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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Massification"”.
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Mass Intellectuality of the Neoliberal State. Mass Higher Education, Public Professionalism and State Effects in Chile.
How does the massification of higher education shape the neoliberal state in Chile? Our research looks at the state effects of the mass intellectuality spawned by the recent expansion of the university system. The significance of this group hinges on the dissemination of orientations of public …
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Fractured Front: Gender, Authenticity, and the Remaking of the American Left after World War Two
… many artists and intellectuals feared the massification of human beings communism allegedly produced. One of the tools they developed to combat this specter of massification was the discourse of authenticity. Authenticity was predicated on the belief that useful analyses of the world came …
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Class actions within the field of environmental law
… societies in growing dimensions. The increasing 'massification', significant for westernised countries, also involve mass accidents and widespread environmental damage or pollution. A single factory, or for instance an oil refinery, can cause toxic fumes polluting the air, and thus causing …
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Les enjeux de la distribution géographique des flux conteneurisés canadiens sur l'espace terrestre nord-américain
… States. The research dissects the trend towards massification and specialisation by analysing the opinions of the principal actors in the trade on both East and West Coasts. The persistence of public authorities in the management of national transport systems perpetuates the concept of traffic …
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Hyperimage: Photography Beyond the Human Scale
… where large-scale computation valorises the massification of photography to automate image-making and interpretation. These practices comprise an assemblage of computational infrastructure,cultural techniques, visual media, human operators, and machine agents spanning the globe across time …
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The relationship between perceived employability, core self-evaluations, and approach-avoidance temperaments in South African University students
… market (e.g., technological advancements, the massification of higher education, and rising unemployment). Employability is now contingent on more factors than qualifications alone, and individuals' perceptions of employability depend on a range of psychosocial factors that relate to their …
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The influence of workaholism and burnout on the intention to quite amongst academic employees at a selected university n the Western Cape
… to contend with a changing landscape due to the massification of education, additional pressure being placed on academia with respect to research outputs, teaching a transforming student base, along with political and social pressures. In South Africa, in particular, there has been increasing …
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Une biocapteur à base de résonance de plasmons de surface intégré monolithiquement avec une source d'excitation
… Un des points forts du développement est la massification de points de service, afin d'obtenir un diagnostic rapide des maladies. Le diagnostique aux premières étapes de son évolution permettra réduire considérablement les coûts associés aux traitements des patients. Le présent …
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Hearing voices: first year undergraduate experience of audio feedback
… the perceived dehumanising effect of this massification. Amid a growing discourse highlighting the importance of feedback to student learning, the focus of this study centres on the use of digital audio feedback with first year undergraduates. Eschewing the positivist approaches that are …
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Using mobile phones to support learning : a case of UCT first year female science students in the Academic Development Programme
… universities have been faced with increased massification as a result of more students entering higher education institutions. Some of the students are from poor communities such as rural areas and former black townships which are still educationally disadvantaged. These students, who have …
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Academic staff’s career pathway design in English pre-1992 universities: contemporary evolution or systematic de-construction of Homo Academicus?
… to social equity. Pressures of marketisation, massification and globalisation add to an agenda for change. For Universities to succeed in this pressurised environment, the response of academic staff – the most important resource in any institution – is critical. Against this background, there …
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Visions of Dystopia in German Literature, 1913-1957
… are characterised by a set of recurring themes: massification and the end of the individual, the (social) engineer or technocrat, anti-rationalism, and technology. The genre turns against the progressivist optimism of the nineteenth century and takes inspiration from both Rathenau’s notion of the …
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Towards a qualitative framework for blending equity and excellence in transforming South African higher education to achieve development
… to the higher education system's experience of massification and differentiation. Terms such as “quality”, “fitness for purpose”, “social justice”, and “equality” are relevant to this discussion and provide meaning for the concepts of excellence and equity. A grounded theory approach was used to …
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Can a blended learning environment enhance teaching and learning in large heterogeneous first-year classes?: a study in a private higher education institution
… of first-year undergraduate students. The massification of higher education has meant that first-year students are often commonly taught with students from different faculties in large lecture theatres. As the drive towards an outcome-based student-centred approach to teaching and learning …
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Knowledge management and higher education: a UK case study using grounded theory
… bound together by the identical challenges of massification, the emergence of greater accountability imposed by the government, sharp financial cuts, a greater emphasis on student satisfaction, globalisation, the knowledge economy, marketisation and advances in information and communications …
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Discourse on civilization: postliberal postsecular histories of the ghetto
… is the rationalization, industrialization, and massification of colonial relations that condenses world centre and periphery within intimate matrixes of difference that uniquely reveal psychic interiorities (of Self and Other) and material exteriorities (of body and city) as the making of ‘the …
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21st century tertiary design education in post-apartheid South Africa : a question of quality
… the state institutions, now burdened with massification, in terms of quality education provision. The study goes on to develop an understanding of how changes in the economic markets have created change demand within design. It then considers the four tenets on which FEDISA's programme for …
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The lecture in the age of digital reproduction: A convergent mixed-methods study
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Winner-Takes-All: Access to Education and Labor Market Returns in the Philippines
… higher education institutions. Second, this massification in access occurred through intense public provision, in a country known to have one of the largest private higher education systems in the world (Levy, 2018) where cost is known to rise with quality (A. Orbeta, 2002). Third, sustained …
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