What kind of job is fundraising?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Breeze
Keyword(s):  
Creative Class ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Internal Motivation ◽  
Extended Study ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The Status

Chapter 6 draws together the findings of the previous chapters to explore the status of fundraising work: is it a profession, a job, a calling or a vocation? This chapter begins by reviewing the debate on professionalism, exploring the different ways this concept is defined and why professional status matters, before discussing claims for and against counting fundraising as a profession. In the absence of defining traits of a profession (such as a verifiable, agreed body of knowledge and formal qualifications after extended study), and the absence of a public consensus that the value and caliber of fundraising expertise deserves the status of a profession, it is suggested that fundraising is instead best understood as a ‘creative profession’. As contemporary fundraising involves a combination of creative innovation and managerial skills, and as fundraisers possess many of the traits commonly found in the creative class such as passion, openness, ability to synthesise, non-conformity and internal motivation, it is argued that fundraisers can accurately be described as a type of creative professional.

Profession

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kellerman
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
The Public ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Extended Training ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
The Status ◽  
Criteria For Evaluation ◽  
Extended Education

The chapter explores how a profession is different from an occupation and how an area of human endeavor evolves from an occupation to a profession. More particularly, it asks why the effort to make management a profession was unsuccessful and how medicine and law made the successful transition from simple practices to complex professions. The professionalization of medicine and law is tracked in some detail, generating conclusions about how professional status is achieved. These include generally accepted body of knowledge; extended education; extended training; clear criteria for evaluation; clear criteria for certification; clear demarcation between those within the profession and those without; explicit commitment to the public interest; explicit commitment to a code of ethics; and a professional association with the power and authority to monitor the status of the profession and the conduct of its members. Leadership, it is noted, fails to meet every one of these criteria.

State contestations in constructions of 1Malaysia

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-65
Author(s):  
Mary Varghese ◽  
Kamila Ghazali
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Public ◽  
Malaysian Population ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article seeks to contribute to the existing body of knowledge about the relationship between political discourse and national identity. 1Malaysia, introduced in 2009 by Malaysia’s then newly appointed 6th Prime Minister Najib Razak, was greeted with expectation and concern by various segments of the Malaysian population. For some, it signalled a new inclusiveness that was to change the discourse on belonging. For others, it raised concerns about changes to the status quo of ethnic issues. Given the varying responses of society to the concept of 1Malaysia, an examination of different texts through the critical paradigm of CDA provide useful insights into how the public sphere has attempted to construct this notion. Therefore, this paper critically examines the Prime Minister’s early speeches as well as relevant chapters of the socioeconomic agenda, the 10th Malaysia Plan, to identify the referential and predicational strategies employed in characterising 1Malaysia. The findings suggest a notion of unity that appears to address varying issues.

Philosophers and Physicians on the Scientific Validity of Latin Physiognomy, 1200-1500

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Scientific Validity ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Rational Explanation ◽  
The Status ◽  
Jean Buridan ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
Sound Theoretical Basis

AbstractThe article surveys and contextualizes the main arguments among philosophers and academic physicians surrounding the status of physiognomy as a valid science from the thirteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. It suggests that despite constant doubts, learned Latin physiognomy in the later Middle Ages was recognized by natural philosophers (William of Spain, Jean Buridan, William of Mirica) and academic physicians (Rolandus Scriptor, Michele Savonarola, Bartolomeo della Rocca [Cocles]) as a body of knowledge rooted in a sound theoretical basis. Physiognomy was characterized by stability and certainty. As a demonstrative science it was expected to provide rational explanation for every bodily sign. In this respect, learned physiognomy in the Middle Ages was dramatically different from its classical sources, from Islamic and possibly from early-modern physiognomy as well.

scholarly journals Adapted Physical Activity Professionals in Rehabilitation: An Explorative Study in the Norwegian Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 458-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Øyvind F. Standal ◽  
Tor Erik H. Nyquist ◽  
Hanne H. Mong
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Adapted Physical Activity ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Work Tasks ◽  
The Status ◽  
Specialist Health Care

Adapted physical activity (APA) is characterized by a strong orientation to professional practice. Currently, there exists limited empirical research about the professional status of APA in the context of rehabilitation. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to describe and understand the professional status, role, and work tasks of APA specialists in Norway. For the purpose of the study, the authors conducted group interviews with APA specialists and individual interviews with unit leaders at six rehabilitation institutions in the national specialist health care services. The results highlight the content of the work tasks, the roles in the cross-professional teams, the status in the institutions, and what the participants perceive to be the knowledge base for their profession. Although these results may be specific to the Norwegian context, the authors also discuss possible implications of their findings for APA in an international perspective.

Mindset and Social Entrepreneurship: Japanese Self-initiated Expatriate Entrepreneurs in Cambodia

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuko Yokoyama ◽  
Sarah Louisa Birchley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Extended Study ◽  
The Status ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Context Characteristics ◽  
Initial Research

This research is based on an extended study of Japanese self-initiated expatriate entrepreneurs (SIEEs) in Asia. Since 2015 the authors have explored various factors that influence SIEEs when setting up enterprises overseas, including the ability to take initiative; support and encouragement from family, a well-defined career anchor and exposure to overseas in the exploration stage of one’s career. An emerging trend is the desire to engage in social development activities, which has seen increasing numbers of Japanese leave well-paid companies at home to work in NGOs in developing countries. An extension of this can be seen in Japanese who choose to become self-initiated expatriate social entrepreneurs. This article focuses specifically on cases collected in Cambodia and attempts to explain how and why Japanese decide to become self-initiated expatriate social entrepreneurs in Cambodia using the concept of mindsets; entrepreneurial, social, sustainable and global. Initial research shows that some of these individuals exemplify the definition of sustainable entrepreneurship as they are creative and question the status quo in order to seek new opportunities for societal improvement ( Bornstein, 2007 ) and have multiple mindsets behind their actions. This research paper shares the context, characteristics, and outcomes of Japanese self-initiated expatriate social entrepreneurs in Cambodia and concludes by suggesting how knowledge of these SIEEs can be used in higher education contexts in Japan to improve entrepreneurship education.

How teachers view their own professional status: A snapshot

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (6) ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
Emma García ◽  
Elaine Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Work Environments ◽  
Professional Support ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
The Status

The question of whether teaching is a profession, with all the status and responsibilities that entails, is not as settled as some believe. Emma García and Elaine Weiss look at the requirements and characteristics of a profession and examine data from teachers and find that teaching, as currently experienced by teachers, does not measure up to the traits of a profession, though it would merit the status,. Although teaching has credentialing requirements, many teachers lack the credentials associated with effectiveness. In addition, teachers do not receive the professional support needed to grow professionally, and they lack the societal respect and influence other professions enjoy. Teachers also receive lower pay than their peers, and many experience emotionally and physically damaging work environments.

Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 965-966
Author(s):  
Roger Epp
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Creative Class ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Commodity Trade ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Status ◽  
Civil Commons

Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization, Jennifer Sumner, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, pp. viii, 179.As we are continually reminded, Canada is now an overwhelmingly urban country. Mythic vastness notwithstanding, most of its people and certainly its mobile “creative class,” presumed driver of the knowledge economy, live in major cities, whose policy requirements have captured a good deal of national attention in the past decade. By contrast, rural Canada has been reduced to the status of the space in-between. Its resource-based communities and livelihoods—farming, fishing, forestry—live with the downward price pressures of global commodity trade as well as the most intractable trade disruptions. Its public services and social infrastructure have been diminished. Aside from pretty places that have become recreational or residential enclaves, its population typically is declining and aging. Its widespread sense of abandonment so far has generated only inchoate, perhaps incoherent political responses. Meanwhile, the growing consensus among newspaper editorialists and think-tank policy specialists is that “dependent” and “unsustainable” rural Canada has been subsidized long enough for sentimental reasons at the expense of real needs elsewhere.

scholarly journals Identity as an Organizing Idea of New Vocabulary and Phraseology

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-105
Author(s):  
T. V. Leontyeva ◽  
A. V. Shchetinina
Keyword(s):  
Online Communication ◽  
Language Game ◽  
Creative Class ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Color Code ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Analytical Attitude ◽  
Expert Assessments ◽  
Fourth Wave

The vocabulary and phraseology are considered from the standpoint of embodying the idea of identity in them. The relevance of the study is due to the need to assess the dynamics of the vocabulary of the language. It is shown that the idea of identity is verbalized in the nominations of a person according to belonging to a certain social community, which has professional status, generational, class and other characteristics. It is noticed that new phraseological units appear in the language in open groups. The novelty of the research lies in the identification of new phraseological groups, which can be partially or completely subject to lexicography. It is noted that online communication has greatly increased attention to the words group, community and the idea of a publicly represented identity. It is shown that the analytical attitude of modern media has led to an orientation towards reflection and the construction of expert assessments in the form of bright, memorable idioms, the creative class, sofa fighters, etc. The intensification of the processes of the language game is shown by the example of expressions with the word collars, releasing a color code (white, gold, platinum collars, etc.). The Internet is said to have provided opportunities to show multiplying identities. The “fourth wave of words” (after the gangster, professional, glamorous) is proposed to be considered the youth, which is formed in Internet communication and expresses the desire of this age category (youth) to know themselves, their values, belonging, purpose and place in the world.

scholarly journals A Model of High Efficient Academic Administration for Phrapariyatidhamma School

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 1558-1562
Author(s):  
Phramaha Padet Chirakulo Et al.
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Teaching Innovation ◽  
Academic Administration ◽  
Career Training ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
High Efficient ◽  
The Status

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the state of area, high efficient academic administration of Phrapariyattidhamma school, 2) to develop and propose the high efficient academic administration of Phrapariyattidhamma school. The mixed research methods; quantitative research and quantitative research were used and research tools were interview form and questionnaires. Results indicated that 1) the status of academic administration in Phrapariyattidhamma schools, was at a high appropriate level in 5 aspects. 2) In development of high efficient academic administration, personnel consisting of administrators, teachers, staffs and student must be developed in 6 aspects: 1) The curriculum must be continuously adjusted according to community contexts. 2) A new body of knowledge must be created in teaching and learning system. 3) Media and instruments must be up-to-date and can be accessed unlimitedly. 4) Teachers and staffs must create teaching innovation and generate the knowledge to community. 5) Learning area must cover academic, career training and ways to live a life for every level of people. 6) Learning sources must support physical, mental, moral and ethical values of society. The form of high efficient academic administration consisted of 5 aspects in academic administration and 6 aspects of high efficient qualification as 5A 6Q Model.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF THE PROFESSIONAL STATUS OF THE TEACHER

Globus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3(60)) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Abdirashid Mamasidikovich Mirzakhmedov ◽  
Gulnoza Yusupovna Tashbaeva ◽  
Nasiba Alizhanovna Abdukhalikova
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government ◽  
Educational Orientations

The article analyzes the problems of the professional status of a teacher, that the work of a teacher in the context of global information technologies acquires an incomparably high importance, since the training and education of the younger generation determines the fate of the peoples of the world. The formation and development of the professionalism of teachers are interconnected with the socio-cultural traditions and national characteristics of the people, this ultimately contributes to the improvement of the quality and efficiency of the education system. Being a teacher our time is to engage in creative intellectual work on the introduction of the most advanced teaching methods, skills and abilities of educational work among students, innovative approaches to regulating moods and educational orientations of pupils / students. In pedagogical analyzes of the status of a teacher in the context of the entire educational policy of the government, the authors emphasize the need to improve personnel policy in the higher education system.

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