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  1. Oct 2017
    1. neoliberal efficiencies and competencies

      contradictory pressures to measure the wrong things

    2. restructuring of higher education

      my assertion is that restructuring = Auditor General recommendations

    3. neoliberal climate

      my assertion is that neoliberal = scientific management

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    1. Hence, an exploration of how different institutions commit resources, time, and policies to teaching improvement would be a fruitful area of future investigation.

      Teaching Culture Perception: Documenting and Transforming Institutional Teaching Cultures

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    1. Institutional culture and quality teaching should be considered together, as there is an important relationship between institutional culture and teaching (Stein, 1997). T

      goodness, is that what that article was saying?

    2. shared value

      do we have shared values? is this measured?

    3. a culture with improved teaching quality is likely to lead to improved student engagement and learning

      this makes an assumption that we are teaching "good" things. what about a business course that ignores climate change? or a sociology course that doesn't mention intersectionality? is this important to consider? must we implicitly trust that we are teaching towards a common goal?

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    1. bases of power and influence

      what is this

    2. Bauman 1989: 167

      citing this unethical study is the academic equivalent example of power. should be looking at the power the researcher exerts not the prison guards

    3. An escalatory chain of eventsoccurred; the construed authority of the guards was enforced by the submis-siveness of the prisoners, tempting the guards to further and increasingly ille-gitimate displays of the power that their authority allowed them to exercise,leading to further humiliation of the prisoners

      isn't this used as reasons for informed consent in the ethics process. does that make this a bad example?

    4. Haney, Banks, and Zimbardo (1973) designed anexperiment that resonates with government practices that are accepted as nor-mal and routine in many societies

      stanford prison experiment

    5. ituational obligations arise

      people felt obliged to do what they were asked to do in a specific situa-tion, which tended to override more general and abstract moral principles thatthey might also hold.

    6. The system of which we are a part is responsible, not us

      Senge, "the system's fault!"

    7. expressed in a purely quantitative form

      quantified data alone relieves you of moral indeterminacy

    8. the result is the irrelevance ofmoral standards for the technical success of the bureaucratic operation

      forgetting it a means to something other than itself

    9. You see only asmall part of the whole organizational chain when accomplishing yourtask;

      fayol, taylor argued for this

    10. Total institutions do not just include organizations that makepeople inmates against their will

      iron cage of bureaucracy?

    11. orporate “organization man”

      mcmillon cottom?

    12. In organizations designed tobe more polyphonic through more inclusive governance and representation,there would be less need for illegitimate means of resistance

      did Clegg not just say that all forms of resistance were illegimate?

    13. Thosethat have resources attract more resources and thus more power

      university of toronto

    14. The organization wasconceptualized as being composed of four functional subsystems or subunits.

      4 subunits of an org

    15. expert knowledge as a masculine deviceover and against the female production workers

      gendered power

    16. Through their technical knowledge, they could render theuncertain certain and the nonroutine routine

      ITS in a nutshell

    17. manuals disappeared and sabotage occurred

      POWER through broken machines

    18. cientific management principles

      tobacco piece-rate system

    19. technicalcompetency

      "unauthorized or illegitimate power" (Thompson, 1956:290)

    20. Thompson (1956) researched two U.S. Air Force bomber wing commandscomprising both flight and ground crew personnel.

      military bureaucracy

    21. able to exercise power when they control or have the necessary knowledge tomaster uncertain zones in the organizational arena

      technology is a great example of this; knowledge of systems; computers, applications, etc

    22. uncertainty that the elected members

      plus ca change

    23. If you had a choice, would you spend eight hours a day with thepassing parade of megalomaniacs, incompetents, and cruelly brutal gossipsthat people most offices and other organizations?

      is this even a coherent sentence? I think Clegg has PTSD from Office Space.

    1. ife; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our soc

      this is a very good point that I often overlook as well

  2. Sep 2017
  3. Mar 2017
    1. , and

      new sentence

    2. ,

      and

    3. what living conditions were

      were like?

    4. the public opinion reflecting them

      awkward. Did the public opinion reflect the institutions or was it merely the public opinion of the institutions?

    5. In chapter 9 of Visions, Daniel Francis, Janet Miron, and Robert Lanning

      Thank you for sourcing

    6. were causes for reform

      were they "causes" or they themselves reformed?

    7. By using archaeological evidence of the exchange of certain European goods

      where? for example?

    8. as it circumvents some of the intrinsic problems that come with relying on heavily mediated records in the form of missionary/settler journals and letters

      Great point

    9. This directly contravenes the common assumption that European goods superseded Aboriginal trade networks

      I like this sentence for its clarity.

    10. Salisbury

      Is this chapter 1, the fur trade? I can't find the Salisbury article.

    11. in an effort to actively navigate the changes of 1830-1870 as the expansion of Canada’s borders and white settler communities reshaped cultural and economic practices and marginalized Métis populations

      Perhaps this could be a new sentence. I don't like long sentences I lose my train of thought.

    12. Complementary to these historians’ arguments, the primary sources, including Norbert Welsh’s memoir and several photographs, provided evidence of the impact of these societal changes as well as the diverging interests of white settlers and the Métis

      Great sentence: good sourcing, evidence-based claims and links to the previous sentence nicely.

    13. Métis migration, shifting cultural norms, the influence of white women, and the Métis resistance led by Louis Riel

      I like how this gets right to the point.

    14. The analyses of the three historians, Sylvia Van Kirk, Gerhard Ens and Gerald Friesen

      Again, I appreciate this proper citing

    15. which occurred

      unncecessary

    16. The primary and secondary sources contained in Chapter 8 of the Visions text, The Métis and Red River Society: Change, Adaptation, and Resistance -1830’s to 1870s

      Yes, including the source. Great!

    17. distinguishing features

      such as? Give some concrete examples. There is actually nothing being said here.

    18. Through an analysis of the viewpoints of three different historians and primary documents based on education and mental institutions and the ways in which reform was sought to improve them, it becomes clear that there are several key concepts that connect these types of reform together through distinguishing features.

      Is this an example of a passive voice?

      Reworded:

      Three historians analyses of primary documents highlight several key concepts that connect educational and mental institutional reforms.

    19. Through an analysis of the viewpoints of three different historians and primary documents based on education and mental institutions and the ways in which reform was sought to improve them, it becomes clear that there are several key concepts that connect these types of reform together through distinguishing features

      This sentence is too long. It annoys me how many times I had to read it to understand what's being said here.

    20. good about this paragraph

      "good" in what way? structurally? or content-wise? Both?

    21. But even such a little amount was necessary to secure the family

      What does this mean?

    22. Though women were marginalized in the public workforce, they utilized their social position to find ways to earn a living and contribute to society

      What happens to women who do not have a high social position?

    23. Document 1:

      Where is this from? Source?

    24. She argues that although women were still limited in employment opportunities, they too provided goods and services that were important to society.

      I like writing like this. Clear and to the point.

  4. Jan 2017
    1. problem solving, communication, negotiation skills, conflict-resolution skills, and group processing skills.

      how do we train for this?

    2. supported by research

      citation?

    1. She tells me that Lily left her baby alone in the park

      definitely an indication of fractured narrative

  5. May 2016
    1. We will cover everything you need to know for this course within this module

      yes, perfect.

    2. It is beyond the scope of this course

      you say this a lot. Perhaps just focus on framing what is within the scope of this course. I don't think we need to keep apologizing for not being about everything in the universe.

    1. Just to be on the safe side, we suggest that you be kind to your pet rock, most likely a silicate, just in case our silicon overlords arrive.

      I chortled

  6. Apr 2016
    1. Measures of Course Success

      measures of course success

    2. Evaluation ComponentGrade WeightDue DateForum Posts20WeeklyClass Contribution10WeeklyResource Share15To be SelectedDebate25To be SelectedCritical Analysis Paper30March 29, 201

      assessment

  7. Feb 2016
  8. Jan 2016
    1. Is he saying something about inductive vs deductive methods? Where typically historians have a model or a hypothesis but now they are allowing the data to tell the story?