Moments Of Engagement Research Articles

Defamiliarizing assessment and feedback: exploring the potential of ‘moments of engagement’ to throw light on the marking of undergraduate assignments

Assessors’ perspectives on their evaluative practices remain relatively under-researched. Given evidence that higher education assessment and feedback continue to be problematic, this paper proposes a specific methodological innovation with potential to contribute both to research and practice in this area. It explores the potential of a micro-analysis of textual engagement, nested within an ethnographic approach, to defamiliarize the often taken-for-granted practice of marking. The study on which the paper is based used screen capture combined with audio-recorded, concurrent talk-around-text to throw light on the processes, strategies and perspectives of eight teachers within one university as they assessed undergraduates’ work. This close-up focus was nested within broader ethnographic data generation incorporating interviews, marked assignments and other assessment-related texts. The paper presents selected ‘moments of engagement’ to show how this methodology can offer a renewed understanding of evaluative literacies as complex, ‘messy’ and shot through with influences invisible in the final assessed text but which may nevertheless be highly consequential. The paper concludes by reflecting on the potential for this type of data and analysis to contribute to assessor development and inform debate about the future of higher education assessment.

Constellated in a flash: on the dialectics of seeing (beyond stasis) in Zoë Wicomb’s work

This essay considers the photograph as representation and metaphor in select work by Zoë Wicomb (b. 1948). It asks how the photograph functions in her prose fiction and criticism in service of a recuperation of late- and postapartheid stasis in potentially affirmative vein. Many of Wicomb’s most illuminating essays and many of her fictions – from her debut, You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987), to the most recent, Still Life (2020) – engage with photographs, drawing in highly suggestive ways on vivid descriptions of acts of seeing that are indebted to photographic theory. What, I ask, is constellated in the moment captured in the photograph represented in Wicomb’s fiction, as well as in the moment of engagement with the image – by her characters, or by Wicomb herself (including as critic)? How does the photograph function in Wicomb’s reimagination of the possibilities for ethical engagement with otherness beyond the stasis of South Africa’s long post-transition, post-postapartheid moment?

From high peaks to deep valleys: Using a situation- and person-oriented approach to assess within- and between-student variation in momentary engagement and disengagement

The present study investigated the qualitatively different moments of engagement and disengagement experienced by students at upper-secondary school in academic situations. Further, we examined between-student differences in the occurrence of these moments and their associations with both momentary task performance and overall academic achievement. By means of multilevel latent profile analysis (MLPA) we examined 1392 momentary experiences of 130 students, collected via experience sampling method (ESM). We identified six types of (dis)engagement moments varying within students from moment to moment: high engagement, moderate engagement, indifferent engagement, anxious engagement, anxious disengagement and bored disengagement. In addition, we identified four student profiles: highly engaged, moderately engaged, indifferently engaged and anxious. Whereas the engagement moments were related to momentary task performance, there were no differences between the student profiles in academic achievement. These results shed light on the nuanced nature of engagement and disengagement, and how they vary across individuals and situations.

Into the eXperience-verse: the strategic frontier of cloud business innovation and value co-creation

PurposeThe authors introduce readers to the eXperience-verse revolution, the next strategic frontier of cloud business innovation and value co-creation.Design/methodology/approachThe eXperience-verse revolution unfolds concurrently with the evolution of the digital technologies and as enterprises learn to harness them and create greater and more unique, personalized value to all stakeholding individuals-as-experiencers.FindingsUnlike the previous four Industrial Revolutions driven by technology, this new era requires an “experience-first” frame of reference of value creation by every enterprise.Practical/implicationsEmerging technologies are leveraged at the moment of engagement between the enterprise and the experiencers?the goal is to engender value to the individual-as-experiencer.Originality/valueAs industry clouds now accelerate strategic business innovation of interactive experience ecosystems, a whole new dimension of value-innovation and value-creation is being created - the “eXperience-verse”.

The Hidden Law of Selfhood: Reading Heidegger's Ipseity after Derrida's Hospitality

Despite his wide-ranging and incisive engagement with Heidegger's thought across his career, Derrida seems to have written very little about Heidegger's Ereignis manuscripts, which, according to many commentators, constitute the place where Heidegger's thinking comes closest to Derridean deconstruction. Taking up Derrida's comments in Hospitality 1 on the figure of ‘selfhood’ ( Selbstheit) in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy, this essay argues that this dense but important moment of engagement with the Ereignis manuscripts reveals the extent to which Heidegger's thinking of selfhood, in spite of its fundamentally relational character, remains thoroughly determined by ipseity, the philosopheme that links selfhood, possibility, and sovereignty within the metaphysics of presence. Beginning with a reconstruction of the link between power and selfhood in Derrida's thinking of ipseity and a close-reading of the key passage in Hospitality 1, the essay then turns to Heidegger's engagement with Hölderlin to show both the depth of Heidegger's commitment to a relational thinking of selfhood and the philosophical and rhetorical safeguards by which he ensures that the relations of difference that constitute the self continue to function in the name of the ipseity, understood as the very Ur-form of sovereign power.

Learning about Moss: Forming Communities of Inquiry

The term community, when applied to socially engaged projects, often encompasses a range of different motivations for people to come together. It rarely describes a harmonious group, but instead an ever-changing set of individuals, with different interests and reasons for taking part. Looking at the participatory design of a moss wall around the community garden at R-urban, in London, the paper will explore how different understandings of the term community came together through meetings, events and workshops, as a designed process of engagement. The site of the project, defined a community of location, made up of residents. The community garden wall was designed in response to the poor air quality within the area, collaborating with a community of concern, made up of activists and academics. The wall was tested through construction workshops, attracting volunteers interested in learning about DIY as well as air quality, building a diverse community of practice. These different communities came together to learn about the wall through experimental prototypes, as a community of enquiry. The paper will reflect on the success and failures of different engagement strategies to target specific groups, exploring unexpected moments of engagement and the challenges of apathy and misunderstanding. It will explore how these events enabled people to move between different understandings of the term community, through the engagement in design and the legacy of the objects produced. This has the potential to develop a longer-term collective concern for such a project and this community can in turn support behaviour change, informing an individual’s urban mobility.

Public Archaeology 2015: Letting public engagement with archaeology 'speak for itself'

Public Archaeology 2015 was a year-long project dedicated to the creation of public engagement and involvement with archaeological projects and subjects. Month-long projects were devised and enacted by both archaeologists and non-archaeologists, with the impact of the project residing in the moments of engagement themselves rather than critical or academic analysis with the benefit of hindsight. In this short article, the convenors of the project discuss the project's central ethos and its relationship to wider debates on co-production and impact assessment in public archaeology. It expands discussion on the opposition therein between impetus provided by 'experts' and from 'amateurs'. The project aimed to use a different mode of operation to existing 'top-down' or 'bottom-up' models of collaboration, and created a democratic situation where different kinds of public engagement with archaeology took place within a wider context of those central terms — public, archaeology, engagement — being kept intentionally fluid and open to interpretation.

Impact of Work Engagement on Performance in Indian Higher Education System

The moments in which employees attach themselves with their work roles are called as the moments of engagement (Kahn, 1992). The number of higher educational institutions is rapidly growing in India to cater to the increasing demand for advanced studies (KPMG, 2014). As a result, Indian academia is facing the challenge of keeping academics engaged so that academics can happily and efficiently perform a larger role. So, this study examines the influence of job resources on engagement along with how the interaction among job resources and perceived autonomy impacts performance in service delivery. We also examine the mediating role of work engagement between the job resources and service employee performance relationship. Two hundred sixty one academics elected from different Indian universities were asked to rate themselves on the support, autonomy and engagement scales. Further, 261 students were asked to rate the performance of these academics. Structural equation modeling was used to test the formulated hypotheses. The results suggest that work engagement mediates the relationship between supervisory support and service employee performance. Moreover, perceived autonomy moderates relationship between co-worker support and work engagement relationship. These findings extend the theoretical understanding of engagement enhancing the performance in service delivery as reflected in the feedback from students. Results also urge universities to make policies that enhance coworker and supervisory support which can create a culture of co-operation. Certain limitations and future research directions of this study have also been discussed in greater detail.

Closer to the body: Reflections on skript and extracts from collected writings

Abstract In this two part article we reflect upon the experience of writing-dancing with audiences and artists in the context of our installation work skript (commissioned by Dance4, Nottingham, 2013). Part one considers how skript engages embodied, felt sense, improvisational and collaborative modalities in relation to the act of writing. As such we consider the ways in which the particular interface of language and embodiment, which is the focus of skript, might allow a knowing of ‘something’ otherwise – be that something a sense of our own bodies, a dance work, a performance experience or perhaps just that moment in time. In part two we share extracts of some of the writings that were collaboratively generated as part of skript. We focus on the work of three performance/movement artists: Guy Dartnell, Miguel Pereira and Rosalind Crisp. These dance-writings are published as they were written in real time, in the moment of engagement. They are edited only for length and at times to correct typographical errors (but only if the errors seemed to disturb the flow of the ideas) rather than to simply ‘tidy’ the text or the grammar. The writings are relational, improvisational and at times fragmentary. For more writings see: www.writing-dancing.blogspot.com.

The vicissitudes of the recovery construct; or, the challenge of taking “subjective experience” seriously

The vicissitudes of the recovery construct; or, the challenge of taking “subjective experience” seriously

Engaged Moments: Mediated Action and Children with Autism in the Classroom Setting

The purpose of this microethnographic study is to explore ways to better understand engagement in occupation of children with autism spectrum disorder. Using video data, moments of engagement were examined in a child with autism spectrum disorder during the daily classroom activity of Circle Time. The interpretive frame focused on mediated action, the interaction between the agent, and cultural tools. Three scenes were analyzed using narrative and micro-analytic strategies. Analyses of two scenes highlighted how social and material mediators offer opportunities for engagement. Other children with autism provided appropriate scaffolds and demonstrated evidence of intersubjectivity, whereas material tools provided proximal prompts that enabled the child to engage. The third scene suggests that engagement may not always be observable (i.e., engagement may be a subjective state). Implications for practice and methodological insights are offered.

The constraints of the ordinary: ‘being with’ in the context of end-of-life nursing care

The concept of 'being with' was an essential part of the hospice philosophy developed by Cicely Saunders, and one that she believed was a key element in the care of the dying. In Saunders' philosophy, 'being with' is a specific moment of engagement between a health professional and a patient whereby the patient has the opportunity to examine and express their thoughts and feelings relating to their imminent death. This study examined how 'being with' was implemented as a part of ordinary day-to-day practice in a hospice in Scotland. The study was based on the principles of ethnomethodology, which aims to reveal embedded and taken-for-granted rules and behaviours that determine practice. The data collection and analysis revealed that the nursing practice was constructed in such a way that 'being with', as Saunders understood it, could not be initiated either by a member of the nursing staff or by the patients. By adopting the philosophical framework of Heidegger, the study offers an understanding of how the nursing staff had developed 'being with' as provision of comfort in order to protect both themselves and the patients from engaging with painful emotions associated with facing death.

Reclaiming the Wasteland: Samson and Delilah and the Historical Perception and Construction of Indigenous Knowledges in Australian Cinema

Reclaiming the Wasteland: Samson and Delilah and the Historical Perception and Construction of Indigenous Knowledges in Australian Cinema

Easter and the Battle of Pollentia

Interest in the battle of Pollentia in recent years has been confined to the issue of dating the year in which it occurred, the extent to which either Claudian or Prudentius, the two late Roman poets who mention it, depended on the other's work, and the significance of the battle in the political and military careers of its two chief protagonists, Stilicho, the Vandal regent of the emperor Honorius, and Alaric, the Visigothic leader and rebellious Roman agent. In this paper, I consider religion as a tactic in the conduct of the battle. We know from Orosius that it was fought at Easter, something for which he chastised Stilicho. While scholars refer to its Easter date and Vanderspoel has found Easter allusions in another of Claudian's poem written in the light of the battle, none has investigated the significance of the battle taking place at Easter. It is argued here that religious considerations were crucial in determining the moment of engagement and not just coincidental and that, by attacking Alaric at Easter, we have another indication of just how precarious Stilicho's position was.

Spectacular Happiness

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Book Forum: FictionFull AccessSpectacular HappinessTODD GRISWOLD, M.D., TODD GRISWOLDSearch for more papers by this author, M.D., Arlington, Mass.Published Online:1 Dec 2001https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.158.12.2096AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail This is the audacious first novel from the author of Listening to Prozac(1), Should You Leave?(2), and Moments of Engagement(3). This rich and wonderful book defies distillation. Somehow Kramer successfully weaves together a poignant family saga with anarchist theory, suspenseful intrigue with social criticism, dark cynicism with hope for humanity. Reading this book (like so many things) will not be the same after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The story centers on a divorced community college professor involved in anarchist bombings of beach-front mansions on Cape Cod. Although the bombings are scrupulously orchestrated to avoid direct injury to people, Kramer’s sympathetic portrayal of any type of terrorism may be troubling for some readers. Yet the provocative aspects of this book are in some ways prescient and, perhaps, especially relevant to a nation engaged in a war against terrorism.The novel takes the form of a journal written by Chip Samuels, the divorced professor who deeply misses his son after the breakup of his family. Kramer’s introspective narrative voice draws the reader into the psyche of the protagonist. Samuels is a sharply intelligent man whose personal wounds and principled views lead him on an increasingly high-stakes odyssey. Samuels addresses the journal to his son in an effort to explain himself and somehow bridge the distance between them.On this poignant framework, Kramer builds a lively tale of an anarchist movement that targets ostentatious beach-front structures while fastidiously avoiding harm to people. The Free the Beaches campaign becomes a sort of terrorist performance art that challenges modern American capitalist values. Kramer’s social criticism cuts deeply and widely, and he does not spare psychiatry. He questions our current readiness to medicate our children and ourselves, and he challenges conceptions of psychotherapy. Ultimately, he leads the reader to question his or her own principles and relationship with the prevailing culture.This review cannot do justice to the breadth of issues Kramer explores. Most immediately, the novel charts a man’s struggle to maintain integrity and keep his family together in the turbulent seas of the modern world, seas that can erode our foundations and threaten us with riptides and rogue waves of fate. Kramer resists simple formulas regarding motivation or how one might influence the course of events. Contradictions, unintended consequences, and ironies abound—the stuff of good fiction and interesting life.Kramer’s indictment of modern society is indeed penetrating, but ultimately he writes of people saving one another. He has written a subversive and triumphant work that asks us to do all we can for one another. The attacks of September 11 may complicate the feelings aroused by this book, but by all means read it and enjoy Peter Kramer’s deeply thoughtful fiction.By Peter D. Kramer. New York, Scribner, 2001, 313 pp., $25.00.

On Happiness, or the Performative without Conditions

“Hello.” Saying hello is a performative. It is neither true nor false. By saying hello, I do something. I greet you, or maybe I’m just kidding. (Or I may give you an example, just now.) Derrida focuses on the performative nature of the professional/university field of utterances. University, he suggests, is the domain of performatives, and not of constatives. The proper speech act of the professor is performative; the profession of the professor is placed in the moment of engagement and responsibility. Later on, it is suggested that at the university constatives and performatives co-exist, in the classical alliance of constative and performative. As a whole, in the vision of the professor/ professionalism and new Humanities, it is the performative of the professor which is underlined. Derrida himself has some doubts about the performative/constative distinction. Although he pretends to use these terms without reservations, in the last section of his lecture (and in the introductory chapter) he refers to the deconstruction of the distinction, to the mocking of both terms: “le debordement du performatif et de l’opposition constatif/performatif.” He arrives, then, at a conclusion which has been prefigured in Austin’s work. As you will remember, Austin’s distinction did not survive the eleventh chapter of his lectures: Austin himself deconstructs the opposition, challenges the borders between the terms. As if the distinction was forged just in order to be deconstructed, to show the Austinian way of making our clear-cut, simple, evident concepts collapse. A constative, then, is no more special or outstanding or distinguished a speech act than a performative is, and vice versa: we always perform, just in some cases our performatives happen to be statements. Still, one may wish to preserve the distinction, however deconstructed. The question is, whether it is a distinction in and by itself, or it is brought about, fait arrivee. Is in not made via a performative act of distinguishing? And what are the conditions of speaking in a performative or else in a constative way? Are there conditions of their having their proper place, let it be at the university or anywhere else?

Design of an Engagement Guiding Mechanism for Roller Chain Drives

On a roller chain drive, if the incoming engaging roller moves tangent to the pitch circle at the moment of engagement, no roller-sprocket impact should occur. Based on such a notion, an engagement guiding mechanism is proposed to make this possible. The algorithm of kinematic design of the mechanism is presented. Comparisons between the new model and a conventional model show significant improvements made in the kinematic properties of the engaging roller.

Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age

Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age

Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age

Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age

Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age

Book Review| Online October 01 1990 Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age. Peter D. Kramer, MD ( 1989). W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110. 260 pp., $24.95. Haru Hirama, EdD, OTR Haru Hirama, EdD, OTR Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Author & Article Information Online ISSN: 1943-7676 Print ISSN: 0272-9490 Copyright © 1990 by the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.1990 The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1990, Vol. 44(10), 954. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.44.10.954a Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Haru Hirama; Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age. Am J Occup Ther October 1990, Vol. 44(10), 954. doi: https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.44.10.954a Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe American Journal of Occupational Therapy Search Advanced Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright © 1990 by the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.1990 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.