The future is always-already now: Instituent praxis and the activist university

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032110034
Author(s):  
Krystian Szadkowski ◽  
Jakub Krzeski
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Open Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ontological Shift ◽  
The University ◽  
Self Production

In this paper, we place the issue of university activism in the context of constituent and constituted power. By this we mean the ever-present danger that activists’ demands will be co-opted and concurrently deactivated. To mitigate this risk, we develop a set of conceptual tools that enables thinking about the activist university in terms of instituent praxis; that is, an open process of co-becoming of an institution and its actors through the continuous co-production of rules that drive their actions. Contrary to the view of the university as something instituted, the activist university that we propose emphasises the possibility of sustaining the process of acting and its underlying rules, rather than the result of the act. The activist university is understood here as a crack that leaves the instituted university open every time the self-production of its subject emerges by the self-transformation of the actors in the very course of their activities. We observe a chance for grounding instituent praxis in the ontological shift in thinking the activist university from being to co-becoming, as this will allow for reclaiming the future for the university and its broader ecology.

Some remarks in the dialogue on the future of theological education in South Africa

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-57
Author(s):  
C.W. du Toit ◽  
Cornél du Toit
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
National Level ◽  
The Self ◽  
Religion And Theology ◽  
African Theology ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

AbstractThe theological education debate in South Africa must be co-ordinated to make it meaningful for all parties involved. Factors influencing this debate are mentioned. Among these are obstacles in redefining African theology and relevant trends on an international and national level. The question of theological education cannot be dealt with in a credible way without reconsidering the nature of the university and the character of truth. Self-understanding in the theological profession challenges us to answer questions like theological integrity, the nature of a faculty for religion and theology, theological plurality and so on. The restructuring of curriculum necessitates revolutionary methods like the self-organising model of education to be considered. The article ends by looking at possible options open and action to be considered.

scholarly journals STUDY REGARDING THE MOTIVATIONAL PROFILE OF THE STUDENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, ENROLLED IN THE DANCE COURSE

GYMNASIUM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol XVII (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Costinel Mihaiu ◽  
Monica Gulap
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Table Tennis ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
The Future ◽  
Motivational Structure ◽  
Motivational Profile ◽  
The University

Purpose: Knowing the motivation of achievement and in relation to the future professional activity of the students from 1st and 2nd years at the University of Bucharest, enrolled in the dance course. The need to improve the self-image, the necessities of superior socializing and relating underlie the students option to enroll in the dance course, are estimated as sine qua non conditions for personal and socio-professional success. In our study have participated, as volunteers, 120 students from the University of Bucharest, divided into two groups: A: 60 students enrolled in the dance course; B: 60 students enrolled in the table tennis and basketball courses. By applying the SM1 questionnaire we investigated the hierarchic motivational structure of the students who were interviewed. We can say that the vision of the investigated subjects, their orientation towards practicing dance could be related to the satisfaction of those needs which they consider important to their personal and socio-professional succes.

scholarly journals Conditions for the formation of future primary teachers' self-expression culture in the educational process of the university

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-214
Author(s):  
Elizaveta Omel'čenko
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Primary Teachers ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Self ◽  
Primary Teacher ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

The article deals with the problem of the formation students' self-expression culture who are preparing to be primary school teachers. The author's view is presented on the conditions created in the educational process of the university, in which the future young specialists' self-expression culture acquires the characteristics necessary for successful professional activity. Such conditions include the development of basic educational programs of professional training, which are based on the ideas of developing a the future students' self-expression culture PEO, the introduction of subjects that characterize the self-expression culture of the teacher, peculiarities of its formation; organization of students' activities in the academic and extracurricular time with involvement in situations where they can express themselves according to their personal preferences and the requirements of their professional activities; methodological support of vocational training, containing materials that reveal questions about the teachers' self-expression culture and its formation. It is emphasized that the success of the students' education, the formation of their characteristics of the self-expression culture depends on what features of the self-expression culture are demonstrated by the primary teacher to them.

Back from the Future

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Rottenberg
Keyword(s):  
Positive Affect ◽  
Professional Women ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ivy League ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
Successful Career ◽  
Family Balance ◽  
The Future ◽  
Work Family

Chapter 4 examines two well-trafficked mommy blogs written by Ivy League–educated professional women with children. Reading these blogs as part of the larger neoliberal feminist turn, the chapter demonstrates how neoliberal feminism is currently interpellating middle-aged women differently from their younger counterparts. If younger women are exhorted to sequence their lives in order to ensure a happy work-family balance in the future, for older feminist subjects—those who already have children and a successful career—notions of happiness have expanded to include the normative demand to live in the present as fully and as positively as possible. The turn from a future-oriented perspective to “the here and now” reveals how different temporalities operate as part of the technologies of the self within contemporary neoliberal feminism. This chapter thus demonstrates how positive affect is the mode through which technologies of the self-direct subjects toward certain temporal horizons.

Pathways to Success Through Identity-Based Motivation

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphna Oyserman
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Core ◽  
Very Young Children ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Future Self ◽  
Fidelity Measures ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Taking Action ◽  
Minimal Effort

Everyone can imagine their future self, even very young children, and this future self is usually positive and education-linked. To make progress toward an aspired future or away from a feared future requires people to plan and take action. Unfortunately, most people often start too late and commit minimal effort to ineffective strategies that lead their attention elsewhere. As a result, their high hopes and earnest resolutions often fall short. In Pathways to Success Through Identity-Based Motivation Daphna Oyserman focuses on situational constraints and affordances that trigger or impede taking action. Focusing on when the future-self matters and how to reduce the shortfall between the self that one aspires to become and the outcomes that one actually attains, Oyserman introduces the reader to the core theoretical framework of identity-based motivation (IBM) theory. IBM theory is the prediction that people prefer to act in identity-congruent ways but that the identity-to-behavior link is opaque for a number of reasons (the future feels far away, difficulty of working on goals is misinterpreted, and strategies for attaining goals do not feel identity-congruent). Oyserman's book goes on to also include the stakes and how the importance of education comes into play as it improves the lives of the individual, their family, and their society. The framework of IBM theory and how to achieve it is broken down into three parts: how to translate identity-based motivation into a practical intervention, an outline of the intervention, and empirical evidence that it works. In addition, the book also includes an implementation manual and fidelity measures for educators utilizing this book to intervene for the improvement of academic outcomes.

Fluxus and the Absurd (1961–62)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin R. Levy
Keyword(s):  
Second Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Major Work ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact

After John Cage’s 1958 Darmstadt lectures, many European composers developed an interest in absurdity and artistic provocation. Although Ligeti’s fascination with Cage and his association with the Fluxus group was brief, the impact it had on his composition was palpable and lasting. A set of conceptual works, The Future of Music, Trois Bagatelles, and Poème symphonique for one hundred metronomes, fall clearly into the Fluxus model, even as the last has taken on a second life as a serious work. This spirit, however, can also be seen in the self-satire of Fragment and the drama and irony of Volumina, Aventures, and Nouvelles Aventures. The sketches for Aventures not only show the composer channeling this humor into a major work but also prove to be a fascinating repository of ideas that Ligeti would reuse in the years to come.

scholarly journals Integrating machine learning and blockchain to develop a system to veto the forgeries and provide efficient results in education sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhruvil Shah ◽  
Devarsh Patel ◽  
Jainish Adesara ◽  
Pruthvi Hingu ◽  
Manan Shah
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Student Records ◽  
Job Roles ◽  
Student Data ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Valid Data ◽  
The Future ◽  
Student Achievements ◽  
The University

AbstractAlthough the education sector is improving more quickly than ever with the help of advancing technologies, there are still many areas yet to be discovered, and there will always be room for further enhancements. Two of the most disruptive technologies, machine learning (ML) and blockchain, have helped replace conventional approaches used in the education sector with highly technical and effective methods. In this study, a system is proposed that combines these two radiant technologies and helps resolve problems such as forgeries of educational records and fake degrees. The idea here is that if these technologies can be merged and a system can be developed that uses blockchain to store student data and ML to accurately predict the future job roles for students after graduation, the problems of further counterfeiting and insecurity in the student achievements can be avoided. Further, ML models will be used to train and predict valid data. This system will provide the university with an official decentralized database of student records who have graduated from there. In addition, this system provides employers with a platform where the educational records of the employees can be verified. Students can share their educational information in their e-portfolios on platforms such as LinkedIn, which is a platform for managing professional profiles. This allows students, companies, and other industries to find approval for student data more easily.

scholarly journals Tripeptide Self-Assembly into Bioactive Hydrogels: Effects of Terminus Modification on Biocatalysis

Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Marina Kurbasic ◽  
Ana M. Garcia ◽  
Simone Viada ◽  
Silvia Marchesan
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
The Self ◽  
Chemical Modifications ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Active Compounds ◽  
Future Design ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
The Future ◽  
Bio Material ◽  
Supramolecular Catalysts

Bioactive hydrogels based on the self-assembly of tripeptides have attracted great interest in recent years. In particular, the search is active for sequences that are able to mimic enzymes when they are self-organized in a nanostructured hydrogel, so as to provide a smart catalytic (bio)material whose activity can be switched on/off with assembly/disassembly. Within the diverse enzymes that have been targeted for mimicry, hydrolases find wide application in biomaterials, ranging from their use to convert prodrugs into active compounds to their ability to work in reverse and catalyze a plethora of reactions. We recently reported the minimalistic l-His–d-Phe–d-Phe for its ability to self-organize into thermoreversible and biocatalytic hydrogels for esterase mimicry. In this work, we analyze the effects of terminus modifications that mimic the inclusion of the tripeptide in a longer sequence. Therefore, three analogues, i.e., N-acetylated, C-amidated, or both, were synthesized, purified, characterized by several techniques, and probed for self-assembly, hydrogelation, and esterase-like biocatalysis. This work provides useful insights into how chemical modifications at the termini affect self-assembly into biocatalytic hydrogels, and these data may become useful for the future design of supramolecular catalysts for enhanced performance.

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