Steve Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3941624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Fox |
| SIGNATURE | FOX S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Playing the Game
The article addresses diversity work as a specific form of management work that involves complex micro‐political strategies of resistance. Diversity work stems from an activist agenda that has been adopted by mainstream management practice, especially new public sector management. But in being adopted, it has been critiqued for also being co‐opted, and as a result de‐radicalized. The article seeks to examine this critique. First, we examine the p…
Professionalizing the Child Welfare Workforce
In this article, we provide an overview of existing university–agency partnerships in child welfare. Then we discuss in detail one state's extension of its partnership approach to enhancing professional development system via an initiative called Credit for Learning, where child welfare workers are able to meet agency training requirements while earning graduate course credit that can be applied towards a master's degree in social work. Knowledge…
An actor-network critique of community in higher education
The article provides an actor‐network critique of ideas on community that are influential in higher education and draws implications for networked learning theory and practice. Networked learning is examined as an educational movement which contains alternative models of learning but which offers to create a sense of virtual community within the structures of mass higher education. Benedict Anderson’s work is drawn upon to understand the notion o…
The New Imagined Community
The Internet has enabled global growth in the use of virtual communities. Virtual communities provide Internet researchers with an excellent opportunity to study human communication across different conceptualizations of community, different technologies, and different cultures. This article introduces a theoretical framework called the Community Embodiment Model (CEM) to better understand the nature of the virtual community. It is proposed that …
Toxic Work
Playing the Game
The article addresses diversity work as a specific form of management work that involves complex micro‐political strategies of resistance. Diversity work stems from an activist agenda that has been adopted by mainstream management practice, especially new public sector management. But in being adopted, it has been critiqued for also being co‐opted, and as a result de‐radicalized. The article seeks to examine this critique. First, we examine the p…
An actor-network critique of community in higher education
The article provides an actor‐network critique of ideas on community that are influential in higher education and draws implications for networked learning theory and practice. Networked learning is examined as an educational movement which contains alternative models of learning but which offers to create a sense of virtual community within the structures of mass higher education. Benedict Anderson’s work is drawn upon to understand the notion o…
Professionalizing the Child Welfare Workforce
In this article, we provide an overview of existing university–agency partnerships in child welfare. Then we discuss in detail one state's extension of its partnership approach to enhancing professional development system via an initiative called Credit for Learning, where child welfare workers are able to meet agency training requirements while earning graduate course credit that can be applied towards a master's degree in social work. Knowledge…
The New Imagined Community
The Internet has enabled global growth in the use of virtual communities. Virtual communities provide Internet researchers with an excellent opportunity to study human communication across different conceptualizations of community, different technologies, and different cultures. This article introduces a theoretical framework called the Community Embodiment Model (CEM) to better understand the nature of the virtual community. It is proposed that …
Toxic Work
The New Imagined Community
The Internet has enabled global growth in the use of virtual communities. Virtual communities provide Internet researchers with an excellent opportunity to study human communication across different conceptualizations of community, different technologies, and different cultures. This article introduces a theoretical framework called the Community Embodiment Model (CEM) to better understand the nature of the virtual community. It is proposed that …
An actor-network critique of community in higher education
The article provides an actor‐network critique of ideas on community that are influential in higher education and draws implications for networked learning theory and practice. Networked learning is examined as an educational movement which contains alternative models of learning but which offers to create a sense of virtual community within the structures of mass higher education. Benedict Anderson’s work is drawn upon to understand the notion o…
Professionalizing the Child Welfare Workforce
In this article, we provide an overview of existing university–agency partnerships in child welfare. Then we discuss in detail one state's extension of its partnership approach to enhancing professional development system via an initiative called Credit for Learning, where child welfare workers are able to meet agency training requirements while earning graduate course credit that can be applied towards a master's degree in social work. Knowledge…
Playing the Game
The article addresses diversity work as a specific form of management work that involves complex micro‐political strategies of resistance. Diversity work stems from an activist agenda that has been adopted by mainstream management practice, especially new public sector management. But in being adopted, it has been critiqued for also being co‐opted, and as a result de‐radicalized. The article seeks to examine this critique. First, we examine the p…
Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Social science (2 works)