scholarly journals Teaching and Research in Colonial Bombay

2021 ◽  
pp. 259-281
Author(s):  
John Mathew ◽  
Pushkar Sohoni

Bombay did not play the kind of administrative nodal role that first Madras and later Calcutta did in terms of overarching governance in the Indian subcontinent, occupying instead a pivotal position for the region’s commerce and industry. Nonetheless, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Bombay were a formative age for education and research in science, as in the other Presidencies. A colonial government, a large native population enrolled in the new European-style educational system, and the rise of several institutions of instruction and learning, fostered an environment of scientific curiosity. The Asiatic Society of Bombay (1804), which was initially the hub of research in all disciplines, became increasingly antiquarian and ethnographic through the course of the nineteenth century. The Victoria and Albert Museum (conceived in 1862 and built by 1871 and opened to the public in 1872), was established to carry out research on the industrial arts of the region, taking for its original collections fine and decorative arts that highlight practices and crafts of various communities in the Bombay Presidency. The University of Bombay (1857) was primarily tasked with teaching, and it was left to other establishments to conduct research. Key institutions in this regard included the Bombay Natural History Society (1883) given to local studies of plants and animals, and the Haffkine Institute (1899), which examined the role of plague that had been a dominant feature of the social cityscape from 1896. The Royal Institute of Science (1920) marked a point of departure, as it was conceived as a teaching institution but its lavish funding demanded a research agenda, especially at the post-graduate level. The Prince of Wales Museum (1922) would prove to be seminal in matters of collection and display of objects for the purpose of research. All of these institutions would shape the intellectual debates in the city concerning higher education. Typically founded by European colonial officials, they would increasingly be administered and staffed by Indians.

Author(s):  
Robert Volpicelli

The coda to this book uses modernist authors’ diverse engagements with academic institutions on the US lecture tour as an opportunity to reconsider long-standing scholarly narratives about modernist institutionalization. In particular, it argues that the academic institution is not the closed, autonomous space that critics frequently make it out to be and that modernism’s relocation into the university during the postwar period should not be seen as a retreat from the social world. After highlighting several scenes from this book that reflect an alternative perspective on modernism’s relationship with the university, the coda makes a final call for us to model our contemporary institutions on the US lecture tour’s diverse social engagements as a way of furthering recent efforts in the public humanities.


Author(s):  
Écio Portes

Estuda as trajetórias de estudantes pobres em cursos altamente seletivos da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, como Ciência da Computação, Comunicação Social, Direito, Engenharia Elétrica, Fisioterapia e Medicina. Explica o conjunto de circunstâncias que propiciaram esse sucesso escolar. Realiza esse intento investigando a história de estudantes pobres no ensino superior no século 20, nas Faculdades de Direito de Olinda/Recife e de São Paulo e a história do atendimento a estudantes pobres empreendido pela UFMG desde o momento de sua criação. Utiliza os trabalhos que lidam com trajetórias escolares, principalmente de sociólogos franceses, como Bourdieu, De Queiroz, Lahire, Laurens e Terrail, entre outros. Os resultados confirmam a existência de estudantes pobres no ensino superior desde a implantação deste, mesmo que pouco representativa; e, como conclusão, é afirmado que a inclusão e a permanência de estudantes pobres no ensino superior brasileiro são uma tarefa de difícil execução, que se deu sem a presença de ações desenvolvidas pelo Estado. No passado, esses estudantes desenvolveram estratégias próprias que se associariam, já no século 20, a estratégias filantrópicas e institucionais empreendidas no seio da própria instituição universitária, a exemplo do que vem fazendo a UFMG ao longo do tempo. Essas ações sustentaram um grupo de estudantes pobres no interior da universidade pública, mas não puseram fim às discriminações sofridas nem minimizaram os constrangimentos econômicos perpetuados historicamente e pelos quais outros vêm passando no cotidiano universitário. Palavras-chave: sociologia da educação; trajetórias escolares; estudantes pobres; ensino superior. Abstract This work gives priority to the historic and theoretical search necessary to the understanding of the object of study, the social and school trajectories of poor students, in the past and in the present. The new data and the proposed analyses lead us to believe that the fact of poor students being included in the Brazilian higher education and remaining at the University is not an easy task and took place without any government policies. In former times, these students developed their own strategies, which became associated, in the twentieth century, to institutional strategies, organised inside the University itself, following the example of what UFMG has been doing all this time. These actions supported a group of poor students in the public University but did not hinder prejudice nor diminished economical embarrassments, which they historically have been going through in their university routine. Keywords: sociology of education; school trajectories; university life; poor students; higher education.


Author(s):  
Richard Hall ◽  
Bernd Stahl

This paper investigates how four specific emergent technologies, namely affective computing, augmented reality, cloud-based systems, and human machine symbiosis, demonstrate how technological innovation nurtured inside the University is commodified and fetishised under cognitive capitalism or immaterial labour, and how it thereby further enables capital to reproduce itself across the social factory. Marx’s critique of technologies, through their connection to nature, production, social relations and mental conceptions, and in direct relation to the labour process, demonstrates how capital utilises emergent technologies to incorporate labour further into its self-valorisation process as labour-power. The University life-world that includes research and development is a critical domain in which to site Marx's structural technological critique, and it is argued that this enables a critique of the public development and deployment of these technologies to reveal them as a fetishised force of production, in order to re-politicise activity between students, teachers and the public.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 764-764
Author(s):  
Donald C. Smith

Nineteen hundred and sixty-eight was a vintage year for student activists. Conflicts between students and faculty were the rule rather than the exception. When they occurred in medical schools they frequently focused on the teaching of the social and preventive aspects of medicine. Such was the case at the University of Michigan, where "frustration with the public health course" led students into an open confrontation with the School of Public Health. In the discussions which followed, a number of changes were agreed upon.


1963 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-532
Author(s):  
James S. Coleman

The African Studies Center at U.C.L.A. was established in June 1959, with the following objects: to bring together scholars from all of the social sciences, the humanities, education, law, and linguistics; to provide a framework for interdisciplinary collaboration and communication; to promote the organisation and development of undergraduate and graduate teaching programmes; and to further research on African subjects by both staff and students. It also serves to provide liaison with other institutes, centres, and associations in the same field, and works to improve the University's resources of Africana. In addition to its academic and professional functions, the Center furthers interest in Africa among the University community and the public at large.


2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-287
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Dziedziczak-Foltyn

While referring to Agata Zysiak’s book Punkty za pochodzenie. Powojenna modernizacja i uniwersytet w robotniczym mieście [Points for Class Origin: Post-War Modernization and the University in a Working-Class City] (2016) the author’s intention is to provide an independent voice in the debate on plans to modernize the institution of the university, both in PPR times and at present. She describes the role of the university in Poland’s ideologically created socio-economic modernization. Both the communist and post-transformation reforms of the social system can be treated as being defined by the modernization imperative and a similarly legitimated attempt to overcome backwardness. The following points are raised: (1) the significance of the institution of higher learning in the modernization of the country; (2) the vision of a higher-learning institution guiding two outstanding academics of those times; (3) the university in the public discourse of the communist era; (4) the career paths of the recipients of university educations, that is, the students and graduates of the socialist university; (5) and the career paths of academics in the Polish People’s Republic. Consideration of these questions through the communist and capitalist prisms of modernization changes in Poland makes it possible to advance theses about the function of a higher-learning institution, regardless of the dominant political system.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 466
Author(s):  
Juliana Pereira de Araújo ◽  
Paulo Rogério dos Santos

Neste artigo socializamos os resultados de uma pesquisa que tomou como objeto a Ludoteca do Curso de Educação Física na Universidade Federal de Goiás - Regional Catalão (UFG/RC). A intenção foi compreendê-la a partir da tríplice visão de espaço de Henri Lefebvre (concebido, percebido e vivido). O percurso metodológico baseou-se na realização de uma pesquisa documental nos arquivos da Ludoteca e de entrevistas narrativas com duas ludotecárias, a quem chamamos de Ana e de Bia, e com a coordenadora, que denominamos Lua. Os dados foram analisados por meio da análise de conteúdo (BARDIN, 1997) e os resultados nos permitem compreender que os sentidos produzidos sobre a Ludoteca UFG possibilitam reconhecê-la como espaço que traz, na dimensão do concebido, marcas da universidade que a acolhe como política de extensão, mas que introjetam nela as possibilidades próprias do ensino e da pesquisa, enriquecendo-a e tornando-a espaço de formação. Pela dimensão do percebido o espaço da Ludoteca tem como marcas a coletividade, a partilha e a produção de subjetividades que transitam e exploram a reprodução do espaço social pela via da transmissão da cultura lúdica, das tradições e do repertório da infância quanto à produção do espaço que tem na transgressão, nas táticas e nas artes de fazer a chance de criação de novos roteiros de pessoa e de sociedade. Pela dimensão do vivido ela se estabelece como laboratório vivo, complexo, que tem em sua gênese a formação pela presença, pela memória, pela partilha e pela ludicidade que, incorporando os valores da universidade pública, alargam o entendimento da Ludoteca para muito além de ser meramente um “lugar em que criança brinca”.Palavras-chave: ludoteca universitária; espaço; educação.LOOKS ABOUT UNIVERSITY LODOTECA UFG/RC: more than where children place to playAbstractIn this article we socialized the results of a research that took place as a discipline of the Physical Education Course at the Federal University of Goias - Catalão. The intention was to understand from the vision of space of Henri Lefebvre (conceived, perceived and lived). The methodological course was based on the accomplishment of a documentary research in the archives of the Ludoteca and the accomplishment of narrative interviews with the playroom workers and the coordinator. The data were analyzed through content analysis (BARDIN, 1997) and the results allow us to perceive the senses produced on the UFG Playroom as a space that brings, in the dimension of the conceived, marks of the university that welcomes it as a extension policy, but which introduce in it the possibilities of teaching and research, enriching it and making it a space for formation. By the dimension of the perceived the space of the playroom has as collective marks the collective, the sharing and the production of subjectivities that transit and explore the reproduction of the social space by means of the transmission of the ludic culture, the traditions and the repertory of the childhood as the production of the space that has in the transgression, tactics and arts to make the chance to create new scripts of person and society. By the dimension of the lived it establishes itself as a living, complex laboratory that has in its genesis the formation by the presence, memory, sharing and playfulness that incorporating the values of the public university extend the understanding of the Labyrinth much more than merely being a "place in what a child plays. "Keywords: playroom; space; education.MIRADAS SOBRE LA LUDOTECA UNIVERSITARIA UFG \ RG: más que un lugar donde juegan los niñosResumenEn este artículo socializamos los resultados de una investigación que tomó como objeto la Ludoteca del Curso de Educación Física en la Universidad Federal de Goiás-Regional Catalán. La intención fue de comprenderla a partir de la triple visión de espacio de Henri Lefebvre (concebido, percibido y vivido). El recorrido metodológico se basó en la realización de una investigación documental en los archivos de la Ludoteca y en la realización de entrevistas narrativas con 02 ludotecas y la coordinadora. Los datos fueron analizados por medio del análisis de contenido (BARDIN, 1997) y los resultados nos permiten que los sentidos producidos sobre la Ludoteca UFG posibilitan reconocerla como espacio que trae, en la dimensión del concebido, marcas de la universidad que la acoge como política de extensión, pero que, introducen en ella las posibilidades propias de la enseñanza y de la investigación enriqueciéndola y haciéndola espacio de formación. Por la dimensión de lo percibido el espacio de la Ludoteca tiene como marcas la colectividad, el compartir y la producción de subjetividades que transitan y exploran la reproducción del espacio social por la vía de la transmisión de la cultura lúdica, de las tradiciones y del repertorio de la niñez en cuanto a la producción del espacio que tiene en la transgresión, en las tácticas y artes de hacer la oportunidad de crear nuevos itinerarios de persona y sociedad. Por la dimensión de lo vivido se establece como un laboratorio vivo, complejo, que tiene en su génesis la formación por la presencia, memoria, compartir y ludicidad que incorporando los valores de la universidad pública amplían el entendimiento de la Ludoteca para mucho más allá de ser meramente un "lugar en que niño juega ".Palabras clave: ludoteca universitaria; Espacio; educación.


1969 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 558-570
Author(s):  
Thomas Cottle

Focussing on the estranged reaction of individuals to scholarly writings about their ethnic groups, Thomas Cottle explores a network of political implications surrounding publishing in the social sciences. This network extends from published content through the act of publishing itself. He describes the interactions of political motives, conceptions of the university, communication media, and the public to convey a sense of the political ramifications of publishing in the social sciences.


2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Monika Mularska‑Kucharek

The important factors, both economic and non‑economic ones, responsible for creating and strengthening entrepreneurial attitudes include those of a social nature. The article aims at exploring the social determinants of entrepreneurial attitudes including socio‑demographic variables, and the ones associated with socialization, which are important mechanisms conditioning entrepreneurship. The paper assesses the potential of entrepreneurial attitudes among Poles. The empirical basis of the presented analysis is the nationwide survey carried out by the Public Opinion Research Center on behalf of the University of Lodz as part of the grant entitled “Entrepreneurship of Poles – social and spatial aspect”.


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