Damian Ruth
Biographic Data
| ID | 5848421 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damian Ruth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damian |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruth |
| SIGNATURE | RUTH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8831-2743 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How marketizing and technologizing education undermines spirituality
This paper takes education to be concerned with human flourishing, and education that is distinct from instrumental training and which attends to the spirit of students. Such education is holistic and integral and develops the capacity for sustained attention and concentration. Marketization does not, and its impact on education has been long decried. The use of technology in education has always been met with ambivalence. What comprises technolo…
Organización, Identidad, Lugar
Este artículo tiene el reto de tratar de expresar, en su mayor parte en términos textuales, una poética de la organización mediante el collage. El argumento implícito es que existe una interdependencia compleja entre los conceptos de organización, identidad y ubicación/lugar, y que ello puede ser examinado de manera productiva mediante una aproximación creativa y poética. Los conceptos de organización, identidad y lugar, a nivel conceptual, mater…
Anxious academics
Our New Zealand university recently required us to produce portfolios for a research evaluation process. At a presentation promoting and explaining the process, we raised questions and objections. Pointlessly, it seemed. But we continued to rail and rant about it. One of us set in motion the following discussion, presented here as a series of critical and creative autoethnographic responses. We have resisted, with some anxiety, the urge and the e…
With the eyes of others
The author raises questions about ethnographic methodology through exploring the implications of using observations produced by his colleagues about his office as data for his research. This process blurred the boundaries between researcher, method and the object and subject of research. It meets some criteria for ethnography and not others, and does not evidence clear definitional boundaries for any sub-genre such as autoethnography or collabora…
Leader as priest
This paper takes its cue from Hatch et al. and their metaphor of leader as priest. This metaphor is extended in order to critically assess the importation of the discourse of spirituality into the arena of corporate leadership. In exploring this extended metaphor it becomes apparent that the concept of a spiritually informed corporate leadership is flawed. We may expect individuals to behave ethically and morally, but we should not confuse this w…
The role of age and experiential factors in the perception of academic work in South Africa
Cet article apporte une contribution a la recherche portant sur l'importance de deux facteurs, l'âge et l'experience sur le travail de l'enseignant dans le superieur. L'auteur se base sur les resultats d'une etude visant a repartir la charge de travail de maniere equitable. La perception des donnees d'ordre sociales et biographiques prennent leur importance dans un contexte qui a recemment connu une mutation profonde
Footnotes in the corridors of power
I live, diggling the ground out from under my feet. I am not who I was three years ago – is what I knew then valid now? I knew about students then, and know about them now. Who is knowing what about whom
Anxious academics
Our New Zealand university recently required us to produce portfolios for a research evaluation process. At a presentation promoting and explaining the process, we raised questions and objections. Pointlessly, it seemed. But we continued to rail and rant about it. One of us set in motion the following discussion, presented here as a series of critical and creative autoethnographic responses. We have resisted, with some anxiety, the urge and the e…
With the eyes of others
The author raises questions about ethnographic methodology through exploring the implications of using observations produced by his colleagues about his office as data for his research. This process blurred the boundaries between researcher, method and the object and subject of research. It meets some criteria for ethnography and not others, and does not evidence clear definitional boundaries for any sub-genre such as autoethnography or collabora…
Leader as priest
This paper takes its cue from Hatch et al. and their metaphor of leader as priest. This metaphor is extended in order to critically assess the importation of the discourse of spirituality into the arena of corporate leadership. In exploring this extended metaphor it becomes apparent that the concept of a spiritually informed corporate leadership is flawed. We may expect individuals to behave ethically and morally, but we should not confuse this w…
Footnotes in the corridors of power
I live, diggling the ground out from under my feet. I am not who I was three years ago – is what I knew then valid now? I knew about students then, and know about them now. Who is knowing what about whom
The role of age and experiential factors in the perception of academic work in South Africa
Cet article apporte une contribution a la recherche portant sur l'importance de deux facteurs, l'âge et l'experience sur le travail de l'enseignant dans le superieur. L'auteur se base sur les resultats d'une etude visant a repartir la charge de travail de maniere equitable. La perception des donnees d'ordre sociales et biographiques prennent leur importance dans un contexte qui a recemment connu une mutation profonde
Leader as priest
This paper takes its cue from Hatch et al. and their metaphor of leader as priest. This metaphor is extended in order to critically assess the importation of the discourse of spirituality into the arena of corporate leadership. In exploring this extended metaphor it becomes apparent that the concept of a spiritually informed corporate leadership is flawed. We may expect individuals to behave ethically and morally, but we should not confuse this w…
With the eyes of others
The author raises questions about ethnographic methodology through exploring the implications of using observations produced by his colleagues about his office as data for his research. This process blurred the boundaries between researcher, method and the object and subject of research. It meets some criteria for ethnography and not others, and does not evidence clear definitional boundaries for any sub-genre such as autoethnography or collabora…
Anxious academics
Our New Zealand university recently required us to produce portfolios for a research evaluation process. At a presentation promoting and explaining the process, we raised questions and objections. Pointlessly, it seemed. But we continued to rail and rant about it. One of us set in motion the following discussion, presented here as a series of critical and creative autoethnographic responses. We have resisted, with some anxiety, the urge and the e…
Organización, Identidad, Lugar
Este artículo tiene el reto de tratar de expresar, en su mayor parte en términos textuales, una poética de la organización mediante el collage. El argumento implícito es que existe una interdependencia compleja entre los conceptos de organización, identidad y ubicación/lugar, y que ello puede ser examinado de manera productiva mediante una aproximación creativa y poética. Los conceptos de organización, identidad y lugar, a nivel conceptual, mater…
How marketizing and technologizing education undermines spirituality
This paper takes education to be concerned with human flourishing, and education that is distinct from instrumental training and which attends to the spirit of students. Such education is holistic and integral and develops the capacity for sustained attention and concentration. Marketization does not, and its impact on education has been long decried. The use of technology in education has always been met with ambivalence. What comprises technolo…
Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Autoethnography (2 works) · Education Systems and Policy (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works)