Teaching as an Immortality Project: Positing Weakness in Response to Terror          下载免费PDF全文

CATHRYN VAN KESSEL  KEVIN BURKE 《Journal of Philosophy of Education》2018,52(2):216-229

Teaching as a profession can be read as an immortality project, a form of compensation to help resolve a certain kind of existential terror. Terror management theory can help us understand the ways teachers might compensate for their limitedness as humans by imposing prescribed attributes on their students. In response to the freighted reality of teaching as quasi‐missionary work, we suggest a new orientation, namely that the profession embrace the terror of the future that it cannot know. Through a theoretical engagement with Weak Theology in the context of Eugene Thacker's philosophical ‘doomcore’, we hope to re‐orient the educational project into one with lower stakes, a shift from immortality to more ‘goodness’. The desired result is to refocus on the relationships we develop with other humans as well as with the planet.  相似文献   

The University of the Twenty-First Century: From Blueprint to Reality     

HANS VAN GINKEL 《Higher Education in Europe》2003,28(1):83-85

During the 1990s, a typical theme of a conference on the role of the university was "the university of tomorrow". Now, however, tomorrow has arrived, and universities are undergoing very powerful stimuli to transform themselves. The principal driving forces are the development of knowledge societies and economies, the all-pervasiveness of the information technologies, globalization, and the debate on the public or private nature of higher education. These forces generate a myriad of responses that, while defying the elaboration of blueprints, call for constant change and diversity.  相似文献   

A Student Initiative: IACES (The International Association of Civil Engineering Students)     

JURRE B. P. VAN DRIEL  INGO DEWALD-WERNER  MARKUS WOLETZ 《European Journal of Engineering Education》1992,17(4):371-378

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Marketing the library service: lessons from the commercial sector*     

JOHN VAN LOO 《Health information and libraries journal》1984,1(1):36-47

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Is There A Metaphysics of Education?*     

VAN CLEVE MORRIS 《Educational theory》1967,17(2):141-146

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H. GORDON HULLFISH     

WILLIAM VAN TIL 《Educational theory》1963,13(3):212-219

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Interdisciplinary Teaching Within Engineering Education     

M. N JOHANNES  VAN KASTEREN 《European Journal of Engineering Education》1996,21(4):387-392

This paper reports the development and implementation of a multi-disciplinary course called ‘sustainable development’ within engineering education at the University of Technology Eindhoven (TUE). In this course, students of different disciplines have to cooperate with each other in a project, with the aim of finding (more) sustainable solutions for an environmental issue or problem put forward by industry or (governmental) institutions (e.g. a zero-energy dwelling). The educational form is based on project-oriented education. The project group, which consists of six to eight students from at least three disciplines, is responsible for the results and the project. During their project, the students can rely on a tutor, who is primarily a process guide. Together with the principal, the tutor advises on whether or not the proposed working plan is realistic and can be realized within the given time of 160 h (two half-days over 20 weeks). At the end, the students have to present and defend their work before a committee, which consists of the tutor, the principal and a subject expert. Experience has shown that multi-disciplinary project work has been an excellent teaching method and addition to engineering education curricula, so improving not only knowledge but also interdisciplinary thinking and skills. Environmental issues need a multi-disciplinary approach, and this course bridges the gap between disciplines, so stimulating interdisciplinary work within engineering education.  相似文献   

Structured Field Research for Master's Theses     

L. PINTELON  L. GELDERS  C. VAN DER HEYDE 《European Journal of Engineering Education》1997,22(4):435-444

Developing analytical and organizational skills to handle real-life decision problems is an explicit objective of the postgraduate programme in Industrial Management at KU Leuven. Because the final test is in eating the cake, a system of field research for the Master's thesis project was developed. In recent years, this project activity has been reshaped according to our total quality management policy, leading to a professional approach of selecting, conducting and evaluating these projects. This paper elaborates on this experience and describes the added value to the pedagogical process.  相似文献   

The Plasticity of Categories: The Case of Colour     

VAN BRAKEL  J. 《The British journal for the philosophy of science》1993,44(1):103-135

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Avoiding a Digital Dark Age for data: why publishers should care about digital preservation     

Eefke SMIT  Jeffrey VAN DER HOEVEN  David GIARETTA 《Learned Publishing》2011,24(1):35-49

This paper provides an overview of the needs and threats for digital preservation and summarizes the findings from project PARSE.Insight. This project, co‐funded by the EU, contains one of the first large worldwide surveys about digital preservation including most players of the STM information chain: researchers, libraries, data managers, publishers, and research funders. One of the conclusions is that in the present data deluge, it is extremely important that all players in the information chain work together on proper digital preservation of all research output, to ensure its future usability, understandability, and authenticity. This poses a new role for publishers who can ensure better discoverability and citability via good linking and integration of data and publications.  相似文献