Navé Wald
Biographic Data
| ID | 72376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Navé Wald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Navé |
| FAMILY NAME | Wald |
| SIGNATURE | WALD N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0038-9322 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reflections on academic austerity in the neoliberal university
In this article, we are interested in the concept of austerity as a lens to examine contemporary academic work in the research-intensive university sector. This account is important and timely because austerity directly impacts on what is possible in academic work, and what subjects have a place in the university. It is a value that has become normalised in society, and it is now a management tool to control university operations. Austerity is us…
A model of academic developers’ formation and growth of professional identity: A focus on the affective factors
This paper examines liminality, agency, and community in two different models of academic development (AD), one in New Zealand and the other in Japan. It builds on previous research that looked at the impact of workplace factors on identity and completes a model of academic developers’ formation and growth of professional identity. This is important because various dimensions of development work and their complex relationships remain unclear in a…
Students as scholars and the scholarship of student learning
We explore the idea that teaching students as ‘scholars’ can change their education within a values discourse that promotes certain personal attributes, including being engaged members of their university and society. The idea partially opposes the dominant neoliberal framing of higher education but is not foreign to normal academic practices and so may have a chance to succeed if adopted. At present, the terms ‘scholar’ and ‘scholarship’ are emp…
The importance of workplace factors and the professional identity of academic developers
Academic developers enter the field of academic development (AD) from various disciplines and at different stages of their careers.They bring with them their academic experiences, home disciplinary culture and presumptions about what AD is.These circumstances inform the initial professional identity for those working in what has been described as a fragmented community.Identity impacts on an individual's prioritisation or commitment to a particul…
Ambiguity and peripherality in doctoral co-supervision workload allocation
Doctoral education and supervision have changed in recent decades. The increasing prevalence of co-supervision has been a notable aspect of this, but change also includes stricter accountability and quality assurance measures, such as the quantification of workload allocations in supervision as well as of academic work more broadly. This paper focuses on challenging issues pertaining to such workload allocation in co-supervision, an important and…
Enhancing co-supervision practice by setting expectations in a structured discussion using a research-informed tool
Team or co-supervision of doctoral students has been adopted by many universities in different parts of the world. This study focuses on a key aspect of this supervision model that is both a perceived advantage and a challenge, namely the need for supervisors to work collaboratively with colleagues for the benefit of students. It argues that transparent conversations are essential in co-supervisory teams for ensuring productive working relationsh…
Reconsidering Vygotsky’s ‘more capable peer’ in terms of both personal and knowledge outcomes
This point for departure piece is about university students working together and working for each other in the context of Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) and his concept of the ‘more capable peer.’ Much attention has been paid to what is learned, or the knowledge component of the ZPD. However, what seems to be absent in these accounts is an understanding of the interpersonal communicative processes involved in peer to peer relations…
Higher education teachers’ experiences of becoming research active: Striving for university status in the Global South
Student peer review as a process of knowledge creation through dialogue
This study contributes to a better understanding of the potential of student peer review in higher education by examining how repeated practice influences student learning. The study reports on the experiences of undergraduate science students who were systematically trained in peer review over three years. Twelve were interviewed in both their second and third year. It was found that multiple experiences had a positive influence in shaping and e…
Measuring changes in higher-order cognition through the assessment of complex knowledge over time
This article examines how much ‘complex knowledge’ is assessed during a university degree and the extent to which a student has the opportunity to develop this. We conceptualise complex knowledge as any type of assessment that requires students to create and evaluate knowledge, and for which they may receive formative feedback. Such activities are associated with developing higher-order cognition, a set of skills that is poorly understood in the …
The assessment arms race and the evolution of a university’s assessment practices
In this paper we examine the history and development of internal assessment practices at a university in New Zealand. The work re-visits the ‘assessment arms race’ study and builds upon the key arguments presented so far. It was discovered that student demand in the early 1970s triggered the introduction of internal assessment and workloads quickly increased to problematic levels. When the institution moved from year-long courses to a semester an…
Why be a head of department? Exploring the positive aspects and benefits
The academic department is a key administrative unit in universities, and so heading, or chairing, a department is a key role. However, it is also known to be a challenging role and academics are often reluctant assume this position. Despite its importance, the head's role has not received sufficient academic attention and needs further exploration. Existing research tends to focus on how to be an effective head and overcome common challenges, bu…
Tensions around Land Tenure in Argentina’s Agrarian Periphery: Scales and Multiple Temporalities of Capitalism in Santiago del Estero, Argentina
This article contributes to discussions on capitalist transformation and impact on peripheral agriculture by focusing on the province of Santiago del Estero in northern Argentina. The concept of land grabbing is useful for qualitative analysis of the recent dynamics in the land market in this peripheral territory, where the concentration of land for agrarian use is historical but has accelerated in recent decades with the expansion of soybean cul…
Graduate attributes frameworks or powerful knowledge
In this article, we examine graduate attributes as a conceptual framework. We theorise these are rooted in the neoliberalisation of the university and the increasing importance of employability as a marker for quality university teaching. Graduate attributes vary across institutions but often include 'foundational' as well as 'non-foundational' objectives, such as 'global perspective'. Our theorisation sheds light on how they are operationalised …
Student peer review: Enhancing formative feedback with a rebuttal
This study examines the use of peer review in an undergraduate ecology programme, in which students write a research proposal as a grant application, prior to carrying out the research project. Using a theoretical feedback model, we compared teacher and student peer reviews in a double blind exercise, and show how students responded to feedback given by each group. In addition, students wrote a rebuttal for every feedback point before re-drafting…
Historical paths to current unrest: Extending the temporal lens in analysing geographies of agrarian change and conflict
Rescaling’ alternative food systems: From food security to food sovereignty
Hidden No More: Organised Campesinos in Northwest Argentina
The Argentinean peasantry has been severely ignored within the imagined rural geography of this country, and until relatively recent times publically invisible. This article addresses this historic injustice by focusing on this hidden social group on the margins of Argentinean society. The article examines the prevalent theoretical conceptualisation of the peasantry in Argentina and identifies this sector in census data, where it is assimilated i…
Anarchist Participatory Development: A Possible New Framework
This article examines the ongoing critiques and debates around the 'participatory turn' in development theory and practice and suggests anarchism as a practice-oriented theoretical framework for engaging with what participatory development ought to achieve. Explicit links are constructed between key terms in these development debates and anarchist political philosophy, and a call is made for greater attention to anarchism as a theoretical framewo…
In Search of Alternatives: Peasant Initiatives for a Different Development in Northern Argentina
Social mobilization in Latin America today is often characterized by the adoption of discourses and praxes of radical democracy by social movements. Principles of wider participation in decision making are central to the collective communal economic ventures for capitalizing on peasant production of raw materials of the Movimiento Campesino de Santiago del Estero-Vía Campesina, a peasant organization that is fighting for secure land tenure and hi…
Bridging identity divides in current rural social mobilisation
The shift from a corporatist citizenship regime to a neoliberal one has adversely affected Latin American rural communities and led to widespread social mobilisation and organisation in the countryside. The struggle of such marginalised communities has been often framed by stressing their indigenous collective identity over the previously prevalent class-based peasant identity. This article focuses on the role of identity and the negotiation of d…
Rescaling’ alternative food systems: From food security to food sovereignty
Anarchist Participatory Development: A Possible New Framework
This article examines the ongoing critiques and debates around the 'participatory turn' in development theory and practice and suggests anarchism as a practice-oriented theoretical framework for engaging with what participatory development ought to achieve. Explicit links are constructed between key terms in these development debates and anarchist political philosophy, and a call is made for greater attention to anarchism as a theoretical framewo…
Bridging identity divides in current rural social mobilisation
The shift from a corporatist citizenship regime to a neoliberal one has adversely affected Latin American rural communities and led to widespread social mobilisation and organisation in the countryside. The struggle of such marginalised communities has been often framed by stressing their indigenous collective identity over the previously prevalent class-based peasant identity. This article focuses on the role of identity and the negotiation of d…
Historical paths to current unrest: Extending the temporal lens in analysing geographies of agrarian change and conflict
In Search of Alternatives: Peasant Initiatives for a Different Development in Northern Argentina
Social mobilization in Latin America today is often characterized by the adoption of discourses and praxes of radical democracy by social movements. Principles of wider participation in decision making are central to the collective communal economic ventures for capitalizing on peasant production of raw materials of the Movimiento Campesino de Santiago del Estero-Vía Campesina, a peasant organization that is fighting for secure land tenure and hi…
Why be a head of department? Exploring the positive aspects and benefits
The academic department is a key administrative unit in universities, and so heading, or chairing, a department is a key role. However, it is also known to be a challenging role and academics are often reluctant assume this position. Despite its importance, the head's role has not received sufficient academic attention and needs further exploration. Existing research tends to focus on how to be an effective head and overcome common challenges, bu…
Hidden No More: Organised Campesinos in Northwest Argentina
The Argentinean peasantry has been severely ignored within the imagined rural geography of this country, and until relatively recent times publically invisible. This article addresses this historic injustice by focusing on this hidden social group on the margins of Argentinean society. The article examines the prevalent theoretical conceptualisation of the peasantry in Argentina and identifies this sector in census data, where it is assimilated i…
Bridging identity divides in current rural social mobilisation
The shift from a corporatist citizenship regime to a neoliberal one has adversely affected Latin American rural communities and led to widespread social mobilisation and organisation in the countryside. The struggle of such marginalised communities has been often framed by stressing their indigenous collective identity over the previously prevalent class-based peasant identity. This article focuses on the role of identity and the negotiation of d…
Rescaling’ alternative food systems: From food security to food sovereignty
Hidden No More: Organised Campesinos in Northwest Argentina
The Argentinean peasantry has been severely ignored within the imagined rural geography of this country, and until relatively recent times publically invisible. This article addresses this historic injustice by focusing on this hidden social group on the margins of Argentinean society. The article examines the prevalent theoretical conceptualisation of the peasantry in Argentina and identifies this sector in census data, where it is assimilated i…
Anarchist Participatory Development: A Possible New Framework
This article examines the ongoing critiques and debates around the 'participatory turn' in development theory and practice and suggests anarchism as a practice-oriented theoretical framework for engaging with what participatory development ought to achieve. Explicit links are constructed between key terms in these development debates and anarchist political philosophy, and a call is made for greater attention to anarchism as a theoretical framewo…
In Search of Alternatives: Peasant Initiatives for a Different Development in Northern Argentina
Social mobilization in Latin America today is often characterized by the adoption of discourses and praxes of radical democracy by social movements. Principles of wider participation in decision making are central to the collective communal economic ventures for capitalizing on peasant production of raw materials of the Movimiento Campesino de Santiago del Estero-Vía Campesina, a peasant organization that is fighting for secure land tenure and hi…
Historical paths to current unrest: Extending the temporal lens in analysing geographies of agrarian change and conflict
Student peer review: Enhancing formative feedback with a rebuttal
This study examines the use of peer review in an undergraduate ecology programme, in which students write a research proposal as a grant application, prior to carrying out the research project. Using a theoretical feedback model, we compared teacher and student peer reviews in a double blind exercise, and show how students responded to feedback given by each group. In addition, students wrote a rebuttal for every feedback point before re-drafting…
Tensions around Land Tenure in Argentina’s Agrarian Periphery: Scales and Multiple Temporalities of Capitalism in Santiago del Estero, Argentina
This article contributes to discussions on capitalist transformation and impact on peripheral agriculture by focusing on the province of Santiago del Estero in northern Argentina. The concept of land grabbing is useful for qualitative analysis of the recent dynamics in the land market in this peripheral territory, where the concentration of land for agrarian use is historical but has accelerated in recent decades with the expansion of soybean cul…
Graduate attributes frameworks or powerful knowledge
In this article, we examine graduate attributes as a conceptual framework. We theorise these are rooted in the neoliberalisation of the university and the increasing importance of employability as a marker for quality university teaching. Graduate attributes vary across institutions but often include 'foundational' as well as 'non-foundational' objectives, such as 'global perspective'. Our theorisation sheds light on how they are operationalised …
Why be a head of department? Exploring the positive aspects and benefits
The academic department is a key administrative unit in universities, and so heading, or chairing, a department is a key role. However, it is also known to be a challenging role and academics are often reluctant assume this position. Despite its importance, the head's role has not received sufficient academic attention and needs further exploration. Existing research tends to focus on how to be an effective head and overcome common challenges, bu…
Higher education teachers’ experiences of becoming research active: Striving for university status in the Global South
Student peer review as a process of knowledge creation through dialogue
This study contributes to a better understanding of the potential of student peer review in higher education by examining how repeated practice influences student learning. The study reports on the experiences of undergraduate science students who were systematically trained in peer review over three years. Twelve were interviewed in both their second and third year. It was found that multiple experiences had a positive influence in shaping and e…
Measuring changes in higher-order cognition through the assessment of complex knowledge over time
This article examines how much ‘complex knowledge’ is assessed during a university degree and the extent to which a student has the opportunity to develop this. We conceptualise complex knowledge as any type of assessment that requires students to create and evaluate knowledge, and for which they may receive formative feedback. Such activities are associated with developing higher-order cognition, a set of skills that is poorly understood in the …
The assessment arms race and the evolution of a university’s assessment practices
In this paper we examine the history and development of internal assessment practices at a university in New Zealand. The work re-visits the ‘assessment arms race’ study and builds upon the key arguments presented so far. It was discovered that student demand in the early 1970s triggered the introduction of internal assessment and workloads quickly increased to problematic levels. When the institution moved from year-long courses to a semester an…
Reconsidering Vygotsky’s ‘more capable peer’ in terms of both personal and knowledge outcomes
This point for departure piece is about university students working together and working for each other in the context of Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) and his concept of the ‘more capable peer.’ Much attention has been paid to what is learned, or the knowledge component of the ZPD. However, what seems to be absent in these accounts is an understanding of the interpersonal communicative processes involved in peer to peer relations…
Ambiguity and peripherality in doctoral co-supervision workload allocation
Doctoral education and supervision have changed in recent decades. The increasing prevalence of co-supervision has been a notable aspect of this, but change also includes stricter accountability and quality assurance measures, such as the quantification of workload allocations in supervision as well as of academic work more broadly. This paper focuses on challenging issues pertaining to such workload allocation in co-supervision, an important and…
Enhancing co-supervision practice by setting expectations in a structured discussion using a research-informed tool
Team or co-supervision of doctoral students has been adopted by many universities in different parts of the world. This study focuses on a key aspect of this supervision model that is both a perceived advantage and a challenge, namely the need for supervisors to work collaboratively with colleagues for the benefit of students. It argues that transparent conversations are essential in co-supervisory teams for ensuring productive working relationsh…
Students as scholars and the scholarship of student learning
We explore the idea that teaching students as ‘scholars’ can change their education within a values discourse that promotes certain personal attributes, including being engaged members of their university and society. The idea partially opposes the dominant neoliberal framing of higher education but is not foreign to normal academic practices and so may have a chance to succeed if adopted. At present, the terms ‘scholar’ and ‘scholarship’ are emp…
The importance of workplace factors and the professional identity of academic developers
Academic developers enter the field of academic development (AD) from various disciplines and at different stages of their careers.They bring with them their academic experiences, home disciplinary culture and presumptions about what AD is.These circumstances inform the initial professional identity for those working in what has been described as a fragmented community.Identity impacts on an individual's prioritisation or commitment to a particul…
A model of academic developers’ formation and growth of professional identity: A focus on the affective factors
This paper examines liminality, agency, and community in two different models of academic development (AD), one in New Zealand and the other in Japan. It builds on previous research that looked at the impact of workplace factors on identity and completes a model of academic developers’ formation and growth of professional identity. This is important because various dimensions of development work and their complex relationships remain unclear in a…
Reflections on academic austerity in the neoliberal university
In this article, we are interested in the concept of austerity as a lens to examine contemporary academic work in the research-intensive university sector. This account is important and timely because austerity directly impacts on what is possible in academic work, and what subjects have a place in the university. It is a value that has become normalised in society, and it is now a management tool to control university operations. Austerity is us…
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