Abstract This paper proposes the applicability of object relations psychoanalytic conceptions of dialogue (Ogden, 1986Ogden, T.1986. The matrix of the mind, London: Karnac. [Google Scholar], 1993Ogden, T.1993. “On potential space”. In In one's bones: The clinical genius of Winnicot, Edited by: Goldman, D.Northvale, NJ: Jason Aaronson. [Google Scholar]) to thinking about relationships and relational structures and their governance in universities. It proposes that:
the qualities of dialogic relations in creative institutions are the proper index of creative productivity; that is of, as examples, ‘thinking’ (Evans, 2004Evans, M.2004. Killing thinking: The death of the universities, London: Continuum. [Google Scholar]), ‘emotional learning’ (Salzberger-Wittenburg et al., 1983Salzberger-Wittenburg, I., Henry, G. and Osborne, E.1983. The emotional experience of learning and teaching, London: Routledge. [Google Scholar]) or ‘criticality’ (Barnett, 1997Barnett, R.1997. Higher education: A critical business, Buckingham: Open University Press. [Google Scholar]);
contemporary institutions' explicit preoccupation in assuring, monitoring and managing creative ‘dialogue’ can, in practice, pervert creative processes and thoughtful symbolic productivity, thus inhibiting students' development and the quality of ‘thinking space’ for teaching and research.
In this context the paper examines uncanny and perverse connections between Paulo Freire's (1972Freire, P.1972. Pedagogy of the oppressed, London: Penguin. [Google Scholar]) account of educational empowerment and dialogics (from his Pedagogy of the oppressed) to the consumerist (see, for example, Clarke & Vidler, 2005Clarke, J. and Vidler, E.2005. Creating citizen-consumers: New labour and the remaking of public services. Public Policy and Administration, 20: 19–37. [Google Scholar]) rhetoric of student empowerment, as mediated by some strands of managerialism in contemporary higher education. The paper grounds its critique of current models of dialogue, feedback loops, audit and other mechanisms of accountability (Power, 1997Power, M.1997. The Audit Society: Ritual's of verification, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Google Scholar]; Strathern, 2000Strathern M.Audit cultures: Anthropological studies in accountability, ethics and the academyLondonRoutledge2000[Crossref], [Google Scholar]), in a close analysis of how creative thinking emerges. The paper discusses the failure to maintain a dialogic space in humanities and social science areas in particular, exploring psychoanalytic conceptions from Donald Winnicott (1971Winnicott, D. W.1971. Playing and Reality, London: Routledge. [Google Scholar]), Milner (1979Milner, M.1979. On not being able to paint, New York: International Universities Press. [Google Scholar]), Thomas Ogden (1986Ogden, T.1986. The matrix of the mind, London: Karnac. [Google Scholar]) and Csikszentmihalyi (1997Csikszentmihalyi, M.1997. Creativity, New York: Harper Perennial. [Google Scholar]). Coleridge's ideas about imagination as the movement of thought between subjective and objective modes are discussed in terms of both intra- and inter-subjective relational modes of ‘dialogue’, which are seen as subject to pathology in the pathologically structured psychosocial environment. Current patterns of institutional governance, by micromanaging dialogic spaces, curtail the ‘natural’ rhythms and temporalities of imagination by giving an over-emphasis to the moment of outcome, at the expense of holding the necessary vagaries of process in the institutional ‘mind’. On the contrary, as this paper argues, creative thinking lies in sporadic emergences at the conjunction of object/(ive) outcome and through (thought) processes. 相似文献
The effectiveness of case-based learning in ethics education varies widely regarding how cases are presented. Case process instruction may impact case-based ethics education to promote sensemaking processes, ethical sensemaking strategy use, and ethical decision making (EDM) quality. This study examined two teaching techniques, notes and review, and participants completed note-taking and review activities examining a case-based scenario during an ethics education course. Results suggest that providing case notes in outline form improves sensemaking processes, strategy use, and EDM quality. In addition, combining processes of provided notes and passive review results in incremental, additive performance via certain ethical sensemaking strategies and EDM quality. 相似文献
Although there is growing concern about the issue of credit card debt among college students in China, little research has examined attitudes to money and debt among that group. The present study compared financial self‐confidence, perceived financial wellbeing, attitudes to debt, and parent education about money and debt in 410 college students from the US and China. Although college students in China reported fewer credit cards and less debt, they also reported lower levels of financial self‐confidence and financial wellbeing. In both cultures, delay of gratification and parental education predicted both self‐confidence and financial wellbeing. 相似文献
The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether there is a differential relationship in the socialization of children with respect to gender identification when responses of children were examined with respect to race and sex (N = 596 fifth and sixth grade boys and girls). Strong father preference was found to have no effect on the choice a boy will make when choosing between male and female peers, during preadolescence, while a strong mother preference by a girl is related to the sex of the peers she chooses. Preadolescent girls who identify with their mothers chose girls with whom to interact in a variety of activities more frequently than they chose boys. A greater proportion of girls preferred to engage in activities with their mothers than boys preferred to engage in activities with their fathers. No differences were observed between racial groups in terms of girls' choices involving peers. Black boys, however, preferred to engage in activities with opposite-sex rather than same-sex peers to a greater extent than white boys. 相似文献