scholarly journals Valuation Constellations

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Désirée Waibel ◽  
Thorsten Peetz ◽  
Frank Meier
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Three Components

The focus on situated practices in current valuation studies becomes an obstacle when situations are too narrowly defined, when moments of valuation are treated as isolated events and especially when the interconnectedness of moments across situations and social fields is neglected. In order to overcome these limitations, we propose the concept of valuation constellations (Meier et al. 2016). Based on the literature on valuation the concept distinguishes positions and their relations, rules, and infrastructures. We present these three components of constellations and demonstrate the potential of the concept regarding three analytical puzzles of valuation analysis: historical change of valuation processes, the definition and solution of valuation problems, and the legitimacy of valuations. Each of the puzzles is illustrated with an empirical case, i.e. dating platforms and apps, higher education, and amateur reviewing. Going beyond situationalism, the valuation constellations perspective is key to understanding interconnected valuation processes.

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 The determinants of university strategic positioning: a reappraisal of the organisation

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Fumasoli ◽  
Giovanni Barbato ◽  
Matteo Turri
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Strategic Positioning ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
External Influences ◽  
Change In Higher Education ◽  
Three Components

AbstractThis paper makes a contribution to the debate on university organisational actorhood by theorising the determinants of institutional strategic positioning. It argues that besides environmental forces and managerial rationality, the organisational dimension needs to be accounted for. Addressing the mixed empirical evidence in the relevant literature, we conceptualise the organisational dimension as a meso-level intervening variable mediating both external influences (outside-inside) and organisational action (inside-outside). We operationalise the organisational dimension along three components: organisational structure, identity and centrality, which are further elaborated in sub-components and indicators. A set of hypotheses to be tested in empirical research is provided. The paper offers new perspectives on the dynamics of change in higher education and on strategic agency of organisational actors.

Evaluation of Speech-Communication Trends

1970 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 287-290
Author(s):  
Gerald M. Meredith
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Speech Communication ◽  
Performance Skills ◽  
Program Satisfaction ◽  
Speech Performance ◽  
Three Components

Study compared the attitudes of speech majors with non-speech majors on three components: program satisfaction, interest in speech performance skills, and interest in speech-communication trend. Methodology is applicable to other curriculum problems in higher education.

scholarly journals Types of personality motivation structure of women who are acquiring higher education in psychology

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-96
Author(s):  
TETIANA PARTYKO
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
General Activity ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Three Components

The article deals with the results of empirical research on the types of personality moti-vation structure of women who are acquiring higher education in psychology. Two types have been singled out: expressive and impulsive. The expressive type comprises two com-ponents: ideal motivation aimed at life necessities, general activity and social utility, and real motivation aimed at comfort, social status and communication. In the structure of the impulsive type there are three components: real motivation aimed at life necessities, so-cial status, general activity and social utility; real motivation aimed at communication and comfort; creativity motivation aimed at self-development and creative activity. Women belonging to the expressive type of personality motivation structure have more positive self-attitude and a higher level of psychological well-being than women belonging to the impulsive type.

scholarly journals Violence, Terrorism, and Identity Politics in Afghanistan: The Securitisation of Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Christian Kaunert ◽  
Arif Sahar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Study Methodology

This article investigates the securitisation of the higher education sector in Afghanistan by examining ‘hidden’ non-discursive practices as opposed to overt discursive threat construction. Non-discursive practices are framed by the habitus inherited from different social fields, whereas in Afghanistan, securitising actors converge from different habitus (e.g., institutions, professions, backgrounds) to bar the ‘other’ ethnic or social groups from resources and spaces which could empower these groups to become a pertinent threat, a fear, and a danger to the monopoly of the state elites over the state power and resources. The most prominent securitisation practices emerging from the data include mainly (1) the obstruction of the formation of critical ideas and politics; (2) the obstruction of economic opportunities; and (3) the obstruction of social justice. This article deploys a case study methodology and uses the Kabul University as its subject of investigation.

scholarly journals Measuring well-being in emerging adults: Exploring the PERMA framework for positive youth development

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Sophie Leontopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
Three Components

The PERMA theory brings together elements of the PERMA model, character strengths, and well-being. Set in the context of positive education this study set out to empirically test this multidimensional theory with emerging adults in higher education. 516 female and male students aged 18 to 29 years studying in Universities in Greece were asked to participate in a web-based survey of (a) the five elements of PERMA, i.e. positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishment; (b) four character strengths, i.e. curiosity, gratitude, love for learning and humor; and (c) three well-being indicators, i.e. flourishing, resilience and positive perception. The patterning of associations within and between the three components of the theory was examined, leading to insights regarding both the multidimensionality of well-being and the specificity of relations between the three components. Conclusions were drawn regarding the theoretical and applied implications of the results for advancing positive youth development in higher education.

scholarly journals Faculty Service As Board Members In The Non-Profit Organizational Arena: An Act Of Altruism Complicated By Sarbanes Oxley

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory P. Trudeau
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Board Member ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Service Component ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Sarbanes Oxley ◽  
Faculty Service ◽  
Committee Assignments ◽  
Three Components

Throughout higher education, a common approach to evaluate faculty consists of three components: scholarship, teaching, and service.  The service component can be broadly interpreted to encompass two themes, service on campus via committee assignments or service off campus with organizations in the surrounding community.  Serving as a board member for a local non-profit organization often fulfills the required service component.  Unfortunately, many board members do not have a clear understanding of what this responsibility entails. This paper will look at the responsibilities a board member assumes within the non-profit organization.  Consideration will also be given to these responsibilities from the perspective of Sarbanes-Oxley.

scholarly journals Effectiveness Of Teaching English On The Basis Of Intensive Educational Technologies In Students Of Higher Education Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (11) ◽  
pp. 599-603
Author(s):  
Pulatova Durdona ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Three Components

This article describes modules of conducting ESP classes and effectiveness of intensive educational technologies in the educational process. It also highlights three components included in the task of teaching on the basis of intensive educational technologies in the educational process

The Jovian ring

1984 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 203-209
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Burns
Keyword(s):  
Equatorial Plane ◽  
Charged Particles ◽  
Dynamical Evolution ◽  
Main Band ◽  
Small Grains ◽  
Three Components

ABSTRACTLying in Jupiter's equatorial plane is a diaphanous ring having little substructure within its three components (main band, faint disk, and halo). Micron-sized grains account for much of the visible ring, but particles of centimeter sizes and larger must also be present to absorb charged particles. Since dynamical evolution times and survival life times are quite short (≲102-3yr) for small grains, the Jovian ring is being continually replenished; probably most of the visible ring is generated by micrometeoroids colliding into unseen parent bodies that reside in the main band.

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