Piety, Glamour, and Protest: Performing Social Status and Affiliation in the United Arab Emirates

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Trainer
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
The World ◽  
Body Adornment ◽  
The University ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
Self Presentations ◽  
Ways Of Being

This article focuses on the fashion choices and performances that female Emirati students attending public university in the UAE create across different social and physical spaces, as well as the ways in which these feed into dynamic and fluid presentations of self. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which these self-presentations are constructed in relation to on-campus social interactions, as well as the novelty of many of these interactions and performances. The university campuses allow forms of socializing, performative interactions, and body adornment to develop that often could not be replicated in other physical spaces, off-campus. In the process, women assess and re-craft important sociocultural values, forms of reciprocity, and ways of being in the world that dominate other areas of their lives.

scholarly journals Üniversite Yerleşkelerinde Peyzaj Master Planları

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2603-2611
Author(s):  
Sefer Çon ◽  
Zöhre Polat
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
University Campus ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The concept of the university campus and research, taken up the development process of the universities, presented examples from the world and Turkey. Master plans, sustainable master plans and landscape master plans in university campuses were compiled and supported with examples. According to the survey, which examined 20 universities in 16 of the world where the campus master plan, which examined 20 universities in Turkey 12 patients which were put forward in the campus master plan. World in 7 of 10 universities surveyed across the campus landscape master plan that, while Turkey’s 10 universities discussed in general only 2 of the campus landscape master plan was put out to be. Suggestions regarding the necessity of preparing master plan and landscape master plan in university campuses are presented.

Enlarging sustainability learning through integrative thinking with a focus on cultivating virtues

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kosheek Sewchurran ◽  
Lester Merlin Davids ◽  
Jennifer McDonogh ◽  
Camille Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Executive Development ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainability Learning ◽  
African Context ◽  
Habituation Process ◽  
The University ◽  
Ways Of Being

Purpose In the African context of business practice, the authors face two interrelated challenges. First, executives need to deal strategically and sustainably with growing levels of inequality, under-employment and declining levels of wellness and safety. Second, executive development needs to develop virtues to help executives to address these problems. This paper aims to articulate an integrated, sustainable business education approach that aims to prepare executives to practice integrative thinking while simultaneously cultivating virtues that enhance their lives, thereby enabling them to make ongoing sustainable impacts to their worlds. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a mixed method analysis including both quantitative and qualitative data from student course feedback evaluations from Business Model Innovation (BMI) and Phronesis Development Practice courses run over four consecutive years between 2018 and 2021 at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business as part of the Executive Masters of Business Administration degree. Findings The program’s pedagogical approach integrates a philosophical habituation process with a core course on BMI practice. This philosophical integration is one in which there is a sustainable focus on cultivating specific “process” and “practice” virtues which foster awareness amongst executives of their everyday mundane skilful coping in the world. This leads to candidates becoming attuned to ways, in which they can strive for more authenticity and to step into newer ways of being, that allow them to reflect their values and evolve cultural practices. Originality/value As the first business school in Africa to base a BMI course on the affordances of the phenomenon of being-in-the-world and a philosophical habituation process, the authors hope to inspire more business schools to adopt holistic, sustainable approaches to executive development that goes beyond the competence paradigm.

On Being and Waiting (Tables), or, The Roles We Play

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-241
Author(s):  
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Being

This chapter critically engages Sartre’s view that adopting roles in the performance of life’s tasks is inherently inauthentic. It examines Sartre’s critique in Being and Nothingness of the waiter and other professions that engage in “public ceremony.” It poses the question whether Sartre inadvertently endorses an overly purified vision of authenticity, overlooking the necessity of taking up multiple particular roles in our social interactions with others. This chapter asks whether there are circumstances in which role-playing is not only necessary but authentic, expressing different ways of being-in-the-world in different contexts.

scholarly journals Hygiene Awareness among Public University Students in Malaysia during COVID-19 Outbreak

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1609-1617
Author(s):  
Nor Hazlyna, H Et.al
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Public University ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Day By Day

The origin of COVID-19 was found in December 2019 from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China; and it has spread very fast all around the world. It is a worrying disease as many positive cases are reported increasing day by day. The emerging of COVID-19 outbreak requires social distance and other interventions to protect human and environmental health. The objective of this study is to promote awareness among public university students on the importance of hygiene during the pandemic of COVID-19. Therefore, a study was carried out to assess the hygiene awareness among public university students during this outbreak. A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online survey method among public university students. The study generally is aimed to determine COVID-19 awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and related behaviours among the students. The results show that most of the students are aware of the current issues of COVID-19, and at the same time they practice good self-hygiene to prevent themselves from getting infected. However, there is still room for the university students to improve their hygiene awareness, and exercising more complete precautionary matters to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

scholarly journals The Integration of University with High School Through an Experience Using Pjbl

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Luciano Marins ◽  
Edson De Paula Carvalho ◽  
Walkiria Silva Soares Marins ◽  
Douglas Do Couto Soares ◽  
Francilaine Calixto Gouveia
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Performance Test ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
University Center ◽  
The World ◽  
Land Rover ◽  
The University ◽  
Marketing Actions

The present work describes an exchange of experiences among students of the State School CIEP 291 - Dom Martinho Schlude in the City of Pinheiral, RJ, with the Advertising and Propaganda students, Information Systems and Engineering of the University Center of Volta Redonda (UniFOA) during a period of six months. The partnership arose due to a school´s need to develop some actions to participate in the Jaguar Land Rover Competition, 4x4 in Schools Technology Challenge. The challenge required technological changes in a prototype of a 4x4 vehicle approximately 20 cm long, 10 cm wide and 10 cm high. A micro-enterprise was create, with a logo and marketing actions, approaching an entrepreneurial vision. All actions taken were on display on a given day through verbal presentations and visualization of the team's booth. In addition to fulfill these needs, each team were evaluate on the performance test of the prototype in an obstacle course to take time. A partnership with UniFOA  was created to assist in project development and support in the area of technology, strategy and marketing. Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) led the industry's support in research and development for strategic planning for the team's actions. The students of the courses of Design, Information Systems, Advertising and Propaganda and Electrical and Mechanical Engineering assigned two hours a week for approximately six months to a technical monitoring involving the needs of the Team.          In the end, the secondary students were able to elaborate all the necessary requirements according to the regulation participating in the National Stage and later of the World Stage. The UniFOA students were able to apply the concepts using Project Based Learning as a methodology fulfilling the role of the university in the society that is to produce knowledge, generate critical thinking, organize and articulate knowledge, forming citizens and professionals. The experience was very enriching providing for all involved strengthening of numerous cognitive and socio emotional skills. As a result of the project, the AUTO291 team was the champion in the National Stage, conquering the opportunity to represent the country in the world event, being the champion team in the category of "Best Media Dissemination" and was among the top three in the "in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates..  

scholarly journals A universidade pública em debate no cenário internacional

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Wrana Maria Panizzi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Public University ◽  
World Conference ◽  
International Level ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
Academic Exchange ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Higher Education Internationalization

Há décadas o mundo universitário brasileiro mantém boas relações de cooperação e intercâmbio acadêmicos no plano internacional. Tais relações têm se revelado de grande importância, proporcionando aos nossos professores e pesquisadores condições de diálogo e trabalho visando a exploração das fronteiras do conhecimento. Desse ponto de vista, a dimensão internacional da educação e da pesquisa parece absolutamente evidente. O mesmo não se pode dizer a propósito do debate envolvendo a Universidade como instituição. O artigo apresenta um panorama da evolução desse debate na cena internacional desde a Conferência Mundial sobre Educação Superior, realizada em Paris em 1998.Palavras-chave: universidade pública; educação superior; internacionalização da educação superior; Conferência Mundial sobre Educação Superior; Organização Mundial do Comércio. Abstract: The Brazilian universities have had good relations of cooperation and academic exchange at international level for decades. These relations are of paramount importance to advance the conditions of dialogue and work of our professors and researchers, aiming at exploring the frontiers of knowledge. From this standpoint, the international dimension of education and research is quite obvious. However, this does not seem to be the case when the debate involves the University as an institution. This article presents a view of the evolution of this discussion in the international scene since the World Conference on Higher Education, held in Paris in 1998. Keywords: public university; higher education; internationalization of higher education; World Conference on Higher Education; World Trade Organization. 

scholarly journals Modeling water demand in a growing public university in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 1255-1262
Author(s):  
A. Sobowale ◽  
K.S. Adeyemo
Keyword(s):  
Water Demand ◽  
Storage Capacity ◽  
Public University ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Population Forecasting ◽  
Adequate Quantity ◽  
Nigerian University ◽  
The University ◽  
Water Uses

Nigerian university campuses are facing the twin problems of providing portable water of adequate quantity and quality and the  sustainability of such supply. This paper examines the water demand status of a public University in Nigeria. Domestic, Public and Industrial water uses were considered while population forecasting was done using regression analysis for a 30 years design period (2018 – 2048). Results reveals possible population increase of 53.8 % by 2048 when the institution will clock 60 years. Water demand is also expected to rise sharply from 5,206 m3 day -1 (2018) to 10,959 m3 day -1 (2048); existing storage capacity cannot satisfy the current needs not to talk of the projected demand hence, a reservoir of about 11,000 m3 will be needed to service the university for the next 30 years; attracting more investments into the water supply system becomes imperative as the existing supplies from groundwater is unsustainable. Keywords: Water Demand; Population; University; Sustainability; Growth

scholarly journals Points Further North: An Acoustemological Cartography of Non-Place

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Michael Trommer ◽  
Graham Wakefield
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environments ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Haptic Interface ◽  
Surveillance Networks ◽  
Primary Mechanism ◽  
The World ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
The Invisible

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> This paper discusses the <i>Points Further North project</i>, a VR documentary that was undertaken with a view to foregrounding how sound can be deployed as the primary mechanism for laying out the complex, often subjugated relationships manifested between physical spaces and those who inhabit them. Specifically, It examines how ambisonic and haptic audio’s profoundly affective emotional, tactile and topologically enveloping capacities can be articulated within an acoustemological framework (acoustemology is best defined by ethnographer Steven Feld as “sonic ways of being in and knowing the world”) in order to evoke a heightened sense of awareness, perhaps even an agency, with respect to the largely abstracted ramifications arising from the consumerist lifestyles that are endemic to the developed world. The project exploits the possibilities inherent in the amplification of the vibratory and electromagnetic spectra that permeate our urban environments: infrasonic/tactile elements are disseminated via the Subpac wearable haptic interface in order to constitute a corporeal and emotional presence, and the radiant (yet invisible) transmissions of our information, economic and surveillance networks are captured and sonified via the via use of electromagnetic transducers. Both sonically and thematically, <i>Points Further North</i> seeks to uncover that which sound studies scholar Salomé Voegelin, terms “our locality on the invisible index of sound”, capitalizing upon sound’s capacity to delineate the ethereal topographies engendered via the vast, sublime – yet sublimated – infrastructures that we find ourselves immersed within.</p>

scholarly journals The "Greening the Ivory Towers" Project: The University of Auckland case study

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (427-429) ◽  
pp. 213-222
Author(s):  
T. W. Fookes ◽  
Alison Hall ◽  
Logan Whitelaw
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
World Society ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
The World ◽  
Formal Presentation ◽  
The University

Dr Tom Fookes is an Associate Professor in Planning at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a member of the Wortd Society for Ekistics and a graduate of the Athens Center of Ekistics. He arranged an undergraduate Bachelor of Planning student project on Greening University Campuses with the students travelling to Toronto for the Natural City Symposion where they reported on their work with posters and in a formal presentation. The principal student presenters were Alison Hall and Logan Whitelaw in conjunction with Nicola Bishop, LLoyd Johnston, Karen Kao, and Michelle Lee, Bplan students in the Department of Planning, University of Auckland. The text that follows is based on a PowerPoint presentation at the international symposion, 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.

scholarly journals Non-motorized mobility in cities of the future: College and university campuses as a pilot project

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (427-429) ◽  
pp. 223-227
Author(s):  
Spenser Havlick
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
City Council ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
College And University ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
College And University Campuses

The author is Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado-Boulder. He has served 21 years on the Boulder, Colorado City Council, and many years as U.S. correspondent of the journal Ekistics. His recent consulting work in Australia and New Zealand focuses on the redesign of cities for improved sustainability and healthy living. The text that follows is an edited and revised version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "The Natural City, " Toronto, 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environment, Institute for Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.

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