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   

The Impact of an Erasmus Placement in Students’ Perception of their Intercultural Communicative Competence     

Ramiro Durán Martínez  Gloria Gutiérrez  Fernando Beltrán Llavador  Fernando Martínez Abad 《Journal of Intercultural Communication Research》2016,45(4):338-354

Pre- and post-questionnaires answered by UK Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and Spain’s University of Salamanca (USAL) students on their placement abroad support a comparative analysis of its impact on their intercultural communicative competence, comprising the awareness, attitude, skills and knowledge dimensions. NTU students started their placements with better results in them all. Yet, while both groups completed their stay with a similarly increased awareness, the knowledge and skills of the USAL group matched the results of NTU students and, whereas the scores of the attitude dimension towards the host country of NTU students did not increase significantly, those of USAL students decreased.  相似文献   

College course scarcity and time to degree     

《Economics of Education Review》2014

College students are taking longer to earn baccalaureate degrees now than ever before, but little is known about institutional factors that may contribute to this trend. In this paper we investigate an important institutional constraint—course scarcity—that we hypothesize may be associated with increased time to degree. We employ a unique administrative dataset from a large, moderately selective, public institution and use an instrumental variables approach, identifying off the random registration times assigned to students. Results suggest that course scarcity does not delay students’ graduation. We explore alternative explanations for our findings and discuss a variety of other factors correlated with time to baccalaureate completion.  相似文献   

京津冀协同发展背景下高职教师教育能力建设探析     

冯丽  何艳成  闵廷维 《河北旅游职业学院学报》2016,(3):77-82

随着京津冀一体化国家战略的正式启动，教育一体化和协同发展也势在必行。文章分析了新形势下高职教师所面临的机遇和挑战；结合工作和调查实际指出了当前高职教师教育能力方面存在的欠缺；提出了新形势新要求下高职教师所应具备的教育能力的内涵；最后为了更好地适应京津冀教育协同发展背景下对高职教师的新要求，从国家政策、学校制度及教师个人等方面提出了高职教师教育能力建设的有效途径。  相似文献   

Recording and Accounting for Stakeholder Involvement in Systematic Reviews          下载免费PDF全文

Marieke C. Saan  Hennie R. Boeije  Jane N. T. Sattoe  Marjolijn I. Bal  Marjolein Missler  Floryt van Wesel 《Health information and libraries journal》2015,32(2):95-106

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Racial contacts across the Pacific and the creation of minzoku in the Japanese empire     

Noriaki Hoshino 《Inter-Asia Cultural Studies》2016,17(2):186-205

Focusing on the work of the Japanese sociologist Koyama Eizō, this paper critically explores the development of Japanese race studies from the late 1920s to the 1940s. During this period, Japanese intellectual discourses on race developed in the context of the need to manage heterogeneous populations within the Japanese empire and contain the growing mobility of populations in and outside of the territory. Reflecting Koyama’s keen interest in racial/ethnic contacts and interdisciplinary perspectives, his intellectual work symptomatically exemplifies not only the convergence of knowledge production and the dominant imperial regime but also the transpacific implications of Japanese race studies. On the one hand, my study examines Koyama’s preoccupation with racial/ethnic contacts in relation to imperial security and also traces how his study intersected with the discourse of American social scientists who were also interested in Japanese migrations. On the other hand, the study examines how the development of the idea of minzoku in Koyama’s discourse coincided with contemporaneous attempts to mobilize diverse populations in the empire. Thus, my research reveals a complex dynamic of integration and differentiation in discourse on Japanese race studies in the interwar era.  相似文献   

高校辅导员思想政治教育工作创新探究     

杨振龙 《河北旅游职业学院学报》2016,(2):88-92

辅导员是高校思想政治教育工作的骨干力量，是大学生日常工作的管理者以及各项业务工作有效开展的组织者，担负着培养社会主义接班人和建设者的重要使命。辅导员在育人工作中有着不可取代的作用，但实际工作中存在的问题无法适应新时期高校育人工作的要求，因此，高校辅导员思想政治教育工作创新势在必行。这是高校育人过程中践行“社会主义核心价值观”的迫切需要，也是促使高校辅导员沿着“职业化——专业化——专家化”发展的客观要求。  相似文献   

多媒体阅览室拓展少儿网络学习教育功能的思考——以柳州市图书馆多媒体阅览室为例     

韦志凡 《柳州师专学报》2011,26(3):138-140

互联网承载和传播着大量的信息和数据,其中有不少涉及色情、暴力、诈骗等不健康信息。以柳州市图书馆多媒体阅览室为例,就如何正确引导少儿读者利用网络进行学习,拓展公共图书馆多媒体阅览室的网络学习教育功能阐述了自己的想法。  相似文献   

积极心理教育在高职和谐宿舍建设中的应用     

张以清 《湖北广播电视大学学报》2011,31(5):25-26

宿舍是高职学生中一种较为特殊的形式,这样一个群体具有＂正式群体＂与＂非正式群体＂两重性。根据这一群体的特点,运用积极心理教育来开展和谐宿舍的建设工作。  相似文献   

全球化和信息化背景下高校思想政治理论课的教学困埔与教改策略     

冯飞龙 《安康学院学报》2011,23(6):114-116

在全球化和信息化的时代背景下，我国大学生群体出现了政治信仰迷茫、理想信念模糊、价值取向扭曲、社会责任感缺乏等一系列不容忽视的问题，高校思想政治理论课教学正面临着严峻挑战。因此，研究高校思想政治理论课教学困境的成因，并寻求教改策略，是当前摆在广大思想政治理论课教师面前的一项重要课题。  相似文献