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Student Involvement in University Governance in Italy and Chile: A Comparative Document Analysis.
No full textStudent voice, over the years, has been progressively recognised as a relevant aspect in the quality assurance process for higher education institutions. Although a considerable scientific literature has highlighted the influence of student voice in addressing more responsive and engaging pedagogies, scant is the evidence that students are really involved in the quality assurance process (especially at institutional level).
Given the student inclusion in the mainstream quality assurance and enhancement processes, the present paper, through a document analysis, focuses on the student involvement at institutional level comparing and contrasting two different higher education systems (and therefore, their quality assurance governance): Italy and Chile.
Results propelled the need to redefine the role of students in the Italian and Chilean quality assurance systems, as well as in the governance of the accreditation processes.
Recommendations for practice and future research are provided in the conclusions
Conocimiento, sentido y trabajo: amenazas a la libertad académica en el mundo de la investigación
No full textThis is a draft chapter/article. The final version is available in Handbook on Academic Freedom edited by Richard Watermeyer, Rille Raaper and Mark Olssen, published in 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975919 ISBN Print ISBN: 9781788975902
e ISBN: 9781788975919
Versión pre-print del capítulo Knowledge, meaning and work: threats to academic freedom in the world of research en el libro Handbook on Academic Freedom editado por Richard Watermeyer, Rille Raaper y Mark Olssen, publicado in 2022, por Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975919 Print ISBN: 9781788975902
eISBN: 9781788975919Aladro Vico discusses the nature and conditions of cognitive work, defined as the kind of work that enhances human knowledge. This work is specially linked to human freedom because it occurs it in any activity carried by an individual. One of the most important sources of cognitive work is education and research institutions. Today's research and academic working conditions endanger and shorten the natural freedom that characterises and surrounds cognitive work. This means that development of this activity is very deeply affected. Consequently, knowledge extension, innovation and productive research are also curtailed. To prevent losing the richness of cognitive work, it is necessary to ensure its main conditions of development, linked to some academic working requirements, such as the opening of free thresholds of time and space extension, and relaxed conditions for reflection and perception, which are being threatened by the current globalized and productivistic system at Academia.Depto. de Periodismo y Nuevos MediosFac. de Ciencias de la InformaciónTRUEpu
‘Peacekeepers’ and ‘machine factories’: tracing Graduate Teaching Assistant subjectivity in a neoliberalised university
Get PDFGuided by a Foucauldian theorisation, this article explores Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) experiences of their work and subjectivity in a neoliberalised higher education environment. By drawing on a research project with GTAs from one UK university, the article argues that GTA work is increasingly shaped by neoliberal reforms. The GTAs interviewed are critical of internationalisation, marketisation and client culture, and see these processes as acting on their subjectivity. The GTAs position themselves as mediators between demanding students and overworked academics: they have turned into much-needed ‘peacekeepers’ and ‘machine factories’. The findings also demonstrate that the subjectivity enforced by a dominant market ideology is further negotiated in the GTA experience. The discourses reveal that a lack of institutional control and coordination of graduate teaching provides the means for, and indeed enables, the GTAs to express some, but often limited, discontent with neoliberalism
Students as ‘Animal Laborans’? Tracing Student Politics in a Marketised Higher Education Setting
Get PDFThis article examines the widespread policy discourses that have constructed the notion of student as consumer in English higher education, and it questions the implications of such fabrications on students’ political engagement. In particular, it explores the extent to which students have been forced into a position of an ‘animal laboran’ whose primary function is to focus on immediate necessities in highly pressurised university environments. By drawing on Arendt, the article will first consider the shift towards representative practices in student politics, characterised by professionalisation of students’ unions. Second, the article will draw on Foucault to investigate the ways in which more personalised forms of students’ political participation related to private interest and single-issue campaigns can emerge in neoliberalised universities and society more broadly
Students as consumers? A counter perspective from student assessment as a disciplinary technology
Get PDFThe notion of students as consumers who exercise educational decisions based on economic self-interest leads to interesting questions about their perceptions of current higher education assessment practices. Guided by a Foucauldian theorisation and the findings from focus groups carried out with students from two European universities, one from the UK and another from Estonia, the article argues that globally dominant consumerist policy discourses have altered but not removed the student experience of constraint in assessment. I argue that students’ response to disciplinary power in assessment has become highly strategic and differs depending on the institutional assessment systems: students from Estonia recognise the powerful position of academics as assessors and find ways to create a good social impression of themselves; their counterparts from the UK, however, demonstrate a tactical approach to their learning and study processes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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