The University Studies

Author : David Willetts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780191080043

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A University Education by David Willetts Pdf

Universities have a crucial role in the modern world. In England entrance to universities is by nation-wide competition which means English universities have an exceptional influence on schools - a striking theme of the book. This important book first investigates the university as an institution and then tracks the individual on their journey to and through university. In A University Education, David Willetts presents a compelling case for the ongoing importance of the university, both as one of the great institutions of modern society and as a transformational experience for the individual. The book also makes illuminating comparisons with higher education in other countries, especially the US and Germany. Drawing on his experience as UK Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014, the author offers a powerful account of the value of higher education and the case for more expansion. He covers controversial issues in which he was involved from access for disadvantaged students to the introduction of £9,000 fees. The final section addresses some of the big questions for the future, such as the the relationship between universities and business, especially in promoting innovation.. He argues that the two great contemporary trends of globalisation and technological innovation will both change the university significantly. This is an authoritative account of English universities setting them for the first time in their new legal and regulatory framework.

Author : Thomas Poell,David B. Nieborg,Brooke Erin Duffy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509540525

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Platforms and Cultural Production by Thomas Poell,David B. Nieborg,Brooke Erin Duffy Pdf

The widespread uptake of digital platforms – from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and TikTok – is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways. Longstanding media industries are experiencing tremendous upheaval, while new industrial formations – live-streaming, social media influencing, and podcasting, among others – are evolving at breakneck speed. Poell, Nieborg, and Duffy explore both the processes and the implications of platformization across the cultural industries, identifying key changes in markets, infrastructures, and governance at play in this ongoing transformation, as well as pivotal shifts in the practices of labor, creativity, and democracy. The authors foreground three particular industries – news, gaming, and social media creation – and also draw upon examples from music, advertising, and more. Diverse in its geographic scope, Platforms and Cultural Production builds on the latest research and accounts from across North America, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, and China to reveal crucial differences and surprising parallels in the trajectories of platformization across the globe. Offering a novel conceptual framework grounded in illuminating case studies, this book is essential for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to understand how the institutions and practices of cultural production are transforming – and what the stakes are for understanding platform power.

Author : Michał Izak,Monika Kostera,Michał Zawadzki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319468945

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The Future of University Education by Michał Izak,Monika Kostera,Michał Zawadzki Pdf

This collected volume of essays offers glimpses of the future of university education. While universities consider the spirit of theoretical exchange and intellectual pursuit to be a defining trait of their identity, this book argues that this heritage is disappearing under the influence of the short-term demands of societies and markets. Universities used to be sites of dissent, civil courage and societal conscience, but have now instead become little more than pseudo-businesses, rendering them incapable of remaining critical or independent. However, with more people going to university every year, there is a strong resistance to the notion that the university as a collegial and critical institution is dead, among academics as well as the broader public. With contributions from scholars across the world, this edited collection explores the ramifications of marketization on universities, and provides glimpses of what higher education will look like in the future. It will be of great interest to teachers and students in higher education, as well as policy makers and those interested in the current and future state of higher education.

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015003647313

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On University Studies by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling Pdf

Author : Ilan Kelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Islands
ISBN : 1138014605

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Island Studies by Ilan Kelman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : MINN:31951D011839889

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Directory of Canadian Universities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel Boscaljon,Jeffrey F. Keuss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793638274

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Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education by Daniel Boscaljon,Jeffrey F. Keuss Pdf

The essays in Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education: The Just University discuss diverse ways that Paul Ricoeur’s work provides hopeful insight and necessary provocation that should inform the task and mission of the modern university in the changing landscape of Higher Education. This volume gathers interdisciplinary scholars seeking to reestablish the place of justice as the central function of higher education in the twenty-first century. The contributors represent diverse backgrounds, including teachers, scholars, and administrators from R1 institutions, seminary and divinity schools as well as undergraduate teaching colleges. This collection, edited by Daniel Boscaljon and Jeffrey F. Keuss, offers critical and practical visions for the renewal of higher education. The first part of the book provides an internal examination of the university system and details how Ricoeur’s thinking assists on pragmatics from syllabus design to final exams to daily teaching. The second portion of the book examines the Just University’s role as a social institution within the broader cultural world and looks at how Ricoeur’s description of values informs how the university works relative to religious belief, prisons, and rural poverty.

Author : Zalika Reid-Benta
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487005351

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Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta Pdf

Set in the neighbourhood of “Little Jamaica,” Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation immigrants experiencing first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity in a predominantly white society. Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her North American identity and her desire to be a “true” Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother’s rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too “faas” or too “quiet” or too “bold” or too “soft.” In these twelve interconnected stories, we see Kara on a visit to Jamaica, startled by the sight of a severed pig’s head in her great-aunt’s freezer; in junior high, the victim of a devastating prank by her closest friends; and as a teenager in and out of her grandmother’s house, trying to cope with ongoing battles of unyielding authority. A rich and unforgettable portrait of growing up between worlds, Frying Plantain shows how, in one charged moment, friendship and love can turn to enmity and hate, well-meaning protection can become control, and teasing play can turn to something much darker.

Author : Wim Wiewel,David C. Perry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317469674

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Global Universities and Urban Development: Case Studies and Analysis by Wim Wiewel,David C. Perry Pdf

The editors of "The University as Urban Developer" now extend that work's groundbreaking analysis of the university's important role in the growth and development of the American city to the global view. Linking the fields of urban development, higher education, and urban design, "Global Universities and Urban Development" covers universities and communities around the world, including Germany, Korea, Scotland, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Finland - 13 countries in all.The book features contributions from noted urban scholars, campus planners and architects, and university administrators from all the countries represented. They provide a wide-angled perspective of the issues and practices that comprise university real estate development around the globe. A concluding chapter by the editors offers practical evaluations of the many cases and identifies best practices in the field.

Author : Laura Levin,Marlis Schweitzer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773549876

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Performance Studies in Canada by Laura Levin,Marlis Schweitzer Pdf

Since its inception as an institutionalized discipline in the United States during the 1980s, performance studies has focused on the interdisciplinary analysis of a broad spectrum of cultural behaviours including theatre, dance, folklore, popular entertainments, performance art, protests, cultural rituals, and the performance of self in everyday life. Performance Studies in Canada brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the national emergence of performance studies as a field in Canada. To date, no systematic attempts has been made to consider how this methodology is being taught, applied, and rethought in Canadian contexts, and Canadian performance studies scholarship remains largely unacknowledged within international discussions about the discipline. This collection fills this gap by identifying multiple origins of performance studies scholarship in the country and highlighting significant works of performance theory and history that are rooted in Canadian culture. Essays illustrate how specific institutional conditions and cultural investments – Indigenous, francophone, multicultural, and more – produce alternative articulations of “performance” and reveal national identity as a performative construct. A state-of-the-art work on the state of the field, Performance Studies in Canada foregrounds national and global performance knowledge to invigorate the discipline around the world.

Author : Paula Zwozdiak-Myers
Publisher : Learning Matters
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781844453207

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Childhood and Youth Studies by Paula Zwozdiak-Myers Pdf

This book introduces the inter-disciplinary study of childhood and youth and the multi-agency practice of professionals who serve the needs of children, young people and their families. Exploring key theories and central ideas, research methodology, policy and practice, it takes a holistic, contextual approach that values difference and diversity. It examines concepts such as identity, representation, creativity and discourse and issues such as ethnicity, gender and the ′childhood in crisis′ thesis. Furthermore, it challenges opinion by exploring complex and controversial modern-day issues, and by engaging with a range of perspectives to highlight debates within the field.

Author : Randle W. Nelsen
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781771133357

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Degrees of Failure by Randle W. Nelsen Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781592857982

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A Program For You by Anonymous Pdf

A Program for You leads each of us--newcomer or old-timer--to a deeper understanding of recovery as a way of life. A Program for You leads each of us--newcomer or old-timer--to a deeper understanding of recovery as a way of life. A Program for You clears our way for discovering positive, powerful answers to these questions. In the years since 1939, the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, has guided millions in their search for a design for healthy living free of addictive behaviors. Now, two program old-timers share their years of intensive study of the Big Book, revealing the vitality of its message for those of us reading it today.This celebration of the basic text of Twelve Step recovery breathes new life into the Big Book's timeless wisdom. Thoroughly annotated line and page, written with down-to-earth humor and simplicity, and providing a contemporary context for understanding, A Program for You helps us experience the same path of renewal that Bill W. and the first on hundred AA members did.

Author : Paul Temple
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317802525

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The Physical University by Paul Temple Pdf

The great universities of the world are to a large extent defined in the public imagination by their physical form: when people think of a university, they usually think of a distinctive place, rather than about say the teaching or the research that might go on there. This is understandable, both because universities usually stay rooted to the same spot over the centuries; and because their physical forms may send powerful messages about the kind of places they are. The physical form of the university, and how the spaces within it become transformed by their users into places which hold meanings for them, has become of increased interest recently from both academic and institutional management perspectives, when trying to understand more about how universities work, and how they may be made more effective. Yet, despite its seemingly obvious importance, the available literature on space and place in higher education internationally is scant when compared to that dealing with, say, teaching and learning methods, or with evaluating quality, or many other topics. This book brings together a range of academic and professional perspectives on university spaces and places, and show how technical matters of building design, maintenance and use interact with academic considerations on the goals of the university. Space issues are located at an intellectual crossroads, where widely differing conceptual and professional perspectives meet, and need to be integrated and this important book brings together perspectives from around the world to show design and use issues are changing Higher Education.. Globally, higher education is being required to do more things – to teach more students, to be better at research, to engage more with business and communities; and many other things. These pressures are leading universities to reconsider their management processes, as well as their academic structures: an often-quoted saying is that "we make our buildings, and afterwards they make us". At a time when universities and colleges are seeking competitive advantages, ideas and analysis about space design and use is much needed and will be well-received.

Author : IEEE Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1665435291

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2021 IEEE 11th Annual International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER) by IEEE Staff Pdf

IEEE CYBER is sponsored by IEEE Robotics & Automation Society focusing on the advanced Cyber technique in automation, control, and intelligent cyber systems