Dynamics Of The Contemporary University

Author : Neil J. Smelser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520955257

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Dynamics of the Contemporary University by Neil J. Smelser Pdf

This book is an expanded version of the Clark Kerr Lectures of 2012, delivered by Neil Smelser at the University of California at Berkeley in January and February of that year. The initial exposition is of a theory of change—labeled structural accretion—that has characterized the history of American higher education, mainly (but not exclusively) of universities. The essence of the theory is that institutions of higher education progressively add functions, structures, and constituencies as they grow, but seldom shed them, yielding increasingly complex structures. The first two lectures trace the multiple ramifications of this principle into other arenas, including the essence of complexity in the academic setting, the solidification of academic disciplines and departments, changes in faculty roles and the academic community, the growth of political constituencies, academic administration and governance, and academic stratification by prestige. In closing, Smelser analyzes a number of contemporary trends and problems that are superimposed on the already-complex structures of higher education, such as the diminishing public support without alterations of governance and accountability, the increasing pattern of commercialization in higher education, the growth of distance-learning and for-profit institutions, and the spectacular growth of temporary and part-time faculty.

Author : Neil J. Smelser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520275812

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Dynamics of the Contemporary University by Neil J. Smelser Pdf

This book is an expanded version of the Clark Kerr Lectures of 2012, delivered by Neil Smelser at the University of California at Berkeley in January and February of that year. The initial exposition is of a theory of change—labeled structural accretion—that has characterized the history of American higher education, mainly (but not exclusively) of universities. The essence of the theory is that institutions of higher education progressively add functions, structures, and constituencies as they grow, but seldom shed them, yielding increasingly complex structures. The first two lectures trace the multiple ramifications of this principle into other arenas, including the essence of complexity in the academic setting, the solidification of academic disciplines and departments, changes in faculty roles and the academic community, the growth of political constituencies, academic administration and governance, and academic stratification by prestige. In closing, Smelser analyzes a number of contemporary trends and problems that are superimposed on the already-complex structures of higher education, such as the diminishing public support without alterations of governance and accountability, the increasing pattern of commercialization in higher education, the growth of distance-learning and for-profit institutions, and the spectacular growth of temporary and part-time faculty.

Author : Rille Raaper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003814672

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Contemporary Dynamics of Student Experience and Belonging in Higher Education by Rille Raaper Pdf

This timely and rigorous edited collection discusses complex processes related to student experience and belonging in contemporary higher education worldwide. It brings together a variety of recent research that explores contemporary undergraduate student experience in and of higher education. Drawing on the case studies from the UK, the USA, Israel and China and a variety of university settings, the chapters problematise the complex processes of developing a sense of belonging in contemporary universities that are increasingly diverse in terms of student population but also heavily marketised. Further, they draw attention to the effects of marketisation on the changing interpersonal relationships in student experience. Above all, the themes covered in this issue promote an understanding of student experience and belonging as a dynamic, relational and non-linear process, intersecting with pre-existing social inequalities as well as market dynamics that forcefully continue to reshape the sector and university practices. This book provides a timely and academically rigorous account of contemporary student experience and belonging in the global context of higher education. Contemporary Dynamics of Student Experience and Belonging in Higher Education will be a key resource for scholars, practitioners and researchers of higher education, education policy and leadership, educational studies and research, and anyone interested in understanding and supporting students. It was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Education.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:30000009139019

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National Bureau of Standards Miscellaneous Publication by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eric Langenbacher,Bill Niven,Ruth Wittlinger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857455819

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Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe by Eric Langenbacher,Bill Niven,Ruth Wittlinger Pdf

The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today's eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more "self-critical" memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memorializes the past. The increasing dissatisfaction among scholars with the blanket, undifferentiated use of the term "collective memory" is evolving in new directions. This volume brings the tension into focus while addressing the state of memory theory itself.

Author : Karin Tusting,Sharon McCulloch,Ibrar Bhatt,Mary Hamilton,David Barton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429582592

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Academics Writing by Karin Tusting,Sharon McCulloch,Ibrar Bhatt,Mary Hamilton,David Barton Pdf

Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, transforming what it means to be an academic and how, as a society, we produce academic knowledge. Writing practices are changing as the academic profession itself is reconfigured through new forms of governance and accountability, increasing use of digital resources, and the internationalisation of higher education. Through detailed studies of writing in the daily life of academics in different disciplines and in different institutions, this book explores: the space and time of academic writing; tensions between disciplines and institutions around genres of writing; the diversity of stances adopted towards the tools and technologies of writing, and towards engagement with social media; and the importance of relationships and collaboration with others, in writing and in ongoing learning in a context of constant change. Drawing out implications of the work for academics, university management, professional training, and policy, Academics Writing: The Dynamics of Knowledge Creation is key reading for anyone studying or researching writing, academic support, and development within education and applied linguistics.

Author : Daniel Raposo, Nuno Martins and Daniel Brandão
Publisher : AHFE International
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781958651018

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Advances in Human Dynamics for the Development of Contemporary Societies by Daniel Raposo, Nuno Martins and Daniel Brandão Pdf

Advances in Human Dynamics for the Development of Contemporary Societies Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022), July 24–28, 2022, New York, USA

Author : Jorge V. José,Eugene J. Saletan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521636361

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Classical Dynamics by Jorge V. José,Eugene J. Saletan Pdf

A comprehensive graduate-level textbook on classical dynamics with many worked examples and over 200 homework exercises, first published in 1998.

Author : Bert Creemers,Leonidas Kyriakides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134168392

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The Dynamics of Educational Effectiveness by Bert Creemers,Leonidas Kyriakides Pdf

This book brings together the current thinking and research of two major investigators in the field of educational effectiveness. After defining educational effectiveness, the authors analyse the various theories and strands of research within educational effectiveness, especially with respect to the comprehensive model developed by Creemers. Written by one of the worlds leading experts in the field, this book will both elucidate our current understanding of educational effectiveness and carry the discipline forward by proposing profound changes to accepted views.

Author : Mark Beeson
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1007 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811201912

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Rivalry And Cooperation In The Asia-pacific: The Dynamics Of A Region In Transition (In 2 Volumes) by Mark Beeson Pdf

Rivalry and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the most important strategic and economic region in the world. Asia-Pacific is a region that is undergoing a major transformation, largely as a consequence of the rise of China and its growing rivalry with the United States. Whatever happens in the Asia-Pacific will profoundly influence global events, not just regional ones. Looking ahead, the region's future direction — and even its name — is contested and uncertain.This two-volume reference work, by one of the world's leading analysts of regional affairs, places these events in historical context and considers what they may mean for future political, economic and strategic relations. By focusing on the United States, China and the region's most significant middle powers, the book explains why and how the Asia-Pacific has become the fulcrum of international events.

Author : Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer,Samuel D. Rima
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317115595

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Integral Dynamics by Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer,Samuel D. Rima Pdf

The theory of integral dynamics is based on the view that the development of individual leaders or entrepreneurs requires the simultaneous development of institutions and societies. It seeks a specific way forward for each society, fundamentally different from, but drawing on, its past. Nearly every natural science has been transformed from an analytically-based approach to a dynamic one: now it is time for society and culture to follow suit locally and globally. Each culture, discipline and person is incomplete and is in need of others in order to develop and evolve. This book sets out a curriculum for a new integral, trans-cultural and trans-disciplinary area of study, inclusive of, but extending beyond, economics and enterprise. It embraces a trans-personal perspective, linking self with community, enterprise and society, and focusing on the vital relationship between local identity and global integrity. For the government policy maker, the enlightened business practitioner, and the student and researcher into economics and enterprise, the new discipline is set out here in complete detail by a multi-national team of Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series authors. Illuminated with examples relating the conceptual to the practical, this is a text, not for a pre-modern, modern, or even post-modern era, but for what has been called our trans-modern age.

Author : Bernard Lonergan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781487588786

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Macroeconomic Dynamics by Bernard Lonergan Pdf

Few theologians in history have matched Bernard Lonergan's range of learning. Fewer still have written on the "dismal science" of economics. Rooted so solidly in the concerns of this world, economics is not a discipline we associate with the more rarified pursuit of theology. In this long-awaited volume, Lonergan demonstrates the short-sightedness of this view. This companion volume to For A New Political Economy (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 21) continues the work of bringing together the various elements of Lonergan's economic thought. His economic writings span forty years and represent one of the most important intellectual achievements of the twentieth century. They have previously been inaccessible outside of the Lonergan research community as the majority of them have not been formally published, and exist only as a group of unfinished essays and material for courses on economics taught by Lonergan. Lonergan's economic ideas track a different line of thought from that taken by contemporary economists. Macroeconomic Dynamics: An Essay in Circulation Analysis represents the economic thought of Lonergan at the end of his career. His analysis, while taking a fresh look at fundamental variables, breaks from centralist theory and practice towards a radically democratic perspective on surplus income and non-political control, and explores more fully the ideas introduced in For a New Political Economy. This work will be read not only by economists but also by liberation theologians, political theologians, and others inside and outside of religious organizations interested in social justice issues and alternative approaches to economics.

Author : Angela Y. Cheer,AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Biofluiddynamics (1991 : Seattle),Cornelis P. Van Dam
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780821851487

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Fluid Dynamics in Biology by Angela Y. Cheer,AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Biofluiddynamics (1991 : Seattle),Cornelis P. Van Dam Pdf

This book contains nearly all the papers presented at the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Biofluiddynamics, held in July 1991, at the University of Washington, Seattle. The lead paper, by Sir James Lighthill, presents a comprehensive review of external flows in biology. The other papers on external and internal flows illuminate developments in the protean field of biofluiddynamics from diverse viewpoints, reflecting the field's multidisciplinary nature. For this reason, the book appeals to mathematicians, biologists, engineers, physiologists, cardiologists, and oceanographers. The papers highlight a number of problems that have remained largely unexplored due to the difficulty of addressing biological flow motions, which are often governed by large systems of nonlinear differential equations and involve complex geometries.However, recent advances in computational fluid dynamics have expanded opportunities to solve such problems. These developments have increased interest in areas such as the mechanisms of blood and air flow in humans, the dynamic ecology of the oceans, animal swimming and flight, to name a few. This volume addresses many of these flow problems.

Author : Sarjit S. Gill,Ravichandran Moorthy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666936995

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Emerging Dynamics in Contemporary India–Malaysia Relations by Sarjit S. Gill,Ravichandran Moorthy Pdf

This edited volume examines the many facets of contemporary Malaysia-India bilateral relations. The contributors provide analysis from the perspectives of trade and economic relations, people-to-people connections, tourism, security cooperation, ethnic identities, comparative religiosity, and revisiting the historical links between these countries.

Author : Alessia Allegri,Angélica Benatti Alvim,Eunice Helena Abascal,Joaquin Sabaté,João Pedro Costa,Maria Cristina Schicchi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000464139

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Research Tracks in Urbanism: Dynamics, Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories by Alessia Allegri,Angélica Benatti Alvim,Eunice Helena Abascal,Joaquin Sabaté,João Pedro Costa,Maria Cristina Schicchi Pdf

Maybe the Global Village metaphor has never been more accurate than it is today, where societies join forces in the fight against the COVID 19 pandemic, in a global coordinated effort, possibly never tested before in the known history of Humankind. Although we are sure that in the past some other shared demands have united the different peoples of the world, this has never been so strongly necessary, mainly in what the global scientific community is concerned. This is a fight for the survival of a society. However, we should not lose sight of what we are fighting for. We fight together for people. Not just for the abstract value of Human life, but for life in society as a whole, including its moral and ethical aspects. The topics of this book are based on this claim, on what makes it possible. We do not build our lives in a vacuum, or in distant Invisible Cities, but through a higher value, which represents physical life in society: the City, built by the discipline of Urbanism. This book is a spin-off of the International Research Seminar on Urbanism_SIIU2020. Inspired by the contents of twelve research seminars, a group of researchers from the universities of Barcelona, Lisbon and São Paulo discuss the contemporary agenda of research in Urbanism. Following the conference, a selection of 35 original double-blind peer-reviewed research papers were brought together with different perspectives about such an agenda.