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Neoliberalism,Performativity and Research 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Peter Roberts 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2007,53(4):349-365
This paper provides a critical analysis of New Zealand’s Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF). The first section sketches the development and implementation of the PBRF. The second section evaluates the scheme, concentrating on three themes: the relationship between privatization, competition and research performance; the standardization of research; and motivations for research. The paper acknowledges the thorough work completed by the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission and other policy groups in laying the foundation for the adoption of performance-based research funding in New Zealand. It is argued, however, that when viewed in its larger context, the PBRF constitutes a continuation of neoliberal trends already well established in New Zealand’s tertiary education system. 相似文献
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Where members of governing bodies of universities stand in relation to their institution’s annual reports is discussed in
the broader context of trends in university governance. Data were collected from members of the governing councils of New
Zealand’s eight universities using questionnaire surveys in 1993 and 2001. During this interval, a marked improvement in the
quality of these institutions’ reports occurred (Coy, D. and Dixon, K. (2004). British Accounting Review 3, 679–106). Issues explored include information used to govern and the equivocal roles of council members juxtaposed as
they are between university participants and stakeholders. They are cast as strategic decision makers, holders of university
senior management and other participants to account, and annual report publishers, and so publicly accountable persons. Findings
include that annual reports provide valuable information for members to make decisions and hold their universities accountable;
and that some shortcomings discerned by members in report qualitative characteristics and contents persist, despite seeming
to be within the discretion of councils to address. Speculations about why this might be so are advanced, including for further
investigation; and other suggestions for further research are put forward. 相似文献
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This paper explores disciplinary approaches to knowledge production and the supervision of doctoral students in the context of New Zealand’s current Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF). In the last decade New Zealand has experienced significant changes to the way doctoral students are funded by central government. Funding has moved away from a ‘head count’ model to one that rewards specific performance criteria of staff and timely completion of students. In the new regime, research outputs by way of peer reviewed publications, conference presentations, grant awards, postgraduate completions and so forth constitute the significant markers of such performance. Yet in general terms, the production of knowledge varies considerably by academic discipline. This paper uses qualitative methods to explore the potential for the PBRF to privilege some approaches to knowledge production (and models of doctoral supervision) while challenging the viability of others. 相似文献
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Bruce Curtis 《Globalisation, Societies & Education》2016,14(1):87-109
This article explores ways the Performance-based Research Fund (PBRF) produces gendered results and expresses a cultural cringe. It is argued that the research evaluation is fixated with being ‘world-class’ at the expense of academic practice that focuses on New Zealand. In this context, disadvantage faced by female academics under the PBRF can be re-imagined as an exemplar of a broader experience faced by all New Zealand-trained and focused academics. At the same time, the PBRF has produced some embarrassing results for neoliberal policy-makers and somewhat empowers academics as arbiters of excellence by reifying elements of peer review. 相似文献
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Noel Gough 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2011,6(1):113-125
In this essay I explore a number of questions about purposes and methods in science education research prompted by my reading
of Wesley Pitts’ ethnographic study of interactions among four students and their teacher in a chemistry classroom in the
Bronx, New York City. I commence three ‘lines of flight’ (small acts of Deleuzo-Guattarian deterritorialization) that depart
from the conceptual territory regulated by science education’s dominant systems of signification and make new connections
within and beyond that territory. I offer neither a comprehensive review nor a thorough critique of Wesley’s paper but, rather,
suggest some alternative directions for science education research in the genre he exemplifies. 相似文献
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The nature and implications of the growing importance of research grants to Canadian universities and academics 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Claire Polster 《Higher Education》2007,53(5):599-622
This paper analyzes a significant but virtually unexplored recent development within Canadian higher education, namely the
growing importance of research grants to universities and academics. It addresses three main questions. First, the paper examines
why and how research grants are becoming more important to Canadian universities and academics, focusing in particular on
the role played by federal higher education policy. Next, it explores how the growing importance of research grants is transforming
relations between and among the key players in Canadian higher education and academic research, including university administrators,
academics, government, and the broader community. The paper’s final section takes up some of the actual and potential implications
of these changes and raises concerns about detrimental effects on Canada’s universities and citizens. Prospects and possibilities
for reform are also addressed. 相似文献
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Anu Venugopalan 《Resonance》2007,12(4):52-68
In the 5th century BC, the philosopher and logician Zeno of Elea posed several paradoxes which remained unresolved for over
two thousand five hundred years. In recent times, the Zeno effect made an intriguing appearance in a rather unlikely place
— a situation involving the time evolution of a quantum system which is subject to ‘observations’ over a period of time. In
1977, B Misra and E C G Sudarshan published a paper on the quantum Zeno effect, called “The Zeno’s paradox in quantum theory”.
Their fascinating result revealed the bizarre workings of the quantum world. In the following article, the quantum Zeno effect
is described and a brief outline of some of the work following Misra and Sudarshan’s paper is given.
Anu Venugopalan is on the faculty of the Centre for Philosophy and Foundations of Science, New Delhi, on leave from GGS Indraprastha
University, Kashmere Gate, Delhi. Her primary research interests are in the areas of Foundations of Quantum mechanics, Quantum
Optics and Quantum Information. 相似文献
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This paper presents data generated during a semester-long programme to support international students from countries in Melanesia and Asia embarking on masters research in education in a New Zealand university. All were scholarship recipients. The researcher-and facilitator-of the programme, was interested in documenting and understanding the nature of the students’ experience as they planned and wrote research proposals. The process of developing a research proposal, as one of the early stages of ‘becoming’ a researcher, highlighted a number of challenges for the six case study students. The challenges are viewed from a transition or ‘resituation’ perspective (Eraut in Stud Contin Educ 26(2): 247–74, 2004, 2008) rather than an adjustment one. A resituation perspective assumes that students brought with them “personal expertise, practical wisdom and tacit knowledge” (Eraut 2008, p. 42) which needed to be reconciled with what was demanded of them by different aspects of the research planning process. The resituation challenges experienced by the students included situating a perceived problem or issue in the research literature; reconciling personal research goals with the limitations of one’s own agency as a researcher; integrating new learning with research goals; and reconciling the new role or identity as a researcher with the previous role as colleague or community member. The paper presents a case for providing a context for postgraduate students in which explicit recognition of what they bring to the research task, and acknowledgement of the resituation challenges can take place. 相似文献
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Patricia M. Cooper 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,34(5):315-322
Today’s emphasis on using children’s literature as a tool to teach reading and writing sub-skills distracts teachers’ attention
from looking to children’s books for their historical role in helping children navigate the intellectual, social, and emotional
terrains of childhood. This article argues, first, that early childhood educators must remain fluent in the use of literature
that supports young children’s psychosocial development. Second, teachers must establish criteria for choice. By way of example,
it examines two popular books for young children, Sendak’s (1963) Where the Wild Things Are [New York: HarperCollins Publishers] and Shannon’s (1998) No, David! [New York: Blue Sky Press] Three theoretical perspectives guide the analysis. The first combines Dewey’s (1938/97) [Experience and education. New York:Touchstone] impetus for learning and Vygotsky’s (1978) [Mind in society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press] theory that learning precedes development through scaffolded social
interaction. The second is Erikson’s (1950, 1985) [Childhood and society. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.] theory of psychosocial development in light of the
4–6-year-old’s drive towards self-regulation, control, and independence. The third is Rosenblatt’s (1978) [The reader, the text, the poem. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English] transactional nature of reading. 相似文献
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Cristine A. Smith Rebecca Paulson Stone Sarah Kahando 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2012,25(2):533-555
Delaying girls’ early marriage is a critical public health and education goal in developing countries, in which their own or their mothers’ education may play an important role. This paper reviews the existing evidence of any relationship between girls’ schooling or women’s literacy education and delayed marriage for themselves or their daughters. The majority of research reports focus on the correlation between girls’ schooling and brides’ age at first marriage. But it is conceivable that adult women’s/mothers’ literacy education also has considerable influence on the age at which their daughters are married. Since this aspect has hitherto not been explicitly investigated, the authors propose a model – based on relevant research about the outcomes of girls’ schooling and women’s literacy education – of the mechanisms that mediate between women’s education and delayed marriage for their daughters. The authors argue for research that will inform policy makers interested in helping girls complete secondary schooling about the potential contributions of adult women’s literacy education to this goal. 相似文献
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Charlene Tan 《Prospects》2010,40(4):465-480
This paper critically discusses the educational policy trajectories of Singapore and Cambodia in an era of globalization.
Drawing upon David Johnson’s five metaphors to describe the historical and political forces that shape educational policy
trajectories, the paper argues that Cambodia’s current educational policy trajectory is characterized by the “politics of
compelling” while Singapore’s situation is more akin to the “politics of selling”. In Singapore, the politics of selling intersects
with the politics of gelling, in which various interest groups are encouraged to work together to strengthen the new economy
of knowledge. The paper raises a common challenge for Singapore and Cambodia: to shift from a traditional teacher-centred
and textbook-based approach to a more student-centred and ICT-based approach in a globalized world. The last section of this
paper explores the possibility of addressing this challenge through gelling, by setting a new agenda for education, one that
combines foreign and indigenous sources of knowledge from various interest groups. 相似文献
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Dawn Del Carlo Holly Hinkhouse Leah Isbell 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(1):58-68
This paper outlines the connection between qualitative research methods in education and teacher reflective practices as they
relate to Valli’s (Reflective teacher education: cases and critiques. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1992; Peabody J Educ 72(1): 67–88, 1997) model of reflection. Using the authors’ own experiences in performing and guiding educational research, and existing research
in the field of teacher education pertaining to reflective practitioners, explicit connections are made between the two paradigms.
These connections illustrate the importance of integrating authentic research experiences into the teacher education curriculum
outside the context of methods courses, much like models established in the sciences. 相似文献
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Leanne Dalley-Trim 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2012,39(2):193-205
This paper investigates the ways in which young women come to view gender as being an influence upon their future lives—their
aspirations and expectations for the future. In doing so, it draws upon 327 surveys completed by year 12 female students,
typically 17 years of age, in a range of schools across the State of Queensland, Australia. The paper details key features
of the young women’s survey responses—the dominant storylines evident in the data—as a means of illustrating how they have
come to dismiss gender as an influence. Further, the paper illuminates the power and pervasiveness of neoliberal discourse
in ‘New Times’, the ways in which the young women surveyed embrace neoliberalism and its imperative of individualisation and
do so in ways that locate gender as irrelevant in their imagining and enacting of their life biographies. Finally, the paper
explores the implications of such research findings for these—and other—young women. 相似文献
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Princeton University Press recently published the American moral philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s book On Bullshit, which quickly made the New York Times best seller list. Originally published in the journal Raritan in 1986, Frankfurt’s book has been heralded as an important theoretical development in the study of what he (and society)
colloquially refer to as “bullshit.” Frankfurt formally defines BS as a situation where ones inclination and obligation to
speak about a topic or concept far exceeds one’s knowledge of the topic, which most certainly has been a rising problem for
a number of reasons over the past 20 years. However, Frankfurt’s book, which purports to be a moral victory of sorts, and
despite its popularity, is not only severely flawed and outdated from an educational, cognitive, and philosophical perspective,
but it is also highly oppressive in several different but very important ways. Because this book and its main arguments are
being cited favorably in a number of different academic circles (including the science education community), this paper highlights
the limitations and flaws of this book and develops a counter-argument and model of BS that has important implications for
science, mathematics, philosophy, and educational theory and research. 相似文献
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“New Basic Education” and me 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Lan Ye 《Frontiers of Education in China》2009,4(4):558-609
Initiated in September 1994, “New Basic Education” first underwent a five-year Exploratory Research phase from September 1994
to May 1999, which was followed by a second five-year Developmental Research phase from September 1999 to May 2004. Thus during
the past ten years, “New Basic Education” has undergone a complete research process, including the presentation of the problem,
the formation of results, and finally the dissemination, application, perfection, and development of its research. This study
has preliminarily explored the transformation of schools, educational theories and educational research methods in China.
The author hopes to respond actively to educational changes caused by our transforming society through her professional research.
She presents in this paper the retrospective notes of her subjective state, such as her thought process, planning, actions
and experiences while conducting and developing “New Basic Education” research.
“New Basic Education” research originated from ten years of theoretical preparation (amassing basic educational theory, the
methodology for educational research, and meta-research of educational disciplines), as well as from the author’s personal
experiences conducting field research during the past three years and her profound reflections on the nature of the social
transformations taking place in late 20th century China. During the Exploratory Research phase, “New Basic Education” research—which consists of reconstructive research
on educational theory and practice—regards the rebuilding of educational aims as its theoretical starting point. Additionally,
“New Basic Education” research regards schools, which provide nine-year compulsory education as the entire unit of practical
research. The research also focused on classroom education, teaching reform, and school management for the experimentation
and reform of the schools. As for the core issue of methodology, the crux of the issue lies in how to deal with the relations
between theoretical research and practical research and the relationship between theoretical researchers and practical researchers. 相似文献
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困境与突破:论中国教育学范式 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
In this paper, the paradigm of China’s pedagogy means a way of thinking followed and adhered to by Chinese educationists from
the establishment of New China till now when they consider, study and conceive problems of pedagogy. This way of thinking
guides educationists to have particular study directions, unique modes of pedagogy establishment and special framework of
problem solving. And furthermore, it forms the study tradition of China’s pedagogy and stipulates the developing orientation
of China’s pedagogy. From the establishment of New China till now, we have been edified by the paradigms in the Soviet Union
and the Western countries and restricted by “Western paradigm” and “Soviet Paradigm”, without any paradigm of our own. The
paradigm crisis in the development of China’ pedagogy has obstructed the healthy development of China’s pedagogy. The establishment
of China’s pedagogy should start with establishing the subject-educationists and establishing the object-“paradigm system”.
The establishment of China’s pedagogy paradigm will contribute greatly to the origination of China’s pedagogy and its academic
schools.
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Translated from Dongbei Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Zhexue Shehui Kexue Ban) 东北师范大学学 报(哲学社会科学版) (Journal of Northeast Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)), 2007, (3): 5–12 相似文献
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Amartya Kumar Dutta 《Resonance》2004,9(1):61-63
Inadvertently, an earlier draft of this article got printed in the November 2003 issue and, since the new draft clarified
some of the points, the section ‘Brahmagupta’s lemma and modern algebra’ of the final draft and a few small remarks are being
reprinted for the reader’s convenience. The error is regretted. 相似文献
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This paper makes a case for the coining and exploration of a term ‘decolonialism’. Although there is likely to be greater
familiarity with the use of the term ‘decolonization’ for the work indigenous people might undertake on themselves to transcend
the shackles of colonization, this paper suggests that colonizers also need to work at ridding themselves of vestigial mechanisms
of control. The paper suggests the term ‘decolonialism’ to represent this challenge. However, the issues go deeper than the
examination of a counsellor’s personal beliefs, awareness and worldview, but also extend to the systems that underscore and
guide the counselling profession. Whilst such issues are of relevance to various contexts around the world, this paper focuses
on a case study of the reformation of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors—Te Roopu Kaiwhiriwhiri O Aotearoa as an example
of the counselling profession striving to decolonialize its structure and its practices. 相似文献
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Susan Lutz Klauda 《Educational Psychology Review》2009,21(4):325-363
Parent support for reading is one of the many elements that may play a role in the development and sustainment of children’s
reading motivation; to date, however, research has focused much more on the role that parents play in their preschool and
primary-grade children’s reading than in their older children’s reading. Thus, this paper examines the findings and methodology
of empirical studies concerning the ways and extent to which parent support for reading relates to the reading motivations
and habits of students in the fourth through 12th grades. The review includes discussion of extant quantitative, qualitative,
and mixed-method studies, theoretical models from the reading domain applicable to the socialization of reading practices,
and extensive recommendations for future research. The dual purpose of this review is to present a sketch of the role of parents’
in adolescents’ reading motivation based on extant work and to encourage research that will help develop this sketch into
a fuller portrait. 相似文献
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Tony Brown 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2012,80(3):475-490
In this volume, Wolff-Michael Roth provides a critical but partial reading of Tony Brown’s book Mathematics Education and Subjectivity. The reading contrasts Brown’s approach with Roth’s own conception of subjectivity as derived from the work of Vygotsky, in which Roth aims to “reunite” psychology and sociology. Brown’s book, however, focuses on how discourses in mathematics education shape subjective action within a Lacanian model that circumnavigates both “psychology” and “sociology”. From that platform, this paper responds to Roth through problematising the idea of the individual as a subjective entity in relation to the two perspectives, with some consideration of corporeality and of how the Symbolic encounters the Real. The paper argues for a Lacanian conception of subjectivity for mathematics education comprising a response to a social demand borne of an ever-changing symbolic order that defines our constitution and our space for action. The paper concludes by considering an attitude to the production of research objects in mathematics education research that resists the normalisation of assumptions as to how humans encounter mathematics. 相似文献