Claire Major
Biographic Data
| ID | 334187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Major |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Major |
| SIGNATURE | MAJOR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reconsidering Innovation in Higher Education: Co-construction of a Concept
Community by Necessity: Security, Insecurity, and the Flattening of Class in Fort McMurray
High wages in the oil sands well exceed the Canadian average, making complex class differences less apparent here than elsewhere. This lends itself to a homogenizing narrative of community despite differences in wages, background, citizenship status, and so on. Wolf's useful counter-framework outlines specific processes by which workers are situated, and by which they situate themselves, in labour hierarchies within the accumulation process. Draw…
Affect Work and Infected Bodies: Biosecurity in an Age of Emerging Infectious Disease
The movement of viruses is, in part, enabled when frontline workers straddle the sites of where illness meets health or where mobile bodies meet those that are fixed. Using the 2003 SARS outbreak in Toronto as a lens, this paper explores the neoliberalisms and managerialism that render nurses and hotel housekeepers vulnerable, then turns attention to how their affective immaterial labour was simultaneously demanded and dismissed during the outbre…
Faculty Knowledge of Influences on Student Learning
This article comprises findings from a research project investigating faculty pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The research took place at a private university in the southern United States that had been involved in a campuswide project to improve teaching. Drawing on qualitative methods, we describe several significant aspects of faculty PCK. We suggest an iterative process by which faculty can blend their knowledge of teaching and learning t…
Affect Work and Infected Bodies: Biosecurity in an Age of Emerging Infectious Disease
The movement of viruses is, in part, enabled when frontline workers straddle the sites of where illness meets health or where mobile bodies meet those that are fixed. Using the 2003 SARS outbreak in Toronto as a lens, this paper explores the neoliberalisms and managerialism that render nurses and hotel housekeepers vulnerable, then turns attention to how their affective immaterial labour was simultaneously demanded and dismissed during the outbre…
Community by Necessity: Security, Insecurity, and the Flattening of Class in Fort McMurray
High wages in the oil sands well exceed the Canadian average, making complex class differences less apparent here than elsewhere. This lends itself to a homogenizing narrative of community despite differences in wages, background, citizenship status, and so on. Wolf's useful counter-framework outlines specific processes by which workers are situated, and by which they situate themselves, in labour hierarchies within the accumulation process. Draw…
Faculty Knowledge of Influences on Student Learning
This article comprises findings from a research project investigating faculty pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The research took place at a private university in the southern United States that had been involved in a campuswide project to improve teaching. Drawing on qualitative methods, we describe several significant aspects of faculty PCK. We suggest an iterative process by which faculty can blend their knowledge of teaching and learning t…
Faculty Knowledge of Influences on Student Learning
This article comprises findings from a research project investigating faculty pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The research took place at a private university in the southern United States that had been involved in a campuswide project to improve teaching. Drawing on qualitative methods, we describe several significant aspects of faculty PCK. We suggest an iterative process by which faculty can blend their knowledge of teaching and learning t…
Affect Work and Infected Bodies: Biosecurity in an Age of Emerging Infectious Disease
The movement of viruses is, in part, enabled when frontline workers straddle the sites of where illness meets health or where mobile bodies meet those that are fixed. Using the 2003 SARS outbreak in Toronto as a lens, this paper explores the neoliberalisms and managerialism that render nurses and hotel housekeepers vulnerable, then turns attention to how their affective immaterial labour was simultaneously demanded and dismissed during the outbre…
Community by Necessity: Security, Insecurity, and the Flattening of Class in Fort McMurray
High wages in the oil sands well exceed the Canadian average, making complex class differences less apparent here than elsewhere. This lends itself to a homogenizing narrative of community despite differences in wages, background, citizenship status, and so on. Wolf's useful counter-framework outlines specific processes by which workers are situated, and by which they situate themselves, in labour hierarchies within the accumulation process. Draw…
Reconsidering Innovation in Higher Education: Co-construction of a Concept
Psychology (2 works) · Affect (linguistics (1 works) · Biosecurity (1 works) · Citizenship (1 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (1 works) · Engineering (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Evaluation of Teaching Practices (1 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 works) · Higher education (1 works)