Thinking whimsically: queering the study of educational policy-making and politics     

Catherine A. Lugg  Jason P. Murphy 《International journal of qualitative studies in education》2014,27(9):1183-1204

This paper discusses employing queer theory (QT) and queer legal theory (QLT) for critical policy analysis as applied to education. In doing so, the authors will highlight how both QT and QLT can empower analyses to look beyond the identity politics of a particular time period or space and toward potential reforms in curriculum, pedagogy, and institutional supports for students, teachers, and staff. A central point is that understanding the institutional and cultural practices that frame orientation, class, race, and sex/gender can lead to policy changes that benefit all students, teachers, and staff. The paper concludes with a discussion of venues in need of both QT and QLT-informed research.  相似文献   

Assessing University Library Print Book Collections and Deselection: A Case Study at The National University of Ireland Maynooth     

Elizabeth Murphy 《New Review of Academic Librarianship》2013,19(3):256-273

This article discusses an assessment and deselection project of the modern print book collections in the John Paul II Library, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Following a contextual introduction and literature review, the article outlines the methodology, presents and discusses the results, and concludes with lessons learned. Although this project had its origins in planning for a major extension to the Library, its main aim was to ensure current and relevant print book collections. The purpose of the article is to share experience in the hope of it being useful to other libraries considering a review of print book collections.  相似文献   

International trends in health science libraria‐ nship: Part 7 Taking stock     

Jeannette Murphy 《Health information and libraries journal》2013,30(3):245-252

This article reviews the six papers published so far in this series on global trends in health science librarianship. Starting with a retrospective review of trends in the twentieth‐century, the series has covered 6 different regions, with contributions from 21 countries. As this is the half‐way point in the survey, it seems a useful point at which to reflect on what has emerged so far. The method of content analysis is used to identify key trends. The top five trends are explored. JM  相似文献   

‘He’s a battler. He’s not a quitter:’ the narrative framing of Jerry Kill’s health-related organizational exit     

Anne Kerber  Maggie Murphy 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(6):703-722

The abrupt retirement of Jerry Kill, the University of Minnesota’s head football coach, for health reasons during the 2015 season ignited intensely emotional reactions from diverse organizational stakeholders. Our essay analyzes the public discourses surrounding Kill’s organizational exit. Specifically, we explore how audiences co-constructed multiple and conflicting narratives about his departure, concurrently praising and blaming Kill for his body management. We highlight how these discourses construct complex subjectivities for working individuals who experience chronic illness. We conclude by discussing how the narrative frames implicate broader discursive struggles between the cultural values of health and work.  相似文献   

Faculty and Librarian Perceptions of a New Faculty Purchase Program     

Julie A. Murphy  Chad E. Buckley 《资料收集管理》2013,38(3):213-225

This study explores new faculty members' and librarians' perceptions of a program that provides each new faculty member with funds to purchase materials supporting their teaching and scholarship. The article describes the results of a survey of perceptions of the faculty and librarians who have participated in the program at Illinois State University. The findings suggest that the program has not been successful as a recruitment tool but has been very valuable for establishing early and strong subject liaison relationships with new faculty members.  相似文献   

The flight attendant dilemma: an analysis of communication and sensemaking during in-flight emergencies     

Alexandra Murphy 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(1):30-53

Building on past research, this article argues that organizational life can be usefully construed as a series of communicative performances that are embedded and enacted in everyday discursive practices. Specifically, this research explores the sensemaking process individuals undertake when faced with the dilemma of knowing when to invent appropriate ways to respond rather than being automatically constrained by past routines. The research presents case study evidence drawn from participant observation and interviews with flight attendants from a major U.S. airline. Shown to be high in emotional and impression management, flight attendants perform a feminized role that privileges accommodation over authority and reassurance over safety that may influence their performances in emergency situations. The work ends with an evaluation of the dominant air travel performance in relation to safety and offers recommendations for facilitating communication and coordination among flight attendants and pilots.  相似文献   

The Changing Role of the Superintendency in Restructuring Districts in Kentucky 1     

Joseph Murphy 《School Effectiveness & School Improvement》2013,24(4):349-375

Since the mid‐1980s, major efforts to reform education throughout the world have been unfolding under the banner of school restructuring. Central to this agenda for reform are alterations in the roles of all educational stakeholders. While a good deal of conceptual work, and some empirical analyses, have been devoted to the topic of role changes for teachers, administrators, parents, community members, and students at the school level, considerably less is known about the effects of restructuring on the role of central office administrators.

By analyzing the perceptions of 74 chief executive officers about how restructuring is shaping the superintendency in Kentucky, the study reported herein helps address this gap in the knowledge base. Three themes emerge from the analysis: (1) an enhanced role for superintendents in developing community; (2) a redefinition of the type of leadership needed to administer empowered schools; and (3) a mighty struggle to help individual schools deal with the process of systemic change.

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Restructuring Schooling: The Equity Infrastructure 1     

Joseph Murphy 《School Effectiveness & School Improvement》2013,24(2):111-130

The major thesis of this article is that the current effort at school reform unfolding throughout much of the industrialized world ‐‐ the so‐called school restructuring movement ‐‐ offers considerable promise of enhancing educational equity for students. After describing the evolution in our understanding of equity, three powerful ethics undergirding current attempts to highlight equity values in education are described. The bulk of the article then unpacks the dual strategy for enhancing equity that is embedded in the restructuring movement: (1) the rejection of the central pillars of schooling, such as behaviorally‐grounded models of learning and teaching, that have had deleterious effects on at‐risk students; and (2) the provision of an alternative infrastructure for schooling that expands educational opportunities for historically disenfranchised youth.

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The measurement of production efficiency in scientific journals through stochastic frontier analysis models: Application to quantitative economics journals     

Francisco J. Ortega  Jose M. Gavilan 《Journal of Informetrics》2013,7(4):959-965

The importance of a scientific journal is usually established by considering the number of citations received by the papers that the journal publishes. In this way, the number of citations received by a scientific journal can be considered as a measure of the total production of the journal. In this paper, in order to obtain measures of the efficiency in the production process, the approach provided by stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) is considered, and econometric models are proposed. These models estimate a frontier production, which is the maximum achievable number of citations to the journal based on its resources. The efficiency can then be measured by considering the difference between the actual production and the estimated frontier. This approach is applied to the measurement of the productive efficiency of the journals of the JCR social sciences edition database, which belong simultaneously to the areas of “economics” and “social sciences, mathematical methods”.  相似文献   

Three-Level Models for Indirect Effects in School- and Class-Randomized Experiments in Education     

Keenan A. Pituch  Daniel L. Murphy  Richard L. Tate 《Journal of Experimental Education》2013,81(1):60-95

Due to the clustered nature of field data, multi-level modeling has become commonly used to analyze data arising from educational field experiments. While recent methodological literature has focused on multi-level mediation analysis, relatively little attention has been devoted to mediation analysis when three levels (e.g., student, class, school) are present in a study setting. This article presents analysis models that can be used to test indirect effects in experimental designs having three levels where random assignment is at the third (school) or second (class) level and where the indirect effect may be random. In the presentation, simulated datasets are used to illustrate model specification and results interpretation for hypothetical three-level educational experiments involving mediation and moderation of treatment effects.  相似文献