Mark Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 3745307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9566-0735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 281 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Complexity theory and the enhancement of learning in higher education: The case of the University of Cape Town
In the post-Apartheid era South Africa’s universities have faced serious questions about the quality of their student learning in the face of near impossible challenges. The University of Cape Town, widely seen as the country’s leading higher education institution, has shown remarkable resilience, however, in the range of initiatives it has launched to support and enhance student learning. These initiatives, designed with a common purpose, are of…
It's kind of becoming a culture: How habitus influences the migration trajectories of African students in China
Global flows of international students have diversified in recent years. As a result, the common association of this form of mobility with affluent members of the global middle class increasingly does not hold. This study focuses on one emergent student migration pattern that has been the subject of relatively little empirical research: that of African international students in China. The main aim is to establish how international student migrati…
The long read: On the global relevance of the US elections
At almost every election, Americans are inclined to say that this is the most consequential election in American history. 2020 is no exception. However, what is particularly remarkable about the No
Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present
In this intellectually impressive and carefully constructed book, Geroulanos has assembled a persuasively argued and informative series of narratives—or, ‘entangled microhistories’—that are concerned with the development of various critiques of the concept of transparency, and the illusory and oppressive claims/hopes associated with it (e.g. ‘the presumed transparency of the self’, the ‘fantasy’ of ‘epistemological transparency’, the ‘delusion’ o…
Changing modalities in international development and research in education: Conceptual and ethical issues
Complexity theory, the capability approach, and the sustainability of development initiatives in education
We defend in this paper the importance of redistributing power in the field of education development by enhancing the self-sustainability of education initiatives and minimizing their roots in dependency – these as pre-requisites for improving their sustainable development outcomes. We do this by considering an education development initiative run by the Barefoot College in India, and then developing an explanatory model based in complexity theor…
After postmodernism, a renewed critical realism—and the implications for education
After postmodernism, a renewed critical realism—and the implications for education." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(14), pp. 1344–1345
Two key issues in educational development: Private schooling for the poor, and sustaining education amidst armed conflict
Educational inequality and educational quality
Educational development agendas post-2015, and a continuing focus on Africa
Education, policy and poverty reduction
Why do primary school students drop out in poor, rural China? A portrait sketched in a remote mountain village
Context based inferences in research methodology: The role of culture in justifying knowledge claims
Drawing on work in epistemology and the philosophy of science, this paper seeks to provide very general reasons for why a comparative perspective needs to be applied to the inferential procedures of research methodologies where these concern the issue of justifying knowledge claims. In particular, the paper explores the role of culture on a number of important patterns of reasoning that figure in inferential arguments in research methodologies. T…
What underlies the shift to a modality of partnership in educational development cooperation
Historiospectography? Sande Cohen on Derrida's Specters of Marx
In this paper I discuss Sande Cohen's engagements with Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida's most sustained and significant contribution to historical theory (a term that I take to include historiography and philosophy of history) broadly construed. I begin by asserting Cohen's importance for contemporary historical theory in general and, specifically, all historical theory influenced by Derrida's work and/or concerned with issues of justice. I sup…
Making educational development and change sustainable: Insights from complexity theory
What Is Complexity Theory and What Are Its Implications for Educational Change
This paper considers questions of continuity and change in education from the perspective of complexity theory, introducing the field to educationists who might not be familiar with it. Given a significant degree of complexity in a particular environment (or ‘dynamical system’), new properties and behaviours, which are not necessarily contained in the essence of the constituent elements or able to be predicted from a knowledge of initial conditio…
Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education
Following a brief introduction to complexity theory, this paper considers how various themes in the field relate to the philosophical study of education. Issues and questions introduced include the challenge of complexity theory for the philosophy of education—and, conversely, some critical challenges for complexity theory from educational philosophy; complexity theory and educational continuity and change; the importance that complexity theory p…
Critical Thinking and Learning
This paper introduces some of the debates in the field of critical thinking by highlighting differences among thinkers such as Siegel, Ennis, Paul, McPeck, and Martin, and poses some questions that arise from these debates. Does rationality transcend particular cultures, or are there different kinds of thinking, different styles of reasoning? What is the relationship between critical thinking and learning? In what ways does the moral domain overl…
Exploring ‘ the Impossible’: Jacques Derrida, John Caputo and the Philosophy of History
In this paper I explore one possible motivational (quasi-) philosophy for historians continuing to write history in the wake of Derridean deconstruction. This philosophy of history is structured around one of the alternative terms for deconstruction in Derrida's work, namely the notion of ‘the impossible’. Throughout this paper I will be concentrating on John Caputo's interpretation of Derrida's work and, in the process, addressing some alternati…
Enhancing learning in South African schools: Strategies beyond outcomes-based education
On Bullshit
How is it that ‘sincerity itself is bullshit’
A Justification, after the Postmodern Turn, of Universal Ethical Principles and Educational Ideals
The implementation of education programmes in different cultures invites the question whether we are justified in doing so in cultures that may reject the programmes’ underlying principles. Are there indeed ethical principles and educational ideals that can be justified as applicable to all cultures? After a consideration of Zygmunt Bauman's postmodern rejection of the possibility of universal ethics, Ι cite and extend Harvey Siegel's defence of …
Marriage and Baby Blues: Redefining Gender Equity in the Academy
Traditionally, gender equity in the academy is evaluated in terms of women’s professional success as compared to men’s. This study examines gender equity not only in terms of professional outcomes but also in terms of familial outcomes, such as childbirth, marriage, and divorce. Using data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients as well as data from a 2002 to 2003 survey of the work and family issues facing ladder-rank faculty in the nine campuse…
Drug Supply and Trafficking: An Overview
Marriage and Baby Blues: Redefining Gender Equity in the Academy
Traditionally, gender equity in the academy is evaluated in terms of women’s professional success as compared to men’s. This study examines gender equity not only in terms of professional outcomes but also in terms of familial outcomes, such as childbirth, marriage, and divorce. Using data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients as well as data from a 2002 to 2003 survey of the work and family issues facing ladder-rank faculty in the nine campuse…
What Is Complexity Theory and What Are Its Implications for Educational Change
This paper considers questions of continuity and change in education from the perspective of complexity theory, introducing the field to educationists who might not be familiar with it. Given a significant degree of complexity in a particular environment (or ‘dynamical system’), new properties and behaviours, which are not necessarily contained in the essence of the constituent elements or able to be predicted from a knowledge of initial conditio…
Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education
Following a brief introduction to complexity theory, this paper considers how various themes in the field relate to the philosophical study of education. Issues and questions introduced include the challenge of complexity theory for the philosophy of education—and, conversely, some critical challenges for complexity theory from educational philosophy; complexity theory and educational continuity and change; the importance that complexity theory p…
Neither Miti nor America: The political economy of capital liberalization in Japan
Compared with Japan, no other industrialized country has so adamantly denied foreign investors direct access to its domestic markets. Japan continued to deny such market access until domestic constituencies finally championed foreign demands and successfully pressured a reluctant state for concessions. The initiative for these concessions came neither from Japan's principal government negotiators in the Ministry of International Trade and Industr…
Why do primary school students drop out in poor, rural China? A portrait sketched in a remote mountain village
Critical Thinking and Learning
This paper introduces some of the debates in the field of critical thinking by highlighting differences among thinkers such as Siegel, Ennis, Paul, McPeck, and Martin, and poses some questions that arise from these debates. Does rationality transcend particular cultures, or are there different kinds of thinking, different styles of reasoning? What is the relationship between critical thinking and learning? In what ways does the moral domain overl…
The Ethics of Integrity: Educational Values Beyond Postmodern Ethics
I address the problems of diminished moral responsibility and of moral relativism, typically associated with education in late modern society, by developing, beyond the problematic contemporary formulations of postmodern ethics, an ethics of integrity as a moral resource for education. This ethics is constituted by the principles of respect for the dignity of persons, and the acceptance of responsibility for the consequences of our moral choices.…
Elements of Consensus: Europe's Response to the Japanese Automotive Challenge
The Origins And Evolution of Japanese Direct Investment in Europe
Common misperceptions notwithstanding, Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Europe has a long history. Such investment first penetrated European markets in the 1870s, and it has since evolved through a number of important historical phases. In quality, sectoral composition, location, motivation, and several other characteristics, Japanese FDI in Europe exhibited striking continuities during its first century of development. In more recent …
It's kind of becoming a culture: How habitus influences the migration trajectories of African students in China
Global flows of international students have diversified in recent years. As a result, the common association of this form of mobility with affluent members of the global middle class increasingly does not hold. This study focuses on one emergent student migration pattern that has been the subject of relatively little empirical research: that of African international students in China. The main aim is to establish how international student migrati…
Making educational development and change sustainable: Insights from complexity theory
Teachers as Critical Mediators of Knowledge
This paper considers the question of the role of teachers with respect to knowledge, an issue that has been reopened as a consequence of the widespread interest in outcomes-based education. Proponents of an outcomes-based education are sometimes guilty of defending a role for teachers that is limited to facilitation. Against this rather passive understanding of the role of teachers, the paper defends a notion of teachers as critical mediators of …
Changing modalities in international development and research in education: Conceptual and ethical issues
Exploring ‘ the Impossible’: Jacques Derrida, John Caputo and the Philosophy of History
In this paper I explore one possible motivational (quasi-) philosophy for historians continuing to write history in the wake of Derridean deconstruction. This philosophy of history is structured around one of the alternative terms for deconstruction in Derrida's work, namely the notion of ‘the impossible’. Throughout this paper I will be concentrating on John Caputo's interpretation of Derrida's work and, in the process, addressing some alternati…
Education, policy and poverty reduction
What underlies the shift to a modality of partnership in educational development cooperation
A Justification, after the Postmodern Turn, of Universal Ethical Principles and Educational Ideals
The implementation of education programmes in different cultures invites the question whether we are justified in doing so in cultures that may reject the programmes’ underlying principles. Are there indeed ethical principles and educational ideals that can be justified as applicable to all cultures? After a consideration of Zygmunt Bauman's postmodern rejection of the possibility of universal ethics, Ι cite and extend Harvey Siegel's defence of …
Europe and the Japanese Banking Challenge
The dramatic overseas expansion of Japanese banks during the 1980s provoked major policy debates within the European Community. Fears that Japanese firms in the banking industry might replicate earlier successes in other industries, together with charges that Japan did not grant reciprocal access to European banks, raised important questions for EC member states committed to the implementation of common banking policies. Adoption of the crucially…
Complexity theory, the capability approach, and the sustainability of development initiatives in education
We defend in this paper the importance of redistributing power in the field of education development by enhancing the self-sustainability of education initiatives and minimizing their roots in dependency – these as pre-requisites for improving their sustainable development outcomes. We do this by considering an education development initiative run by the Barefoot College in India, and then developing an explanatory model based in complexity theor…
Two key issues in educational development: Private schooling for the poor, and sustaining education amidst armed conflict
Historiospectography? Sande Cohen on Derrida's Specters of Marx
In this paper I discuss Sande Cohen's engagements with Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida's most sustained and significant contribution to historical theory (a term that I take to include historiography and philosophy of history) broadly construed. I begin by asserting Cohen's importance for contemporary historical theory in general and, specifically, all historical theory influenced by Derrida's work and/or concerned with issues of justice. I sup…
Enhancing learning in South African schools: Strategies beyond outcomes-based education
The Literary Sources of John Locke's Educational Thoughts
(1965). THE LITERARY SOURCES OF JOHN LOCKE'S EDUCATIONAL THOUGHTS. Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 65-108
How John Locke Wrote ≪some Thoughts Concerning Education≫, 1693
(1961). HOW JOHN LOCKE WROTE ≪SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION≫, 1693. Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 244-285
The Literary Sources of John Locke's Educational Thoughts
(1965). THE LITERARY SOURCES OF JOHN LOCKE'S EDUCATIONAL THOUGHTS. Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 65-108
John Locke's Experience of Education and Its Bearing on His Educational Thought
The MMPI and adolescent patients in a state hospital
Drawings of the opposite sex: Continued use of the draw a person test and young state hospital patients
Neither Miti nor America: The political economy of capital liberalization in Japan
Compared with Japan, no other industrialized country has so adamantly denied foreign investors direct access to its domestic markets. Japan continued to deny such market access until domestic constituencies finally championed foreign demands and successfully pressured a reluctant state for concessions. The initiative for these concessions came neither from Japan's principal government negotiators in the Ministry of International Trade and Industr…
American Multinationals and Japan: The Political Economy of Japanese Capital Controls, 1899–1980
The Origins And Evolution of Japanese Direct Investment in Europe
Common misperceptions notwithstanding, Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Europe has a long history. Such investment first penetrated European markets in the 1870s, and it has since evolved through a number of important historical phases. In quality, sectoral composition, location, motivation, and several other characteristics, Japanese FDI in Europe exhibited striking continuities during its first century of development. In more recent …
Europe and the Japanese Banking Challenge
The dramatic overseas expansion of Japanese banks during the 1980s provoked major policy debates within the European Community. Fears that Japanese firms in the banking industry might replicate earlier successes in other industries, together with charges that Japan did not grant reciprocal access to European banks, raised important questions for EC member states committed to the implementation of common banking policies. Adoption of the crucially…
Japan and the Global Economy: Issues and Trends in the 1990s
American Multinationals and Japan: The Political Economy of Japanese Capital Controls, 1899-1980
The Record on Miti
Elements of Consensus: Europe's Response to the Japanese Automotive Challenge
Strategy and Performance of Foreign Companies in Japan
List of Figures List of Tables Preface Explanatory Notes Executive Summary Studying Foreign Companies in Japan Japanese Economy Successful Foreign Companies in Japan Investment and Management Strategies Human Resource Management Strategy Marketing Activities of Foreign Companies Production and Research & Development Key Success Factors and Advice to Foreign Companies Implications References Appendix A: Questionnaire for Survey Study Appendix B: S…
Europe and the Japanese Challenge: The Regulation of Multinationals in Comparative Perspective
Teachers as Critical Mediators of Knowledge
This paper considers the question of the role of teachers with respect to knowledge, an issue that has been reopened as a consequence of the widespread interest in outcomes-based education. Proponents of an outcomes-based education are sometimes guilty of defending a role for teachers that is limited to facilitation. Against this rather passive understanding of the role of teachers, the paper defends a notion of teachers as critical mediators of …
The Ethics of Integrity: Educational Values Beyond Postmodern Ethics
I address the problems of diminished moral responsibility and of moral relativism, typically associated with education in late modern society, by developing, beyond the problematic contemporary formulations of postmodern ethics, an ethics of integrity as a moral resource for education. This ethics is constituted by the principles of respect for the dignity of persons, and the acceptance of responsibility for the consequences of our moral choices.…
Drug Supply and Trafficking: An Overview
Marriage and Baby Blues: Redefining Gender Equity in the Academy
Traditionally, gender equity in the academy is evaluated in terms of women’s professional success as compared to men’s. This study examines gender equity not only in terms of professional outcomes but also in terms of familial outcomes, such as childbirth, marriage, and divorce. Using data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients as well as data from a 2002 to 2003 survey of the work and family issues facing ladder-rank faculty in the nine campuse…
Enhancing learning in South African schools: Strategies beyond outcomes-based education
On Bullshit
How is it that ‘sincerity itself is bullshit’
A Justification, after the Postmodern Turn, of Universal Ethical Principles and Educational Ideals
The implementation of education programmes in different cultures invites the question whether we are justified in doing so in cultures that may reject the programmes’ underlying principles. Are there indeed ethical principles and educational ideals that can be justified as applicable to all cultures? After a consideration of Zygmunt Bauman's postmodern rejection of the possibility of universal ethics, Ι cite and extend Harvey Siegel's defence of …
Exploring ‘ the Impossible’: Jacques Derrida, John Caputo and the Philosophy of History
In this paper I explore one possible motivational (quasi-) philosophy for historians continuing to write history in the wake of Derridean deconstruction. This philosophy of history is structured around one of the alternative terms for deconstruction in Derrida's work, namely the notion of ‘the impossible’. Throughout this paper I will be concentrating on John Caputo's interpretation of Derrida's work and, in the process, addressing some alternati…
Critical Thinking and Learning
This paper introduces some of the debates in the field of critical thinking by highlighting differences among thinkers such as Siegel, Ennis, Paul, McPeck, and Martin, and poses some questions that arise from these debates. Does rationality transcend particular cultures, or are there different kinds of thinking, different styles of reasoning? What is the relationship between critical thinking and learning? In what ways does the moral domain overl…
Historiospectography? Sande Cohen on Derrida's Specters of Marx
In this paper I discuss Sande Cohen's engagements with Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida's most sustained and significant contribution to historical theory (a term that I take to include historiography and philosophy of history) broadly construed. I begin by asserting Cohen's importance for contemporary historical theory in general and, specifically, all historical theory influenced by Derrida's work and/or concerned with issues of justice. I sup…
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