University practitioners’ critical reflections from the collaboritive model

Reflections from the Field Critical Design Ethnography: Designing for Change

Thisarticle describes critical design ethnography, an ethnographic process in­ volvingparticipatory design workaimed at transforming a local contextwhile producing an instructional design that can beused in multiplecontexts. Here, we reflect on the opportunities and challenges that emerged as we built local critiques thenreified them intoadesignedartifact thathasbeen implemented in classrooms a...

Critical Reflections on Regulation

Benefiting from the Function of Hidden Curriculum in the Development of Critical Thinking among University Students

The most fundamental move to enhance the quality of critical thinking in students is the improvement of motivation to think, as the key to success in life and study. This is because acquiring the skills involved in critical thinking, in the process of official curriculum, cannot guarantee the development of these skills, and consequently, their application in different situations. Therefore, on...

University Students and Social Media: Reflections from an Empirical Research

The current debate on the potential for change that the development of social media can bring to education seems to be based more on general and theoretical considerations than on systematic data. In order to contribute to the development of a more informed perspective, in this paper we present empirical evidence gathered from a 2008 and 2009 survey on undergraduate students at the University o...

The problematics of financialization: Critical reflections

Andersson et al. (this issue) add to developing literature on financialization in reflecting on the bio-pharma industry. Their theorising is both an account of a process of financialization and a problematisation with a substantive resonance. The concern here is to contribute to a critical appreciation of the problematics of financialization through reflecting upon the developing thesis as indi...