A trip to Okinawa: the experience of using the results of scientific tourism in the educational process

10.12737/6573 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-43
Author(s):  
Марина Монгуш ◽  
Marina Mongush
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Religious Study ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Individual

The author of this article has been researching Shamanism of Siberian people over 20 years, and has been teaching religious studies in the higher education system for the last 5 years. When she had a chance to visit Okinawa as the researcher in 2010, the Japanese colleagues advised her to make the individual research project. Its purpose was comparison of Siberian Shamanism with Okinawan one, detection of similarities and distinctions between them. In order to realize it the author chose the Tuvan variant of Siberian Shamanism as an object of comparison that is familiar to her not only as the researcher, but also as this culture-bearer. The trip to Okinawa can be carried to a scientif c tourism since during travel the author actively observed, carried out research works, interviewed local people and regularly kept diary. The target of trip was collecting of f eld work data that was processed, comprehended and used subsequently by the author in the scientif c and educational purposes. The author’s article shares her own experience, which has two posing — a research tourist and a lecturer of religious studiy.The similarities and distinctions between Tuvan and Okinawa Shamanism are studied. The basic attention is given to a social role of the shaman in the Tuvan and the Okinawan societies, display of «shaman illness», ceremonial practice, persecutions on shamans in Tuva and on Okinawa in dif erent periods.This material provide the basis for the author`s course on comparative religious study.

Capital access and its mobilization for academic achievement: A case of Indian higher education system

2021 ◽  
pp. 003452372198938
Author(s):  
Saurabh Maheshwari ◽  
Purnima Singh
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Education System ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
The Individual

Previous research has demonstrated a strong relationship between access to capital and academic achievement. The present study explores the mediating role of the individual mindset and class perception in the capital–achievement relation. A survey-based study is conducted on 314 Delhi based undergraduate students. Different measures/proxies of various forms of capital and achievement are used. To see the role of the individual mindset, psychological resources of individual are considered and operationalized in terms of self-motivation and self-confidence. Results show that economic, social, and cultural capital have a significant influence on academic achievement. However, class perception and involvement in highbrow activities do not show any role in academic achievement. Results further reveal a significant mediating role of psychological resources in the capital–achievement relation. Results demonstrate that in the Indian higher education system, various forms of capital largely shape academic achievement and psychological resources significantly facilitate this relationship. Though the individual mindset can help in breaking this capital–achievement nexus, mostly it seems to be facilitating the relation. The results and implications of the study are discussed.

scholarly journals Russian Universities After the Pandemic: Ways of Transformation

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Sergey Sorokin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
University Education ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Russian Higher Education

The article is devoted to the analysis of the key challenges faced by Russian higher education during the pandemic and the prospects for its further development. The article highlights the key problems of higher education that have arisen in connection with the pandemic situation (reduced academic mobility, weakened partnerships, inability to complete research on time, reduced number of applicants, suspension of educational activities), examines the actions of governments and measures taken by universities to adapt to work in the context of the pandemic (development of appropriate legislation, provision of consulting and financial assistance, measures to support foreign students who found themselves in the country during the pandemic, etc.). Hypotheses are put forward regarding the ways of transformation of university education in the "post-covid" period, possible trends are proposed, including digitalization, changes in the content of the educational process, scientific activity, increasing the social role and the "third mission" of universities. The problems of online education, the development of digital technologies and new forms of education by teachers and students, and the creation of a new system of social and educational work corresponding to new educational formats are considered. Conclusions are drawn that the Russian higher education system as a whole has managed to overcome the difficulties that have arisen. The situation of the pandemic, on the one hand, has accelerated a number of transformational processes that began in the higher education system before it, and on the other – has revealed new challenges, the solution of which is necessary for the effective functioning of universities in force majeure situations. We should not expect a complete return of universities to the "pre-covid" situation, since certain mechanisms have been launched to accelerate the modernization of domestic higher education.

scholarly journals ON THE ESSENCE OF THE CRISIS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

ASJ. ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (55) ◽  
pp. 09-12
Author(s):  
K. Zhampeisovа
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Intellectual Potential

In this work, the problem of the crisis of higher education in the world educational process is actualized. The significance of this problem demanded from the author a comprehensive analysis of the literature, which reveals the essence of the phenomenon under study. The paper speaks of the inappropriateness of the representation of the higher education system as being in deep crisis. The characteristic features of modern society are revealed, which testify to the opposite. The role of higher education is presented as the main source of the development of intelligence, the intellectual potential of a person, outside of which scientific and technological progress would be impossible. It is argued that there is no crisis in the higher education system, there are permanently arising contradictions (the driving forces of the development of nature, society and man) that require their systemic resolution. The need to improve the psychological, pedagogical and methodological culture of a teacher of higher education as significant components in the structure of their personality is noted

scholarly journals ANECDOTES AND CONTOURS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Gopal Krishna Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Education In India ◽  
World Class ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
World Class Universities

Higher education is considered as an invaluable instrument for the sustainable development of human being and society through a dynamic process of creation, advancement, and dissemination of knowledge. In a fast developing country like India the role of higher education assume utmost importance. Universities have a pivotal role in realizing this goal. Our higher education system has had a glorious past in the form of world-class universities like Nalanda, Vikramsila, and Taxila, which attracted students and intellectuals from all over the world those days. However, in the present time we are lagging far behind in terms of qualitative education and research. This necessitates a serious concern and introspection to look into the nuances and flaws of our system that make our higher education system stand at where it is now. This paper, based on the analysis of various reports and Govt. documents, discusses some of the issues, which are at the core of the main concerns pertaining to higher education in India. Taking a snapshot of the historical trajectory of higher education system in India to the present time, this paper presents an overview of the higher education system in India and points out some most relevant concerns troubling the issue at the core.

scholarly journals Thoughts on the higher education system in Poland. Changes – issues – evaluation. Part 1

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-137
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Grzywacz ◽  
Grażyna Miłkowska ◽  
Magdalena Piorunek ◽  
Lech Sałaciński
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
University Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Education Science

This report is a part of the results of the international project entitled “Studium in Osteuropa: Ausgewählte Aspekte (Analysen, Befunde)” conducted in the years 2013-2015 under supervision of Prof. Wilfried Schubarth and Dr Andreas Seidl from the Potsdam University, Department of Education Science, and Prof. Karsten Speck from the University of Oldenburg, Germany. The project was conducted jointly by representatives of academic centres from Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia. Its general aim was a comparative analysis of the effects of implementation of Bologna Process directives into the higher education systems of the individual countries. The changes introduced into the higher education systems in the countries involved in the project were described and evaluated, discussed was in particular the problems of education of teachers at the university level. The following text is the result of the contribution of the Polish group participating in the project. The report will be presented in two parts. The first part is focused on the macro-societal context of transformations in the higher education system in Poland. The implementation of selected aspects of Bologna Process directives is described and supplemented by empirical comments. The second part deals with selected aspects of university level education of teachers, followed by a polemic against the assumptions and execution of the target transformations of higher education system.

scholarly journals Social Systems in Higher Education: Collectivities and Technology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucille B. Mazo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Social System ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Integrative Process

This study investigates the core concepts and views that underlie the theories of social systems as explained by four theorists. It critically assesses and analyzes the role of the higher education system within society, as well as the role of the educator within this social system as defined and articulated by Durkheim (1956), outlined and explained from a hierarchical perspective by Parsons (1951), identified as an integrative process by Bertalanffy (1968), and viewed as a web of relationships by Capra (1996). Major themes from each theorist are analyzed with respect to what role social systems play in higher education and how educators are affected by internal social subsystems and collectivities. An example is presented on how collectivities exist online and use technology to continue at a university during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Modern technologies of teaching a foreign language in the higher education system.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tat'yana Dmitrenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Education System ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Intercultural Communications ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Modern Technologies

The textbook is devoted to the consideration of modern technologies of teaching foreign languages in the conditions of updating language education in higher education. The article presents modern innovative technologies of teaching foreign languages that contribute to the intensification of the educational process and the activation of educational activities in foreign language classes. It is recommended for students studying for a master's degree — future specialists in the field of intercultural communications.

Influence of the Peculiarities of the Development of the Education System in the Tula Region on the Formation of High-Performance Labor Resources in the Context of Modern Challenges

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
T. Pastuh ◽  
N. Zhukova ◽  
Andrey Shishkin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Labor Resources ◽  
The Individual

The article describes the individual components of higher education in the Tula region. The questions concerning the role of the state in the formation of the general educational vector and the degree of its influence on the training of highly qualified personnel are considered. The analysis of some statistical data characterizing the higher education system of the Tula region is carried out. The article proves the relationship between the higher education system and the prospects for the development of the labor market in the Tula region. The limitations that may affect the nature of interaction between market structures and the education system are identified. The prospects of interaction between educational and market structures for the formation of competitive labor resources in the cancers of the Tula region are formulated.

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