scholarly journals The joy of teaching and learning in academia – teachers’ perspectives from three countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 343 ◽  
pp. 11007
Author(s):  
Alina Georgeta Mag ◽  
Sandra Sinfield ◽  
Tom Burns ◽  
Sandra Abegglen
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
The World ◽  
Free Writing ◽  
Reflective Questions ◽  
Teachers Perspectives ◽  
The Way

All over the world, the educational landscape has changed dramatically over the last year, impacting the way we teach and learn. It is time for reflecting and searching for new ways to support each other, during these pandemic times and beyond; time to co-construct creative partnerships and to innovate new ways to co-create. Change is an inevitable part of teaching and learning but the adaptations currently required are of unprecedented scale. How can we teach and learn with joy in today’s academia? How can we support each other, as teachers, in more creative ways? These two reflective questions were at the base of the study, which was conducted by university teachers from three countries: “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania; London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom; and University of Calgary, Canada. The methods used included interviews, focus groups and free writing with colleagues in each university. Findings revealed the challenges faced by each participant due to the emotional pressure caused in these supercomplex times, and the struggle to bring joy of teaching and learning in creative ways. This small ethnographic project reveals a need to shift our thinking about emotions and how we may facilitate the greatest success of all our students, by continually inventing new solutions and teaching with enthusiasm.

scholarly journals The Continuing Education of Faculty as Teachers at a Mid-sized Ontario University

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine M Carter ◽  
Bettina Brockerhoff-Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
North American ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The World ◽  
Groupes De Discussion ◽  
The University ◽  
Over Time

The findings outlined in this paper are the result of focus groups conducted with faculty at a mid-sized Ontario university. These nine faculty, all of whom have received awards of excellence from their university for their teaching, shared their insights about how they developed as teachers over time. More specific topics explored were as follows: how they first learned about teaching; how they continue to learn about teaching; resources that might have helped early in their teaching careers at the university; and advice they have about teaching for new university teachers, mid-career teachers, and teachers approaching retirement. While many of the observations offered here are specific to Ontario and some of the literature review is North American in focus, the paper offers valuable insights into how faculty learn to be teachers which may be helpful to universities around the world. Cet article présente les résultats d’entrevues menées avec des groupes de discussion composés de membres du corps professoral d’une université ontarienne de taille moyenne. Les 9 professeurs participant ont tous reçu des prix d’excellence de leur université pour leur enseignement. Lors de ces rencontres, ils ont expliqué comment ils ont évolué à titre d’enseignants au fil du temps. Les sujets particuliers suivants ont été abordés : leurs premiers apprentissages en matière d’enseignement; leurs apprentissages subséquents; les ressources qui les ont aidés tôt dans leur carrière d’enseignant à l’université; les conseils qu’ils ont à offrir aux enseignants universitaires qui viennent de débuter leur carrière, à ceux qui sont à mi-parcours et à ceux qui approchent de la retraite. L’article fournit un aperçu utile sur la façon dont les membres du corps enseignant apprennent à devenir des enseignants. Même si bon nombre des observations présentées sont spécifiques à l’Ontario et si une partie de la recension des écrits est d’origine nord-américaine, ces informations peuvent servir aux universités à l’échelle internationale.

Bel Group

2021 ◽  
pp. 259-267
Author(s):  
Alastair Colin-Jones ◽  
Alexandra Berreby ◽  
Caroline Sorlin ◽  
Hannah Radvan ◽  
Justine Esta Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
The World ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
A Company ◽  
The Way ◽  
Pain Points

The case of the Bel Group illustrates the way in which a company has worked together with a variety of different parties in marketing and selling a brand around the world. The process began with investigating the structures and patterns of existing street vendors and then identifying those with whom it wished to partner. It involved running focus groups to determine pain points in the ecosystem and then providing training, health insurance, financing, and access to the formal sector of taxation, social security, and migrant registration. The programme became profitable within two years of its launch, graduated more than four hundred micro-entrepreneurs from training courses and provided health insurance to a thousand people. It is targeting eighty thousand street vendors around the world by 2025.

scholarly journals Earth system sciences and permaculture: contributions to environmental

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-368
Author(s):  
Eliza C. Wenceslau ◽  
Joseli M. Piranha
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Earth System ◽  
The World ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Systemic Understanding ◽  
The Way

In view of the environmental crisis that plagues the world today, resulting from the dissociation of man and environment and the low effectiveness of educational policies, especially regarding Environmental Education, the need for a paradigm shift is evident, transforming the way of teaching and thinking about Environmental Education. In that respect, it is believed that the concepts advocated by Earth System Sciences, applied to Permaculture, can contribute to the development of a more humanistic and respectful culture, besides providing man with a new outlook on the environment. Thus, the present work exposes the foundations of these two theoretical references (Earth System Sciences and Permaculture), aiming to contribute to the reform in thought, and allowing the teaching and learning process in Environmental Education to be more effective and consistent. While Earth System Sciences allow the systemic understanding of the planet as well as the complex relationships between its various constituents, Permaculture seeks a harmonious coexistence of man and the environment. They value, in an analogous way, the interrelations between the constituents of the system, revealing alternatives that enable changes in the way the natural environment is occupied, making it more sustainable and raising consciousness.

Theory of Mind at Work

Reading Minds ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 139-151
Author(s):  
Henry M. Wellman
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Beliefs ◽  
The Way

This chapter looks at theory of mind at work. Theory of mind is at work in ways big and small, in ways hidden and obvious. It is a foundation for people’s human way of looking at the world, so whether false or true, whether directed at themselves or at others, it colors their thinking, their institutions, and their basic beliefs. Societally, it shapes legal and moral codes, written and pictorial conventions, and screen media. Individually, it shapes people’s feelings, their gift giving, their teaching and learning, or their failures to learn. It is at work in adults and in children and in the way people can bring together their adult and childhood selves. Ultimately, it is a foundational piece of who we were, who we are, who we will become, and how those knit together.

Heavy: How Metal Changes the Way We See the World, Dan Franklin (2020)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-420
Author(s):  
David Burke
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Review of: Heavy: How Metal Changes the Way We See the World, Dan Franklin (2020)United Kingdom: Constable Books, 292 pp.,ISBN 978-1-47213-105-8, h/bk, £20

scholarly journals EFL university teachers’ perspectives in written corrective feedback and their actual applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1089
Author(s):  
Windy Wahju Purnomo ◽  
Yazid Basthomi ◽  
Johannes Ananto Prayogo
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
The Body ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Written Corrective Feedback ◽  
Correlational Design ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Teachers Perspectives ◽  
Feedback Techniques ◽  
Writing Errors

<p>This study aimed to investigate the English as a foreign language (EFL) university teachers’ perspective and their actual applications in providing written corrective feedback to the writing errors made by the EFL university students and their correlation. The study was based on 80 responses of a Google-Form survey distributed to EFL university teachers with various teaching experiences from the most parts of Indonesia. Correlational design was used in this research. Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation tests were used to analyze data. The results indicated that the majority of teachers had perspectives that it is valuable to provide and vary the strategies of written corrective feedback. In addition, the teachers mostly applied both direct and indirect feedback in various strategies and they only sometimes provided corrections in all aspects of errors and reformulation. It was also found out that the Indonesian EFL university teachers’ perspectives in the written corrective on students’ writing errors highly correlated with their actual applications. The results of the study provide both theoretical and pedagogical implications. Theoretically, it enriches the body knowledge of feedback and EFL writing. Pedagogically, EFL teachers are also suggested to improve their knowledge on various feedback techniques and apply it in their classroom teaching and learning process.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals The Magic and Mysteries of Teaching ESL

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-128
Author(s):  
Dan Manolescu
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Global Communication ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

The present review article aims to emphasize the importance of ESL as a relevant tool, not only in education, but in global communication as well. While different approaches to the teaching of ESL and its methodological implications still pose challenges to teachers and learners all over the world, educators should be made aware of the colossal power of this new tool that plays such an important role in teaching and learning about other cultures, in exchanging ideas and new concepts, and eventually in making the world a better place to live, learn, and grow. Four basic principles are introduced and discussed in detail, with a focus on the idea that lessons should be interesting, informative, communicative, and motivating. ESL, with its magic and mysteries, may very well be a formidable tool in learning not only about language, but also about the way we communicate with each other.   

Nostalgia as an Emotional Weapon

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Edoardo Campanella ◽  
Marta Dassù
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Political Outcomes ◽  
The World ◽  
Ordinary Citizens ◽  
The Way

Nostalgia is a multifaceted concept that leads to contrasting political outcomes. Reflective nostalgia is the benign form of the malaise. It looks at the past through critical eyes and recognizes that something might have been lost, but that much has been gained along the way. Restorative nostalgia, which proposes to rebuild the lost home, is the malignant form. The problem is that the world is now primarily dealing with a toxic restorative nostalgia used for political ends. Ordinary citizens struggle to adapt to the disruptions imposed on them by global forces that are out of their control, inducing them to find comfort in historical eras when life was easier, slower, and less colored by uncertainty. When thrown into political debates, nostalgia becomes an emotional weapon that can be used either defensively or offensively. To those who reject a cosmopolitan world and yearn for the socio-economic opportunities that were enjoyed by older generations, nationalism promises a source of identity and security. Equally, for those who aspire to restore the national glory of the past, nationalism provides a means to gain influence – to the detriment of other nations. This chapter shows why it is possible to talk about nostalgic nationalism only in the United Kingdom.

What They're Reading

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 29-30
Author(s):  
Eric Mendelson ◽  
Kristy K. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Way

New ideas about gender and how it affects the way we operate in the world and construct knowledge have the potential to influence all aspects of higher education—from teaching and learning and counseling to how work is structured. We asked a staff psychologist on campus and a doctoral student what they've been reading lately on gender issues and what they might recommend to colleagues.

Becoming Politicized

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Beliefs About The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

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