Jesus and the University

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
James L. Heft
Keyword(s):  
Academic Work ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Faith And Reason ◽  
Intellectual Resource ◽  
Christian Humanism ◽  
Catholic Universities ◽  
The University

This chapter asks why faculty at Catholic universities hardly ever find in Jesus an intellectual resource for their academic work. It explores how within Catholicism the theological reality of Jesus and his life, death, and resurrection have consequences for all the academic disciplines. It revisits the tension of Jerusalem (faith) and Athens (reason) and argues that that tension is creative but should never be dichotomized. It also traces the development of Christian humanism, the power and current shape of secularizing forces, the challenges presented by scientism and postmodernism, and the resources within the Catholic intellectual tradition to respond to those challenges: faith and reason, community, and a sacramental sense.

scholarly journals Cafe Delphi: Strategies for successful remote academic collaboration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Jolly ◽  
Laura Caulfield ◽  
Rachel Massie ◽  
Bozena Sojka ◽  
Steve Iafrati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Remote Collaboration ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
World Cafe ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Combination Of Methods ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Online Methods ◽  
The University

<div>Developing collaborative and cooperative research across academic disciplines and university administrative boundaries can be a challenge. In an attempt to understand and propose solutions to this challenge, the authors of this paper set out to: test an innovative combination of methods to generate and evaluate ideas and strategies; and to write about the findings using collaborative online methods. During this process Universities in the UK moved to online working and so the authors completed this paper through entirely online means.</div><div>The authors - a team of academic researchers from the University of Wolverhampton - came together in sessions designed as a hybrid of World Café and Delphi technique approaches to discuss challenges and solutions. The findings were written up drawing on insights from the use of massively authored papers (also known as ‘massively open online papers’, MOOPs), and online tools to enable remote collaboration. This paper presents details of the process, the findings, and reflections on this collaborative and cooperative exercise. That this paper was written using the methods discussed within it, highlights the value and success of the approach.</div><div>In light of the current Coronavirus pandemic and the increased need to work remotely, this paper offers academics useful strategies for meaningful and productive online collaboration.</div>

scholarly journals “Antiquity” and “Archeology”: the Evolution of Concepts and its Using in an Educational Process (on the Example of Kharkiv University 1805–1884)

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Historical Education ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The University ◽  
Qualitative Changes ◽  
Scientific Achievements

The article is devoted to the formation of historical education at Kharkiv Сlassic University especially such academic discipline as «Archeology». The author aims to discover the terminology of educational courses and the development of its concept for tracing the process of beginning teaching the elements of archeology and its formation as a separate discipline in the educational courses of the University. It is mentioned that from the first half of the ХІХ century the term «Archeology» was only appeared in scientific turnover and rarely appeared in the names of an educational courses. The term «antiquity» was used for the academic disciplines which were connected with the distant past. In this period the courses with the similar names had literary-philological and historical character and nearly connected with the archeology in its modern meaning. From the second half of the ХІХ century the situation changed. The question about the development of archeology was sharply rose in the Russian Empire, Archeological Congresses were conducted. Systematic archaeological excavations began, so qualified specialists were needed. But there were not such separate academic discipline as «Archeology» because of the lack of the specialists and teaching staff. The basis for archeology knowledge was the teaching of the disciplines of philological profile. Particular attention to the ancient languages oriented students to the acquisition of ancient social and cultural values. In the second half of the ХІХ century, there were qualitative changes in the archeological science itself. The first generalizations appear, but teaching has fallen short of scientific achievements. The author points that professor M. Aristov (1834–1882) was the first who taught the courses which had archeological specialization, but there were no term «archeology» in its name.

scholarly journals An Archivist and a Records Manager: Professional Education in Ukraine (Case study of the National Aviation University)

Knygotyra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 289-319
Author(s):  
Iryna Tiurmenko ◽  
Liudmyla Bozhuk
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
Archival Education ◽  
Information Activity ◽  
The University

 A higher education reform in Ukraine, and the emergence of the new integrated program “Information, Library and Archival Studies” instead of “Records Management and Information Activity” in the educational space in particular, brought about various interpretations and sharp discussions. In general, the university community met these innovations without enthusiasm. The scientific thought of Ukrainian scholars on how to develop archival education in Ukraine was generally based on the tradition enshrined in the complex of the developed academic disciplines and tested in practice in conditions of intense competition among students.The approach of the Department of History and Records Management of the National Aviation University to modern training of the archivist was prompted by the needs of the labor market and the challenges of the digital society.1 It consists of finding ways to train modern specialists who possess interdisciplinary competences in the field of archival studies, records management, information activity, and socio-communicative sciences. This led to a study aimed at finding an up-to-date profile of a records manager/archivist.The research analyzes the approaches to the education of archivists in Ukraine at various stages of its socio-economic development and summarizes the current experience of the National Aviation University in this sphere.

Development of information competencies in the project activities of a designer student

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-233
Author(s):  
Tatyana Y. Kitaevskaya ◽  
Irina N. Perunovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Educational Design ◽  
Educational Standard ◽  
Information Competencies ◽  
Main Component ◽  
State Educational ◽  
The University

We substantiate the necessity of developing a holistic, continuous and profile-oriented approach to the process of developing information competencies in design-projecting in higher education. The problem of developing skills of working in a team with production specialists and customers, as well as skills of creating innovative projects, is raised. We solve the problems of improving the effectiveness of training designers in the context of modernization and integration of the content of education at the university, namely: the components of the structure of information competencies in the projecting in design of students of future designers (motivational-value, content-procedural) are formulated and highlighted; the stages of the development of information competencies of students during the study of academic disciplines related to design-projecting are highlighted and substantiated; indicators for assessing the development of basic information competencies in the projecting in design of the design students are developed in accordance with the levels established by the Federal State Educational Standard: reference, standard, threshold; a methods for the development of basic information competencies in the educational design activities of designers are developed. Theoretical conclusions and the scientific and methodic complex of the discipline “Projecting in Graphic Design”, developed on their basis, can become the main component for the scientific and methodic support of training designers at the university in the context of a competence-based approach to training and become the main part of practice-oriented project work in design-projecting in the preparation of future designers at the university, as well as in the development of advanced training courses for teachers of creative specialties.

Impact of ICT on Reading Habits of Students: A Survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
B. Kumara ◽  
B. T. Sampath Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Well Design ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Print Books ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This paper examines the impact of ICT on the reading habits of the students of Tumkur University. The survey was conducted using a well design and structured questionnaire. A total of 440 postgraduate students of faculty of Arts, Science and Commerce were chosen. The result of this study showed that most of the students are female (61.6%) and most of them (72.3%) are from rural areas. The study found that students read books daily at home (69.5%) followed by classroom (51.1%). The students strongly agreed that the print books are costlier than Internet sources (32.3%). The study results also indicated that students are accessed Internet every day and the students used ICT in support of their academic work. The study recommends that the university authorities in to provide more ICT facilities to all the postgraduate students. It is also necessary to conduct more ICT based learning programmes to the students.

Like It

2016 ◽  
pp. 426-445
Author(s):  
Mary Leigh Morbey ◽  
Farhad Mordechai Sabeti ◽  
Michelle Sengara
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Comprehensive University ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Effective Inclusion ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University

Social networking environments have become a ubiquitous part of the university experience. Accordingly, postsecondary institutions have started to consider the role that social networking can play in teaching and learning across academic disciplines. This case study documents findings from a 2012-2013 mixed-methods data collection in six graduate and undergraduate Digital Literacies and New Media Literacies courses at a major Canadian comprehensive university. It examines the pedagogical implications of adapting the Facebook platform for online collaboration and multimedia learning in blended courses, and offers a model of Facebook implementation for engineering and architecture education. Questions guiding the research ask: What is gained pedagogically through the use of Facebook in higher education courses? What are the pedagogical challenges encountered, and how might these be addressed? Suggestions based on observed trends are offered for the effective inclusion of Facebook as a beneficial pedagogical component in the design of e-learning platforms for higher education.

scholarly journals Working in the Space Between

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald ◽  
Vera Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Shadow Economies ◽  
The University

All of the contributors to this special issue have reflected on the stakes involved in negotiating differences in language and culture. In their research and professional practice they inhabit the ‘space between’: the space between languages, the space between cultures, and the space between academic disciplines. While many of our contributors are located in the Australian university system, we also have contributors from outside that system, as well as contributors who are theorising disparate sites for the negotiation of difference. The most exciting aspect of the papers presented here is the ability to move between the spheres of cultural theory and the everyday. Analytical techniques originally developed for literary and cultural analysis are brought to bear on the texts and practices of everyday life. The loci for these investigations include the classroom, the police station, the streets, local government and the university itself. The practices examined include translating and interpreting, language teaching, academic writing, literary production and critique, language planning and small business and shadow economies. The academic disciplines drawn on include theoretical and applied linguistics, discourse analysis, language teaching pedagogy, policy studies, cultural studies, literary studies, political science, gender studies and postcolonial theory.

The First Women’s Studies Research Centre: A History of Women’s Studies and Its Progenitors

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-233
Author(s):  
Maithreyi Krishnaraj
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

The beginning of Women’s Studies has a special history in India. It owes its origin not only to some stalwarts but also to the historical times in which its birth took place. Its location in the SNDT Women’s University in Mumbai was at the initiative of Dr Neera Desai, a Professor of Sociology at that university. Her own work on women’s issues in her Master’s thesis and her involvement in the women’s movement gave her the background for envisaging that a women’s university should engage with analysis of women’s condition and not just teach women other academic disciplines. It was with this motive, that the Research Centre for Women’s Studies was set up in 1974, a year before the publication of the report Towards Equality of the Government of India. The university - originally begun at the initiative of the educationist Shri Dhondo Kheshav Karve received a handsome grant from the industrialist Shri Damodar Thackersey and got named after his mother Shrimathi Nathibai Damodar Thackersey hereafter SNDT Women’s University. The Centre with the involvement of able and farsighted administrators at this university spearheaded the development of this Centre, which became the torch bearer for raising women’s issues.

Where Legends Are Made: A Case Study of an Advertising and Branding Campaign at the University of Alabama

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Vincent ◽  
Jason W. Lee ◽  
Kevin Hull ◽  
John Hill
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Brand Communication ◽  
Television Advertisement ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The University

This case study of the University of Alabama’s Where Legends Are Made illustrates how a 30-s television advertisement with a catchy tagline was transformed into a strategic branding campaign that communicated the essence of the university in a compelling story. Employing a qualitative methodology, the case study drew on personality archetypes to develop an institutional brand communication management conceptual framework that illustrated the guiding principles and creative contexts used to break through the communication clutter. It did so by emphasizing the University of Alabama’s leadership, competitive spirit, and transformative innovation by making its fabled athletic tradition an extension of its everyday excellence in academic disciplines. It also demonstrated how empirically tested archetype personas can be effectively employed in persuasive storylines to emotionally resonate with key stakeholders and prospective consumers alike, with each interpreting it in a way that is compatible with their own values, lifestyles, and culture.

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