts either. The findings on the notion of 'promise' in China revealed that it carried strong moral significance and had emotional importance, leading to a reflection that the theoretical specifications of promise (Rousseau, 1995) had not been appropriately reflected in prior empirical research. It was also found that the immediate supervisors were very powerful 'the other party' in the Chinese employment context, implying that empirical psychological contract studies may not appropriately reflect the theory or phenomena, especially in light of the revealed complexities of Chinese employment arrangements. The Chinese workers' employment experiences revealed that their perceived implicit employment terms were below the terms specified in their legal contract, if a contract was existent. This finding was found to relate to perceived significant power gaps between employment parties by participants, which were embedded in the complex relationships between the zone of negotiability, the societal context of employment and the powerful leader positions in China. The discussion, and reflection, of these findings at an integrated level suggests that the existing theory lacks adequate theoretical clarity to appropriately inform deductive studies. It also suggests that the majority of empirical results, consequently, may need to be re-examined. This thesis concludes that the psychological contract is a useful concept to make sense of events, beliefs and experiences at work, but there are urgent needs for further theoretical developments, especially with regard to power and morality, and thus more grounded research in order to make it an adequately testable theory
A qualitative enquiry into Chinese workers' understanding of the key psychological contract concepts of 'obligation', 'promise' and 'the other party'
No full textThis study examined Chinese workers' interpretations of the key psychological contract concepts of 'obligation', 'promise' and 'the other party'. It also explored how Chinese workers described their implicit employment terms. Although the findings of this thesis may be context-constrained, the related discussions and implications provide general and useful insights for the psychological contract and its literature.A qualitative methodology was adopted for the research. The sampling frame comprised 61 Chinese workers in Xiamen and Fushun, recruited by a variety maximisation strategy. Data were collected primarily through semi-structured interviews, whose duration (recording time) was between 22 and 98 minutes (with a mode of 30-45 minutes), and analysed with the general guidance provided by the template analysis (King, 2004).It was found that 'obligation' was an ambiguous term in the Chinese employment context, suggesting a possibility that 'obligation' may not be unambiguous in other contexts either. The findings on the notion of 'promise' in China revealed that it carried strong moral significance and had emotional importance, leading to a reflection that the theoretical specifications of promise (Rousseau, 1995) had not been appropriately reflected in prior empirical research. It was also found that the immediate supervisors were very powerful 'the other party' in the Chinese employment context, implying that empirical psychological contract studies may not appropriately reflect the theory or phenomena, especially in light of the revealed complexities of Chinese employment arrangements. The Chinese workers' employment experiences revealed that their perceived implicit employment terms were below the terms specified in their legal contract, if a contract was existent. This finding was found to relate to perceived significant power gaps between employment parties by participants, which were embedded in the complex relationships between the zone of negotiability, the societal context of employment and the powerful leader positions in China. The discussion, and reflection, of these findings at an integrated level suggests that the existing theory lacks adequate theoretical clarity to appropriately inform deductive studies. It also suggests that the majority of empirical results, consequently, may need to be re-examined. This thesis concludes that the psychological contract is a useful concept to make sense of events, beliefs and experiences at work, but there are urgent needs for further theoretical developments, especially with regard to power and morality, and thus more grounded research in order to make it an adequately testable theory
Sparking interdisciplinarity: let’s take framing students as customers in higher education seriously
No full textThis paper aims to inspire an interdisciplinary dialogue on framing students as customers in higher education, by reviewing some under-explored conceptual issues and implications in the existing literature especially concerning presently underrepresented disciplines. It sets out a different case for studying a student-consumer metaphor to that which has dominated the debate so far, and thus a new research agenda calling for interdisciplinary research. It cautions future research on the necessity to reflect on the particular context and nature of higher education before conceptualizing students as customers, with particular attention to be paid to wider implications and consequences of changing higher education context to our society and future
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