Jocelyn Robson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jocelyn Robson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jocelyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Robson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | London Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels: How the Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era
In 1907, Grace Oakeshott faked her own death by drowning. Aged 35, she left a marriage and a successful professional life in England and fled with her lover, Walter Reeve, to New Zealand. What prompte
Prologue
There could be no doubt that the clothes belonged to a woman. The long skirts and petticoats were piled neatly on the deserted beach in Brittany where just days earlier a party of English friends had been seen relaxing together. The clothes were modest and simple, and they suggested a respectable, middle-class lifestyle. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as th…
Appreciating the Acquaintance Principle: A Reply to Konigsberg
What is the relationship between acquaintance and aesthetic judgement? Wollheim’s acquaintance principle (AP) is one answer. Amir Konigsberg—the most recent critic of AP—has produced a number of examples which he claims will require us to restrict AP even further than has previously been suggested. I argue that Konigsberg is mistaken and that his examples do not necessitate any further restrictions on AP. This failure, however, is not the result …
The Art of Comics--A Philosophical Approach
Bowing from the heart’: An investigation into discourses of professionalism and the work of caring for students in further education
Since their incorporation in 1993, further education (FE) colleges in England have been responsible for their own staffing and, faced with funding constraints as well as recruitment and retention targets, some have introduced a new category of staff referred to here as ‘learning support workers’ (LSWs). Though their employment conditions and specific duties vary considerably, LSWs' work often includes providing individual care for students. In th…
Learners’ Emotional and Psychic Responses to Encounters With Learning Support in Further Education and Training
This article investigates the experience of individual learners who have been allocated learning support in the further education system in England. The particular focus is on interviewees’ constructions of their emotional and psychic experiences. Through the adoption of a psycho-social perspective, learners’ tendency to ‘idealise’ their learning support workers is understood as a strategy for coping with the anxiety generated by a range of previ…
Gender, ‘bias’, assessment and feedback: Analyzing the written assessment of undergraduate history essays
This paper reports on findings relating to a project on gender and essay assessment in HE. It focuses on one aspect of the study: the assessment of and feedback given to two sample essays by 50 historians based at universities in England and Wales. We found considerable variation both as to the classification awarded to the essays and to positive and negative comments made about their quality, supporting the argument that the ‘quality’ of a piece…
Gender, student confidence and communicative styles at university: The Views of Lecturers in History and Psychology
This study examines the perceptions of 100 university lecturers in history and psychology regarding the impact of gender on their students' achievement. Qualitative data were gathered from semi‐structured interviews and analysed according to discipline and gender of respondent. Key findings were that most respondents (with the exception of most female history lecturers) did not believe gender had an impact on essay writing style but that it did h…
University Lecturers' Perceptions of Gender and Undergraduate Writing
It has been argued that male and female undergraduates adopt different, gendered writing styles. This paper discusses findings from a project that examined this issue, and explores lecturers' perceptions of gender and undergraduate writing. It shows that, in the case of 'second-class' awarded essays, a majority of academics were unable to correctly identify the authors gender. Applying analysis of discourse to the explanations of academics concer…
Playing Safe: Undergraduate essay writing and the presentation of the student 'voice
For undergraduate students, the act of essay writing involves not only the struggle to understand and critically engage with a particular area of knowledge, but also the struggle to successfully utilise the language that must be used in order to communicate this engagement. Based on interviews with final-year undergraduates from four different universities, this article focuses on the difficulties students face in acquiring the language necessary…
Playing Safe: Undergraduate essay writing and the presentation of the student 'voice
For undergraduate students, the act of essay writing involves not only the struggle to understand and critically engage with a particular area of knowledge, but also the struggle to successfully utilise the language that must be used in order to communicate this engagement. Based on interviews with final-year undergraduates from four different universities, this article focuses on the difficulties students face in acquiring the language necessary…
An Analysis of Undergraduate Writing Styles in the Context of Gender and Achievement
Despite the increased use of blind-marking in undergraduate examinations, gendered patterns persist in the figures on achievement at undergraduate level in British universities. It has been suggested that in the humanities, such differences in achievement might be explained by differences in writing style according to gender. This article examines data drawn from an analysis of undergraduate students' writing in order to investigate the extent to…
Cagney and Lacey Revisited
Much contemporary writing within the field of cultural studies addresses the agenda set by feminist film theory. Work on female representation in the has, since the mid-seventies, been informed by Freudian psychoanalysis in attempting to explore the mechanisms by which patriarchy organizes psycho-sexual structures within ideology. Two articles by Laura Mulvey have been crucial in this respect: 'Visual pleasure and narrative cinema' (1975) and 'Af…
Playing Safe: Undergraduate essay writing and the presentation of the student 'voice
For undergraduate students, the act of essay writing involves not only the struggle to understand and critically engage with a particular area of knowledge, but also the struggle to successfully utilise the language that must be used in order to communicate this engagement. Based on interviews with final-year undergraduates from four different universities, this article focuses on the difficulties students face in acquiring the language necessary…
An Analysis of Undergraduate Writing Styles in the Context of Gender and Achievement
Despite the increased use of blind-marking in undergraduate examinations, gendered patterns persist in the figures on achievement at undergraduate level in British universities. It has been suggested that in the humanities, such differences in achievement might be explained by differences in writing style according to gender. This article examines data drawn from an analysis of undergraduate students' writing in order to investigate the extent to…
University Lecturers' Perceptions of Gender and Undergraduate Writing
It has been argued that male and female undergraduates adopt different, gendered writing styles. This paper discusses findings from a project that examined this issue, and explores lecturers' perceptions of gender and undergraduate writing. It shows that, in the case of 'second-class' awarded essays, a majority of academics were unable to correctly identify the authors gender. Applying analysis of discourse to the explanations of academics concer…
Gender, student confidence and communicative styles at university: The Views of Lecturers in History and Psychology
This study examines the perceptions of 100 university lecturers in history and psychology regarding the impact of gender on their students' achievement. Qualitative data were gathered from semi‐structured interviews and analysed according to discipline and gender of respondent. Key findings were that most respondents (with the exception of most female history lecturers) did not believe gender had an impact on essay writing style but that it did h…
Appreciating the Acquaintance Principle: A Reply to Konigsberg
What is the relationship between acquaintance and aesthetic judgement? Wollheim’s acquaintance principle (AP) is one answer. Amir Konigsberg—the most recent critic of AP—has produced a number of examples which he claims will require us to restrict AP even further than has previously been suggested. I argue that Konigsberg is mistaken and that his examples do not necessitate any further restrictions on AP. This failure, however, is not the result …
Bowing from the heart’: An investigation into discourses of professionalism and the work of caring for students in further education
Since their incorporation in 1993, further education (FE) colleges in England have been responsible for their own staffing and, faced with funding constraints as well as recruitment and retention targets, some have introduced a new category of staff referred to here as ‘learning support workers’ (LSWs). Though their employment conditions and specific duties vary considerably, LSWs' work often includes providing individual care for students. In th…
Learners’ Emotional and Psychic Responses to Encounters With Learning Support in Further Education and Training
This article investigates the experience of individual learners who have been allocated learning support in the further education system in England. The particular focus is on interviewees’ constructions of their emotional and psychic experiences. Through the adoption of a psycho-social perspective, learners’ tendency to ‘idealise’ their learning support workers is understood as a strategy for coping with the anxiety generated by a range of previ…
Cagney and Lacey Revisited
Much contemporary writing within the field of cultural studies addresses the agenda set by feminist film theory. Work on female representation in the has, since the mid-seventies, been informed by Freudian psychoanalysis in attempting to explore the mechanisms by which patriarchy organizes psycho-sexual structures within ideology. Two articles by Laura Mulvey have been crucial in this respect: 'Visual pleasure and narrative cinema' (1975) and 'Af…
Cagney and Lacey Revisited
Much contemporary writing within the field of cultural studies addresses the agenda set by feminist film theory. Work on female representation in the has, since the mid-seventies, been informed by Freudian psychoanalysis in attempting to explore the mechanisms by which patriarchy organizes psycho-sexual structures within ideology. Two articles by Laura Mulvey have been crucial in this respect: 'Visual pleasure and narrative cinema' (1975) and 'Af…
Playing Safe: Undergraduate essay writing and the presentation of the student 'voice
For undergraduate students, the act of essay writing involves not only the struggle to understand and critically engage with a particular area of knowledge, but also the struggle to successfully utilise the language that must be used in order to communicate this engagement. Based on interviews with final-year undergraduates from four different universities, this article focuses on the difficulties students face in acquiring the language necessary…
Playing Safe: Undergraduate essay writing and the presentation of the student 'voice
For undergraduate students, the act of essay writing involves not only the struggle to understand and critically engage with a particular area of knowledge, but also the struggle to successfully utilise the language that must be used in order to communicate this engagement. Based on interviews with final-year undergraduates from four different universities, this article focuses on the difficulties students face in acquiring the language necessary…
An Analysis of Undergraduate Writing Styles in the Context of Gender and Achievement
Despite the increased use of blind-marking in undergraduate examinations, gendered patterns persist in the figures on achievement at undergraduate level in British universities. It has been suggested that in the humanities, such differences in achievement might be explained by differences in writing style according to gender. This article examines data drawn from an analysis of undergraduate students' writing in order to investigate the extent to…
University Lecturers' Perceptions of Gender and Undergraduate Writing
It has been argued that male and female undergraduates adopt different, gendered writing styles. This paper discusses findings from a project that examined this issue, and explores lecturers' perceptions of gender and undergraduate writing. It shows that, in the case of 'second-class' awarded essays, a majority of academics were unable to correctly identify the authors gender. Applying analysis of discourse to the explanations of academics concer…
Gender, student confidence and communicative styles at university: The Views of Lecturers in History and Psychology
This study examines the perceptions of 100 university lecturers in history and psychology regarding the impact of gender on their students' achievement. Qualitative data were gathered from semi‐structured interviews and analysed according to discipline and gender of respondent. Key findings were that most respondents (with the exception of most female history lecturers) did not believe gender had an impact on essay writing style but that it did h…
Gender, ‘bias’, assessment and feedback: Analyzing the written assessment of undergraduate history essays
This paper reports on findings relating to a project on gender and essay assessment in HE. It focuses on one aspect of the study: the assessment of and feedback given to two sample essays by 50 historians based at universities in England and Wales. We found considerable variation both as to the classification awarded to the essays and to positive and negative comments made about their quality, supporting the argument that the ‘quality’ of a piece…
Learners’ Emotional and Psychic Responses to Encounters With Learning Support in Further Education and Training
This article investigates the experience of individual learners who have been allocated learning support in the further education system in England. The particular focus is on interviewees’ constructions of their emotional and psychic experiences. Through the adoption of a psycho-social perspective, learners’ tendency to ‘idealise’ their learning support workers is understood as a strategy for coping with the anxiety generated by a range of previ…
Bowing from the heart’: An investigation into discourses of professionalism and the work of caring for students in further education
Since their incorporation in 1993, further education (FE) colleges in England have been responsible for their own staffing and, faced with funding constraints as well as recruitment and retention targets, some have introduced a new category of staff referred to here as ‘learning support workers’ (LSWs). Though their employment conditions and specific duties vary considerably, LSWs' work often includes providing individual care for students. In th…
Appreciating the Acquaintance Principle: A Reply to Konigsberg
What is the relationship between acquaintance and aesthetic judgement? Wollheim’s acquaintance principle (AP) is one answer. Amir Konigsberg—the most recent critic of AP—has produced a number of examples which he claims will require us to restrict AP even further than has previously been suggested. I argue that Konigsberg is mistaken and that his examples do not necessitate any further restrictions on AP. This failure, however, is not the result …
The Art of Comics--A Philosophical Approach
Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels: How the Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era
In 1907, Grace Oakeshott faked her own death by drowning. Aged 35, she left a marriage and a successful professional life in England and fled with her lover, Walter Reeve, to New Zealand. What prompte
Prologue
There could be no doubt that the clothes belonged to a woman. The long skirts and petticoats were piled neatly on the deserted beach in Brittany where just days earlier a party of English friends had been seen relaxing together. The clothes were modest and simple, and they suggested a respectable, middle-class lifestyle. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as th…
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