Communicative Practices from the Margins: The Multilingual and Multicultural Repertoires on University Spaces

2021 ◽  
pp. 002190962110354
Author(s):  
Gabriel Simungala ◽  
Deborah Ndalama ◽  
Hambaba Jimaima
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Multicultural Students ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
University Spaces ◽  
The University ◽  
Creativity And Innovation ◽  
University Of Malawi

We draw from the meaning-making practices on the margins, the communicative repertoires of the multilingual and multicultural students at two Southern African universities: the University of Zambia in Lusaka, Zambia; and the University of Malawi in Zomba, Malawi. As our locus, we are interested in the unique linguistic/semiotic coinages which constitute the students’ linguistic repertoires as multilingual innovations amenable to placemaking. In an attempt to do this, we purposefully unearth lexical innovations which we analyse within the broader framework of translanguaging. Thus, we show the emergence of (new) lexical items through the (re-)invention and disinvention of communicative resources, and the deployment of material artefacts of place as a basis for the creativity and innovation through repurposing of lexical items for new uses. Thus, we privilege students as active manipulators of their communicative practices by showing the semiotic/linguistic creativity and innovation inherent in their repertoires.

Shock Troops and Shock Absorbers: IT Support and Emotional Labor in the Rationalizing University

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124162110176
Author(s):  
J. Lotus Seeley
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Help Desk ◽  
Shock Absorbers ◽  
It Support ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The University

Drawing on 200 hours of observation at The Help Desk, an IT Support (ITS) unit at a medical school, and interviews with 30 ITS workers from across the university, this article shows how organizational-level IT rationalization was affected at the microlevel through ITS workers’ extensive emotional labor and involvement in meaning-making projects. Successful implementation required ITS workers to function as shock troops, introducing and enforcing new policies, and shock absorbers, encouraging compliance and insulating administrators from discontent about those changes. This article contributes to inhabited institutions theories of organizational change by demonstrating the importance of service workers’ interactive and emotional labor to the coupling of institutional myth, organizational policy, and the interactions and practices of constituent members.

scholarly journals Why to build university spaces? How to discuss them? Appearance of a new lens

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aslı Alanlı
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Extreme Points ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
University Spaces ◽  
The University

Since the 1990s, the university space has been the subject of many discussions due to the introduction of communication technologies to the learning process,which has become significantly visible after the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic nowadays. These debates focus on the two extreme points ofwhether university space is necessary or not. In this regard, this research claims that the arguments on this topic are based on subject-object duality. It aims to develop a ground covering the discussions that oscillate between the two extremes by referring to sociomateriality, which advocates the interwovenness of subject and object. Adopting a retrospective perspective, itrediscovers the debates from the 1960s at the onto-epistemological levelthrough a sociomaterial lens. Finally, it situates the discussion on university space within the past-present-future dialogue.

DESAIN PEMBELAJARAN TECHNOPRENEURSHIP UNTUK MENINGKATKAN MOTIVASI BERWIRAUSAHA MAHASISWA UNISKA KEDIRI

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-89
Author(s):  
Lina Saptaria ◽  
Wawan Herry Setyawan
Keyword(s):  
Learning Technology ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Job Evaluation ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Measurement Results ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
The University ◽  
Creativity And Innovation ◽  
Learning Analysis

During the Covid 19 pandemic, entrepreneurship learning activities in universities were carried out boldly. This is a challenge for lecturers to design technology-based entrepreneurship learning that can increase student motivation in entrepreneurship. The purpose of this study was to produce a technopreneurship learning design model for UNISKA Kediri students with a scientific approach. This type of research is a development research using the 4D model consisting of: define, design, develop, and disseminate. The stages of research activities consist of: 1) problem problems, needs analysis and learning analysis; 2) scientific technopreneurship cooperation approach; 3) scientific technopreneurship business plan design; 4) products (prototypes of goods or services), 5) job evaluation. The results showed that the technopreneurship learning design was very feasible to use. From the measurement results of the three expert validators, the measurement results (p) is greater than or equal to 3.93 and less than 4 with the very valid category. The application of technopreneurship learning received a positive response from students and was able to increase the entrepreneurial motivation of UNISKA Kediri students in 2020. The development of technopreneurship learning designs still needs to be carried out through a process of creativity and innovation supported by the use of learning technology in its application. To produce a technopreneurship learning output product that has high selling value, it is necessary to interact with the university and other stakeholders such as: local government, investors, industry, business organizations, and the technopreneur community.

scholarly journals Reflections on the first twenty-five years of the University of Malawi College of Medicine

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Adamson S. Muula ◽  
Wakisa Mulwafu ◽  
Diston Chiweza ◽  
Ronald Mataya
Keyword(s):  
The University ◽  
University Of Malawi

On the 10-year anniversary of the Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade South Africa: A conversation between parade creative directors Aja Marneweck and Sudonia Kouter

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aja Marneweck
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Original Performance ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Rural Town ◽  
Puppet Theatre ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The University

2020 marks the tenth anniversary of the Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade, a large-scale, experimental annual public puppetry event and performance in a small rural town in the Klein Karoo of South Africa. This multifaceted, collaborative puppet theatre-making process, which results annually in the creation of a parade and large-scale original performance, is co-organized by Net Vir Pret (a children’s school aftercare non-profit organisation based in the town of Barrydale) and the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO) at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape (CHR@UWC). The following conversation between the author (a Theatre Research Fellow at the CHR@UWC and creative director of the parade since 2014) and Sudonia Kouter (the Net vir Pret Aftercare manager and a key artistic contributor in the parade creative and directing teams) explores some of the experiences of meaning-making that arise in such a multi-layered and ambitious project.

scholarly journals This is My Story: participatory performance for HIV and AIDS education at the University of Malawi

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 554-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Jaganath ◽  
C. Mulenga ◽  
R. M. Hoffman ◽  
J. Hamilton ◽  
G. Boneh
Keyword(s):  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
Aids Education ◽  
The University ◽  
Participatory Performance ◽  
University Of Malawi

scholarly journals Key competencies in the labour market from the perspective of higher education students

e-mentor ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Agata Matuszewska-Kubicz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Intercultural Competencies ◽  
Key Competencies ◽  
The University ◽  
Creativity And Innovation

The subject of key competencies in the labour market has been discussed in many publications and reports in recent years, presenting the point of view of researchers and employers on the issue. However, the perspective of future employees also seems to be worth discussing; hence this research covers university students currently entering the labour market. Ten competencies identified as key in the labour market are examined: problem-solving, creativity and innovation, analytical and critical thinking, active learning and teaching, interdisciplinarity, emotional intelligence, social intelligence, intercultural competencies, virtual cooperation, digital competency. The study aimed to determine the respondents’ opinions and beliefs about selected key competencies on the labour market, their willingness to develop them, and their declared level of these competencies. The survey was carried out using the quantitative method, using the CAWI technique, on a sample of 352 respondents – students of the University of Lodz. The results indicate that the students mostly share the view that the competencies indicated as being key will be expected by employers in the labour market in the next five years. Moreover, for most of the competencies being studied, they assess their current level to be high and see the need to develop them for professional purposes. Discrepancies are also indicated between the students’ self-assessment of their competencies and their employers’ assessment.

scholarly journals Defeating the Purpose of Multiculturalism: a Case of Hate on Campus

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bettencourt
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Student Newspaper ◽  
The Social ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Racialized Students ◽  
University Spaces ◽  
The University

This paper examines the student newspaper at two Toronto universities: Ryerson university and York university to uncover the manifestation of hate motivated activity on campus. The findings capture a striking contradiction between an articulated understanding of official multiculturalism in Canada and the reality of persistent and pervasive hate activity on campus. I argue that hate motivated activity impacts the social processes of exclusion for racialized students in Toronto universities. Using a social exclusion framework I examine how the nature and extent of hate motivated activity materialize as a means of constructing the ‘Other’ within university spaces. Moreover, these systems of meaning support patterns of domination and exclusion, all the while exposing the fallacy multiculturalism in Canada. In order to bring this to light, this study re-conceptualizes, contextualized and problematizes hate activity in the Canadian context, specifically in relation to the university.

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