Mark Olssen
Mark Olssen, FAcSS, a political theorist, is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Education Policy in the Department of Politics within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Surrey. Biography Born and educated in Dunedin, New Zealand, Olssen completed a PhD at the University of Otago in 1983, with a thesis on Trade unions in New Zealand, New Zealand trade unions. Olssen moved to England in 2001, and has researched and taught at the University of Surrey since that date. He researches include works on Michel Foucault, Foucault, education policy, social and political theory and quantum and post-quantum complexity approaches in the social sciences and he relates theoretical issues to contemporary matters of social and political concern, including neoliberalism, social theory, ethics, and higher education policy. Utilising a critical and constructivist approach across his individual books and articles, a nagging long-term interest is to develop a new non-foundati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Professor Mark Olssen
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a 'person who professes'. Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of List of academic ranks, academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word ''professor'' is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well, and often to instructors or lecturers. Professors often conduct original research and commonly teach undergraduate, Postgraduate educa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Higher Education Policy
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Fellows Of The Academy Of Social Sciences
The Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) is an award granted by the Academy of Social Sciences to leading academics, policy-makers, and practitioners of the social sciences. Fellows were previously known as Academicians and used the post-nominal letter "AcSS". This was changed in July 2014 to bring the academy in line with other British learned societies. Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences 1999 The first fellows (then known as academicians) were elected in 1999. The inaugural fellows were: 2000 * Andrew Gamble 2002 There were 91 people elected to the fellowship in 2002: 2003 There were 60 people elected to the fellowship in 2003: 2004 There were 51 people elected to the fellowship in 2004: March 2006 There were 63 people elected to the fellowship in March 2006: December 2006 There were 20 people elected to the fellowship in September 2006: Prior to 2007 These people are known to have been selected sometime prior to 2007: * Rick Trainor * Law ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Academics Of The University Of Surrey , a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline
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Academic means of or related to an academy, an institution learning. Academic or academics may also refer to: * Academic staff, or faculty, teachers or research staff * school of philosophers associated with the Platonic Academy in ancient Greece * The Academic, Irish indie rock band * "Academic", song by New Order from the 2015 album ''Music Complete'' Other uses *Academia (other) *Academy (other) *Faculty (other) *Scholar A scholar is a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researcher at a university. An academic usually holds an advanced degree or a termina ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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University Of Otago Alumni
A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Universities typically offer both undergraduate education, undergraduate and postgraduate education, postgraduate programs. The first universities in Europe were established by Catholic Church, Catholic monks. The University of Bologna (), Italy, which was founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *being a high degree-awarding institute. *using the word (which was coined at its foundation). *having independence from the ecclesiastic schools and issuing secular as well as non-secular degrees (with teaching conducted by both clergy and non-clergy): grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law and notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university in medieval life, 1179–1499", McFarland, 2 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New Zealand Political Philosophers
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Living People
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Kalervo Gulson
Dr Kalervo N. Gulson is a sociologist of education at the University of New South Wales. He has previously held positions at the University of British Columbia and Charles Sturt University. His work has provided important insights into the role of space and place when theorizing education policy change. Kalervo Gulson makes the claim that in today's world, particularly in inner-city areas, schools cannot operate in isolation from the communities in which they are located. In these areas, urban change and education policy change greatly influence each other. As part of his doctoral work, Kalervo examined the relationship between education and urban policy changes. His evidence was drawn from two case studies A case study is an in-depth, detailed examination of a particular case (or cases) within a real-world context. For example, case studies in medicine may focus on an individual patient or ailment; case studies in business might cover a particular fi ... of recently implemented ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Melinda Cooper (scholar)
Melinda Cooper is an Australian sociologist and political theorist. Her work deals with the political economy of neoliberalism, biopolitics and the history of capitalism. Biography Cooper holds a PhD from the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. She is currently a professor of sociology at the Australian National University, and editorial advisor to the ''Phenomenal World'' book series, edited by Chicago University Press. She has worked extensively on biopolitics and bioeconomy. ''Life as Surplus'' (2008) traced the links between the history of biotechnology and the rise of neoliberalism, looking at scientific, economic, political, and cultural elements. ''Clinical Labor'' (2014), published with Australian sociologist Catherine Waldby, focused on the embodied labor of those working as donors and research subjects in the field of assisted reproduction and experimental drug trials. It suggested that this form of labor posed important challenges to traditional conceptio ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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University Of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury (UC; ; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in 1873 as Canterbury College, the first constituent college of the University of New Zealand. It is New Zealand's second-oldest university, after the University of Otago, which was founded four years earlier, in 1869. Its original campus was in the Christchurch Central City, but in 1961 it became an independent university and began moving out of its original neo-Gothic buildings, which were re-purposed as the Christchurch Arts Centre. The move was completed on 1 May 1975 and the university now operates its main campus in the Christchurch suburb of Ilam. The university offers bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in, among others, Arts, Commerce, Education (physical education), Fine Arts, Forestry, Health Sciences, International Relations and Diplom ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Judith Duncan (academic)
Judith Maree Duncan (1963 – 26 March 2015) was a New Zealand academic, and was a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in early childhood education. She died of motor neurone disease in 2015. Career Duncan trained as a teacher at Dunedin Teachers' College, graduating in 1983, and then taught at kindergartens in Dunedin and Invercargill until 1993. During this time she formed the opinion that kindergarten teaching should be done in collaboration with parents, but is difficult when parents are dealing with issues such as family violence and poverty. During her time as a teacher, the National government brought in bulk funding of kindergartens, which led to cutbacks in resourcing. As part of the protests against the reforms, Duncan was involved in activities such as "Black Monday", when every item in Dunedin kindergartens that could be turned black, was. The publicity from the protests led to the end of Duncan's teaching career, and precipitated her move ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ethics
Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics. Normative ethics aims to find general principles that govern how people should act. Applied ethics examines concrete ethical problems in real-life situations, such as abortion, treatment of animals, and Business ethics, business practices. Metaethics explores the underlying assumptions and concepts of ethics. It asks whether there are objective moral facts, how moral knowledge is possible, and how moral judgments motivate people. Influential normative theories are consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. According to consequentialists, an act is right if it leads to the best consequences. Deontologists focus on acts themselves, saying that they must adhere to Duty, duties, like t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |