- Finnish Institute for Educational Research
University of Jyväskylä
FI-40014
FINLAND
David Hoffman
University of Jyväskylä, Finnish Institute for Educational Research, Department Member
- Dr. David Hoffman is a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Institute of Educational Research at the University of Jyväsk... moreDr. David Hoffman is a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Institute of Educational Research at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His interests include International Comparative Higher Education, Intercultural Communication, International Migration and Ethnic Relations. David was the first program coordinator of the MA program in intercultural communication at the University of Jyväskylä, as well as the EMICC Eurocampus network, an intercultural communication program linking nine European Universities.
David’s instruction – in person and online – occurs in Finland, France, Germany and Canada focusing on research methods, higher education and intercultural communication and migration-related topics.
David has published on a wide range of issues in the fields of higher education, international migration, ethnic relations and intercultural communication. He has presented his research to audiences in several countries, as well as being regularly invited to present his research to higher education scholars and stakeholders including the European Science Foundation, professional associations, the Finnish Ministry of Education, Academy of Finland and student unions.
David obtained his bachelors degree at the University of Alaska (Anchorage campus) and his MA and PhD in Jyväskylä, Finland – where he and his spouse, Tiina, have lived since 1992.
For publications please see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Hoffman/publications/edit
This study is intended for researchers, policy-makers and stakeholders interested in critically reexamining discussions concerning internationalization and Finnish higher education, particularly in terms of mobility issues associated with... more
This study is intended for researchers, policy-makers and stakeholders interested in critically reexamining discussions concerning internationalization and Finnish higher education, particularly in terms of mobility issues associated with university personnel. These types of discussions are increasingly couched in terms of global markets, competitiveness and increasing Finland's international attractiveness – as a place to work and as a place to live (Finnish Ministry of Education 2008). The primary purpose of this article is to present the analysis of a 2008/9 multiple case study of the relationship between the academic mobility patterns of university personnel and the competitiveness of basic units in Finnish universities. This multiple case study the incremental interview approach protocol (Hoffman 2009) was used to guide the collection of direct observations, texts and interviews that focused on 32 academic personnel in 30 basic units (Becher & Kogan 1992) in 10 Finnish univ...
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... In fairness, the equality committee was receptive to this research and endorsed its objectives. Hoffman / Non-Native Faculty and Transformation 83 ... 5. Estimate the receptivity of the organization to this type of research. 6.... more
... In fairness, the equality committee was receptive to this research and endorsed its objectives. Hoffman / Non-Native Faculty and Transformation 83 ... 5. Estimate the receptivity of the organization to this type of research. 6. Estimate the types of data available from a single case. ...
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... participants had permanent positions, twenty‐two had temporary posts and six were Master's students transitioning ... were already known to the author, while he learned of others during peer debriefing ... all references)2 2. At... more
... participants had permanent positions, twenty‐two had temporary posts and six were Master's students transitioning ... were already known to the author, while he learned of others during peer debriefing ... all references)2 2. At all Levels, approaches to learning and using the Finnish ...
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... Learning Society in the UK Knowledge society discourse is known to other European countries as well. It should be mentioned that the purposes of universities in the Learning Society has been defined in the UK according to the Dearing... more
... Learning Society in the UK Knowledge society discourse is known to other European countries as well. It should be mentioned that the purposes of universities in the Learning Society has been defined in the UK according to the Dearing Report (1997). ...
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High concentrations of arsenic (As) and selenium (Se) have been found in aquatic food chains associated with irrigation drainwater. Total biomass of invertebrates, a major source of protein for wild ducklings, may vary in environments... more
High concentrations of arsenic (As) and selenium (Se) have been found in aquatic food chains associated with irrigation drainwater. Total biomass of invertebrates, a major source of protein for wild ducklings, may vary in environments that are contaminated with selenium. Day-old mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) ducklings received an untreated diet (controls) containing 22% protein or diets containing 15 ppm Se (as selenomethionine), 60 ppm Se, 200 ppm As (as sodium arsenate), 15 ppm Se with 200 ppm As, or 60 ppm Se with 200 ppm As. In a concurrent experiment, the same sequence was repeated with a protein-restricted (7%) but isocaloric diet. After 4 weeks, blood and tissue samples were collected for biochemical and histological examination. With 22% protein and 60 ppm Se in the diet, duckling survival and growth was reduced and livers had histopathological lesions. Arsenic alone caused some reduction in growth. Antagonistic interactive effects occurred between As and Se, including complete to partial alleviation of the following Se effects: mortality, impaired growth, hepatic lesions and lipid peroxidation, and altered glutathione and thiol status. With 7% protein, survival and growth of controls was less than that with 22% protein, Se (60 ppm) caused 100% mortality, and As (200 ppm) caused mortality, decreased growth, and liver histopathology. These findings suggest the potential for antagonistic effects of Se and As on duckling survival, growth, and physiology with adequate dietary protein but more severe toxicological effects when dietary protein is diminished.
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This self-ethnography complements the other articles in this special issue by spotlighting a set of key challenges facing international research teams. The study is focused on the relationship between information and communication... more
This self-ethnography complements the other articles in this special issue by spotlighting a set of key challenges facing international research teams. The study is focused on the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT)-based collaboration and research team dynamics. Our diverse team, drawn from researchers in five countries and three projects, argues that an ironic casualty of the powerful, global phenomena we study, is a lack of insight into what happens to generic research team dynamics, when groups are ‘stretched’ in terms of geographical distance, generations, cultural beliefs, values and norms, as well as disciplinary/specialist traditions.
Good intentions are not sufficient to cope with these challenges. This is because of the emerging complexity inherent in many types of international, interdisciplinary fields of study and the complexity of the career trajectories needed to make these studies a reality.
Our study underlines that there are no beliefs, values, norms and practices linked to research team dynamics, that hold across the current territory, generations, disciplines, cultures, organizations and individuals leading and conducting comparative studies—and
even less reflection on the implications of this fact. Compounding this lack of awareness is a less-than-perfect understanding of the way in which ICT-based collaboration bears on research team dynamics. We assert that a holistic, critical, long-term approach to emerging insights into the global division of academic labor, serves our field better than folk psychology or the methodological parochialism that sustains convention at the expense of creativity. Careful consideration of emergent processes, relationships and linkages that explain how short-term cooperation—within projects—begins to make sense—over careers—illuminates key focal points, which, in turn qualitatively illuminates the way forward concerning conceptualization and problematization of our practice; and novel methodological routes available for those interested in attaining better outcomes, over the long term.
Good intentions are not sufficient to cope with these challenges. This is because of the emerging complexity inherent in many types of international, interdisciplinary fields of study and the complexity of the career trajectories needed to make these studies a reality.
Our study underlines that there are no beliefs, values, norms and practices linked to research team dynamics, that hold across the current territory, generations, disciplines, cultures, organizations and individuals leading and conducting comparative studies—and
even less reflection on the implications of this fact. Compounding this lack of awareness is a less-than-perfect understanding of the way in which ICT-based collaboration bears on research team dynamics. We assert that a holistic, critical, long-term approach to emerging insights into the global division of academic labor, serves our field better than folk psychology or the methodological parochialism that sustains convention at the expense of creativity. Careful consideration of emergent processes, relationships and linkages that explain how short-term cooperation—within projects—begins to make sense—over careers—illuminates key focal points, which, in turn qualitatively illuminates the way forward concerning conceptualization and problematization of our practice; and novel methodological routes available for those interested in attaining better outcomes, over the long term.
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This article introduces to the thematic scope and the articles of this special issue and it explains some important terminological distinctions of the intercultural research field. The overall aim of this issue is to explore the manifold... more
This article introduces to the thematic scope and the articles of this special issue and it explains some important terminological distinctions of the intercultural research field. The overall aim of this issue is to explore the manifold ways to apply and to reflect upon qualitative research methods in the context of intercultural communication. This implies both a discussion of genuine characteristics of intercultural qualitative research as well as attempts to identify common features and linkages of this special area with more general ...
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Abstract. Finland is internationally valorised for its education system, quality of life and high-tech, innovative, competitiveness. However, a critical focus on institutional dynamics and trajectories of higher education careers... more
Abstract. Finland is internationally valorised for its education system, quality of life and
high-tech, innovative, competitiveness. However, a critical focus on institutional dynamics
and trajectories of higher education careers illuminates questions about the reproduction of
global inequities, rather than the societal transformation Finland’s education system was once
noted for. The purpose of this self-ethnography of career trajectories within Finnish higher
education is designed to call attention to institutional social dynamics that have escaped the
attention of scholarly literature and contemporary debates about academic work and practice
within highly situated research groups, departments and institutes. Our analysis illuminates
emergent stratification, in a country and institution previously characterized by the absence
of stratification and the ways in which this reinforces - and is reinforced by – the tension
between transnational academic capitalism, methodological nationalism and the resulting
global division of academic labour that now cuts across societies, manifesting within the one
institution Finland’s general population trusts to explain, engage and ameliorate stratification:
Higher Education.
high-tech, innovative, competitiveness. However, a critical focus on institutional dynamics
and trajectories of higher education careers illuminates questions about the reproduction of
global inequities, rather than the societal transformation Finland’s education system was once
noted for. The purpose of this self-ethnography of career trajectories within Finnish higher
education is designed to call attention to institutional social dynamics that have escaped the
attention of scholarly literature and contemporary debates about academic work and practice
within highly situated research groups, departments and institutes. Our analysis illuminates
emergent stratification, in a country and institution previously characterized by the absence
of stratification and the ways in which this reinforces - and is reinforced by – the tension
between transnational academic capitalism, methodological nationalism and the resulting
global division of academic labour that now cuts across societies, manifesting within the one
institution Finland’s general population trusts to explain, engage and ameliorate stratification:
Higher Education.
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This self-ethnography complements the other articles in this special issue by spotlighting a set of key challenges facing international research teams. The study is focused on the relationship between information and communication... more
This self-ethnography complements the other articles in this special issue by spotlighting a set of key challenges facing international research teams. The study is focused on the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT)-based collaboration and research team dynamics. Our diverse team, drawn from researchers in five countries and three projects, argues that an ironic casualty of the powerful, global phenomena we study, is a lack of insight into what happens to generic research team dynamics, when groups are ‘stretched’ in terms of geographical distance, generations, cultural beliefs, values and norms, as well as disciplinary/specialist traditions. Good intentions are not sufficient to cope with these challenges. This is because of the emerging complexity inherent in many types of international, interdisciplinary fields of study and the complexity of the career trajectories needed to make these studies a reality. Our study underlines that there are no beliefs, values, norms and practices linked to research team dynamics, that hold across the current territory, generations, disciplines, cultures, organizations and individuals leading and conducting comparative studies—and even less reflection on the implications of this fact. Compounding this lack of awareness is a less-than-perfect understanding of the way in which ICT-based collaboration bears on research team dynamics. We assert that a holistic, critical, long-term approach to emerging insights into the global division of academic labor, serves our field better than folk psychology or the methodological parochialism that sustains convention at the expense of creativity. Careful consideration of emergent processes, relationships and linkages that explain how short-term cooperation—within projects—begins to make sense—over careers—illuminates key focal points, which, in turn qualitatively illuminates the way forward concerning conceptualization and problematization of our practice; and novel methodological routes available for those interested in attaining better outcomes, over the long term.
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Sama,. This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged. Abstract. Finland is internationally valorised for its education... more
Sama,. This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged. Abstract. Finland is internationally valorised for its education system, quality of life and high-tech, innovative, competitiveness. However, a critical focus on institutional dynamics and trajectories of higher education careers illuminates questions about the reproduction of global inequities, rather than the societal transformation Finland's education system was once noted for. The purpose of this self-ethnography of career trajectories within Finnish higher education is designed to call attention to institutional social dynamics that have escaped the attention of scholarly literature and contemporary debates about academic work and practice within highly situated research groups, departments and institutes. Our analysis illuminates emergent stratification, in a country and institution previously characterized by the absence of stratification and the ways in which this reinforces-and is reinforced by – the tension between transnational academic capitalism, methodological nationalism and the resulting global division of academic labour that now cuts across societies, manifesting within the one institution Finland's general population trusts to explain, engage and ameliorate stratification: Higher Education.