scholarly journals Public Funding of Research into Ethnological Activities in Andalusia (Spain): Boosting the Academic Career of Researchers

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Celeste Jiménez de Madariaga ◽  
Juan José García del Hoyo
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Autonomous Communities ◽  
Binary Choice Models ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Fund Research

The advent of democracy in Spain and the establishment of the different autonomous communities marked the beginning of a process to transfer political, economic and other competences over Culture and Cultural Heritage. Following its creation in 1984, the Ministry of Culture of the Andalusian Autonomous Government incorporated a Directorate-General for Cultural Assets into its organisational structure and embarked on an ambitious programme of actions to support Andalusian historical heritage, including creation of a management structure, enactment of a specific heritage law and budget allocations for protection tasks. From the outset, a type of heritage little known until then emerged: ethnological heritage. Dynamic actions were also promoted to fund research into this area, including grants for ethnological activities, financing for publications and funding for ethnological symposiums. This paper analyses the different ethnological activities carried out and their funding, and assesses the extent to which this investment favoured the professional development of teaching staff in the field of Social Anthropology in Andalusia, specifying the marginal effects and differentiating them according to gender and university size using binary choice models (Logit).

scholarly journals "Into the great wide open"

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervi Miettinen
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Literacy Curriculum ◽  
University Library ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
Cumulative Learning ◽  
Teaching Team ◽  
Science And Research

Open science and research is no longer relevant just for people pursuing an academic career. Instead, it is something that all students entering the university should be increasingly familiar with as they proceed with their studies. Tampere University Library has actively integrated open science into its information literacy teaching, beginning from the first-year orientation studies and continuing throughthe Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis seminars. Following the guidelines provided by the idea of cumulative learning (Maton 2009), the IL teaching at Tampere University Library aims at connecting new knowledge with existing knowledge, effectively building on the students’ previous IL studies throughout their degree. In addition, the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy (2015) acts as a roadmap for developing IL teaching at Tampere University Library: the Library’s entire teaching team has gathered in workshops and together produced a view of the frames that best suits the University’s students. The frames are awork-in-progress, and the teaching team will continue to work on better adapting the frames. One of the results is the way in which the frames and the threshold concepts within determine the depth inwhich issues such as open science and research are taught at different levels (cf. Sipilä, Miettinen &Tevaniemi, 2019). In order to ensure student engagement, concepts like open science are presented at each level in a way that is relevant to the students’ current studies, beginning with the concept itself and later advancing towards viewing the students as both users and creators of open science. This presentation will highlight some of the current ways in which open science and research is integrated into the information literacy curriculum at Tampere University Library, and how the ACRL framework can act as a way for library teaching staff to comprehend and develop IL teaching in highereducation.

scholarly journals AN EXPLANATIVE STUDY ON THE MODULE FOR SUPERVISING AND ASSESSING EDUCATION STAFF PERFORMANCE AT PRINCIPAL EMPOWERMENT TRAINING

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Heri Supriyana
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Training Module ◽  
Content Category ◽  
Staff Performance ◽  
Educational Personnel ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
Educational Staff ◽  
And Training

AN EXPLANATIVE STUDY ON THE MODULE FOR SUPERVISING  AND ASSESSING EDUCATION  STAFF PERFORMANCE   AT PRINCIPAL EMPOWERMENT TRAINING      ABSTRACT     Heri Supriyana Institute for Development and Empowerment of  Principals and  Supervisors [email protected]     The result of  2015 principal   competency test   shows that most of  principals have not  sufficient principal competency  so that they have not been able to carry out their main tasks and functions properly. Likewise, the most of  principals who have been  appointed  as  principals do not yet have a Certificate  of principal training, so that the most  of principals do not  meet the requirements to become principals. Based on this problem the Ministry of Education and Culture conducts training for strengthening principals with certain modules. The Directorate General of Teachers and Educational  Personnel has written a training module for strengthening principals. These modules include the supervision module and the performance assessment  of the education staff written by the author. The module has not been tested for relevance, adequacy, consistency, and sequences. In order to obtain a module for supervision and  the performance assessment  of teaching staff that is ready to be used in education and training, this study was conducted. The purpose of this study was to determine the level of relevance, adequacy, consistency, and sequences of the supervision module and the assessment of the performance of the education staff in the training of strengthening principals. This research is an explanative research. The data collection method uses closed questionnaire and open questionnaire techniques. The results of this study are the relevance aspects of getting a score of 3.73 (good enough), the adequacy aspect of getting a score of 3.64 (good enough), the consistency aspect of getting a score of 3.74 (good enough), the aspect of sequencing getting a score of 3.86 (good enough). Besides that from the systematic aspect of writing the category of statement "quite systematic" has the largest percentage of 77.10%, the aspect of appearance / graphic design of the category of statement "quite good" has the largest percentage of 74.23%, on the aspect of content / content category of statement "enough complete and detailed "has the largest percentage of 78.58%. The conclusion of this research is that the supervision module and the performance assessment of the education staff in the sc principal strengthening training program are good enough to be used in the  principal strengthening training because they are relevant, sufficient content, consistent enough and inter-material enough sequences.   Keywords: explanatory study;  module; supervision; performance assessment; educational staff.

scholarly journals FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF LOSS HUMAN CAPITAL AND COMBATING THIS CHALLENGE OF UKRAINIAN HIGHER EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (39) ◽  
pp. 559-569
Author(s):  
D. Svyrydenko ◽  
N. Hots ◽  
I. Kovtun ◽  
L. Panchenko ◽  
R. Semeniuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Qualified Personnel

Abstract. The loss of human capital is a significant projected loss for the country's economy. Higher education must analyze the challenges, maintain the quality of human capital at the level necessary for the functioning of the economy, and train professionals in a permanent crisis. The multi-vector nature of the crisis leads to a negative multiplier effect of the influence of external and internal factors on the level of human capital of the country in all institutional categories, so these challenges are emerging given their systemic nature. This primarily applies to the institute of higher education. The formation of a relevant response to the challenges of loss of human capital is not only a guarantee of the proper functioning of higher education, but also guarantees the success of its functioning for economic transformation in the country. The analytical study revealed economic losses from external migration of highly qualified personnel, reduction of the country's economic potential from the outflow of specialists. The narrowing of the base of high-quality reproduction of qualified personnel, the factor of disproportion in the financing of higher education and the reproduction of highly qualified personnel from budgetary sources and the growth of the share of self-financing were revealed. The analysis proved the inconsistency of the quality of the staff to the number of employees of higher education in the regions and the disproportion of the teaching staff with academic ranks. A study of the number of graduate students indicates that the disparity in quality will increase as there is a tendency to lose scientific schools in the regions. Weaknesses of higher education have been identified. To reduce the negative impact of this factor on the quality of human capital and, indirectly, on the country's economy, there is the urgent need to optimize public funding of human capital; to create regional funds for financing higher education, formascientific schools in the regions to eliminate regional disparities in training. Proposals for a policy of investing in human capital at all qualification levels have been developed, taking into account the effectiveness of such investments and also to stabilize the socio-economic situation in the country. The directions of forming the answer of higher school to the challenges of the economic crisis of the country are offered. Keywords: higher education, human capital, economic losses, integrated indicators, analytical research. JEL Classification I25, J24, J62, J82 Formulas: 0; fig.: 6; tabl.: 2; bibl.: 20.

Official statistics, big data and civil society. Introducing the approach of “economics of convention” for understanding the rise of new data worlds and their implications

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Rainer Diaz-Bone ◽  
Kenneth Horvath
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Epistemic Values ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Democratic Control ◽  
Political Economic

The rise of big data and ongoing political and social transformations confront official statistics with important questions regarding its self-understanding and its role in public debates. These questions imply serious tensions that will very likely increase in the foreseeable future. This article introduces a specific sociological perspective for thinking and talking about these developments. Building on the “economics of convention”, this perspective challenges currently dominant conceptions of official statistics which do not adequately mirror the plurality of possible representations of the social world and the variety of justifiable ways of assessing the quality of these representations. Taking these pluralities into account allows to develop a fuller picture of the actual practices and institutions involved in the production of statistical knowledge and, especially, of their unavoidable entanglement with normative orders, epistemic values, and political formations. The notion of “data worlds” is presented as a means for tackling this problem of pluralities. On this conceptual basis, it becomes possible to link methodological questions to analyses of how statistical data and knowledge are embedded in wider political, economic, and social contexts. Problems of “data quality” thus appear in a different light: their reflection involves more than the usually discussed issues of the institutional independence (secured by public funding and by law) and the high scientific standards of official statistics. Instead, an institutionalist theoretical approach is needed that offers blueprints for linking the production of “official statistical facts” to (always contested and contextual) conceptions of the common good. Such a conception would allow to conceive new forms of public participation and democratic control of processes of quantification, measurement, and datafication. In sum, we believe that the specifically sociological approach outlined in this article would support official statistics in dealing with the variety of critical interventions and challenges it currently faces in a proactive and coherent manner.

scholarly journals “I left too late, I go back too often”: sentiments of belonging and home among Indian scholars in the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinicius Kauê Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract This paper addresses current notions of belonging amongst Indian scholars in social sciences building an academic career in the United Kingdom. Drawing on concluded PhD research in social anthropology, it articulates a multi-sited ethnography of centres of research and in-depth interviews. This research project acknowledges the fact that while the literature on circulations of scholars is vast and continues to grow, ethnographic studies on this matter are still rare. For this reason, this paper focuses on an ethnographic comprehension, based on everyday conversations and evocative situations, of these lives that are built in a context of mobility. Here, I address notions of diaspora, global citizenship and cosmopolitanism as relevant hermeneutic tools for the comprehension of transnational sentiments of belonging amongst these scholars. At stake are intersectional elements that include class, gender, origin and caste, in the construction of transnational academic circulations.

scholarly journals Feminization of Higher Education in Poland in 1918-2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-146
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Popiński
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political System ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Cultural Conditioning ◽  
Academic Faculty ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Polish Higher Education

Abstract The text is devoted to women’s presence in the Polish higher education in 1918-2018. Its history is presented in chronological-thematic order, including information about the beginnings of women’s studies at universities as well as their basic political, economic and cultural conditioning. Although during the discussed period, basis of political system in Poland changed three times, there was a constant development of the size of higher education, as well as an increase of women’s participation among students and academic faculty. The beginnings were very modest. However, today women constitute already the majority of students of higher education and almost a half of academic employees. Women, during their fight for equality in access to studies and academic career, had to overcome many legal obstacles, also informal ones, resulting from vitality of the image of traditional social role of women. Even though, the formal equality was gradually earned, it is still more difficult for women than for men to undertake studies at some faculties, and to get higher degrees and academic positions as fast as men.

scholarly journals Gender and Globalization of Academic Labor Markets: Research and Teaching Staff at Nordic Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Maria Pietilä ◽  
Ida Drange ◽  
Charlotte Silander ◽  
Agnete Vabø
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Research Staff ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Academic Labor Market ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Academic Labor

In this article, we investigate how the globalized academic labor market has changed the composition of teaching and research staff at Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish universities. We use national statistical data on the gender and country‐origin of universities’ teaching and research staff between 2012 and 2018 to study how the globalized academic labor market has influenced the proportion of women across career stages, with a special focus on STEM fields. We pay special attention to how gender and country‐origin are interrelated in universities’ academic career hierarchies. The findings show that the proportion of foreign‐born teaching and research staff rose substantially at the lower career level (grade C positions) in the 2010s. The increase was more modest among the most prestigious grade A positions, such as professorships. The findings show significant national differences in how gender and country‐origin of staff intersect in Nordic universities. The study contributes to research on the gendered patterns of global academic labor markets and social stratification in Nordic universities.

scholarly journals Mujeres y universitarias: historia de un desencuentro en la universidad española contemporánea

2009 ◽  
pp. 357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Poy Castro
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Academic Status ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Level ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
The University

En las últimas décadas, las bajas tasas de mujeres que cursan estudios universitarios, así como el hecho de que esas tasas se han ido incrementando, han sido analizadas por investigadores en España así como en Europa y otros países. En nuestro análisis, hemos observado que las tasas femeninas de estudiantes están creciendo año tras año pero con significativas diferencias entre disciplinas académicas. Por esta razón, nuestro propósito ha sido recoger datos de las universidades españolas, de cara a observar tendencias y sus orígenes. Nuestro estudio incluye porcentajes de mujeres enroladas en las diversas áreas académicas de estudios en las universidades españolas, comparadas con los porcentajes en el conjunto de la Academia. También incluye algunos datos sobre los porcentajes de mujeres entre los estudiantes de doctorado, así como entre el personal docente de los<br />departamentos en las facultades, y los comparamos según el estatus académico. Finalmente, presentamos algunas conclusiones sobre las barreras en la carrera académica para las profesoras en las universidades españolas entre 1978 y 2008. Estos datos revelan los crecientes porcentajes de mujeres que durante los pasados años han<br />seguido estudios superiores. También muestran algunas diferencias entre áreas académicas, y asimismo que existe una significativa tendencia de género en el acceso de<br />las estudiantes graduadas a las categorías superiores del personal docente.<br /><br />In the last decades, the low rates of women that follow studies at the university level, as well as the fact that those rates are increasing, have been analyzed by researchers in<br />Spain, as well as in Europe and in some other countries. In our analysis, we have seen that female students’ rates are increasing year after year but with significant differences<br />between academic disciplines. For this reason, our purpose was to compile data from Spanish universities, in order to see the tendencies and their origins. Our study includes<br />percentages of women enrolled in the diverse academic areas of studies at the Spanish universities, compared to the percentages in the whole Academia. It also includes some data on the percentages of women among PhD students, as well as among the teaching staff of the departments in the faculties, and we compare them by academic status. Finally, we present some conclusions on the barriers in the academic career for female professors in the Spanish universities between 1978-2008. These data reveal the increasing percentages of women that for the past last years have followed higher studies. They also show some differences among academic areas, and also that there is a significant gender bias in the access of graduated female students to the upper categories of teaching staff.<br /><br />

scholarly journals A new paradigm for science: nurturing the ecosystem

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander K Lancaster ◽  
Anne E Thessen ◽  
Arika Virapongse
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Basic Science ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Scientific Enterprise ◽  
Scientific Training

The institutions of science are in a state of flux. Declining public funding for basic science, the increasingly corporatized administration of universities, increasing “adjunctification” of the professoriate and poor academic career prospects for postdoctoral scientists indicate a significant mismatch between the reality of the market economy and expectations in higher education for science. Solutions to these issues typically revolve around the idea of fixing the career "pipeline", envisioned being a pathway from higher-education training to a coveted permanent position, and then up a career ladder until retirement. In this paper, we propose and describe the term “ecosystem” as an appropriate way to conceptualize today’s scientific training and the professional landscape of the scientific enterprise. First, we highlight the issues around the concept of “fixing the pipeline”. Then, we articulate our ecosystem metaphor by describing a series of concrete design patterns that draw on peer-to-peer, decentralized, co-operative, and commons-based approaches to creating a new dynamic scientific enterprise.

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