Fish-out-of-office: How managerialised university conditions make administrative knowledge inaccessible to academics     

Anita Louise Wheeldon  Stephen Jonathan Whitty  Bronte van der Hoorn 《Higher Education Quarterly》2023,77(2):342-355

Academics report feeling unable to cope in the managerialised university. To confirm these feelings are symptoms of managerialism's tightening grip, we use Bourdieusian concepts of field and capital to compare academics and professional staff experiential statements in an Australian university. We compare their field conditions and examine how their differences enable or hinder the accumulation of capital that defines their field. Findings show that managerialism requires professional staff to share work tasks and be on-campus, which enables them to accumulate the capital they require. Managerialism also permits and resources academics to working out-of-office to accumulate their required capital. Consequentially though, university operational knowledge becomes informal and only accessible to professional staff who accumulate the required social capital to access it. Professional staff are thus fish-in-water; easily accumulating social capital through day-to-day activities. But academics become fish-out-of-water (office); they flounder to access operational knowledge, which leads to feelings of not coping.  相似文献   

Generic qualitative dissertations in counselor education: A content analysis     

Phillip L. Waalkes  Daniel Andrew DeCino  Joe LeBlanc  Monica Maria Phelps-Pineda  Tiffany Somerville  Stephen V. Flynn 《Counselor Education & Supervision》2023,62(1):52-63

We conducted a content analysis of generic qualitative counseling dissertations (GQR; N = 70), examining their methodological justifications, coherence, and trustworthiness. Dissertations authors often presented vague methodological justifications. Findings have implications for constructing methodological justifications, integrating relevant literature, and awareness of how GQR compares to other qualitative methodologies.  相似文献   

Sub-nanomolar detection of thrombin activity on a microfluidic chip     

Nam Cao Hoai Le  Murat Gel  Yonggang Zhu  Jian Wang  Helen Dacres  Alisha Anderson  Stephen C. Trowell 《Biomicrofluidics》2014,8(6)

Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) is a form of Förster resonance energy transfer. BRET has been shown to support lower limits of detection than fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) but, unlike FRET, has not been widely implemented on microfluidic devices for bioanalytical sensing. We recently reported a microscope-based microfluidic system for BRET-based biosensing, using a hybrid, high quantum-efficiency, form of BRET chemistry. This paper reports the first optical fiber-based system for BRET detection on a microfluidic chip, capable of quantifying photon emissions from the low quantum-efficiency BRET² system. We investigated the effects of varying core diameter and numerical aperture of optical fibers, as well as varying microfluidic channel design and measurement conditions. We optimized the set-up in order to maximize photon counts and minimize the response time. The optimized conditions supported measurement of thrombin activity, with a limit of detection of 20 pM, which is lower than the microscope-based system and more than 20 times lower than concentrations reported to occur in plasma clots.  相似文献   

Persistent Focal Behavior and Physical Activity Performance     

Stephen E. Erfle 《Measurement in physical education and exercise science》2014,18(3):168-183

This article examines the proclivity and performance attributes of focal students across time and activities using data from 9,345 students. Three systematic focal behavior partitions are examined: Across activities, across time, and across activities and time. A student’s performance is focal if it ends in 0 or 5 for push-ups and 0 for curl-ups. Chi-square tests confirm that individual focal outcomes and systematic focal outcomes occur more frequently than random processes would suggest. In each instance, the only cell that is less populated than random processes would suggest is the one that exhibits no systematic focal behavior and the cell that exhibits the greatest deviation from expected is the full focal cell. Focal students outperform their peers on three activities at two assessments. Students with two-systematically focal outcomes have superior performance to students with no systematic focal outcomes but inferior performance to those with three or four focal outcomes.  相似文献   

Negotiating the Research Imperative: The Views of UK Academics on their Career Opportunities     

Stephen Court 《Higher Education Quarterly》1999,53(1):65-87

This article provides an analysis of the views of UK academic staff, given in response to a postal survey, on their opportunities for career progression through job appointments and promotion. The article investigates academics'opinions on the prominence of research, teaching and administration in determining career progression, and looks in particular at the effect of the Research Assessment Exercise on careers. There is consensus that the emphasis on research in determining careers has gone too far. The article considers the reasons for this, and looks at policy implications of this finding.  相似文献   

The complexity of scientific choice     

Stephen Toulmin 《Minerva》1966,4(4):564-565

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Allegiance and Identity     

Stephen Mumford 《体育哲学杂志》2013,40(2):184-195

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The complexity of scientific choice II: Culture,overheads or tertiary industry?     

Stephen Toulmin 《Minerva》1966,4(2):155-169

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Microcomputers: A planning guide for librarians and information professionals: R.A. Walton. The Oryx Press,Phoenix, Arizona, (1983). viii + 96 pp., $18.50 (PB), ISBN 0-89774-097-1.     

Stephen P. Harter 《Information processing & management》1985,21(3):258-259

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Save the World on Your Own Time, by Stanley Fish. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, 208 pp., $19.95 hardbound.     

Stephen H. Balch 《Academic Questions》2009,22(2):246-253

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