Becoming Archaeologist

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-57
Author(s):  
Hannah Cobb ◽  
Karina Croucher
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
Social Pressures ◽  
Marketization Of Higher Education ◽  
Multiple Environments ◽  
Student Identities ◽  
Structure Debate

Throughout this volume are a series of semi-fictional assemblages of learning as a means to illustrate the nuances of the arguments made. These merge the experiences of authors, students, and others who have shared their many learning and life assemblages with us. In turn, the semi-fictional accounts both structure debate and illuminate the learning assemblages that pervade archaeological practice. In Chapter 3, Student X is introduced. Their experience highlights the financial and social pressures of completing a degree, and introduces the challenges they face in their multiple environments, partly as a consequence of the marketization of higher education and broader neoliberal agendas. Chapter 3 also begins to introduce the diversity of student identities through accounts of their daily experiences.

scholarly journals A latent profile analysis of first-year university students’ academic expectations

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra M. Araújo ◽  
Cristiano Mauro Assis Gomes ◽  
Leandro S. Almeida ◽  
Jose Carlos Núñez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Latent Profile Analysis ◽  
Profile Analysis ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
First Year ◽  
Academic Expectations ◽  
Social Pressures ◽  
Latent Profile

Academic expectations are an important variable in the explanation of adaptation and academic success in higher education. This paper uses latent profile analysis as a person-centered statistical approach to classify students into groups of similar types of expectations for higher education, at the beginning of the first year in university. Participants were 2,478 first-year Portuguese students. Based on the scores of seven dimensions of expectations, we identified six classes of students. Most students (84%) presented moderate levels of expectations, while 8% and 4%, respectively, reported very high and low expectations. One class represented a group of students (4%) with high expectations for the quality of education and for political engagement and citizenship and lower expectations for social interaction and attending to social pressures. Male and older students showed more positive expectations. Students from privileged family backgrounds are more likely to present higher expectations for political engagement and citizenship experiences, and lower expectations for social interaction and leisure and attending to social pressures. Keywords: latent profile analysis; person-centered; expectations; higher education; first-year students

scholarly journals Links Between Finance and University Organization: Comparative Analysis Spanish University

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Sara Fernández López
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
Marketization Of Higher Education ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
Higher Education Organizations ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Market Strategies

Over the last two decades serious problems have arisen in the modus operandi of higher education institutions. Some national governments are trying to solve them through policies to introduce or further promote market strategies in the management of the higher education organizations. The outcomes of these measures are not known yet but it seems that the marketization of higher education is inevitable. Spanish universities are not an exception in this process although it has been slow in comparison with other institutions in Europe; during the 1990s funding through contract-programs or quality evaluation was introduced in order to promote the move towards a better covering of societal needs. In December, 2001, the Organic Law for the Universities was enacted with the explicit purpose of enhancing institutional differences and the consequent competition among institutions. This article discusses the degree of marketization of Spanish universities and compares such processes with the changes occurring in the Netherlands. For this comparison economic policies and universities? degrees of autonomy are specially considered.

scholarly journals Academic Freedom: A Realistic Appraisal

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Altbach
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Almost Everywhere ◽  
Marketization Of Higher Education ◽  
Realistic Appraisal

Problems concerning academic freedom exist almost everywhere—created by changing academic realities, political pressures, growing commercialization and marketization of higher education, or legal pressures. The purpose of this article is to argue that academic freedom needs to be carefully defined so that it can be defended in the global climate of complexity. A new, and probably more delimited, understanding of academic freedom is needed in the age of the Internet and the global knowledge economy.

scholarly journals The Marketization of Higher Education Discourse: A Genre Analysis of University Website Homepages in China

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tongtong ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
Conversational Discourse ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Education Market ◽  
Marketization Of Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Market ◽  
Education Discourse

The past three decades have witnessed the growing influence of market forces on higher education, resulting in what is defined by Fairclough (1993) as the marketization of academic discourse. The present study attempts to examine the effect of such trend on university website homepages in China, which is an under-researched genre of higher education discourse. By applying the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and genre analytical approach, this article describes the generic characteristics of the “About Us” section in five university website homepages, analyzing the structural organization, rhetorical moves, communicative purposes as well as the discursive strategies used in the text. Research shows that authoritative discourse forms the key note in this genre, a reflection of the centralized operation of Chinese universities. Meanwhile, the existence of conversational discourse reveals the university’s endeavor to establish a friendly relationship with the prospective students. Furthermore, promotional elements in terms of both contents and linguistic choices have been employed to help construct a positive image of universities to stand out in the stiff competition in today’s higher education market in China.

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