Performance indicators as conceptual technologies   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Bob Barnetson  Marc Cutright 《Higher Education》2000,40(3):277-292

This paper posits that performance indicators (PIs)are conceptual technologies that shape what issuesacademics think about and how academics think aboutthose issues by embedding normative assumptions intothe selection and structure of those indicators.Exploring the assumptions embedded in Alberta's(Canada) PIs yields an initial typology of assumptionsthat academics can apply to performance indicators inhigher education to understand, refine or criticallychallenge their introduction.  相似文献   

Slavic and East European Collections at the University of Toronto Library: From the Great Fire to the Deep Freeze, 1890−1948     

Ksenya Kiebuzinski 《Slavic & East European Information Resources》2020,21(1-2):5-43

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This article explores the history of the Slavic and East European collection at the University of Toronto Libraries from the great fire of 1890 to the beginning of the Cold War. The author contextualizes the history in relation to the development of Russian studies at the University, and the creation of a formal program of Slavic studies in 1949. Particular emphasis is placed on gifts and bequests of library material.  相似文献   

浅析早期加拿大联邦制的成因及特点     

柯利敏  肖蔚寅 《河北北方学院学报(社会科学版)》2007,23(2):36-39

加拿大联邦制是建立在加拿大历史、地理、经济、民族、宗教等多样性的基础之上的。早期加拿大联邦制以强调中央立法议会作用和加强中央集权为特点。探析其联邦制的形成史,对研究加拿大政体发展史至关重要,并对多民族国家的宪政建设具有启示作用。  相似文献   

Information world mapping: A participatory arts-based elicitation method for information behavior interviews     

Devon Greyson  Heather O&#x;Brien  Jean Shoveller 《Library & information science research》2017,39(2):149-157

Participatory, arts-based methods generate rich data with which researchers can explore information behavior in context, and may be particularly apt when engaging with youth or participants with low literacy levels. Information world mapping (IWM) is an innovative and interactive drawing-based interview technique for data elicitation. Initially developed for use in a study of young parents’ health information practices, IWM guides participants in depicting their personal social information worlds, including items, places, and relationships. Maps are then used to facilitate critical incident elicitation of participants' stories about, and interpretations of, their information practices. Within the young parent study, three styles of map were commonly seen: the directional map, the mind map, and the symbolic map. Use of IWM requires time and ethical care, but the method enables researchers to center participants’ own perspectives on information practices, triangulate data obtained via more traditional methods, and enrich understanding of social information worlds.  相似文献   

Information‐seeking behaviour and information needs of LGBTQ health professionals: a follow‐up study          下载免费PDF全文

Martin Morris  K.R. Roberto 《Health information and libraries journal》2016,33(3):204-221

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二战后加拿大高等教育改革与发展的经验和教训   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

侯建国 《外国教育研究》2005,32(5):50-53

二战后，加拿大高等教育迅猛发展，探索出一条符合本国实际的发展道路，积累了许多成功的经验。在发展与改革中，加拿大高等教育也存在一些问题和不足，我们应引以为戒。  相似文献   

Biopedagogies and Indigenous knowledge: examining sport for development and peace for urban Indigenous young women in Canada and Australia     

Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst  Audrey R. Giles  Jan Wright 《Sport, Education and Society》2016,21(4):549-569

This paper uses transnational postcolonial feminist participatory action research (TPFPAR) to examine two sport for development and peace (SDP) initiatives that focus on Indigenous young women residing in urban areas, one in Vancouver, Canada, and one in Perth, Australia. We examine how SDP programs that target urban Indigenous young women and girls reproduce the hegemony of neoliberalism by deploying biopedagogies of neoliberalism to ‘teach’ Indigenous young women certain education and employment skills that are deemed necessary to participate in competitive capitalism. We found that activities in both programs were designed to equip the Indigenous girls and young women with individual attributes that would enhance their chances of future success in arenas valued by neoliberal capitalism: Eurocentric employment, post-secondary education and healthy active living. These forms of ‘success’ fall within neoliberal logic, where the focus is on the individual being able to provide for oneself. However, the girls and young women we interviewed argued that their participation in the SDP programs would help them change racist and sexist stereotypes about their communities and thereby challenged negative stereotypes. Thus, it is possible that these programs, despite their predominant use of neoliberal logic and biopedagogies, may help to prepare the participants to more successfully negotiate Eurocentric institutions, and through this assist them participants in contributing to social change. Nevertheless, based on our findings, we argue that SDP programs led by Indigenous peoples that are fundamentally shaped by Indigenous voices, epistemologies, concerns and standpoints would provide better opportunities to shake SDP's current biopedagogical foundation. We conclude by suggesting that a more radical approach to SDP, one that fosters Indigenous self-determination and attempts to disrupt dominant relations of power, could have difficulty in attracting the sort of corporate donors who currently play such important roles in the current SDP landscape.  相似文献   

Labour perspectives on the new politics of skill and competency formation: International reflections     

Peter Sawchuk 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2008,9(1):50-62

Skill/competency approaches to workplace-based policy seek to assess and train for discrete individual competencies with the goal of increasing employability and productivity. These approaches have become increasingly prominent across a range of advanced capitalist countries. A substantial critique has emerged over this same period regarding issues of instrumentality and social control, as well as the failure of skill/compentancy approaches to articulate a meaningful understanding of human learning capacities. In this article, these critical perspectives are clarified further by a review of contributions to understanding the skill/competence question emerging from sociology of work literature. Building from these critiques, this article outlines recent experiences with and perspectives on skill/competency frameworks amongst different national labour movements. Included in this outline is a more detailed, comparative analysis of Norway and Canada; here we see the lofty ‘new’, ‘knowledge economy’ rhetoric — in two countries where one might expect to see it blossom in application — brought down to earth by the realities of industrial relations, employer intransigence and intra-labour movement differences. ‘Skill/competence’ proves to be a floating signifier that, amongst both employers and labour, stands as a proxy for ‘power/control’ struggles. Degenerating in this way, from a labour perspective, the new politics of skill/competency formation is seen to have spiraled toward irrelevance in Norway and Canada; awaiting, in both countries, a re-invigoration through attention to changes in the participatory structure of the labour process itself.  相似文献   

加拿大高职会计教育及给我们的启示     

王一中 《浙江工贸职业技术学院学报》2011,11(1)

高职会计教学必须紧跟时代的步伐,积极借鉴先进的国际教学经验进行改革.通过对加拿大道格拉斯学院会计专业的课程设置和以能力为本的教学理念的剖析,在如何培养符合社会需要的会计人才方面提出一些建设性的意见.  相似文献   

Becoming an academic: the role of doctoral capital in the field of education     

Jude Walker  EeSeul Yoon 《高等教育研究与发展》2017,36(2):401-415

This paper draws on Bourdieu’s concepts of field, capital and habitus to examine the learning and enculturation of alumni of a Canadian PhD programme in the discipline of Education. We introduce the concept of doctoral capital to help explain how and why some PhD graduates go on to secure faculty positions and others do not. Our research suggests that certain existing and acquired academic practices, attributes, dispositions and behaviours collectively form a type of doctoral capital that alumni can then use in the academic marketplace.  相似文献