David F Ayers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5146352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David F Ayers |
| GIVEN NAMES | David F |
| FAMILY NAME | Ayers |
| SIGNATURE | AYERS D F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9137-9014 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Techno-pedagogic discourse and the online learning assetization regime
Research on academic capitalism has critiqued the commodification of knowledge, but it has not critiqued assetization. The difference between commodification and assetization is more than a technical distinction. Extracting value from assets requires a different regime of coordination than what is required for extracting value from commodities. Through an analysis of 132 texts related to the online course review process at 16 research universitie…
Community college discourses of sustainability in an academic and professional corpus
Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify discourses of sustainability of community colleges and how they related to sustainability imaginaries. Design/methodology/approach This study used a combination of research strategies associated with corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. Data included 57 issues of Community College Journal , a professional magazine published by the American Association of Community Colleges, and 2,972…
Jackson-based restorability to competence to stand trial
The Community College and a Rising Global Imaginary
Through an analysis of245 issues of the Community College Journal published between 1950 and 2013, we show how three discourses—international understanding and geopolitics, economic competitiveness, and global citizenship—informed practical reasoning about a rising global imaginary and its implications for the community college. By demonstrating shifts in practical reasoning among policy actors, we illuminate at least in part the ideological natu…
Access to inequality
Access to higher education is a prominent topic among policymakers, scholars, and students and their families. As President Obama's American Graduation Initiative demonstrates, we are intent on get
Why Knowledge Matters in Curriculum
Keywords: critical realismcurriculumdistributional justicetheoretical knowledge
From governance to competitiveness
The purpose of this analysis was to understand how organizational logics of a fundamentally local institution – the US community college – change with shifts in sociospatial scalar relations. Data included a 3.26-million word, diachronic corpus consisting of 165 issues of the Community College Journal from 1960 to 2011. Textual prominence, collocation analysis, and concordance analysis suggest that the community college shifted from a commitment …
When managerialism meets professional autonomy
Through analysis of 178 texts posted online by university leaders during a severe budget shortfall, I explore the tensions that arise as managerialist practices are recontextualized within university governance. I identify 64 texts constitutive of a hybrid genre, which I call the ‘budget update’. The structure and linguistic features of this genre are described. Interdiscursive and intertextual analysis demonstrate hybridities that emerge when le…
A Critical Realist Orientation to Learner Needs
The objective of this essay is to propose critical realism as a philosophical middle way between two sets of ontological, epistemological, and methodological assumptions regarding learner needs. Key concepts of critical realism, a tradition in the philosophy of science, are introduced and applied toward an analysis of learner needs, resulting in novel ontological and epistemological assertions about learner needs. Retroduction is offered as a met…
Manifestations of neoliberal discourses within a local job‐training program
The purpose of conducting this study was to understand how neoliberal discourses manifest within the local context of a short‐term, job‐training program offered at a two‐year college in the USA. Ethnographic data were collected at the local site through interviews, observations and document analysis. We then situated these data within a global context represented by a corpus of purposively selected national and international policy texts. Focusin…
Development of an Inventory to Measure Ways of Knowing
This paper reports progress on the development of a multiple-choice test designed to provide a profile of an individual's epistemological hierarchy. A description of the three scales (metaphoric, empirical, rational) comprising the test is provided. Data on “criterion group” approaches to validity determination and “test re-test” checks on reliability are reported
Manifestations of neoliberal discourses within a local job‐training program
The purpose of conducting this study was to understand how neoliberal discourses manifest within the local context of a short‐term, job‐training program offered at a two‐year college in the USA. Ethnographic data were collected at the local site through interviews, observations and document analysis. We then situated these data within a global context represented by a corpus of purposively selected national and international policy texts. Focusin…
From governance to competitiveness
The purpose of this analysis was to understand how organizational logics of a fundamentally local institution – the US community college – change with shifts in sociospatial scalar relations. Data included a 3.26-million word, diachronic corpus consisting of 165 issues of the Community College Journal from 1960 to 2011. Textual prominence, collocation analysis, and concordance analysis suggest that the community college shifted from a commitment …
Development of an Inventory to Measure Ways of Knowing
This paper reports progress on the development of a multiple-choice test designed to provide a profile of an individual's epistemological hierarchy. A description of the three scales (metaphoric, empirical, rational) comprising the test is provided. Data on “criterion group” approaches to validity determination and “test re-test” checks on reliability are reported
Manifestations of neoliberal discourses within a local job‐training program
The purpose of conducting this study was to understand how neoliberal discourses manifest within the local context of a short‐term, job‐training program offered at a two‐year college in the USA. Ethnographic data were collected at the local site through interviews, observations and document analysis. We then situated these data within a global context represented by a corpus of purposively selected national and international policy texts. Focusin…
A Critical Realist Orientation to Learner Needs
The objective of this essay is to propose critical realism as a philosophical middle way between two sets of ontological, epistemological, and methodological assumptions regarding learner needs. Key concepts of critical realism, a tradition in the philosophy of science, are introduced and applied toward an analysis of learner needs, resulting in novel ontological and epistemological assertions about learner needs. Retroduction is offered as a met…
From governance to competitiveness
The purpose of this analysis was to understand how organizational logics of a fundamentally local institution – the US community college – change with shifts in sociospatial scalar relations. Data included a 3.26-million word, diachronic corpus consisting of 165 issues of the Community College Journal from 1960 to 2011. Textual prominence, collocation analysis, and concordance analysis suggest that the community college shifted from a commitment …
When managerialism meets professional autonomy
Through analysis of 178 texts posted online by university leaders during a severe budget shortfall, I explore the tensions that arise as managerialist practices are recontextualized within university governance. I identify 64 texts constitutive of a hybrid genre, which I call the ‘budget update’. The structure and linguistic features of this genre are described. Interdiscursive and intertextual analysis demonstrate hybridities that emerge when le…
Why Knowledge Matters in Curriculum
Keywords: critical realismcurriculumdistributional justicetheoretical knowledge
Access to inequality
Access to higher education is a prominent topic among policymakers, scholars, and students and their families. As President Obama's American Graduation Initiative demonstrates, we are intent on get
The Community College and a Rising Global Imaginary
Through an analysis of245 issues of the Community College Journal published between 1950 and 2013, we show how three discourses—international understanding and geopolitics, economic competitiveness, and global citizenship—informed practical reasoning about a rising global imaginary and its implications for the community college. By demonstrating shifts in practical reasoning among policy actors, we illuminate at least in part the ideological natu…
Jackson-based restorability to competence to stand trial
Community college discourses of sustainability in an academic and professional corpus
Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify discourses of sustainability of community colleges and how they related to sustainability imaginaries. Design/methodology/approach This study used a combination of research strategies associated with corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. Data included 57 issues of Community College Journal , a professional magazine published by the American Association of Community Colleges, and 2,972…
Techno-pedagogic discourse and the online learning assetization regime
Research on academic capitalism has critiqued the commodification of knowledge, but it has not critiqued assetization. The difference between commodification and assetization is more than a technical distinction. Extracting value from assets requires a different regime of coordination than what is required for extracting value from commodities. Through an analysis of 132 texts related to the online course review process at 16 research universitie…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works)