Bundled or unbundled? A multi-text corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the relationship between teaching and research in UK universities

Creating and disseminating knowledge through research and teaching has long been regarded as the hallmark of the modern university. However, new university business models have called into question the ‘bundling’ of teaching and research, and sustained research on the relationship between teaching and research has found little evidence of an insoluble connection between the two activities. In this article, we explore the relationship between teaching and research from the perspective of universities’ institutional discourse. We use corpus-assisted discourse analysis to examine the relationship between research and teaching as presented in two sets of institutional texts currently influential in UK Higher Education: Research Excellence Framework environment statements and Teaching Excellence Framework provider submissions (a total of 2143 documents and 12,492,071 words). Our findings show that, while universities emphasise the value of research to their teaching, they do not always emphasise (or sometimes even decry) the influence of teaching on their research. We empirically evidence that, according to what universities themselves write in institutional texts, teaching and research are not always in a mutually beneficial entanglement, but often rather a one-way relationship in which research expertise and institutional prestige are used to bolster claims of teaching excellence. This has implications for the communication of both the vision and the purpose of a university in regulatory exercises and wider policy, but also speaks to the broader idea and practice of being a university in the twenty-first century.     

“计算法”教学在田径课中的应用研究

为探讨如何在体育技术课教学中培养学生的初步科研能力，设计了计算法教学试验。在教学中启发学生分析问题和解决问题的能力，使他们变被动学习为主动学习，在培养学生初步科研能力上，起到了有效的作用。     

高职《Delphi程序设计》教学模式初探

本文旨在探讨《Delphi程序设计》课程如何改变传统以程序语言自身的体系为脉络展开的教学模式,借鉴企业工程开发流程展开教学,再结合项目式教学法,四阶段教学法、启发式教学法与分层次教学等多种教学策略的综合运用,将理论知识点与专业技能综合在一起,提升学生的综合职业能力,从而缩小人才培养与社会需求的差距。     

竞技健美操表现力的培养

对培养竞技健美操的表现力进行多方面探讨的基础上，调查分析认为，成套动作的编排是表现力的载体，音乐是整套操表现力的灵魂；心理素质训练是表现力的总体体现。     

论高师院校公共教育学前言课的教学

公共教育学的教学质量问题多年来一直是高师教学改革中的一个难点。实践证明,在教育学的教学工作中,一定要注重教学前言课的教学;只有在教学活动展开之前向学生讲清楚了“为什么学?”、“学什么?”、“如何学?”和“课程目标是什么?”这四方面的问题,才有利于激发学生学习的积极性,从而提高教学效果。     

“启航吧！圣玛利亚号”课程教案

本课程依托中国航海博物馆“世界航海五百年”特展,重点诠释高中历史课程中“全球航路的开辟”这一课的相关内容。在教学理念与方法上,本课程将团体心理游戏和情境教学法相结合,通过博物馆展品这类独特的实物史料,带领学生主动探索和发现知识,培养高中学生的历史学科核心素养,使学生了解新航路开辟所引发的全球性流动,并学会使用联系的观点看待新航路开辟对中国的影响。     

Teaching Appraisal in an American (U.S.) Archives Program

The author, a professor at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, discusses the use of selected archival literature to nurture an appraisal mindset, particularly within the American context. She then addresses in some detail types of appraisal case studies and the variety of ways that they may be used as teaching tools.     

Buddhist Wall Paintings at Nako Monastery,North India: Changing of the Technology Throughout Centuries

The technical study of wall paintings from the Buddhist temple complex at Nako, Western Himalayas, was one of the basic preconditions required for designing an appropriate conservation strategy. The complex, composed of four temples from the eleventh–twelfth century, offered a unique possibility to carry out a comprehensive research of technology and painting materials used in early and later western Tibetan Buddhist wall paintings as well as a comparative assessment with murals from other sites in the Western Himalayas. The study was based on extensive fieldwork and an integrated analytical approach comprising a wide range of non-destructive and micro-destructive methods. Answering the question of the coevality of paintings in the smaller temples with other original murals, the precise characterisation of binding media, the detection of the yellow dye gamboge and natural minerals posnjakite and brochantite identified for the first time in Himalayan murals, the clarification of technology of metal decoration, and the making of raised elements are some of the most exciting results which emerged from the research.     

Disciplined freedom,branded authenticity,and dependable independence: how tensions enact flexibility in lifestyle blogging careers

Analyzing 219 blog posts from 52 self-employed women lifestyle bloggers in North America, this study shows how these digital professionals navigate tensions and communicatively constitute work flexibility. In their narratives, women bloggers employed tension management approaches such as reframing, continual connections, and reflective practice in response to tensions in enacting temporal–spatial, identity, and financial flexibility. Specifically, women followed oxymoronic constructions – disciplined freedom, branded authenticity, and dependable independence – to embrace and transform competing poles of fluidity?structure, authenticity?marketability, and independence?interconnection. Expanding work–life research to the self-employed digital labor context, this study responds to recent calls to uncover more-than tension management strategies in empirical settings and contributes to a tension-centered, contextual, and processual analysis of workplace flexibility construction.     

Rediscovering the teacher within Indian child-centred pedagogy: implications for the global Child-Centred Approach

The Child-Centred Approach (CCA) is increasingly promoted within India and internationally as a response to the challenge of delivering quality education. From identifying and examining Indian indigenous and global concepts of CCA within traditional and contemporary child-centred pedagogic discourse, this paper reveals the complexities of underlying agendas within the domestic and international setting and the implications of this for the integration of CCA and the ‘child-centred’ teacher in India. Based on empirical analysis of teachers’ interviews, the findings demonstrate that the role of the teacher continues to be largely overlooked in spite of a willingness from teachers to engage within the child-centred pedagogic discourse. Disempowerment, a lack of autonomy and limited professional status are highlighted. Therefore, this paper calls for the rediscovery of the ‘child-centred’ teacher to advance from within the nation. Without this, it is asserted that the authenticity of the CCA model will continue to be compromised, and with it, any indigenous expressions of a similar epistemology will be fundamentally restricted.