Visuality is a concept that crosses boundaries of practice and meaning, making it an ideal subject for interdisciplinary research. In this article, we discuss visuality using a fragment from a video ...meeting of television producers at Swedish Television’s group for programming in Swedish Sign Language. This example argues for the importance of recognizing the diversity of analytical and practice-derived visualities and their effect on the ways in which we interpret cultures. These different visualities have consequences for the methods and means with which we present scholarly research. The role of methods, methodology, and analysis of visual practices in an organizational and bilingual setting are key. We explore the challenges of incorporating deaf visualities, hearing visualities, and different paradigms of interdisciplinary research as necessary when visibility, invisibility, and their materialities are of concern. We conclude that in certain contexts, breaking with disciplinary traditions makes visible that which is otherwise invisible.
I detta nummer av Högre utbildning fokuseras huvudsakligen på hur studenter kan engageras i forskning samt lärares skriftliga reflektioner om sin egen undervisning.
'Knowledge society' and 'knowledge economy' are current buzzwords in the visions of the future made by nations, regions and federations on a global scale. A concrete outcome of this is the ...globalisation and intensification of higher education and research. The visions based on a knowledge component should be treated as expressions of an ideology. In this article we use the notion of 'eduscapes' and 'imaginaries' as analytics for an understanding of such visions as these are expressed by individuals and institutional actors involved in educational landscapes. The argument is made that this notion is less ideological and more apt for an analysis of globalisation of higher education.
The two notions of “globalization” and “knowledge society” are often assumed to be relatively neutral descriptions of contemporary social and cultural developments, although they are embedded in ...discourses on power and domination. In this paper the argument is made that both these notions can be understood as expressions of an ideology of neo-colonialism and that they assume an ethnocentric or Eurocentric bias rather than being neutral descriptions of the “natural” unfolding of social and political changes. The thesis of the “knowledge society”, in particular, needs to be demythologized as a vehicle for the rebirth of nations and regions in the context of increasing global challenges. A critical perspective such as this is a desired complement to the otherwise glossy versions of the future of “knowledge work” and “creative work” based on a doctrine of “fundamentalism of education”. The critical understanding of contemporary regimes for knowledge, learning and education on the international scene provide a necessary counterpoint to the dominating political and educational discourses advocating the advent of “knowledge society”.
The great tidal wave (tsunami) following an earthquake under the sea brought death and disaster to a large number of people along the coast of South-East Asia in December 2004. This event caught the ...attention of the world communities of donors who gave generously to aid relief efforts, partly inspired by the marketing of transnational NGOs and fundraisers such as the Red Cross and Medecins sans Frontieres. In this paper, concrete examples from this marketing campaign in Sweden, one nation among many that suffered great loss, are used in order to address questions where the rationality of giving and the rationality of business intersect. At the centre of the analysis stands the representation of the other in the ads. The theoretical framework for this analysis is inspired by Emmanuel Levinas and his understanding of an 'elevated' Other and brings up a set of questions concerning representation and ethics relevant to global marketing in a post-national world. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
"Det finns många utmaningar med vetenskaplig publicering, inte minst vad gäller pressen akademiker har att publicera (publish or perish) och olika rankingar mellan lärosäten och länder där ...publikationer i internationella högrankade tidskrifter premieras (Aprile et al., 2021). Många tidskrifter har sett ett ökat flöde av inskickade bidrag under de senaste åren, så även Högre utbildning. Det har resulterat i en ökad mängd bidrag för redaktörer att granska och hantera. Det ligger i tidskriftens intresse att publicera bidrag av hög kvalitet och relevans för tidskriftens målgrupp. Men det ligger också i tidskriftens intresse att sammantaget ha ett tillräckligt omfattande och varierat innehåll som läses av målgruppen". Läs hela ledaren av redaktörene Maria Weurlander och Per-Anders Forstorp her.
Ledare nr.1, 2022 Schnaas, Ulrike; Forstorp, Per-Anders
Högre utbildning,
10/2022, Letnik:
12, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Välkomna till det första numret av Högre utbildning år 2022! Efter nästan två års digital undervisning på distans har vårterminen till största del utspelat sig på campus igen, efterlängtat av många, ...både studenter och lärare. Samtidigt har de högskolepedagogiska konferenserna nästan avlöst varandra, från lokala konferenser på lärosätesnivå till den nationella NU-konferensen med temat ”Att synliggöra lärandet” och den internationella ICED-konferensen under rubriken ”Sustainable Educational Development”, som gick av stapeln i Danmark. Tidskriften Högre utbildning är en del av samtalet mellan lärare, forskare, pedagogiska utvecklare, studenter medflera och bidrar med aktuella perspektiv. En del av texterna i det här numret summerar och analyserar erfarenheter som har gjorts under pandemin, medan andra bidrag rör sig i en vidare högskolepedagogisk kontext.
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