Re/assembling ‘innovative’ learning environments: Affective practice and its politics

Abstract

In this article, we argue that the interest being taken by governments in establishing innovative learning environments (ILEs) in schools relies on a conception of space as a largely neutral arena. In consequence, relations of space and power inherent in the infrastructural shift to ILEs tend to drop from view. Adopting an assemblage approach to investigating learning environments, and exploring ILEs as they are playing out in Australian schools, we strive to surface what drops from view. Taking ILEs to be sociomaterial assemblages, we work with empirical material and trace how they assemble and reassemble. The account is less concerned with what works in ILEs; rather, its focus is on their ‘workings’ as assemblages of relations and most particularly, affective relations. Thus, we explore two affective encounters involving school leaders, teachers and students showing the ways in which they position and are positioned within ILEs. The argument is made that the assemblage approach which is non-deterministic and relational affords new ways of understanding what ILEs are and how they work and who they work for. And, that attending to affective practice brings into view the micropolitics through which infrastructural shifts and infrastructural policy-making are made.     

With or without U? Assemblage theory and (de)territorialising the university

ABSTRACT

Contemporary changes in the domain of knowledge production are usually seen as posing significant challenges to ‘the University’. This paper argues against the framing of the university as an ideal-type, and considers epistemic gains from treating universities as assemblages (e.g. DeLanda, M. 2016. Assemblage Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) of different functions, actors and relations. It contrasts this with the concept of ‘unbundling’, using two recent cases of controversies around academics’ engagement on social media to show how, rather than having clearly delineated limits, social entities become ‘territorialised’ through boundary disputes. The conclusion extends this discussion to the production of knowledge about social objects in general.     

苏南地区社会保障一体化构建研究

苏南地区社会保障一体化的构建是城乡一体化和经济一体化的必需要求。因此,该地区应当打造立法、管理体制、监督机制、金融体系、资金筹集与运作以及信息等六大平台。     

影响高校毕业生就业的社会资本因素分析

社会资本是近年来学术界研究较多的一个问题。本文在对社会资本及大学生就业相关文献进行梳理的基础上,利用北京大学教育学院"高等教育规模扩展与劳动力市场"课题组于2005年6月对全国34所高校调查的数据,对大学生社会资本状况,社会资本对大学生毕业去向、就业落实率、起薪及工作满意度的影响,进行了实证分析。本文的主要研究结果如下:(1)与来自社会经济地位较高的家庭的学生相比,来自社会弱势家庭的学生在家庭社会资本与个人社会资本上都比较缺乏;(2)大学生毕业选择就业或升学时,家庭社会交往广泛度对升学选择产生显著的正面影响,而个人社会交往广泛度对就业产生了显著的正面影响;(3)社会资本与大学毕业生的就业落实、起薪、工作满意度存在着显著的正面影响;(4)社会资本对大专生和本科生就业落实率有较为显著的正的影响,但是对硕士和博士的就业落实率没有显著影响。     

资本的存在论诠释

资本为原则的生产关系确立以后,资本不仅仅是统治社会的最高经济权力,而且是统治全社会的最高社会权力.资本的基本属性,支配着整个社会生产过程的基本目的,决定了社会生产构成要素的存在价值与属性,彻底地剥离了它们的感性特质.     

开设实验公选课提高学生工程实践能力

通过机械基础课实验教学示范中心资源开发实验公选课,以提高学生工程实践能力,并对实验公选课的教学模式进行了探索。     

网络课程在概率论与数理统计教学中的应用

通过网络课程的答疑系统、作业批改系统、学生自测系统等,将《概率论与数理统计》的课堂教学与网络课程教学有机地结合在一起。教学实践表明:网络课程在《概率论与数理统计》教学中的应用提高了该课程的教学质量,促进了教学的整体改革,优化了教学过程。     

从解构理论看《威尼斯商人》中的"契约"人文观

借助德里达(Derrida)的“解构理论”对《威尼斯商人》中“契约”所蕴藏的西方人文主义传统进行了探讨。结合“新历史主义”的批评策略,对《威尼斯商人》中“肉偿契约”的理据性、观念性、道德的歧义性和法制的虚伪性进行“解构性”解读,揭示莎翁时代所处的历史转换时期的人文道德特点,重新解读被规定的历史文化语境而形成所谓的“人文主义”主题。     

把实验室的创新成果转化为社会财富——创新人才培养的重要阶段

根据工作亲身经历和实地考察研究，认为高等学校实验室蕴藏着大量的创新成果。创新成果转化为社会财富的过程，是培养创新人才的重要过程或称重要阶段。文中分析国内、外的一些成功事例，说明实验室创新成果转化为社会财富的重要性和转化成功的必要条件。     

关于教育基本概念的创新探索

教育的基本概念是教育理论的核心问题。教育基本概念的创新可以促进教育理论的创新,可以从泛化的概念、广义的概念、狭义的概念、专业的概念四个角度进行教育基本概念的创新探索。