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Entre audit cultures et peer reviews, l’évaluation est plus que jamais présente dans le domaine de la recherche académique. EspacesTemps.net consacre une traverse à ce phénomène et souhaite encourager le débat autour des nouvelles formes à donner à cette évaluation et sur les liens étroits de ces futurs choix avec les enjeux de la recherche [...]
Comme chaque année, EspacesTemps.net interrompt le flot de ses publications pour une durée d’un mois durant l’été. Nous serons de retour dès le 16 août. L’année 2009-2010 a vu la publication de trois nouvelles traverses, qui sont autant d’appels à contribution sur l’édition académique libre, le tourisme comme mode et sujet d’enquête et le développement [...]
Within less than twenty-four hours, I have moved from Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, with its fifteen-million population, to the Ouessant island, with its less-than-a-thousand population. At the last moment before catching the boat sailing from Brest to Ouessant, I picked up a very impressive touristic map. On board, with a coffee and a [...]
‘Now, of course, we live in Thatcher’s psyche if not her anus, in the world she made, of competition, consumerism, celebrity and guilt’s bastard son, charity: bingeing and debt.’ Hanif Kureishi (2008: 271) The hidden injuries of the neo-liberal University. In a recently published piece titled ‘Breaking the Silence: The Hidden Injuries of the Neoliberal [...]
It’s been a long time since academic discussions about research and teaching were part of the board meetings of the department of Anthropology and Sociology of the University of Amsterdam. Most of our meetings today deal with administrative problems only. Sometimes these departmental meetings are followed immediately by teaching obligations. Usually, I find it hard [...]
There is a growing body of literature and events critiquing the spread of ‘audit cultures’ [...]
Événements. « Curating the European Universities. European Exposition and Public Debate », 10 et 11 février 2011, Université Catholique de Louvain. Ce colloque est organisé par le Laboratory for Education and Society de l’Université catholique de Louvain, le Laboratory for Educationnal Theory de l’Univerité de Stirling (Écosse) et le Convenant entre l’Université catholique de Louvain [...]
Institutionalized education in most part of the human society seems intrinsically hierarchical. One is supposed to progress from a ‘lower’ level of learning to the ‘higher’; ‘average’ kids study in mediocre schools, and the ‘outstanding’ go to top colleges; and, finally, ‘degree’ is by definition hierarchical. Recent discussions on higher education have focused on the [...]
In 1999, China’s State Council issued a ‘Decision Concerning the Deepening of Education Reform and the All-Out Promotion of Quality Education.’ This document introduced the term ‘education industry’ (教育产业) along with two major policy changes: a dramatic expansion in university admissions and the devolution of part of the control over higher education from the central [...]
‘The whole business of peer-reviewed journals has no effect on the external world and is just a Rube Goldberg machine designed to get people tenure.’ James C. Scott (2007: 385) ‘Accountability has turned to . . . bean-counting.’ Chester E. Finn, Jr., former Us Assistant Secretary of Education, on current schools policy (quoted in Dillon [...]
