Moths,candles and fires: examining dance as creative practice research in a Master's degree

This article reflects on the purposes and functions of examination criteria for Masters' research degrees with creative practice components. With a particular focus on dance projects that incorporate both a performed and a written expression of the research, we consider how a rubric for creative practice research degrees might address formative and summative assessment purposes and clarify goals for learners, supervisors, examiners and academic institutions. Our discussion is situated within a South Pacific postgraduate learning context and is informed by post-colonial and post-Cartesian concerns over how dance knowledge is recognized in global academia. Much current literature has argued how particular research methods and diverse approaches to the presentation of research outputs can destabilize dominant, logocentric methods of valuing knowledge. Our queries extend this argument into the actual quantifiable measuring and evaluation of such knowledge, which Masters' grading necessitates in order to maintain its value as an institutional currency. This leads to the reflections on the rubric for Masters' degrees with Creative Practice components that is currently used within the Dance Studies programme of the University of Auckland, and how this rubric might be seen as contributing to an evolving ‘cultivated’ community of practice within postgraduate examination. The rubric continues to grow through ongoing consultation with postgraduate students, supervisory staff, internal and external examiners and international experts in creative arts academia. Our reflections extend the argument for how creative practice might be further rationalized within academia.     

德国工科大学模式：轨迹、特征与价值

德国研究型大学不能满足工业化的要求,这为工科大学登上德国高等教育舞台提供了＂契机＂。文章通过对工科大学发展轨迹的梳理,论述其发展过程的特点,即工业化的外在助推,工商官员的改革推进,工科大学的＂内在自觉＂,多方力量的商议妥协。德国工科大学具备如下4个显著特征：系科设立与工业化的适切性,课程内容与工商界的紧密性,科学研究与技术研究相结合,政府、社会和学校三方互动。它为工业化培养了大批高级技术人才,拓展了德国大学模式,成为大学模式多元发展的范本。     

研究区如何贡献于大学的创新活动与区域经济发展——访麦迪逊威斯康辛大学研究区主任马克·伯格

大学研究区目前已经成为了世界各国促进大学创新能力提升及其知识成果转化为商业价值的主要平台。与世界其他国家相比,美国大学的研究区无论是在创新成果的数量和质量,还是在发展模式的多样化方面,都表现出了很大的优势。通过与麦迪逊威斯康辛大学研究区主任的访谈,可以使我们更加深刻的理解大学研究区存在的意义,它是如何繁荣大学的知识创新与技术转移活动。面对高等教育系统的变化及全球化的挑战,大学研究区又将如何对这些外部变革作出回应。