Colin Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3941058 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Choosing people
Academic disciplines are constantly changing as the maps of knowledge are redrawn. The institutional enactments of disciplines—subjects as taught and researched within university departments—change in response, but with a time lapse. The crucial move from the discipline, the concept of knowledge, to the real-world subject—department, cost-centre—is effected by the appointment of new staff, either young academics who will represent the discipline …
Group Process and Writing Process
Zeale to promote the common good, whether it be by devising anything ourselves, or revising that which hath bene laboured by others, deserveth certainly much respect and esteeme, but yet findeth but cold intertainment in the world. It is welcomed with suspicion in stead of love, and with emulation in stead of thankes: and if there be any hole left for cavill to enter, (and cavill, if it doe not finde a hole will make one) it is sure to bee miscon…
Teaching the humanities
In this article I describe a particular way of conceiving a seminar in the humanities—as a ‘metalogue ̊s, a learning occasion where the object of study is both a text and the occasion itself, as well as the conscious analogical relation between the two. I argue that this is consonant with the objects of study in the humanities which are not real objects but symbolic objects, representations of relationships whose very nature depends on the relati…
Inter-group encounters of a different kind
The paper raises the question of what is an appropriate research model for studying higher education. It claims that while the traditional research model may be appropriate for situations where the researcher is outside the object of his or her research, the study of higher education by individuals within higher education is essentially reflexive self-study and would benefit from another model which we call the experiential model. We describe one…
Privatization of local services
Inter-group encounters of a different kind
The paper raises the question of what is an appropriate research model for studying higher education. It claims that while the traditional research model may be appropriate for situations where the researcher is outside the object of his or her research, the study of higher education by individuals within higher education is essentially reflexive self-study and would benefit from another model which we call the experiential model. We describe one…
Privatization of local services
Teaching the humanities
In this article I describe a particular way of conceiving a seminar in the humanities—as a ‘metalogue ̊s, a learning occasion where the object of study is both a text and the occasion itself, as well as the conscious analogical relation between the two. I argue that this is consonant with the objects of study in the humanities which are not real objects but symbolic objects, representations of relationships whose very nature depends on the relati…
Privatization of local services
Inter-group encounters of a different kind
The paper raises the question of what is an appropriate research model for studying higher education. It claims that while the traditional research model may be appropriate for situations where the researcher is outside the object of his or her research, the study of higher education by individuals within higher education is essentially reflexive self-study and would benefit from another model which we call the experiential model. We describe one…
Teaching the humanities
In this article I describe a particular way of conceiving a seminar in the humanities—as a ‘metalogue ̊s, a learning occasion where the object of study is both a text and the occasion itself, as well as the conscious analogical relation between the two. I argue that this is consonant with the objects of study in the humanities which are not real objects but symbolic objects, representations of relationships whose very nature depends on the relati…
Choosing people
Academic disciplines are constantly changing as the maps of knowledge are redrawn. The institutional enactments of disciplines—subjects as taught and researched within university departments—change in response, but with a time lapse. The crucial move from the discipline, the concept of knowledge, to the real-world subject—department, cost-centre—is effected by the appointment of new staff, either young academics who will represent the discipline …
Group Process and Writing Process
Zeale to promote the common good, whether it be by devising anything ourselves, or revising that which hath bene laboured by others, deserveth certainly much respect and esteeme, but yet findeth but cold intertainment in the world. It is welcomed with suspicion in stead of love, and with emulation in stead of thankes: and if there be any hole left for cavill to enter, (and cavill, if it doe not finde a hole will make one) it is sure to bee miscon…
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