“Paradigm Shift” Needed in Social Science Doctoral Education
“Paradigm Shift” Needed in Social Science Doctoral Education
Social Science PhDs – Five+ Years Out is a survey of 3,025 individuals who received their Ph.D.s between 1995 and 1999 in six fields, including political science, to assess the quality of doctoral education in U.S. social science programs.The survey was conducted by the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) at the University of Washington. Similar to a report released in January by the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (see related story “Five-Year Study Calls for Change”), the CIRGE study found current doctoral education programs lacking in preparing their students for the 21st-century job market. According to the report:Social science doctoral students need better career preparation and better support for learning to manage careers...........
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Nanotech faces moral opposition in the US
Europe's favourable public opinion on nanotechnology could help the EU to take the lead in this promising research field as recent survey results suggest that a majority of Americans, based on religious beliefs, find it morally unacceptable.
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The electronic bureaucrat
From The Economist print edition
Putting their services online should allow governments to serve their citizens much more effectively. But despite heavy spending, progress has been patchy, says Edward Lucas (interviewed here)
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E-books will never be our friends
Traditional books are here to stay. Some things are worth cutting down a tree for Ben Macintyre2008 Horizon Report (PDF; 254 KB)
Source: New Media Consortium/EDUCAUSE
The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) jointly produced Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. The 2008 report focuses on the following topics:
Sharia: practice of faith, politics of modernity , Sami Zubaida
The furore in Britain over the Archbishop of Canterbury's cautious references to the sharia and law in his lecture in London on 7 February 2008 has been extensively discussed by a number of openDemocracy writers and from a variety of perspectives: among them Tina Beattie, Fred Halliday, Theo Hobson, Tariq Modood and Roger Scruton. These responses, however, still leave room for some clarifications over the applications of the sharia in modern times and their implications for the debate.
Democracy: the best revenge, Irfan Husain
The elections in Pakistan on 18 February 2008 have transformed the country's political landscape. The reports of pre-poll rigging were confounded, the spin Musharraf tried to put on the results disregarded. In a veritable tsunami, many establishment politicians have been swept away, and Musharraf's grip on power is looking more tenuous than ever before.
‘Liberal Multiculturalism is the Hegemony – Its an Empirical Fact’ - A response to Slavoj Žižek
In his plenary talk at the Law and Critique Conference (2007)1Slavoj Žižek repeatedly asserted that liberal multiculturalism – and its ‘politically correct’ premise of respecting the other’s difference – is hegemonic. When asked questions about this position from the floor, he stated insistently that it was an ‘empirical fact’ that liberal multiculturalism was hegemonic, and [...]Islam: Portability and Exportability
This paper is the outcome of a collaborative effort between the UCLA Centers for Near Eastern Studies and European and Eurasian Studies to combine an annual seminar with a public lecture series. The program was funded by the U.S. Department of Education and supported by the UCLA International Institute and other research units and organizations in Southern California.CRS — Three Reports About Islam
Beyond abyssal thinking
Modern Western thinking continues to operate along abyssal lines that divide the human from the sub-human. One side of this line is ruled by a dichotomy of regulation and emancipation, the other by appropriation and violence. In order to succeed, the struggle for global social justice requires a new kind of post-abyssal thinking.An acronym for the homeless
"Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) can't wait for consensus over climate change; "Esprit" looks into Sarkozy's intentions for Church and State; "Springerin" doesn't recommend playing the lottery; "Kulturos barai" faces up to Lithuania's migration problem; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) warns of the erosion of human rights; "Revista Crítica" looks into the abyss and beyond; "Reset" puts its faith in atheism; and "Kritika&Kontext" searches for the liberal in Nietzsche.What does Nietzsche mean to philosophers today?
Prescient and misunderstood or excessively sensitive, anti-liberal, and irrelevant? Six philosophers tell Kritika&Kontext what Nietzsche means to their work. Their varying positions make one thing clear: Nietzsche still divides opinion.The Red Wagon, or The Subject is a Battlefield
I was re-reading some sections of Virno's A Grammar of the Multitude this week in search of a a little story - one which, after nearly combing the entire text, I realized was actually written by Zizek. Oops.
Nanotech: Yay or nay?What is nanotechnology, and what does it encompass? The debate kicks off.
G8 Aftermath: Energy, Development, and Enlargement
Members of the Atlantic Community commented and wrote articles on energy and development policy as well as G8 enlargement at the time of the G8 summit.Muslims on the American Landscape
Yesterday the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life issued a 143 page report, downloadable here, surveying the changing religious landscape of the United States. Based on interviews with some 35,000 individuals and drawing on earlier Pew research specifically on Muslims in America, this report is well worth reading. The findings are suggestive of the decline of strait-laced Puritan and venomous WASP America.
