scholarly journals The Politics of Intercultural Collaboration in Higher Music Education: Challenges Seen from a Leadership Point of View

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-214
Author(s):  
Sidsel Karlsen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Music Education ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
New Managerialism ◽  
Intercultural Collaboration ◽  
Leadership In Higher Education ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Internationalization In Higher Education

AbstractInternationally, various mandates and policy directives require higher music education institutions to engage in intercultural collaboration. These include fulfilling national policy demands for internationalization in higher education, providing students with experience of working internationally to increase their employability, and conducting proper diversity management so as to facilitate diversity-conscious and responsible interaction with employees, students, and the broader educational community. In this chapter, the topic of intercultural collaboration in higher music education is approached from a different starting point, asking what, from a leadership point of view, creates obstacles to such collaboration and what makes it challenging or difficult either at the levels of individual participants, administrators, or the institution. Twelve leadership representatives from three different institutions of higher music education were interviewed about their experiences with intercultural collaboration and the benefits and challenges of engaging in such interactions. From the interviewees’ experiences, their work of attempting to govern or manage situations of complex intercultural interaction while simultaneously negotiating between the different interests expressed within the frames of their respective institutions featured prominently in the empirical material. In this chapter, these negotiations and deliberations are theorized and discussed attending to perspectives borrowed from literature on intercultural competences, leadership in higher education, and new managerialism.

Invisible higher education: Higher education institutions from Central and Eastern Europe in global rankings

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 529-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pepka Boyadjieva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Global Ranking ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Global University

The starting point of this study is the argument that not only rankings of higher education institutions (HEIs) are inescapable, but so is the constant criticism to which they are subjected. Against this background, the paper discusses how HEIs from Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEECs) are (non)represented in the main global university rankings. The analysis adopts two perspectives: 1) From the point of view of higher education in CEECs – what are the specificity, basic problems and perspectives of higher education in CEECs as seen through the prism of the global ranking systems? 2) From the point of view of the ranking systems – what strengths and weaknesses of the global ranking systems can be identified through the prism of higher education in CEECs? The study shows that most of the HEIs from CEECs remain invisible in the international and European academic world and tries to identify the main reasons for their (non)appearance in global rankings. It is argued that although global rankings are an important instrument for measuring and comparing the achievements of HEIs by certain indicators, they are only one of the mechanisms – and not a perfect one – for assessing the quality of higher education.

The Investigation of Mobbing Events Taking Place at Higher Education Institutions in Turkey Considering the Reflections on Media

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zühal Çubukçu ◽  
Pınar Girmen ◽  
Ayşe Dönmez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Psychological Violence ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Important Means

AbstractThe business-life related competition established in modern communities has also brought about some other problems. The attacks and intimidation attempts have introduced the term of “mobbing” which is defined as regular and continuous psychological violence faced by people always trying to produce and win from those who they work with. The term of “mobbing” has recently become a popular academic issue which has been sophisticatedly handled in relevant literature. Mobbing is defined as the act of continuous and systematic intimidation purposefully performed by either some employees or employers on some employees through emotional violence. As mobbing is considered to be significant for both corporate and employee, the starting point of this study was to investigate how mobbing acts are reflected on newspapers as they are mass communication means. One of the most important means of media is print media. Print media is the first means of media when mentioned about media. Newspapers are means through which people are always kept up to date about the latest news in civilized societies. With this regard, the most basic purpose of this study is to investigate the news about the mobbing events experienced in higher education system under the light of national policy documents and reports. The study was carried out based on a qualitative approach. The news released in print media was chosen purposefully as print media means report news in a detailed way, have an evidential value and can be read again on demand. The research group in this study consists of the mobbing news released on Hurriyet, Sabah and Zaman which are newspapers published in Turkey between the years of 2009-2013. These newspapers were purposefully chosen based on criterion sampling method. The most basic understanding underlying this sampling method is to study on all cases which meet the standards set prior to the start of the study. The newspapers mentioned above were chosen considering that they are published nationally, reference newspapers and belong to different publication groups. The data used in this study was taken from the archive of the three newspapers. When the archives of the newspapers was scanned, the word “mobbing” was taken as key word for the search. In qualitative researches, newspapers are considered to be public archive and used as reference documents. The data obtained was grouped depending on the newspapers which it was taken from, on the year of publication, on where they took place, on the gender of the victims and on who the sufferers are.

scholarly journals Zarządzanie różnorodnością w polskich przedsiębiorstwach– przegląd badań

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Barbara Grzesiak
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Business Managers ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Practical Recommendations

Aim: The aim of the paper is to present the state and possible future directions of the research on diversity management in Polish firms.Design / Research methods: The author selected 20 state-of-the-art articles in the field of diversity management in Polish firms. Analysis of these articles allowed for identifying a starting point as well as possible directions for future research in this field.Conclusions / findings: The author argues that even though scholars find the issue of diversity management important and still valid, there also exist clear gaps in the research. Some areas (e.g. management of groups diverse in terms of age or gender) are preferred, while others appear to be neglected (e.g. management of people of a different sexual orientation). Scholars clearly tend to choose a specific group and research methodology.Originality / value of the article: The author conducted a review of existing studies on diversity management in Polish companies, and presented the state and directions of possible further research. The paper could inspire others to start further and more in-depth studies on diversity; a greater number of explorations in this area may yield interesting findings from the point of view of the diversity concept. Taking into account the directions proposed by the author may contribute to enriching the theory of management diversity, as well as provide practical recommendations for business managers.

scholarly journals Spotify as a case of musical Bildung

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-113
Author(s):  
Cecilia Ferm Almqvist
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Streaming Media ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Stimulated Recall ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Streaming Service ◽  
And Function

This article explores the meaning and function of streaming media as a potential facilitator of musical Bildung. Taking the affordances of streaming media technologies as a starting point, the article thus focuses on the formative and cultivating dimensions a music streaming service such as Spotify might offer. The specific aim of this article is to describe and analyse how musical Bildung may evolve within a Spotify context from a user perspective. To address the aim from the point of view of music education, Spotify users’ activities and experiences of streaming media interactions were accessed, inspired by internet-related ethnography. Stimulated recall interviews, focusing on the participants’ experiences as well as their actual use of Spotify’s streaming service, were conducted, recorded, and transcribed. The generated material was subjected to co-operative hermeneutic content analysis. The results illuminate how Bildung evolves in users’ encounters with the service and with art mediated via Spotify. Relevant topics occurring in the human-art-technology relationship of Bildung from a Heideggerian perspective were Being-possible, the ability-to-be, and Spotify as the Other. In sum, it can be stated that Bildung evolves when Spotify exceeds the thingness of the Other, becoming a work of art in itself, throwing the user into Being.

scholarly journals Concepts, policies and actions of internationalization of Higher Education: reflections on the expertise of a North American University

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlize Rubin-Oliveira ◽  
Hamilton de Godoy Wielewicki
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Internationalization Of Higher Education ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
American University ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT This paper aims to explore - from a decolonial point of view - concepts, policies and actions of internationalization of Higher Education at the University of Georgia based on a qualitative approach with individual semi-structured interviews, observations and documental analysis addressing two research questions about: the conceptions of internationalization of Higher Education; and how internationalization policies and actions are perceived within University of Georgia. From the analysis, three substantive categories have been identified: Subject, Place and Research. Those express concepts supporting policies and actions of internationalization. Subjects can be seen as the starting point and driving force of processes of internationalization. Places are spaces inherently filled with both contradictions and possibilities, bringing together participants who count on support and means to build bridges for understanding, by acting out interdisciplinary joint efforts of research to address complex issues affecting mankind as a whole.

scholarly journals The Curricular Reform of Art Education in Primary School in Slovenia in Terms of Certain Components of the European Competence of Cultural Awareness and Expression

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Rajka Bračun Sova ◽  
Metoda Kemperl
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Curricular Reform ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
Starting Point

One of the important positions of the last curricular reform in Slovenia, which included systemic issues of education (White Paper on Education, 2011) and curricula for compulsory subjects in primary school, is the fact that Slovenia has been integrated into Europe, and thus education should also include the development of core European competences. One such competence is cultural awareness and expression, which until now has been an issue more in the context of cultural policies than school policies in Slovenia. The purpose of the present article is to critically analyse the curricular reform of art education (i.e., visual art education), through which, in terms of certain components of the competence of cultural awareness and expression, it is foreseen that the student will gain a knowledge of art, develop an ability to experience works of art and develop a creative attitude towards art and heritage.Because the starting point and goal of curricular change is the curriculum, our analysis is derived from curriculum theories, and not from the art theories and pedagogical theories that have predominantly framed previous attempts at curriculum analysis. Critical consideration of the curricular reform of art education in primary school in terms of certain components of the competence of cultural awareness and expression was undertaken by comparing curricula in the field of aesthetic education. We compared art education with music education and literature within the Slovenian language curriculum. Qualitative analysis showed that, despite the reform, the curriculum for arts education does not realise selected components of the competence of cultural awareness and expression, largely due to the curriculum’s conceptual structure. Art education is centred principally on art-making activities, with an obviousneglect of appreciation. The integration of arts subjects at school, as proposed by the White Paper, is therefore not possible, due to the existing model of art education. From a practical point of view, the analysis also raised the question of the knowledge and competences of teachers.

scholarly journals Psycholinguistic study of the attitude of French and Russian students to Internationalization in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-134
Author(s):  
Michèle Debrenne ◽  
K. S. Fomel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Reliable Method ◽  
Network Modeling ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
External Observer ◽  
Academic Mobility ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Moscow School ◽  
Internationalization In Higher Education

The article describes the first stage of the realization of a complex psycholinguistic associative experiment in French and Russian. The aim of this experiment is to identify associative fields of words describing the attitude of young people towards multiculturalism, academic mobility and internationalization of higher education in target cities – Novosibirsk and Tomsk in Siberia (Russia), Montpellier and Bordeaux in France. The associative experiment will supplement sociological and other studies and will allow us to show the respondents’ naive views on various words describing certain aspects of students’ life. Associative experiments are considered to be a reliable method to identify conscious and unconscious meanings of words. Thus, the “language consciousness of the individual” (a concept introduced by Moscow School of Psycholinguistics, describing the language of an individual or a community from a psycholinguistic point of view) becomes visible to the external observer. The analysis of the most stable and repetitive reactions of a large number of participants makes it possible to infer the collective opinion. After processing the results of the experiment, a fragment of the associative network modeling the lexicon of French and Russian students in this subject area will be obtained.

Internationalization in Higher Education in Russia: Challenges, Lessons and Prospects of Collaboration with Vietnam

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Kraevskaia
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
National Interests ◽  
International Networks ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Internationalization In Higher Education ◽  
New Strategies

The article addresses the needs of educational system in context of rapidly developing globalization and explores internationalization of higher education as one of the main factors which contributes to integration of international dimension to professional training at universities. Different components and strategies of internationalization, such as strong collaboration in teaching, internationalization of the curriculum, cooperation in researches and knowledge production, students and professors’ mobility, and participation in international networks are analyzed in connection to education reform in Russia. The article provides the comparison of internationalization policies in Russian and Vietnamese education systems, argues that innovations in higher education should be adjusted to the national interests, traditions and mentality and finally describes new strategies in collaboration of Russia and Vietnam in the field of education.  

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