AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO TEACHING/ STUDYING POSTCOLONIAL POETRY
In: Studies in linguistics, culture and FLT, Volume 6, p. 18-32
ISSN: 2534-9538
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In: Studies in linguistics, culture and FLT, Volume 6, p. 18-32
ISSN: 2534-9538
In: Issue: A Journal of Opinion, Volume 23, Issue 1, p. 9-10
ISSN: 2325-8721
Is there an African Studies establishment in the United States? Of course there is. The academic study of Africa has mushroomed since the end of the Second World War as federal dollars were invested in graduate training programs so that the United States would be able to cope with the challenges posed by the coming to independence of former colonial territories in Africa from 1956 onward. Most of this money went to major research universities. Accordingly, the training in African Studies that evolved at these centers was rooted in the historical development of western academic disciplines, the history of race and power in America, and hegemonic control over the discourse on Africa in America.
In: Bulletin of peace proposals: to motivate research, to inspire future oriented thinking, to promote activities for peace, Volume 14, Issue 1, p. 73-81
ISSN: 2516-9181
In: The family coordinator, Volume 27, Issue 1, p. 47
In: The International Conference on the Importance of Learning Professional Foreign Languages for Communication between Cultures. University of Maribor, Faculty of Logistics, Celje, Slovenia. September 24-25, 2009
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An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific skills. This would mean educating too few engineers, economists and doctors, and too many lawyers. If the total tax rate is kept constant, then replacing part of existing wage taxes with graduate taxes, collected also from migrants, would improve efficiency. It could even allow for a Pareto-improvement.
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An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific skills. This would mean educating too few engineers, economists and doctors, and too many lawyers. If the total tax rate is kept constant, then replacing part of existing wage taxes with graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants, would improve efficiency. It could even allow for a Pareto-improvement.
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This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. Migration provides a market insurance in case labor market opportunities in the home country are poor. An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific skills. This would mean educating too few engineers, economists and doctors, and too many lawyers.
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 2478
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In: Theory and research in social education, Volume 40, Issue 3, p. 335-338
ISSN: 2163-1654
In: Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, 4(3): 1-12, 2021
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This paper proposes empirical approaches to testing the reliability, validity, and organizational effectiveness of student evaluations of teaching (SET) as a performance measurement instrument in knowledge management at the institutional level of universities. Departing from Weber's concept of bureaucracy and critical responses to this concept, we discuss how contemporary SET are used as an instrument of organizational control at Danish universities. A discussion of the current state of performance measurement within the frame of new public management (NPM) and its impact on knowledge creation and legitimation forms the basis for proposing four steps of investigation. The suggested mixed-methods approach comprises the following: first, thematic analysis can serve as a tool to evaluate the legitimacy discourse as initiated by official SET affirmative documents by government, university, and students. Second, constructs for the SET questionnaire can be developed and compared to existing SET questionnaires in terms of reliability and validity. Third, data from SET can be used to corroborate the relationship between the qualitative (comments) and quantitative (scaled questionnaire) sections. Fourth, it can be investigated if SET actually contribute to teaching improvement by examining how the instrument is integrated into systematic ex-ante and ex-post organizational management. It is expected to find discrepancy between the proponents' intent to evaluate teaching and the way the performance measurement instrument is implemented.
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In: Perspectives on politics, Volume 1, Issue 2, p. 373-378
ISSN: 1541-0986