The role of the personal tutor in the academic context

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 401-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Gidman ◽  
Amanda Humphreys ◽  
Margaret Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Academic Context ◽  
Personal Tutor

The Academic Study of Sufism at American Universities

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Hermansen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Academic Study

This article provides an overview of the history and current situation of the academic study of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) at American universities. It examines Sufism’s place within the broader curriculum of Islamic studies as well as some of the main themes and approaches employed by American scholars. In addition, it explains both the academic context in which Sufi studies are located and the role of contemporary positions in Islamic and western thought in shaping its academic study.1 Topics and issues of particular interest to a Muslim audience, as well as strictly academic observations, will be raised. In comparison to its role at academic institutions in the traditional Muslim world,2 Sufi studies has played a larger role within the western academic study of Islam during the twentieth century, especially the later decades. I will discuss the numerous reasons for this in the sections on the institutional, intellectual, and pedagogical contexts.

scholarly journals English for Academic Purposes: Theory, Trends and Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Gopal Prasad Pandey
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Professional Needs ◽  
English Speaking

English for academic purpose (EAP) emerged as a branch of English for specific purposes in the early 1980s. EAP grounds English language teaching in the linguistic demands of academic context, tailoring instruction to specific rather than general purposes. There is a growth of interest in EAP in the recent years. The interest in EAP developed in response to the growing need for intercultural awareness and of English as a lingua franca (ELF). EAP has become a major area of research in applied linguistics and focus of the courses studied worldwide by a large number of students preparing for study in colleges and universities. The increase in students’ undertaking tertiary studies in English-speaking countries has led to a steady demand for the courses tailored to meet the immediate, specific vocational and professional needs. Thus, most universities in the present day world prioritize the role of academic skills. The aim of the paper is to examine the key approaches to the teaching of English for academic purposes, current trends in teaching EAP, and to argue the centrality and significance of EAP in the academia. The paper concludes by arguing that a greater emphasis needs to be placed on methodology in EAP.

scholarly journals Evaluating a new e-PDP tool and its relationship with personal tutoring

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Staff Support ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
Academic School ◽  
The University ◽  
Positive Engagement ◽  
Personal Tutor

The University of Exeter has used electronic tools to support the PDP process for students since well before the 2005 implementation of Progress Files. However, in 2007 high priority was given to the launch of a new e-PDP system to all staff and students through the long-established mechanism of the university’s personal tutor system.This paper explores, in the context of one academic school, the attempted integration between face-to-face ‘developmental conversations’ between tutors and tutees, and online recording of experiences and action plans by students. Whilst a fundamental change in the role of the personal tutor appears to have been accepted, the extent to which electronic tools are seen as an important part of the process is shown to be very much a live issue, centred on perceptions about ownership and responsibility.The paper concludes that staff support for, and positive engagement among students with the principles of Personal Development Planning (PDP) do not necessarily translate into motivation to use online resources. Moreover, the findings of our project seem to confirm Richardson and Ward’s (2005) observation that the terms ‘e-Portfolio’ or ‘e-PDP’, ‘PDP’ and ‘Progress Files’ are often used interchangeably and that implementation of online tools, particularly in personal tutor-led PDP programmes, must be managed carefully to avoid confusion between process and output.

Fromsuperabilitàtotransabilità: towards an Italian disability studies

Modern Italy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Noson
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Alternative Understanding ◽  
The Way

This article discusses recent academic and theoretical approaches to disability in Italy, situating them in relation to Anglo-American disability studies as well as within the Italian academic context, and sketches out the contours of an emergent Italian disability studies. The discussion centres on three terms that have emerged recently in Italy:superabilità(implying both ‘ability to overcome’ and ‘exceptional ability’);diversabilità(being ‘differently abled’); andtransabilità(the desire for, or identification with, a disabled body by a non-disabled subject). The article considers the role of narrative in each of these categories, as well as the way that each deals with the question of limits. While discourses in each category construct or confirm a strong disabled identity, the article argues thattransabilitàmight also be understood as the transcendence of identity on the basis of ability. This alternative understanding puts pressure on the question of identity itself and challenges the very need for narrative (re)construction.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Self-Esteem and Achievement Goals in University Students: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Defensive Pessimism

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7531
Author(s):  
María del Mar Ferradás ◽  
Carlos Freire ◽  
José Carlos Núñez ◽  
Bibiana Regueiro
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Defensive Pessimism ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Learning And Performance

Although achievement goals have been the subject of much study about their implications for learning and performance, interest has been less marked in understanding their precursors, particularly those linked to students’ personal characteristics. In this study, we examine the role of a defensive pessimism strategy as a mediator and moderator of the relationships between self-esteem and achievement goals in a sample of 1028 university students. Analysis of mediation and moderation was performed using the PROCESS macro within SPSS. The results showed that defensive pessimism partially mediates and moderates the effect of self-esteem on approach goals (learning and performance). We found no significant mediation or moderation effect for defensive pessimism in the relationship between self-esteem and performance-avoidance goals. These findings suggest that defensive pessimism is an effective strategy to encourage motivational involvement in students with low self-esteem in the academic context.

scholarly journals Canada in Galicia? Or Galicia in Canada? Translating Erín Moure

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Belén Martín-Lucas ◽  
Erín Moure ◽  
María Reimóndez
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Erin Moure ◽  
Literary Systems ◽  
Culture And Language

Although “[c]urrent copyright law ensures that translation projects will be driven by publishers, not by translators” (Venuti 1998, 48), minority-language literary systems such as the Galician one in Spain –in unbalanced competition with the globalized hegemonic system of the Spanish language–, give more room to the influence of what Sandra Ponzanesi defined as “relatively neglected agents of literature-making”, including academics and other authors (2006, 112), but also reputed translators who may be authors and/or academics themselves. We propose to examine here the confluence of interests operating in the circulation of Erín Moure’s poetry and essays in Galicia, her incorporation of Galician culture and language to her own production published in Canada, and her role as translator of Galician poetry into English. Our essay will be a dialogue with three implicated voices that will pay attention to the agents intervening in this particular process of cultural transfers between Canada and Galicia, including the academic context provided by the diverse conferences and seminars organized at the U. of Vigo by Belén Martín-Lucas that propitiated the encounters of Moure with poet Chus Pato and author/translator María Reimóndez; the role of Chus Pato as promoter of the translation of Moure’s work in Galicia; Reimóndez’s decisions as translator of Teatriños (2007); and the ongoing creative process of collaboration, influence and interest that has led Moure to translate Pato for Anglophone readers. This bidirectional cultural interaction is thus participating in a transnational Galician culture that recognizes Erín Moure as a “diasporic Galician in Canada”, at the same time that her critics and readers treasure Moure’s contribution to a transnational Canada. It is also the product of a shared belief in transnational feminist cooperation and creativity interweaving women in diverse contexts.

scholarly journals THE LEARNING PROCESSES OF SPEAKING SKILLS AT AN ACCELERATION PROGRAM:AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY IN SMA LABSCHOOL JAKARTA

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-101
Author(s):  
Siti Drivoka Sulistyaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Text Structure ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Speaking Skills

This researchaims to have a comprehensive understanding about the learning processes of the English speaking skill for K-11 students at an acceleration program in SMA Labschool Jakarta.This is a qualitative research with an ethnography method.The data were gathered through document study, observation, recording,field note and depth interview. The result revealed that (1)Syllabus was designed with function, the use and mastering words meaningfully on academic and non academic context. (2)These objectives of speaking skill  arestudents are able to master four skills of language on interpersonal and transactional discourse.(3)Learning materials consist of social function, text structure, and language. (4) The activities are project presentation, debate,etc. (5) The strategies are integrated learning, project-based, and  problem solving learning. (6) The role of the teacher are as a facilitator and a collaborator. The role of the students as a partner with a teacherand other students. (7)The assessment and evaluation used authentic assessment. (8) The effect of learning speaking skills is a positive to the students. Tujuan peneilitian ini adalah untuk memperoleh pemahaman secara mendalam  tentang proses pembelajaran berbicara bahasa Inggris pada siswa kelas 11 pada program akselerasi di SMA Labschool Jakarta. Pendekatan penelitian disertasi ini adalah pendekatan kualitatif dengan menggunakan metode etnografi.Sedangkan pengumpulan data dengan melakukan studi dokumentasi, rekaman video, observasi, catatan lapangan, dan wawancara mendalam yang disesuaikan setting penelitian ini. Temuan penelitian, dapat disimpulkan sebagai berikut : (1)Rancangan silabus didesain pada pemilihan fungsi, penggunaan dan penguasaan makna kata yang bermakna dan berkualitas sesuai dengan konteks komunikasi nyata dalam kehidupan sehari-hari dan konteks akademik. (2)tujuan pembelajaran berbicara bahasa Inggris yaitusiswa dapat menguasai empat keterampilan berbahasa baik dalam wacana interpersonal maupun wacana transaksional.(3) Materi pembelajaran berbasis teks yang berisi fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan kebahasaan. (4) Kegiatan pembelajaran berupa project presentation, debat,dll. (5) Strategi yang digunakan yakni dengan integrated learning project-based.(6) Peran guru dalam pembelajaran berbicara bahasa Inggris sebagai fasilitator, evaluator, dan kolaborator, sedangkan peran siswa sebagai partner bicara dengan guru dan siswa lain. (7) Penilaian dan evaluasi pembelajaran yang dikembangkan berbasisautentik assessment. (8) Dampak pembelajaran berbicara bahasa Inggris terhadap  siswa bersifat positif.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL: Journalism with integrity

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Wendy Bacon
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Investigative Reporting ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Identity Cards

This is the third issue Pacific Journalism Review has published on the theme of investigative journalism in recent years. Our first issue (PJR, 2011) followed the first regional Investigative Journalism conference held at the Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology in December 2010. In that issue, we argued that universities and academic journalists have an important role to play in building a culture of investigative reporting in the region. This issue follows up on that suggestion by focusing particularly on investigative journalism produced in an academic context. The second edition followed the ‘Back to the Source’ conference hosted by the Australian Centre for Investigative Journalism (ACIJ) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in September 2011 (PJR, 2012). Since our 2011 issue, pressures on the business model that once sustained high quality investigative journalism have continued to increase. As we go to press, photographers’ jobs at Fairfax media are threatened. Journalists have mobilised to focus public attention on the role of photographers as newsgatherers. Walkley Award-winning Fairfax photographer Kate Geraghty’s picture of asylum seekers holding up their identity cards as they are transported in buses into the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea in 2013 is a reminder of how images recorded by journalists courageous enough to defy official restrictions on media have both humanised and publicised the plight of asylum seekers in our region.

scholarly journals Human Rights in the Management Literature: Leading Publications and Research Agenda

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-177
Author(s):  
Marcus Vinicius Peinado Gomes ◽  
Amon Barros ◽  
Fábio Grigoletto ◽  
Lorena Matos
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Impact Indicators ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

This paper identifies and examines leading publications on human rights within the management literature. For that, we used features of a bibliometric analysis -- specifically exploring product and impact indicators -- in order to identify the leading publications on human rights that were examined aiming to portray how the issue has been addressed within this field. Moreover, by identifying the key articles and concepts adopted by the leading publications, this paper offers an interpretation of the academic context that enabled the emergence of a human rights approach within the management field. Thus, a contribution of this paper is to highlight how the debate on human rights in management has been strengthened, identifying articles and journals that can be a source of reference for future research. Our study has identified a shift in the discussion regarding human rights. During the last decade the topic, which was initially focused on the role of states in guaranteeing human rights, has started to examine the relationship between organizations and society. Such transformation has placed human rights as both, a responsibility and a duty of corporations. It is suggested that the literature on ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) was the entrance for a human rights approach within management literature. However, the discipline has already engaged in elaborating different interpretation of human rights. Our research shows the potential of human rights in consolidate a research agenda on corporate impact in our societies.

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