Social Work in Higher Education: Internships in Opportunity Programs

ABSTRACT

Field education is essential to the development of professional social workers. Despite the significant overlap in social work’s and higher education’s missions and values, there is a scarcity of social work internships specifically in higher education settings. The placement of social work interns in institutions of higher education provides a setting where they can develop new knowledge and skills and increase their capacity to support college students toward academic success. This conceptual article discusses the role of social work in higher education and provides a model social work internship in an opportunity program, including its creation, development, challenges, outcomes, and future direction.     

迎接知识经济挑战的欧洲高等教育

以欧洲主要国家的高等教育发展为背景,阐述了面对知识经济时代,为加快高等教育发展所采取的“加强各国间合作,共建面向未来欧洲高等教育;把高等教育纳入国有创新体系,发挥高校在知识经济发展特点是科技创新中的作用”等有效措施。     

‘Radically different learning’: implementing sustainability pedagogy in a university peer mentor program

Framed in Michele Foucault's theories of discipline and technologies of the self, this paper explores the possibilities for teaching and researching across disciplinary boundaries within the academy. In Foucault's studies of systems of thought, he conceptualized practices – like sexuality – to be instances of what is possible to be, think, and do within a historical moment. In the ethnographic study reported on in this paper, we examined perceptions and practices of discipline-based academics seeking to work across traditional scholarly boundaries as instances of what was possible to be, think, and do in transdisciplinary teaching and research in higher education. Connecting transdisciplinary knowledge production with possibilities for critically engaging with sustainability as a social movement and imperative, we identify questions about and the promise of higher education as a place where this work can be done.     

论质量是我国高等教育发展的核心

高等教育质量不是一个单一的概念，而是一个多维的、多样化的概念。在高等教育质的发展和量的发展的对立统一中，我们必须树立强烈的质量意识，以提高我国的国民素质、科技水平和国际竞争力。这是因为，人才培养质量是高等教育与社会发展的结合点。另外，从高等教育的可持续发展来看，提高质量比发展数量更为重要。     

Credits, curriculum, and control in higher education: Cross-national perspectives

Through an examination of the higher education systems in threecountries (Indonesia, Nicaragua, and Vietnam), the authors explore howthe use of academic credits for monitoring student progress has been andcontinues to be linked to policies and institutions associated withcapitalist, market-driven economic systems. The recent histories ofthese countries and their current social and political contexts areanalyzed in relation to three interrelated themes that have emerged fromthe analysis of the three cases. These themes are: (1) Linkages topolitical and economic systems: higher education as vocationaltraining, (2) Standardization, efficiency, andtechnocracy, and (3) Who controls the curriculum? Inconclusion, the authors suggest that the academic credit system,embedded within a network of other educational practices, hastransformed the university into an institution focused on relativelynarrow, utilitarian aims rather than a more universal pursuit ofknowledge.     

Neoliberalism is not a theory of everything: a Bourdieuian analysis of illusio in educational research

Despite the frequency with which the concept of neoliberalism is employed within academic literature, its complex and multifaceted nature makes it difficult to define and describe. Indeed, data reported in this article suggest that there is a tendency in educational research to make extensive use of the word ‘neoliberalism’ (or its variants neoliberal, neo-liberal and neo-liberalism) as a catch-all for something negative but without offering a definition or explanation. The article highlights a number of key risks associated with this approach and draws on the Bourdieuian concept of illusio to suggest the possibility that when as educational researchers we use the word ‘neoliberalism’ in this way, rather than interrupting the implementation of neoliberal policies and practices, we may, in fact, be further entrenching the neoliberal doxa. That is to say, we are both playing the neoliberal game and inadvertently demonstrating our belief that it is a game worth being played. In so doing, this article seeks to extend understandings of what illusio means within the context of educational research.     

知识经济时代高等教育的改革与发展

知识创新是技术创新的前提和基础,也是科技进步和经济发展的动力源泉。在当前的时代背景下,高等教育作为知识经济核心组成部分,必须适应社会经济发展的要求,不断改革与创新自身的教学观念与教学模式,以多元化、现代化的姿态迎接机遇与挑战。文章由知识经济的概念及特征入手,就当前我国高等教育中存在的主要问题展开论述,并深入分析了未来的教育改革与发展路径。     

(Re)theorising laddish masculinities in higher education

In the context of renewed debates and interest in this area, this paper reframes the theoretical agenda around laddish masculinities in UK higher education, and similar masculinities overseas. These can be contextualised within consumerist neoliberal rationalities, the neoconservative backlash against feminism and other social justice movements, and the postfeminist belief that women are winning the ‘battle of the sexes’. Contemporary discussions of ‘lad culture’ have rightly centred sexism and men's violence against women: however, we need a more intersectional analysis. In the UK a key intersecting category is social class, and there is evidence that while working-class articulations of laddism proceed from being dominated within alienating education systems, middle-class and elite versions are a reaction to feeling dominated due to a loss of gender, class and race privilege. These are important differences, and we need to know more about the conditions which shape and produce particular performances of laddism, in interaction with masculinities articulated by other social groups. It is perhaps unhelpful, therefore, to collapse these social positions and identities under the banner of ‘lad culture’, as has been done in the past.     

高等学校环境教育与可持续发展战略

不合理的发展观念是导致当今世界性环境问题的根源，高等学校实施环境教育，转变发展观念，提高大学生综合素质，是实施可持续发展战略的保证。当前，我国高等学校环境教育存在的主要问题是尚未落实环境教育应有的地位，教育的内容不够充实；单从环境教育讲，专业教育思想层次不够高、环境教育意识不强。因此，高等学校的环境教育要赋予人文和社会科学的新内容，使之体现整体素质教育的功能。     

Education for Sustainable Development in South Africa: A Model Case Scenario

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is an educational approach that, by being a catalyst of social change, promotes sustainability. Although South African education policy and practice appear to be oriented towards ESD, the concept is contested, and ragged with ambiguity and vagueness. Because the transformation of South African education is primarily aimed at social change, such vagueness and ambiguity could prevent the achievement of the vision of an education system that contributes to social change and sustainable development. In this article, we construct a model case scenario to assist in clarifying the concept of ESD. A model case scenario, we contend, might not only lead to an advanced understanding of the concept, but could also serve as an informative tool with which to comment on the extent to which an education system has responded to the call to promote sustainable development. A model case scenario could therefore assist the promotion of the appropriate and unambiguous use of the concept ESD and the alignment of education policy and practice to achieve the transformational goals of the South African Constitution, and of South African education.     

The emergence of contesting motives for student feedback-based evaluation in Australian higher education

Student feedback-based evaluation performs a significant social role in framing perceptions of the quality of teaching in contemporary Australian higher education. Yet its emergence is a relatively recent phenomenon, having only been in widespread application since the mid-1980s. The early manifestations of student feedback-based evaluation came with newly emerging academic development units with a motive to enhance the quality of local teaching and to afford student retention. However, new motives for assailing student feedback evolved with the rapid growth in student numbers, the introduction of student fees and heightened levels of inter-institutional competition for students. As a result, student feedback-based evaluation progressively became also a powerful proxy measure of teaching and curricula quality assurance at an individual, institutional and sectoral level [Blackmore, J. (2009). Academic pedagogies, quality logics and performative universities: Evaluating teaching and what students want. Studies in Higher Education, 34(8), 857–872. doi:10.1080/03075070902898664]. This generated critical tensions between the seminal motive of student feedback around quality improvement, and the rising quality assurances discourses, academic performance management demands and institutional marketing. In this paper, the complex social origins of these competing motives for student feedback-based evaluation in Australian higher education will be explored and analysed. It is argued this provides an important means of understanding the polarising effects of student feedback-based evaluation in Australian universities.     

Performing mundane materiality: Actor-Network Theory,global student mobility and a re/formation of ‘social capital’

ABSTRACT

Social capital is a puzzling actor; made real by its allies. It has been ‘out-there’ in the form of scientific publications for decades. Although some characteristics are common to all elaborations of this theory (networks, trust, and norms), there remains confusion in determining a ‘coherent concept’ of social capital. In this paper, we make use of such ‘incoherence gap’ to open an experimental theoretical and, subsequently, analytical space. Based on empirical research with mobile students and assemblages of non-human actors, the paper offers two investigative gatherings. First, the Bourdieusian approach to ‘social capital’ is discussed, allowing relational ontologies to enter the scene. Second, consideration is given to issues of performativity and the relevance of materiality for empirical social capital investigations. Despite the degree of ontological security social capital has managed to achieve, we question the disregard for the performative role of non-human entities in the context of global student mobility.     

高教园区应促进高等教育与社会经济的协同发展

高等教育与社会经济协同发展是知识经济时代对高等教育发展的要求，也是大众化高等教育的重要特征。高教园发挥整合作用和组织作用，促进高等教育系统与社会经济系统之间加强人员和信息交流，建立相互信任，相互依赖的下校，校企关系，实现两者的协同发展。     

A tale of two narratives: student voice—what lies before us?

As the last century closed, and a bright new millennium dawned, the concept of ‘student voice’ within education emerged as something to be ‘identified’ and ‘captured’. In effect, it became reified and driven by a raft of government and institutional policies and strategic initiatives; initially within the compulsory sector, but soon followed by the post-compulsory sector as the 2000s moved on. In an increasingly quasi-consumerist environment, a mechanism had emerged with potential to ‘measure’ student satisfaction. Institutions quickly took up the ‘call to arms’, assigning responsibilities to ensure there was evidence of ‘student voice’ engagement; but there was no conversation with the ‘students’ about how this was experienced by them. This concept had become a ‘portmanteau’ term; a ‘catch all’ competing between two narratives—student voice as democratic and transformational; and student voice as ‘policy’ and strategic initiative. Formal research that could contribute to this discussion has been sparse and this paper takes a critical stance to the literature and policy, exploring the current status of student voice and proposing a research focus that has the potential to involve students in a discussion about how their voice is heard, and for what purpose.     

Expanding an Action Research framework for an evidence based mentoring program in nursing: an exploration of cooperative inquiry

ABSTRACT

This paper explores the development of cooperative inquiry as a methodology for nursing research. It commences with a historical overview of Action Research and its use in nursing. The applicability of Action Research approaches in higher education are then discussed in the context of creating partnerships between universities, students and the wider civic and social community. The concept of partnerships informs discussion of a peer mentoring project for undergraduate nursing students conducted using a cooperative inquiry methodology.     

高职教育国际化存在问题及对策研究

加强高职教育国际化,是经济和社会发展对高职教育提出的客观要求,现阶段我国高职教育国际化存在问题主要有：教育理念和模式滞后、实践处于自发状态、实践方式单一以及保障措施不力,因此,必须转变传统观念意识,正确理解并重视国际化意识的培育,加强宏观指导,采取多种方式,加强投入和政策保障,实现高职教育国际化高效、迅速发展。     

关于高等教育大众化与教育质量下滑的忧思

高等教育大众化有其历史必然性。它需要人们从教育理念上、管理理念上、教学方法、管理方法以及人、财、物等方面,为这一过程的到来做好准备。如果人为地加速这一过程,则很可能给高等教育的发展带来诸多困难和隐患。高等教育大众化不能以降低质量为代价,否则高等教育就无法发挥它对整个社会生活和社会发展的“引领”作用。教育质量标准的“多元化”决不是任意化。高等教育质量必须有一个“底线”。     

Racially liberatory pedagogy: a Black Lives Matter approach to education

Abstract

In this study, we sought to understand how Black lives matter (BLM) epistemology, as displayed through six months of social media content from official accounts, can inform a racially liberatory pedagogy in higher education for Black and other racially minoritized students. We found BLM, through Facebook and Twitter, situated intersectional Black culture in the contemporary struggle for liberation. BLM also offered information that can raise its followers’ intersectional critical consciousness. Additionally, BLM content highlighted actions that can support Black liberation. Lastly, BLM content supported the building of relationships and naming of emotions as Black people work toward their liberation. In this sense, BLM connected with elements of a racially liberatory pedagogy and offered nuances that advanced the framework. We discuss the implications of this framework for teaching in higher education.     

我国高等教育公益性弱化的根源及其对策分析

从大学和知识的关系、大学和个体发展的角度看,公益性反映出高等教育的本质属性.讨论我国高等教育的公益性问题,不能脱离我国社会转型的大背景.高等教育公益性的弱化是我国社会转型引发的特殊问题.重塑公益性的高等教育,需要政府、大学和社会的共同努力,但是政府需要发挥主导性的作用.     

知识经济的来临与云南高等教育的改革和发展

知识经济的来临引致了对既有高等教育理念的新思考和再认识 .知识经济的发展给正处在由计划经济向市场经济体制转变过程中的云南高等教育事业的改革和发展提出了严峻的挑战 ,同时也提供了前所未有的新契机 .云南高等教育中存在的问题主要是政府对高等教育介入太深 ,管得过细过死 ,使高校成了政府的附属部门 ,而不是具有明晰的经济功能和社会功能的法人实体 ;高校缺少必要的办学自主权 ,不能根据市场需求来优化自身的资源配置 ;专业设置不能适应地方经济社会发展特点 ;教学管理体制不尽合理等 .云南的高等教育一方面要走产学研三结合一体化的道路 ,抓住科技成果转化和高新技术产业化这一知识经济的关键环节 ,促进科技对我省国民经济增长的贡献率 ;另一方面 ,要优化教育结构 ,提高办学质量和办学效益 ,为云南的经济社会发展培养和造就大批知识型的劳动者 .总之 ,打破旧的高校行政管理体制 ,改革我省高校的投资体制和以学年制为主的教学管理模式 ,加快师资队伍培训的速度 ,迎接知识经济的到来 ,这是云南高等教育的必由之路