Academic Reputation, or Voluntary Epistemic Servitude

Reputation ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 216-240
Author(s):  
Gloria Origgi
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Economic Interest ◽  
Academic Reputation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

This chapter presents case studies of the way reputations are built at the university. If there is an institution that feeds on reputation, it is the academy. Prestige, notoriety, standing, and reputation reign supreme within its halls. Professors and scholars are not only more motivated by symbolic rewards than by economic interest. They also spend a great deal of time designing institutions whose primary purpose is the creation, maintenance, and evaluation of each other's reputation and eminence. Such rankings are sometimes even treated as if they were the most dependable hallmarks of the truth itself. The chapter shows how the very idea of an academic reputation changed radically after new systems for calibrating reputations came into their own.

scholarly journals Beyond Copyright and Technology: What Open Access Can Tell Us about Precarity, Authority, Innovation, and Automation in the University Today

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Kelty
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
The State ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Changing Practices ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

In this interview, we discuss what open access can teach us about the state of the university, as well as practices in scholarly publishing. In particular the focus is on issues of labor and precarity, the question of how open access enables or blocks other innovations in scholarship, the way open access might be changing practices of scholarship, and the role of technology and automation in the creation, evaluation, and circulation of scholarly work.

After Writes

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-447
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Writing Group ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

In this paper we write our way into the space generated by the ending/not ending of the Bristol Collaborative Writing Group that we had all engaged with for over seven years. This writing was to have taken the form of a post script or ‘after writes,’ since we ended, or ‘petered out,’ some months before. Rather than ending responsibly, with attention to matters of ‘closure,’ talk of transition and carefully held space for reflective thinking (Birnbaum & Cichetti, 2008), we unravelled somewhat unceremoniously on the way back from lunch at the Pizza Express, perched outside the gents in the downstairs foyer at the university, unable to find an empty room to host our farewells. Yet in a manner completely congruent with our starting out and working together, the task we had set ourselves to end did not materialise as it ‘should.’ This special issue has afforded us the opportunity to attend differently to our endings/beginnings and also to each other “as if for the first time” (Eliot, 1944). And in doing so, we have learnt more about a richness of being together, an invisible dynamic, that has lurked secretly throughout our meanderings, revealing itself only when we abandoned intentfulness and allowed ourselves the indulgence of being, rather than doing.

scholarly journals Innovating the architectures of university didactics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Panciroli
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
University Courses ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Didactic Strategies ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

University didactics can be defined as a field of reflection relating to some specific empirical categories of educational events. In this sense, the main aim of the research conducted was to identify, according to a quantitative and qualitative approach, the innovative elements of didactics in an ecosystemic perspective, analysing the way in which the context and the elements characterising it play a decisive role. Particular emphasis has been given to the use of mulitple languages (multimedia perspective), and to the possibility of activating several integrated fields of action (multimodal perspective) in order to elicit the creation of multiple and original viewpoints through activities of comparison and sharing. Specifically, the research was conducted through the testing of different didactic strategies according to a blended learning methodology within the scope of some university courses offered by the Department of Education Sciences of the University of Bologna

scholarly journals Embraced by swirls of ether. Atmospheric imagination and the representation of assimilation and effect

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 01018
Author(s):  
Juan Elvira
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Initial Position ◽  
Discrete Elements ◽  
Cultural Artefact ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Precise Distribution ◽  
The Way

Atmospheres have a diffuse, ungraspable nature that make them problematic to represent. Diverse artistic manifestations have relentlessly tried to grasp air infused with properties. Ether is the concept chosen to test the way the history of atmospheric representation was initiated; a cultural artefact whose representation permeates our present imaginary. Such substance has been the image of sensual assimilation, of psychological life and complex ambient effects. Before ambient was subject to technical representation, images of air within can be called ‘a state of animation’ opened up the ways of seeing and producing ambients. Several case studies are analysed as a useful vehicle for atmospheric representation. Two main strategies have been identified. The first one is the representation of chance, ambiguity and openness, the creation of conditions to let atmospheres leave its accidental traces. The second consists in the precise distribution in space of particles or discrete elements whose initial position is irritated by diverse agents. Both are still recognisable in our days.

Peasant at the Creation: Some Highlights of an Eventful Life as if Told by Mr. Acheson

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (02) ◽  
pp. 133-134
Author(s):  
Nelson W. Polsby
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Rare Form ◽  
University Department ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University ◽  
As If

The offer to join the University of California faculty came soon after the New Year, when we had returned to Middletown, Connecticut, after our trip to Washington, D.C., recounted in the last chapter, where we renewed our life-long friendship with my mother, Edythe Polsby (later Mrs. H. X. Salzberger), the well-known capital hostess and short-order cook.My wife had a slight cold, and so did not join me for the evening at the home of our neighbor, Professor Clement E. Vose, then Chairman of the Wesleyan University Department of Government. Vose was a sparkling raconteur and wit, a fact not known to many people. In consequence they were often puzzled by his conversation. He was in rare form that evening, no doubt stimulated by the presence of several of the wives of the younger faculty, and also by the guest of honor, Professor Samuel Krislov of the University of Minnesota, then on leave and teaching at Columbia. Vose described in detail the process by which he had acquired knowledge of efforts to repeal the 18th Amendment, and this in turn led naturally to a series of toasts to the memories of Messrs. Joseph Choate, John W. Davis, Harrison Tweed, and so on, all of whom had been in the forefront of that important movement.

scholarly journals The utopian dimension in the philosophy of social betterment in Adam Smith

Nova Economia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Maria Pia Paganelli
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Ideal World ◽  
Social Betterment ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

Abstract Adam Smith does not focus on the creation of an ideal world, but on the understanding that societal changes for the better are an unintentional product of commerce. Furthermore, as if to highlight the concreteness of these changes, he sees population growth as the way to measure this betterment of society.

scholarly journals La calidad de los objetos de aprendizaje producidos en la universidad de las ciencias informáticas

2011 ◽  
pp. a165
Author(s):  
Lidia Ruiz Ortiz ◽  
Yaimí Trujillo Casañola ◽  
Yohandri Ril Gil
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Quality Of Learning ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way ◽  
Information Sciences

Con el auge en la creación de Objetos de Aprendizaje (OA) para apoyar el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje en las universidades cubanas, ha cambiado de manera significativa la forma en que los docentes diseñan y preparan sus cursos, permitiéndoles actualizar su contenido con el uso cotidiano de la tecnología. Como parte de este proceso, se comienzan a tener en cuenta la forma de evaluar eficientemente la calidad de los Objetos de Aprendizaje que se producen. Para ello se consideran diferentes criterios a la hora de evaluarlos. En esta investigación se resumen las características, definiciones y ventajas de los OA. Se exponen además diferentes modelos de evaluación y estándares de catalogación. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es lograr  conformar la base necesaria para fundamentar una guía que permita evaluar la calidad de los Objetos de Aprendizaje una vez creados en la Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas, y de esta manera garantizar una mayor utilización y una mejor aceptación de los mismos.The quality of the learning objects produced at the university of information sciencesAbstractWith the boom in the creation of Learning Objects to support the teaching-learning process in Cuban universities, has significantly changed the way in which teachers design and prepare their courses, allowing them to update the content daily use of technology. As part of this process, they begin to consider how to efficiently evaluate the quality of learning objects that are produced. This will consider various criteria when evaluating them. This research summarizes the characteristics, definitions and benefits of OA. Also discussed different models of evaluation and documentation standards. The main objective of this work is to form the basis for founding a guide for evaluating the quality of learning objects once created at the University of Information Sciences, and thereby ensure greater use and greater acceptance of them.

Christianity and Sports: Religious Functionaries and Charismatic Prophets in Ghana Soccer

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-259
Author(s):  
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
The Way

This paper examines the way in which, within an African religious and spiritual context, athletes – and in particular footballers of Ghana – employ religious functionaries and religious means from a variety of traditions in an attempt to achieve sporting success. Specific examples and case studies illustrate and contextualise this search. The connections of this mode of searching for success with traditional African views of causality and with a Pentecostalist/charismatic prosperity ethic are explored, and its consequences are assessed.

Native Americans and the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
LaNada War Jack
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Third World ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The University

The author reflects on her personal experience as a Native American at UC Berkeley in the 1960s as well as on her activism and important leadership roles in the 1969 Third World Liberation Front student strike, which had as its goal the creation of an interdisciplinary Third World College at the university.

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