Naslov
Building Knowledge: An ethnographic account of rights and responsibilities in higher education in Croatia

Autori
Czerny, Sarah Caroline

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
C-SAP: Rights, Roles and Responsibilities

Mjesto i datum
Birmingham, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 25.11.2009. - 27.11.2009

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Rights; ownership; debates; houses; bodies

Sažetak
In this paper, I provide an ethnographic account of what happens to the staff-student relation when formal teaching and learning activities are suspended such as they were during the blokada. One consequence, I suggest, of the suspension of these ‘everyday’ teaching and learning practices is that other aspects of the staff-student relation are foregrounded, which are perhaps not so visible during a ‘typical’ semester. Even though one can state that these aspects are already constantly present, I draw out how this alternative perspective on the staff-student relation during the blokada had the effect of stimulating a number of questions about this relation. The question that I focus on here ethnographically, which was the source of much debate between staff, and staff and students, as well as the university management and ‘wider society’, was what responsibility teaching staff had towards the students during these protests. Some persons felt that teaching staff had a responsibility to support their students since they believed that the students were now applying a critical perspective on ‘society’, which they had been required to develop during their studies. Others felt that the only responsibility staff had towards their students was to teach them what was on the curriculum and therefore they should not support anything that stopped the practice of formal teaching. Through offering an ethnographic account of three separate instances of these debates surrounding the concept of responsibility, I make the point that those persons involved in these debates were principally interested in trying to find the ‘ends’ of their responsibilities in this relation. The conclusion that I draw from these accounts is that for many, the Faculty buildings themselves had a very pertinent role in defining the ‘ends’ of staff responsibility towards students.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

POVEZANOST RADA