Rites of Passage Among Women Reentering Higher Education

1992 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy P. Redding ◽  
William D. Dowling
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Women Students ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Reentry Women ◽  
Home Environments ◽  
Midwestern University

The purpose of this article is to review the rites of passage concept; to describe the rites developing among reentry women in both university and home environments; and, finally, to discuss the purposes of and necessity for such rites. Nineteen adult women students were interviewed in depth on the campus of a major midwestern university. Analysis of the data indicates that reentry women and their families are fashioning rites of passage peculiar to their return to higher education in quest of a degree. These rituals facilitate the transition, offer approval, and mark progress during the passage from non-degreed to degreed status. Spontaneous development of ceremonies suggests there are some needs specific to women who are simultaneously student, wife, and mother that are not being met by traditional university rituals and familial practices.

scholarly journals Rites of Passage or Exploitation? Teaching Social Anthropology, Class Relations and Institutional Change in Two British Universities

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gibb
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Social Fields

In this paper I discuss my experience of teaching and researching in two different British universities in the late 1990s in order to develop a number of arguments about the place of teaching in the making and un-making of professional / academic anthropologists. Not all of the issues I raise, however, can be formulated as questions of ‘boundaries’ or ‘identities’ (in the way the title and rubric of this panel suggest [2] ), although for some of them this is indeed appropriate. Thus, while it is true that the nature of disciplinary borders and identities emerge as key concerns, my material also draws attention to contemporary employment and managerial practices in higher education, as well as to the reproduction of various forms of social division (notably along class lines). As the rubric of this panel recognises, it is in fact the re-organisation of sets of hierarchical social relations characterised by domination and exploitation which often lies behind current changes in higher education (as in other social fields). In my view, the boundary concept is not the most useful tool with which to analyse such processes, and in particular the power relations and structural inequalities involved. For this reason, I will refer instead to social divisions and status hierarchies in the section of the paper that deals with these wider issues.

scholarly journals Stressors and coping mechanisms of older adults teaching in higher education institutions in Manila

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-58
Author(s):  
Elmer G. De Jose
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Correlation Method ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
And Coping

This study explored the stressors and coping mechanisms of older adults, 60 years old and over, who teach in three state higher education institutions in Manila, Philippines. Descriptive correlation method of research was employed. One hundred eighty-eight were randomly selected from the roster of 356 target participants. The Older Adults Life Stress Inventory was used to identify the severity of stressors as experienced by the respondent senior professionals for the past 3 years along the areas of physical, health, social, family, occupational and financial domains. The Coping Strategy Inventory Short Form 32 was used to determine typical coping strategies that involve problem-solving, cognitive restructuring, express emotions and social contact. Tests of correlation, however, revealed that all the six stressors areas have a significant positive correlation with problem avoidance, wishful thinking, self-criticism and social withdrawal (p < 0.01). Multiple regression analyses disclosed that older adult men have a greater preponderance to experience stressors than older adult women   Keywords: Older adult professionals, stressors, coping mechanisms, physical-related stressors, health-related stressors, social-related stressors, family-related stressors, occupational stressors, financial stressors.

The Education of Electra

Ladies' Greek ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yopie Prins
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Students ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Smith College ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
Education Of Women ◽  
Dramatic Presentation

This chapter examines the spectacle of female classical literacy by focusing on two historic productions of Sophocles's tragedy Electra, staged in ancient Greek by the first generation of women students at Girton College in 1883 and at Smith College in 1889. It analyzes these women's performance of ancient Greek in relation to nineteenth-century debates about the higher education of women, and how they drew on a tradition of classical posing, to “transpose” the text into the visual and auditory languages associated with Delsartean performance practices. Their dramatic presentation depended on these alternative modes of translation as well as the subsequent re-presentation of the spectacle in various written accounts. The chapter considers how the cast of Electra was trained for a highly stylized performance, embodying the Sophoclean text in and for a collective student body that sought to commemorate itself through the ritual of mourning.

The Changing Roles of Faculty and Students when Mobile Devices Enter the Higher Education Classroom

2013 ◽  
pp. 238-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Franklin ◽  
Yanyan Sun ◽  
Nick Yinger ◽  
Jeffrey Anderson ◽  
Eugene Geist
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Tablet Devices ◽  
Business College ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Changing Roles

Mobile devices pose a challenge for most faculty members in higher education as they view the device as disruptive and in competition with the work to be completed in the classroom. The goal of this chapter is to examine the implementation of HTC tablet devices and the changing roles of the faculty instructor and learners when using this device in an undergraduate business management course in a business college and a graduate course in early childhood in a college of education in a large Midwestern university. The chapter describes the classroom setting, instructor and student perspectives of the implementation, and the use of the tablet both in class and out of class as well as the barriers associated with tablet use when embedded in a higher education course.

Are They Worth It?

2021 ◽  
pp. 140-161
Author(s):  
Jamie Els ◽  
Erica Jansen ◽  
Stacey L. Kikendall ◽  
Amber Dailey-Hebert
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Development ◽  
Faculty Perceptions ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
First Year ◽  
Digital Badges ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Faculty Input ◽  
Development Center ◽  
Digital Badging

Since 2011, the trend of digital badging has continued to rise among various organizations, including higher education. After gathering faculty feedback, input, ideas, and perspectives on structure and implementation, the faculty development center at a Midwestern university launched a university-wide digital badging program. The intent was to incorporate faculty input into the design of digital badges to gain faculty engagement. After the first year of implementation, a survey of faculty perceptions on digital badging received unanticipated results. Emerging themes from this survey indicate that faculty are hesitant towards digital badging; however, participant responses also suggest that faculty uncertainty of the digital badging program is connected to the communication process. Recommendations are presented to support the needs of faculty perceptions of a digital badging program.

Ascertaining the Interest of Women to Drive Innovation Through Entrepreneurship Post-Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 341-363
Author(s):  
Sriya Chakravarti
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Women Students ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
The Future ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Our prosperity and sustainability in the future depends on the ability to innovate. Therefore, innovation needs to be embedded in all sections of an economy. A research study took place in a higher education setting of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on offering an entrepreneurship major to local women students. The aim was to explore the interest and views of these Generation Z students on driving innovation and entrepreneurship in the country through building homegrown companies. This research is highly relevant as the society re-imagines itself post pandemic. The findings from the research may be useful to members of academia, professionals related to this sector, and policy makers of nations. They may use the information to design suitable academic programs for women that may help drive entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability for every strata of the society in the post-COVID-19 era.

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