Professor Bob Bessant, 28 May 1930 – 2 May 2013

In higher education today, an overwhelming acceptance of neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies that advance corporate logics of efficiency, competition and profit maximization is commonplace. Market-driven logics and neoconservative ideals shape decision-making about what is taught, how material is taught, who teaches, who does research, who belongs, what counts as valid research and, ultimately, the purposes of higher education. Against this backdrop, in this essay, I provide a critical analysis of the ways in which market-driven and neoconservative values shape the experiences of junior faculty of color in American research universities. That is to say, I am concerned with the ways in which neoliberal racialization structures the lives of junior faculty of color in the US academy. In my analysis, I reason that in order to substantively improve conditions for junior faculty of color, there is a need for those concerned with change to fine-tune understandings of the US academy – its history and new re-alignment with the market, neoconservative ideals and corporate values – identifying in the process the non-benign impact of the corporate university on scholarship and teaching, working conditions and visions for social justice and equity.     

闽学与台湾书院

以现实的地域辖区而论,台湾之有书院,最早可以追溯至南宋时期的金门。以本岛而言,则施琅所创西定坊书院应为台湾最早的书院;与其后所创的8所书院,是台湾书院发展的初期,而不应认为是“徒具书院之名”的“义学”。以卫台揆崇文书院为转折点,台湾书院进入了成熟期,并由此迎来了台湾书院发展的高潮。福建书院的成功经验,为台湾书院的发展提供了先进的办学模式以供参照和借鉴。而赴台的福建官员和学者的努力,则是台湾书院成功办学的关键。在以闽学治台的政策导向中,台湾书院起到了振兴纲纪,教化民众,促进台湾经济、文化和教育事业发展的重要作用。     

王阳明书院理念与朱熹之比较——以《教条示龙场诸生》与《白鹿洞书院揭示》为例

王阳明是明代的理学大师,《龙场教条示诸生》是其书院教育思想的重要表现。与朱熹《白鹿洞书院揭示》相比较,它展示了阳明教育思想的心学特质,而这与王阳明在贵州的经历有重要关系。     

学院批评时代的危机

根据阿尔贝.蒂伯代对文学批评的分类,中国现当代文学批评经历了从以作家批评为主到以职业批评为主的发展历程。但职业批评的现状并不容乐观:学术量化、理论与批评的矛盾、酷评、批评与现实脱节等等,危机更深地来自自身,应加以警惕。     

The progressive and non‐formal principles of Kibbutz education in Israel

This article explores the relationship between philanthropy and education in the context of eighteenth‐century Protestant Dissent. More particularly, it examines the intersection between philanthropy, fund‐raising and educational administration as they evolved within the institutional lifecycle of the collegiate Dissenting academies. It argues that individual academies experienced at least three of four life stages, each of which had its own unique challenges. All academies went through the first two of these stages, namely ‘foundation’ and ‘maintenance’. Whether or not an academy experienced the last two stages – ‘transition’ and ‘dissolution’ – depended on factors such as the financial strength of an academy and the reliability of its principal supporters. To illustrate these stages and their philanthropic subtexts, the article focuses on three institutional ‘traditions’, those of the Northampton Academy and its successors, the Warrington Academy, and Trevecca College and its successor Cheshunt College.     

明代甘肃书院述略

明代书院是在明中后期官学衰微的情况下发展起来的。这一发展背景使明代书院一开始就带有浓厚的官学化色彩,但基于惯习,明代书院还是保留着传统的办学理念和制度特点,使书院依然是明中后期最有活力的教育形式,扮演着批判当时教育弊端,提供新的教育经验的先导。书院的官学化使书院教育能够得到官方的支持,这对边远地区的教育更有着积极的意义,明代甘肃始有书院,在很大程度上是书院这种发展趋势的产物。     

I ulu no ka lālā i ke kumu,the branches grow because of the trunk: ancestral knowledge as refusal

Abstract

This paper will discuss the ways that Native Hawaiian scholars are engaging in innovative strategies that incorporate ancestral knowledges into the academy. Ancestral knowledges are highly valued as Indigenous communities strive to pass on such wisdom and lessons from generation to generation. Ancestral knowledges are all around us no matter where we are, they are evident and valued in every setting, whether out on the ocean and land or in a four-walled classroom. However, contrary to Indigenous beliefs, ancestral knowledges are continually threatened by formal education systems – institutions that would have us believe that they have no place in the university setting; whereby Indigenous ways of learning are replaced with Western forms. Ancestral knowledges are devalued due to the fact that most institutions of higher education are not multi-generational, reflecting a bias against elders and elder knowledge and an overemphasis on ‘new’ knowledge. Furthermore, these institutions are dependent on Western epistemologies and ways of thinking. Building upon my own experiences. This paper aims to unveil the ways in which Native Hawaiians have combated alienation and isolation of ancestral knowledges in higher education and to re-imagine what Native Hawaiian higher education could be. More specifically, I analyze exemplary practices at the level of individuals, community, and institutions to illustrate the ways that scholars have refused such exclusion of ancestral knowledges within the academy.     

20世纪60年代美国历史研究的价值反思

20世纪60年代美国史学界面对社会冲突带来的价值混乱,通过对进步主义史学影响的涨落和其他史学派别出现过程的考察,对历史学在美国社会发挥的功能进行了探讨.每一流派的兴起都是其历史叙事原则的再现,美国的史学研究需要价值判断和道德教化的意义式书写,还是坚持关注现实和实用主义,美国历史学家们都用自己的研究回答了这一问题.     

对清代书院军事教育改革的研究

军事教育是清代书院教育的一个组成部分。鸦片战争后,民族危机日益深重,书院顺应时代潮流,引入了近代军事教育内容,扩大了军事教育的对象,甚至还尝试改办近代军事学校,对近代军事教育作出了一定贡献。书院进行军事教育所积累的若干经验,如教学方式灵活,以学生自修研究为主;考核方式灵活,促进学生创新能力的培养;理论与实践相结合,注重学生实践能力的培养等,对目前各类学校军事教育课程具有一定的借鉴意义。     

Mentoring in literacy education: a commentary from graduate students,untenured professors,and tenured professors

This commentary continues a dialogue which began among literacy teacher educators attending an alternative format session about mentoring in the academy at a national conference. Literacy teacher educators participated in an informal discussion centered on the nature of mentoring in the academy for doctoral students, untenured professors, and tenured professors. Doctoral students focused on their changing identities and roles in the academy, their concerns about navigating the political infrastructure of academia, and the importance of assuming a proactive stance towards obtaining mentoring, especially for part‐time doctoral students. Untenured professors focused on the ways they were inventing and reinventing themselves within the power and politics of academia and their need for more holistic mentoring during these turbulent times. Tenured professors were able to embed mentoring experiences into their scholarly work and find ways to benefit or learn from mentoring experiences. These mentors also found comfort in more informal mentoring that included self‐initiated endeavors centered on mutual interests. Our commentary draws on these discussions as well as the professional literature on mentoring to describe the importance of mutual trust and reciprocity in mentoring throughout all stages of academia with attention to cultural and linguistic diversity.     

Invisible and hypervisible academics: the experiences of Black and minority ethnic teacher educators

This qualitative study investigated the experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) teacher educators in England and Australia working within the predominantly white space of the academy. Data analysis was informed by a multidimensional theoretical framework drawing on Critical Race Theory, whiteness and Puwar’s concept of the Space Invader. Findings suggest the participants in both national contexts felt marginalised, and encountered subtle everyday racism manifested as microaggressions that contributed to the academics’ simultaneous construction as hypervisible and invisible, and as outsiders to the academy. Vulnerability, insecurity and precariousness was generated through the participants’ positioning as space invaders within the university and borne from surveillance by students and managers. The paper argues that despite long-standing Equal Opportunity policies tenacious racism in the academy must be disrupted through structured career support and mentoring for BME staff and wider staff development on implicit bias and everyday racism.     

Walking in both worlds: rethinking Indigenous knowledge in the academy

Six generations ago, my Celtic forebears came to Australia as convicts and invaders displacing Indigenous peoples. As a scholar today, I am interested in how Indigenous knowledge remains a challenge in Australian Universities even in this postmodern and postcolonial moment. This paper recognises the need to extend discussion about how Indigenous people might be facilitated within the academy to bring their knowledge models into the university and its traditional dominant knowledge systems. This paper looks at Practice-Led Research (PLR) as a way of supporting the transition of Indigenous community scholars into university postgraduate courses. It explores how PLR may contribute to an appropriate entry point into postgraduate studies for some Indigenous practitioner-candidates who have significant life experiences and narratives and/or productions of artefacts that act to replace the breadth of undergraduate credentials. Indigenous people are facilitated in bringing their knowledge models into the university and the academy when we act upon being inclusive rather than exclusive regarding the explication and definition of knowledge within the academy. In accepting and acting upon the concept that traditional forms of knowledge are extended by non-traditional Indigenous forms of knowledge, we also enrich the scholarly conversation about how alternative forms of knowledge can add dynamism to the academy.     

学术与政治:和谐共融

学术主知,政治主行,它们之间具有不同的运行规则,但又都致力于社会发展、人民安康,因而其本质又是一致的,对此,学术与政治需要和谐共融.但现实中学术与政治的不和谐音符警示我们,要谨防政治过度干预学术,要防止学术政治化,只有这样,才能使学术与政治和谐发展.     

Relational Mentoring of Doctoral Social Work Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

This article explores the distinctive mentoring experiences of social work doctoral students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). With a philosophical emphasis on social justice, self-determination, racial identity and pride, and social integration, social work faculty at HBCUs mentor African American and other students in PhD programs for academic achievement and successful leadership in the professoriate. The mentoring experiences at HBCUs are underpinned by tenets from relational/cultural theory and the Black feminist theory of “other mothering.” Using Howard University as a case study, this article examines relational mentoring experiences of PhD students in preparation for the academy and for leadership in social work education and practice.     

Career Academies and Urban Minority Schooling: Forging Optimism Despite Limited Opportunity

This qualitative case study focuses on 80 urban minority high school students enrolled in 2 California Career Academies, paying close attention to the cultural and institutional processes that impact their achievement. This study argues that, despite urban inequality, the Career Academy model fosters optimism among low-income minority students. However, students' experiences differ within each academy context. Some Career Academy structures are able to promote positive student relations, whereas others simply reflect the status quo. This phenomenon is primarily due to an uneven recruitment process, the resulting student population of each academy, and the differing Career Academy cultures and institutional mechanisms. This article suggests that Career Academies constitute a potentially successful school reform strategy, despite their limitations.     

Latina Faculty Transcending Barriers: Peer Mentoring in a Hispanic-serving Institution

In this article, the authors conducted a research metasynthesis of publications by a group of Latina tenure-track faculty participating in a peer mentoring group, the Research for the Educational Advancement of Latin@s (REAL) collaborative, housed in one Hispanic Serving Institution. Due to the small representation of Latinas in the academy, the significance of non-hierarchical peer-mentoring structures is observed as empowering Latina faculty to develop personal and/or professional transformation. We asked, “What peer mentoring strategies can Latina faculty employ to navigate academia?” These faculty members’ experiences in building a scholarly community pose a counter-narrative to the historical isolation of underrepresented faculty in academia and suggest possibilities for women faculty of color to construct a personal and professional community in the academy.     

工学互动组合:重构高职教育双师型教学团队的新思路

建立"工学互动组合教学团队",是从根本上解决目前"双师型"教师队伍建设困境的一种新思路.从组织形式和运行模式上来界定"双师型"教学团队,更利于校企紧密合作.强调以"企业本位"思考高职教育内容,以"学校教育"(而非"企业训练")开展高职教育活动,培养有灵性、有修养、有技能、善创新的个性化人才是校企合作的利益共生点.只有在校企双方利益共生共存中寻找行动策略,才能实现高职院校教学活动的"职业性"特征.     

西点军校领导力培养及其启示

西点军校不仅是一所享誉中外的军校,而且也以其卓越的领导力培养闻名于世。本文首先从入学要求和人才培养目标、三位一体的人才培养计划、考核体系三个方面介绍西点军校的领导力培养体制;然后总结出西点军校领导力培养的基本经验;最后提出对领导力培养的启示。     

The cost of being professors and administrators of color in predominantly white institutions: unpacking microagression,isolation, exclusion,and unfairness through a critical race lens

ABSTRACT

Teaching in predominantly white institutions is a terrific challenge for professors of color. In addition to being expected to fulfill professional obligations, including publishing, teaching, advising, and mentoring students, professors of color constantly have to fight against microaggression, lack of diversity, inclusion, and fairness in the academy. Drawing on critical race theory and testimonios from professors of color from diverse backgrounds, this essay seeks to examine ways in which these professors have experienced these intersecting forms of oppression in the academy. Their testimonios showcase their resilient spirit resisting institutional oppression. This essay presents a very complex portrait of the experiences of professors of color and goes on to offer suggestions that might be helpful to those interested in social justice issues in higher education.