John Higgins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3632121 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Higgins |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Higgins |
| FIRMA | HIGGINS J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9139-4652 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1943 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
State of urgency
William Faulkner’s appalled recognition – ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ – sets the scene for many of the animating concerns of this Special Issue. This is focused on work in and debates around the humanities in South Africa, where many artists and academics appear to be wrestling with a particularly strong version of Faulkner’s dilemma. For just over 20 years after the formal dismantling of apartheid embodied in the adoption of So…
Academic Freedom and the Humanities
This article presents some of the current challenges facing academic freedom and the humanities in South Africa as well as across the world. It focuses first on the shifting fortunes of academic freedom in South Africa, contrasting the pride of place given to it in the pre-1994 social imaginary with its current undermining in higher education policy. It further examines how this undermining is related to a general trend in a global higher educati…
Living out our differences
This article takes the form of an exchange between Cape Town academic John Higgins and Jakes Gerwel, respected South African citizen and formerly chief aide to the country's first democratically-elected president, Nelson Mandela. The conversation covers a wide canvas which ranges from Gerwel's rural childhood to his recollection of working for Mandela. But there is also an exploration of the role played by South African Marxism in the struggle to…
Resisting the Restoration
The necessary conjunction
Current discussion of Science and the Humanities in the South African academy tends to pose these two fields of study in oppositional and exclusionary terms: Science or the Humanities. In this paper we argue that the proper and necessary conjunction for discussion of science and the humanities should be an “and” rather than an “or” and suggest that the question of this conjunction has now become of critical importance for all those involved in th…
Managing Meaning
This essay seeks to defamiliarise the currently dominant sense of institutional culture in South Africa. It does so first by examining the history of the emergence of the term in U.S. business studies in the late 1970s, and second, its translation/transposition into higher educational discourse in the 1980s. A third section examines the developing scepticism around the term in the 1990s, and the essay as a whole argues that the idea of institutio…
Superseding Williams
How Many Patients Are Needed to Provide Reliable Evaluations of Individual Clinicians
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine how many patients are needed to provide reliable patient ratings of care at the individual clinician level. SETTING AND SOURCES OF DATA: The study was conducted in an academic medical center and was based on analysis of 34,985 patients who completed a 50-item survey rating the care received during a recent outpatient visit to a physician or midlevel provider. STUDY DESIGN: Analyses of patient sa…
Academic Freedom in the New South Africa
The author analyzes academic freedom in South Africa while presenting an argument in support of its continual evaluation. The article is another attempt to suggest that progressive intellectuals can also be interested in academic freedom, and indeed should work to resist its becoming a received idea, either in South Africa or elsewhere
Paying lip-service to academic freedom
Academic Freedom in the New South Africa
Research Article| February 01 2000 Academic Freedom in the New South Africa John Higgins John Higgins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (1): 97–119. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-1-97 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Higgins; Academic Freedom in the New South Africa. boundary 2 1 February 2000; 27 (1): 97–119. doi: https://doi…
Raymond Williams
The guiding principle of this study is that Williams's engagement with English studies cannot be understood in terms purely internal to the discipline of English. As well as writing against the official culture of liberal and conservative literary studies, Williams also wrote in opposition to what he read as the orthodoxies of Marxist thinking on literature, culture and politics. Arguing first against Marxist literary criticism as he knew it from…
Heart and stone
Arma Virumque Cano
Critical literacies
In this essay, Higgins argues for a rethinking of English studies away from canon‐bound definitions and around the notion of the acquisition of critical literacy, a notion which is defined in terms of the persuasive properties of language. Two brief examples of critical literacy in practice are then examined: a scene from Shakespeare's Othello, and a Cape Times editorial
“In Short, Poststructuralist Freudianism”
Which concordancer? A comparative review of MS-DOS software
A missed encounter
Raymond Williams was perhaps the foremost cultural critic in Britain of the post‐war period. Yet his work retained a consistent hostility towards what has become a central component of our understanding of the social construction of the subject ‐ the theory of psychoanalysis. This essay traces the terms of William's hostility towards psychoanalysis and argues that most of this was the product of a missed encounter with psychoanalysis. It is argue…
Language, Learners and Computers
A reply to Alan Hirvela's reply
Hopalong
Using computers in the language classroom
New developments in computer-assisted language learning
Response to Hirvela's article “Marshall McLuhan and the case against CAI”
Working with computers
Academic Freedom in the New South Africa
Research Article| February 01 2000 Academic Freedom in the New South Africa John Higgins John Higgins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (1): 97–119. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-1-97 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Higgins; Academic Freedom in the New South Africa. boundary 2 1 February 2000; 27 (1): 97–119. doi: https://doi…
Hopalong
Using computers in the language classroom
Response to Hirvela's article “Marshall McLuhan and the case against CAI”
Resisting the Restoration
Paying lip-service to academic freedom
Computer assisted language learning
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The necessary conjunction
Current discussion of Science and the Humanities in the South African academy tends to pose these two fields of study in oppositional and exclusionary terms: Science or the Humanities. In this paper we argue that the proper and necessary conjunction for discussion of science and the humanities should be an “and” rather than an “or” and suggest that the question of this conjunction has now become of critical importance for all those involved in th…
Managing Meaning
This essay seeks to defamiliarise the currently dominant sense of institutional culture in South Africa. It does so first by examining the history of the emergence of the term in U.S. business studies in the late 1970s, and second, its translation/transposition into higher educational discourse in the 1980s. A third section examines the developing scepticism around the term in the 1990s, and the essay as a whole argues that the idea of institutio…
Academic Freedom in the New South Africa
The author analyzes academic freedom in South Africa while presenting an argument in support of its continual evaluation. The article is another attempt to suggest that progressive intellectuals can also be interested in academic freedom, and indeed should work to resist its becoming a received idea, either in South Africa or elsewhere
A reply to Alan Hirvela's reply
An introduction to computer assisted language teaching
Raymond Williams and the Problem of Ideology
last time I saw Raymond Williams speak was in a social history seminar given at King's College, Cambridge. His topic seemed at first ironic in that context: the Bloomsbury group, in the college most associated with them; but the transformation of that irony into something more serious is what I want to record here as a way of introducing the seriousness of Williams's work. His voice was remarkable: the voice of an authority. It was conversational…
The American Origin of the Augustana Synod
Listening Scales
Raymond Williams and the Problem of Ideology
last time I saw Raymond Williams speak was in a social history seminar given at King's College, Cambridge. His topic seemed at first ironic in that context: the Bloomsbury group, in the college most associated with them; but the transformation of that irony into something more serious is what I want to record here as a way of introducing the seriousness of Williams's work. His voice was remarkable: the voice of an authority. It was conversational…
Computer assisted language learning
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An introduction to computer assisted language teaching
Integrating (computers) with (foreign language) classwork
Introduction
"Comments on John Higgins's "Artificial Unintelligence
The coming of the clone
Artificial Unintelligence
Many approaches to language teaching assume a teacher is both proficient in the subject matter and intelligent about deciding how to present it, while also assuming a learner with no proficiency and no intelligence. Under such a model, nothing is learned unless it is explicitly taught; learners have to be given, since they cannot take. Paradoxically, if one adopts an approach which respects the learner's intelligence, it may turn out that the lea…
Using computers in the language classroom
New developments in computer-assisted language learning
Response to Hirvela's article “Marshall McLuhan and the case against CAI”
Working with computers
A reply to Alan Hirvela's reply
Hopalong
A missed encounter
Raymond Williams was perhaps the foremost cultural critic in Britain of the post‐war period. Yet his work retained a consistent hostility towards what has become a central component of our understanding of the social construction of the subject ‐ the theory of psychoanalysis. This essay traces the terms of William's hostility towards psychoanalysis and argues that most of this was the product of a missed encounter with psychoanalysis. It is argue…
Language, Learners and Computers
“In Short, Poststructuralist Freudianism”
Which concordancer? A comparative review of MS-DOS software
Critical literacies
In this essay, Higgins argues for a rethinking of English studies away from canon‐bound definitions and around the notion of the acquisition of critical literacy, a notion which is defined in terms of the persuasive properties of language. Two brief examples of critical literacy in practice are then examined: a scene from Shakespeare's Othello, and a Cape Times editorial
Arma Virumque Cano
Heart and stone
Raymond Williams
The guiding principle of this study is that Williams's engagement with English studies cannot be understood in terms purely internal to the discipline of English. As well as writing against the official culture of liberal and conservative literary studies, Williams also wrote in opposition to what he read as the orthodoxies of Marxist thinking on literature, culture and politics. Arguing first against Marxist literary criticism as he knew it from…
Paying lip-service to academic freedom
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