Factory to Faculty: Socioeconomic Difference and the Educational Experiences of University Professors

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Haney
Keyword(s):  
Educational Experiences ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Socioeconomic Difference

La Sistematización De Experiencias Educativas. Una Experiencia Con Docentes Universitarios

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Lilia Rosa Ávila-Meléndez ◽  
Jorge Abelardo Cortés-Montalvo
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Collaborative Dialogue ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Media ◽  
Strategy Design ◽  
Reserve Time

In the daily and hectic development of our activities we rarely reserve time to think, rethink, and reflect on the results obtained from our actions, and make crucial decisions about how we can modify the way to change our own actions and with that, transform the context where our professional activity is exercised. A methodological model called the systematization of educational experiences is precisely what gives us this space for collaborative dialogue, and self-reflection and with others. The systematization of experiences is described as a research process where the experiences of the actors are recovered through reflection, dialogue and the reconstruction of events with the purpose of collecting awareness and improving their practices. Present work shows an experience with university professors in a strengths-based training course of critical use of the media. Some of the elements that were used for the construction of the learning and recovery experience were: the logbook, the story, the elaboration of didactic materials, videos and photographs. Collaborative work in triad groups and focus group sessions were some of the techniques used for obtaining and documenting relevant data and information. Following an axis of the systematization of the experience, some of the findings were that the professors recognized the need to be open to change, empathy and collaborative work, to promote the development of critical thinking and the application of knowledge. Participating professors also distinguished innovation and strategy design, such as the development of didactic sequences according to the Model for the Development of Academic Competences (M-DECA), for use in planning of their subjects according to the competence approach and the application of the dimensions of media competition.

UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN CANADA: CULTURAL CAPITAL AND EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Antony-Newman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
University Students ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Print Access

This qualitative research involving semi-structured interviews with Ukrainian university students in Canada helps to understand their educational experience using the concept of cultural capital put forward by Pierre Bourdieu. It was found that Ukrainian students possess high levels of cultural capital, which provides them with advantage in Canada. Specific patterns of social inequality and state-sponsored obstacles to social reproduction lead to particular ways of acquiring cultural capital in Ukraine represented by a more equitable approach to the availability of print, access to extracurricular activities, and popularity of enriched curriculum. Further research on cultural capital in post-socialist countries is also discussed.

Making Youth Matter

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-93
Author(s):  
Celeste Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Students ◽  
African American Male ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Male Students ◽  
African American Male Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
And Gender ◽  
K 12

This article focuses on findings from a subgroup of African-American male students as part of a broader qualitative dissertation research study, which explored how exclusion and marginalization in schools impact the lives of African-American students. The study focused on the perspectives of youth attending both middle and high schools in Michigan, and investigated how students who have experienced forms of exclusion in their K–12 schooling viewed their educational experiences. Key themes that emerged from the study were lack of care, lack of belonging, disrupted education, debilitating discipline, and persistence and resilience. These themes were analyzed in relation to their intersectionality with culture, ethnicity, race, class, and gender.

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