The Other Danger... Scholasticism in Academic Research

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-419
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. Mead
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
The Other

Pesquisas sobre Currículos e Culturas: tensões, movimentos e criações

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Patrícia Silva
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Art Music ◽  
The Other ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Teacher Training Programs ◽  
Do It Yourself

The book Research on Curricula and Cultures: tensions, movements and creations, organized by Marlucy Alves Paraíso and Maria Patrícia Silva, it consists of 17 chapters, one of which is an interesting work by a Canadian scholar who investigates state anti-feminism. The other chapters bring results from 16 researches developed by researchers from the Study and Research Group on Curricula and Cultures (GECC), created and coordinated by Marlucy Alves Paraíso, which has researchers from several Brazilian universities and states. The articles in the book combine the post-critical perspectives used to investigate curricula and cultures in their different nuances, addressing silences, power relations, modes of subjectivation and the movements that prevent their fixity. The book brings research results that discuss the possibilities of creating possibilities at school and in other cultural spaces that also have curricula and develop pedagogies, such as: cyberspace, city, health care programs, teacher training programs, educational policies, etc. In addition, curricula are investigated with emphasis on different practices and aspects: childhood, art, music, dance, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, corporality, politics, with research that also innovates methodologically when operating with openings, experiments, do-it-yourself and compositions in different ways. to research curricula without rigidity, although with the necessary rigor in academic research. O livro reconhece de diferentes modos as possibilidades de conexões entre currículos e culturas, e mostra movimentos capazes de operar transgressões apostando em uma cultura porvir.

Practitioner Envy and Construction of the Other in Public Administration

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 1403-1423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad A. Nisar
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Academic Identity ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Authentic Identity

This article focuses on the personal dimension of the identity crisis in public administration and its impact on academic research. Devoid of a socially recognizable secure academic identity, practitioner represents the closest to an authentic identity for the public administration researcher. This identification with the practitioner comes at a price and leads to the treatment of “public” as the Other in public administration research. Drawing insights from Said’s treatment of the concept of the Other, various dimensions of the discourses of power and knowledge in public administration which lead to categorization of the public as the Other are discussed.

scholarly journals Mark Blaug's unrealistic crusade for realistic economics

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uskali Mäki
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Economic Modelling ◽  
Trade Off

Mark Blaug's normative methodology of economics is an attempt to articulate certain intuitions about how economic science could be improved by making it more "realistic". I discuss two such articulations, one in terms of falsificationist principles, the other in terms of an alleged trade-off between relevance and mathematical rigour. My conclusion is that Blaug's methodology is itself unrealistic, both descriptively and normatively. His (well intended) methodological prescriptions for the improvement of economics are not based on a systematic, consistent, descriptively adequate, and normatively viable account. I suggest that Blaug's intuitions can be developed into a more realistic account by incorporating the analysis of two further topics: economic modelling and the institutions of academic research.

scholarly journals A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel K. Staffa ◽  
Maraja Riechers ◽  
Berta Martín-López
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Sustainability Science ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Academic Cultures ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge ◽  
Taking Care

AbstractTransdisciplinary Sustainability Science has emerged as a viable answer to current sustainability crises with the aim to strengthen collaborative knowledge production. To expand its transformative potential, we argue that Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science needs to thoroughly engage with questions of unequal power relations and hierarchical scientific constructs. Drawing on the work of the feminist philosopher María Puig de la Bellacasa, we examine a feminist ethos of care which might provide useful guidance for sustainability researchers who are interested in generating critical-emancipatory knowledge. A feminist ethos of care is constituted by three interrelated modes of knowledge production: (1) thinking-with, (2) dissenting-within and (3) thinking-for. These modes of thinking and knowing enrich knowledge co-production in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science by (i) embracing relational ontologies, (ii) relating to the ‘other than human’, (iii) cultivating caring academic cultures, (iv) taking care of non-academic research partners, (v) engaging with conflict and difference, (vi) interrogating positionalities and power relations through reflexivity, (vii) building upon marginalised knowledges via feminist standpoints and (viii) countering epistemic violence within and beyond academia. With our paper, we aim to make a specific feminist contribution to the field of Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science and emphasise its potentials to advance this field.

scholarly journals Academics at play: Why the “publication game” is more than a metaphor

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 414-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Butler ◽  
Sverre Spoelstra
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Career Goals ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Critical Management ◽  
The University ◽  
Meaningful Research

It is increasingly common to describe academic research as a “publication game,” a metaphor that connotes instrumental strategies for publishing in highly rated journals. However, we suggest that the use of this metaphor is problematic. In particular, the metaphor allows scholars to make a convenient, but ultimately misleading, distinction between figurative game-playing on one hand (i.e. pursuing external career goals through instrumental publishing) and proper research on the other hand (i.e. producing intrinsically meaningful research). In other words, the “publication game” implies that while academic researchers may behave just like players, they are not really playing a game. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, we show that this metaphor prevents us, ironically, from fully grasping the lusory attitude, or play-mentality, that characterizes academic work among critical management researchers. Ultimately, we seek to stimulate reflection about how our choice of metaphor can have performative effects in the university and influence our behavior in unforeseen and potentially undesirable ways.

Difficult decisions: Choosing a practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 448-451
Author(s):  
Kathryn Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Skills Assessment ◽  
Clinical Skills Assessment ◽  
Overseas Teaching ◽  
The Right

With the Clinical Skills Assessment successfully completed, focus shifts to the completion of training and starting work as an independent GP; it is both an exciting and unnerving time. The myriad of opportunities open to newly qualified GPs is one of the specialty’s strengths, offering scope for personal and professional development. Opportunities can be diverse and include working overseas, teaching, developing a special interest, pursuing academic research, media roles, working with the RCGP, and many more. Most of these roles can be undertaken alongside clinical practice as part of a portfolio career, each complementing and enhancing the other. Whether pursuing wider opportunities, or gaining more experience in clinical practice, choosing the right practice with like-minded colleagues in the early stages of your career can be a difficult, daunting prospect. This article aims to offer guidance for those searching for the right practice.

scholarly journals Professional English Communication for Engineers in Nepal

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Santosh Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Modern Context

This article is focused on the nature, needs and problems of the professional communications of the engineers in Nepal. It includes a number of significant aspects of the engineering professional communication with the use of English language. The study is an outcome of a survey of several aspects of the engineering profession, study of several relevant literature and the contact to a number of experts associated with the field of professional communication. The researchers in the field of professional communication require being more and more specific according to the changing specific needs of the professionals in the modern context today. It is necessary to pinpoint the nature of engineering professional skills, in order to save the time and other resources, if they are not properly utilized to achieve the set goals. The researchers in the past along with the students over here, are aware of the necessity of making more and more researches in the field of professional communication of the engineers in order to minimize the communicative problems of the engineers on one hand and to show a proper and adequate specific path in the areas of teaching and learning the specific skills of communication on the other. The sole purpose of the present research article is to indicate a number of measures to be applied to better the communicative situations of the engineers both during their study and at work. Hence a number of tentative suggestions and recommendations have been drawn following the conclusion of the article.Journal of Advanced Academic Research Vol. 3, No. 2, 2016, page: 14-21

Sentiment Predictions Using Deep Belief Networks Model for Odd-Even Policy in Delhi

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudhir Kumar Sharma ◽  
Ximi Hoque ◽  
Pravin Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Belief Networks ◽  
Deep Belief Networks ◽  
Preference Model ◽  
Structured Information ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Programming Interfaces

This paper analyzes the odd-even policy in Delhi using tweets posted on Twitter from December 2015 to August 2016. Twitter is a social network where users post their feelings, opinions and sentiments for any event. This paper transforms the unstructured tweets into structured information using open source libraries. Further objective is to build a model using Deep Belief Networks classification (DBN) to classify unseen tweets on the same context. This paper collects tweets on this event under six hashtags. This study explores three freely available resources / Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for labeling of tweets for academic research. This paper proposes three sentiment prediction models using the sentiment predictions provided by three APIs. DBN classifier is used to build six models. The performances of these six models are evaluated through standard evaluation metrics. The experimental results reveal that the TextBlob API and proposed Preference Model outperformed than the other four sentiment prediction models.

Information Security Governance in Large Organizations

2019 ◽  
pp. 316-348
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Information Security Management ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
Capability Maturity ◽  
Human Aspects ◽  
Information Security Governance ◽  
Practical Model

There is a dearth of academic research literature on the practices and commitments of information security governance in organizations. Despite the existence of referential and standards of the security governance, the research literature remains limited regarding the practices of organizations and, on the other hand, the lack of a strategy and practical model to follow in adopting an effective information security governance. This chapter aims to discuss the information security governance and to address the weaknesses identified in the literature. Based on practices of information security management and governance, the authors propose ISGO, a practical maturity framework for the information security governance and management in organizations. The findings will help organizations to assess their capability maturity state and to address the procedural, technical, and human aspects of information security governance and management process.

Sentiment Predictions Using Deep Belief Networks Model for Odd-Even Policy in Delhi

2020 ◽  
pp. 1440-1463
Author(s):  
Sudhir Kumar Sharma ◽  
Ximi Hoque ◽  
Pravin Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Belief Networks ◽  
Deep Belief Networks ◽  
Preference Model ◽  
Structured Information ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Programming Interfaces

This paper analyzes the odd-even policy in Delhi using tweets posted on Twitter from December 2015 to August 2016. Twitter is a social network where users post their feelings, opinions and sentiments for any event. This paper transforms the unstructured tweets into structured information using open source libraries. Further objective is to build a model using Deep Belief Networks classification (DBN) to classify unseen tweets on the same context. This paper collects tweets on this event under six hashtags. This study explores three freely available resources / Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for labeling of tweets for academic research. This paper proposes three sentiment prediction models using the sentiment predictions provided by three APIs. DBN classifier is used to build six models. The performances of these six models are evaluated through standard evaluation metrics. The experimental results reveal that the TextBlob API and proposed Preference Model outperformed than the other four sentiment prediction models.

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