Exploring adjustment: The social situation of Chinese students in UK higher education

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spurling Nicola
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Uk Higher Education

scholarly journals Manual Labour, Intellectual Labour and Digital (Academic) Labour. The Practice/Theory Debate in the Digital Humanities

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Magis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Research Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Manual Labour ◽  
Post Industrial

Although it hasn’t much been considered as such, the Digital Humanities movements (or at least the most theoretically informed parts of it) offers a critique “from within” of the recent mutation of the higher education and research systems. This paper offers an analysis, from a Critical Theory perspective, of a key element of this critique: the theory vs. practice debate, which, in the Digital Humanities, is translated into the famous “hack” versus “yack” motto, where DHers usually call for the pre-eminence of the former over the latter. I show how this debate aims to criticize the social situation of employment in academia in the digital age and can further be interpreted with the Cultural industry theoretical concept, as a continuance of the domination of the intellectual labour (ie. yack in this case) over the manual labour (hack). Nevertheless, I argue that, pushing this debate to its very dialectical limit in the post-industrial academic labour situation, one realizes that the two terms aren’t in opposition anymore: the actual theory as well as the actual practice are below their very critical concepts in the academic labour. Therefore, I call for a reconfiguration of this debate, aiming at the rediscovering of an actual theory in the academic production, as well as a rediscovering of a praxis, the latter being outside of the scientific realm and rules: it is political.

scholarly journals Consuming UK Transnational Higher Education in China: A Bourdieusian Approach to Chinese Students’ Perceptions and Experiences

2020 ◽  
pp. 136078042095704
Author(s):  
Jingran Yu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Transnational Education ◽  
Transnational Higher Education ◽  
Patriotism Education ◽  
Higher Education In China ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Uk Higher Education

Recently, the increased scale and complexity of ‘student-as-consumer’ discourse has become well-established within the intensifying neoliberal marketisation across higher education in the Global North. However, few insights have been generated within a transnational education context. This article is based on a case study of a UK transnational higher education institution in China, where market-based rationalities converge with a centralised statist agenda. It demonstrates that Chinese students’ perceptions and experiences of patriotism education and international education, as well as their own strategy of obtaining a transnational education as an investment, were shaped by the unequal power relations between China and the UK in the global classification of knowledge. They tend to highly value UK higher education in both material and immaterial forms, associating it with ‘humanitarianism’ and disinterestedness. This article concludes that the profit-making agenda of the UK is veiled by its symbolic power, while the nation-building effort of China has driven the students further away. As a result, Chinese students voluntarily participate in the reproduction of symbolic power of UK higher education in the hierarchically structured global field.

scholarly journals The (faltering) renaissance of theory in higher education careers practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
David Winter ◽  
Julia Yates
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Education Careers ◽  
Uk Higher Education

This article charts the changes in career development theory and practice within UK higher education over the past two (and a bit) decades. We outline some of the social, economic and political drivers that have influenced both theory and practice over this time and examine the extent to which theory and practice have influenced each other - revealing a paucity of dialogue between theory and practice at a strategic service delivery level. We end with some suggestions for bringing these two strands closer and a call for further evaluation of the potential for theory to inform practice and vice versa.

scholarly journals Manual Labour, Intellectual Labour and Digital (Academic) Labour. The Practice/Theory Debate in the Digital Humanities

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-175
Author(s):  
Christophe Magis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Research Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Manual Labour ◽  
Post Industrial

Although it hasn’t much been considered as such, the Digital Humanities movements (or at least the most theoretically informed parts of it) offers a critique “from within” of the recent mutation of the higher education and research systems. This paper offers an analysis, from a Critical Theory perspective, of a key element of this critique: the theory vs. practice debate, which, in the Digital Humanities, is translated into the famous “hack” versus “yack” motto, where DHers usually call for the pre-eminence of the former over the latter. I show how this debate aims to criticize the social situation of employment in academia in the digital age and can further be interpreted with the Cultural industry theoretical concept, as a continuance of the domination of the intellectual labour (ie. yack in this case) over the manual labour (hack). Nevertheless, I argue that, pushing this debate to its very dialectical limit in the post-industrial academic labour situation, one realizes that the two terms aren’t in opposition anymore: the actual theory as well as the actual practice are below their very critical concepts in the academic labour. Therefore, I call for a reconfiguration of this debate, aiming at the rediscovering of an actual theory in the academic production, as well as a rediscovering of a praxis, the latter being outside of the scientific realm and rules: it is political.

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