Faith got us through: Using scholarly personal narrative to explore spirituality and transition in a higher education graduate program

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (173) ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Travers ◽  
Miyah A. Gaston
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Scholarly Personal Narrative

scholarly journals Pedagogical Reflection

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-142
Author(s):  
Emily E. Virtue
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
The United States ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Faculty Evaluations ◽  
Scholarly Personal Narrative ◽  
Pedagogical Choices

Instructors in higher education are often asked to reflect on their pedagogical choices in formulaic, detached, rote ways such as end of the year faculty evaluations or in response to peer review of teaching. Yet, because of the parameters for these reflections, they often lack depth or much consideration. Particularly because higher education institutions, especially in the United States, are focused on assessment, outcomes, student performance, and retention, little time is focused on particular pedagogical choices or interaction with students. Numerous studies demonstrate that faculty-student interaction has a remarkable impact on student success. This paper, a Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN), explores the value of sustained pedagogical reflection and how such reflection can benefit instructors and their students.

Novos modelos de educação superior

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Tavares Gomes ◽  
Eduardo Santos ◽  
Sandra Gomes ◽  
Daniel Pansarelli ◽  
Donizete Mariano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public School ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
New Models ◽  
Cognitive Justice ◽  
Access Policies

This book, consisting of nine chapters, is the result of multiple theoretical and empirical research carried out by students in the post-graduate program in education (PPGE) at Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE). The object of the research was to carry out a study on the new models of higher education, implemented in Brazil between 2005 and 2013. The studies carried out focus, above all, on institutional principles, student access policies, the internationalization process, quota policies, and mechanisms for inclusion in higher education for public school students. These were studies that used, as a theoretical basis, epistemological models of a counter-hegemonic character and, from a methodological point of view, an essentially qualitative approach. The studies showed, generically, the possibility of building other models of higher education capable of overcoming the elitism, characteristic of traditional universities. The inclusion of students from public school reveals that it is possible to make higher education a right for everyone, democratizing it, in the sense of establishing social and cognitive justice. Keywords: higher education; new models; empirical research; Brazil; social and cognitive justice.

scholarly journals Apontamentos metodológicos e curriculares discentes para os cursos de pós-graduação em Escrita Criativa no Brasil

Navegações ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil ◽  
Bernardo Bueno ◽  
Luís Roberto de Souza Júnior ◽  
Moema Vilela Pereira ◽  
Ángela María Cuartas Villalobos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Curricular Structure ◽  
Methodological Procedures

Este artigo analisa os resultados da segunda etapa da pesquisa Escrita criativa na Academia: a formação do escritor, desenvolvida desde 2015 no Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras (PPGL) PUCRS, cujo objetivo geral é verificar a estrutura curricular e as condições de ensino oferecidas pelos cursos de mestrado e doutorado voltados para a formação do escritor e do pesquisador na área de Escrita Criativa na universidade. Nesta etapa, procurou-se verificar qual a percepção dos discentes acerca das disciplinas oferecidas, bem como os procedimentos metodológicos adotados no curso, visando melhor adequação dessas propostas, bem como apontar caminhos para uma implantação ampla da Área da Escrita Criativa no Brasil. *** Alumni methodological and curricular notes for postgraduate courses in Creative Writing in Brazil ***This article analyses the results of the second stage of the research Creative Writing in Academia: the writer’s education, developed since 2015 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) Graduate Program in Letters. The general objective is to verify the curricular structure and the teaching conditions offered by the Masters and Doctoral courses focusing on the education of writers and researchers in the area of Creative Writing at PUCRS. At this stage, we sought to ascertain the students’ perceptions about the modules and methodological procedures adopted in the course, aiming at a better development of these proposals, as well as to point out ways for a wider implantation of Creative Writing in Brazil.Keywords: Creative Writing; Higher Education; Graduate Studies; PUCRS; Brazil.

scholarly journals Evaluating Access, Quality, and Equity in Online Learning: A Case Study of a MOOC-Based Blended Professional Degree Program

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Littenberg-Tobias ◽  
Justin Reich
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Degree Program ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Professional Degree ◽  
Technological Affordances

Many higher education institutions have begun offering opportunities to earn credit for in-person courses through massive open online courses (MOOCs). This mixed-methods study examines the experiences of students participating in one of the first iterations of this trend: a blended professional master's degree program that admitted students based on performance in MOOC-based online courses. We found that the blended master's program attracted a cohort of highly educated mid-career professionals from developed countries who were looking for more flexible alternatives to traditional graduate programs. Success in the online courses was correlated with higher levels of prior formal education and effective use of learning strategies. Students who enrolled in the blended graduate program reported being academically prepared for their coursework and had higher GPAs (3.86, p<0.01) than students in the residential program (3.75). The findings of this study suggest that the technological affordances of MOOC-based online and blended degrees will neither transform higher education nor solve its most stubborn equity challenges, but there may be particular niches where they provide a valuable service to learners in particular programs and contexts.

scholarly journals Moving Toward Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curricular and Teaching Practices in Canadian Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-247
Author(s):  
Julie A. Mooney
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Hidden Curriculum ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
Curricular Practices ◽  
Canadian Higher Education

In this reflective paper, I interweave autoethnographic personal narrative and critical self-reflection with theoretical literature in order to engage and wrestle with decolonizing and Indigenizing my teaching and curricular practices in Canadian higher education. Acknowledging that walking this path is challenging, I seek multiple trailheads in an effort to access my hidden curriculum, my complicit knowledge, and unsettling moments that have the potential to transform me. My objective is to critically interrogate myself to prepare for respectfully and appropriately moving toward reconciliation in my relationships with Indigenous colleagues, students, and communities, and in my work as a curriculum maker.

Disability and Dominant Leadership Models Over Time

2020 ◽  
pp. 274-293
Author(s):  
Melanie Lee
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Student Leadership ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Leadership Development Programs ◽  
Leadership Models ◽  
Models Of Disability ◽  
Over Time

This chapter is grounded in scholarly sources and personal narrative, and it concludes with recommended best practices about fostering more socially just higher education environments for college students. Specifically, the author focuses on the development of more equitable inclusion of students with disabilities in curricular and co-curricular leadership development programs. This chapter provides a context of major models of disability over time, a chronological scaffold of dominant student leadership models, and recommendations for educators inside and outside of classroom spaces. The intersection of models of disability and leadership models has not been explored. This chapter fills that gap in the literature.

The status of entrepreneurship education in Jordanian universities

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wejdan Alakaleek
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Small Business Management ◽  
The Status

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the developmental level of entrepreneurship education within the context of Jordanian higher education. The level of development in such education is investigated based on two areas: the educational courses and programs themselves and the formal structures within which they are embedded. Design/methodology/approach The quantitative approach is based on a survey scan of all 29 Jordanian universities, including their course plans, educational programs, departments and centers. A list of entrepreneurship centers, programs and course subjects is provided and analyzed. Findings The main findings of study are: in Jordan, entrepreneurship education is still at an early stage of development, and its offerings are limited to a few courses covering some introductory subjects in small business and entrepreneurship courses. Of the Jordanian universities, one university offers a major educational graduate program in entrepreneurship and 27.5 percent have centers for innovation and entrepreneurship, but lack any entrepreneurship departments. Entrepreneurship education is new in Jordan: the first provided course was a small business management; the first center was established in 2004 and later in 2012, it offered the first educational programs in entrepreneurship. Research implications This paper assists all stakeholders in higher education to build an understanding of the nature of entrepreneurship education in Jordan and supports the design of appropriate strategies for encouraging entrepreneurial subjects to be incorporated into the country’s universities educational programs. Originality/value The value of this study stems from its aim to provide an overview of the status of entrepreneurship education in Jordanian universities. It also makes a contribution to knowledge as the first nationwide study in this context.

Aesthetic Expression

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-61
Author(s):  
Betty Rambur
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Patient Death ◽  
Scholarly Personal Narrative ◽  
Aesthetic Expression

A nursing professor and dean recounts her first patient death in this scholarly personal narrative.

scholarly journals Scholarly Personal Narrative: Storied Forms as Teaching, Learning, and Writing

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-198
Author(s):  
Marcea Ingersoll
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Scholarly Personal Narrative ◽  
Critical Method ◽  
Teaching Learning

By embedding narrative theory within the practice of storied forms, there can be pedagogical movement from difficulty to insight. This piece explores scholarly personal narrative as a creative and critical method for attaining academic understanding. The ideas of three narrative scholars (Nash, Fowler, and Luce-Kapler) surface within two writing forms—a letter and a poem. The author playfully reports on the powerful processes that are engaged when shared creative story forms become part of teaching, learning, and writing.

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