Juggling competing activities: academic staff as doctoral candidates     

Jan Smith  Jennie Billot  Lynn Clouder  Virginia King 《高等教育研究与发展》2020,39(3):591-605

ABSTRACT

This article explores the experiences of a group of established academic staff in New Zealand and the UK, as they undertake a doctorate in their home institutions. Our interest is in how individuals negotiate this dual status from a cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) stance that explores how rules, tools, community and divisions of labour, and interacting activity systems, shape doctoral experiences. The focus in this article, having analysed their detailed narrative accounts, is on how academics experience three interdependent activity systems: those surrounding the thesis, the institutional context, and the home-life spheres. Issues related to time, workload and supervision issues, variability in collegial support and impact on personal priorities and time emerged. There is a range of particularities – from easy access to resources/supervisors to inflexible institutional regulations – applicable to this group of doctoral candidates. Negotiating life as an academic with concurrent doctoral candidature provides positive outcomes in terms of teaching, research confidence and general personal and professional development. However, a range of difficulties can also be encountered, particularly in relation to personal and professional relationships, and workload management.  相似文献   

Graduate teaching assistants: motives,difficulties and professional interactions and their relationship to perceived benefits     

Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija  Barbara Fresko 《高等教育研究与发展》2020,39(3):546-560

ABSTRACT

Graduate students play a major role in teaching in higher education, particularly in undergraduate programs. The purpose of the present study was two-fold: first, to identify graduate students’ motives for working as graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), describe some aspects of their work, and ascertain their perceived benefits; second, to predict GTAs’ benefits as a function of their individual background characteristics, motives, job difficulties, and richness of professional interactions with the course instructor. Data were collected from 189 GTAs who led discussion groups at a large research university in Israel by means of an internet questionnaire. Findings revealed that graduate students accepted the position of GTA mainly for extrinsic reasons, such as salary and convenience. They claimed to have faced few difficulties and that their professional interactions with the course instructors focused more on job responsibilities and less on pedagogical issues. They reported having gained a greater understanding of course content and improved teaching skills due to their experience as GTAs. Richness of contact with the course instructor, motives, difficulties, and faculty match significantly contributed to predicting perceived benefits. The implications of the results are discussed.  相似文献   

中国漆艺的发展脉络及其价值     

颜路明 《闽江学院学报》2014,(3):107-110

中国漆艺历史悠久，源远流长，是世界漆艺的源头，对世界漆艺产生了深远的影响。她有着“气韵生动的线”、“精彩绝艳的色”，是“宇宙生命的象征”和“上古东方的现代派绘画”；有着极强的防水、防蛀、防腐和装饰的实用价值。她品类繁多、用途广泛，具有极高的收藏价值。  相似文献   

和平文化促进湘台交流的设计与实现——兼论芷江海峡两岸交流基地建设     

戚钧科 《怀化学院学报》2014,(2):34-36

湖南和平文化可以作为两岸湘台促进往来、加深沟通的新载体和新渠道。在两岸和平发展的大背景下,双方可以从旅游这一简单易行的形式开始,通过主题定位和线路规划,集中展现湖南和平文化资源的内涵和价值;在加强文化产业建设的基础上,围绕经贸往来、政策试点试验、政治对话打造平台、拓展空间,和平文化有可能在湘台合作及国家统一大业进程中发挥积极作用。  相似文献   

构建实验教学新体系培养创新人才   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

曾怡  徐少文  胡日新 《中国科技信息》2006,(16):247-247,249

本文从计算机学科自身的快速发展和社会，经济发展对高层次专业人才的需求的角度，分析了实行开放式实验教学在高校实验教学改革中的地位，并结合我院专业实验教学改革的初步实践，对着眼于素质和创新精神培养建设实验教学新体系进行了论述。  相似文献   

组织环境对女性职业生涯发展的影响:基于保险业的实证研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

何建华 《软科学》2007,21(5):116-119

基于保险业的问卷调查,对影响女性职业生涯发展的组织环境因素进行实证分析。研究表明性别平等的组织文化、组织的人力资源政策、组织内的人际关系对女性的职业生涯发展产生显著影响,针对这一研究结论对组织职业生涯开发活动提出相关建议。  相似文献   

价值工程--在图书馆搬迁中的最优效率管理方法的策略选择   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

王亚玲  贾雪梅 《现代情报》2006,26(2):89-91

论述合校后新馆搬迁的理论与实践，在搬迁中应用了价值工程的原理和管理思想，在搬迁中注重功能分析，提高搬迁效率。  相似文献   

权力的性质与组织结构的演变   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

关素文  孙东川  朱怀意 《软科学》2002,16(3):8-11,35

权力在组织结构中扮演着重要角色。本文通过对以前权力理论进行比较分析后,对权力的性质进行新的阐述,提出了用权位值对权力进行量化的思路。根据这种阐述,不但能揭示权力的本质,而且还可以了解权力结构与组织结构在演变中的互动作用,预测了两者未来的发展趋势。  相似文献   

改进挣值法在大型科研项目进度—成本管理的应用     

任振  沈敏圣  王成程  张林  陈立华 《科技管理研究》2016,(20):211-214

采用一种基于关键线路的改进挣值法,通过在某大型科研项目实施管理中的应用,印证改进的必要性和良好的管理效果。  相似文献   

BIM在建设工程项目中的创新价值初探     

刘慧  王孟钧  Miroslaw J. Skibniewski  郑俊巍 《科技管理研究》2016,(8):194-200

对BIM国际前沿文献进行跟踪研究,梳理BIM在建设工程项目中的主要应用模式。在分析建设工程创新特性的基础上,指出BIM为建设工程项目各参与组织构建了合作创新的工作环境。依据建设工程创新类别,分析BIM应用模式的创新定位,探索BIM在建设工程创新中的价值。  相似文献