scholarly journals A Profile of the University for the Next Millenium

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Vidal Sunción Infante
Keyword(s):  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
New Professionals ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
Know How ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
New Models ◽  
Training Professionals ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University

In this article, I analyze the role of the university in meeting the demands for new knowledge (scientific, artistic and technological) presented by an era of globalization of knowledge that is destroying old paradigms and creating new models of management and behavior. These demands include the need to train new professionals, who are highly skilled both in knowing "how to produce" as well as "why to produce." My recent research indicates that the university is not embarked on the path that leads to training professionals who know "how to produce." Nevertheless, I believe that it is possible to restructure the university to meet these goals. Activities and strategies are being devised to increase the university's ability to generate the basic knowledge that will increase the employability of the new professional with a university diploma.

Greening the campus intentions: a study of the University of the Aegean non-academic staff

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 520-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrysanthi Bellou ◽  
Vassiliki Petreniti ◽  
Constantina Skanavis
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior ◽  
E Mail ◽  
At Home

Purpose This study aims to focus on the University of Aegean’s non-academic staff’s environmental sustainability attitudes and behavior both at work and at home, their perceptions for sustainability enforcement and their active participation skills. Design/methodology/approach The research participants were the 101 non-academic staff working at the Xenia Hill campus in Lesvos island. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire consisting of 45 questions, which was sent via e-mail during the summer of 2014. Findings The analysis of the results brings light on the environmental profile of the University’s non-academic staff on their intentions for greening their campus and the barriers that obstruct their attempts to promote sustainability at the University. Originality/value The paper provides useful insights which allow a better understanding of the role of non-academic staff’s environmental sustainability attitudes and behavior both at work and at home, their perceptions for sustainability enforcement and their active participation skills.

scholarly journals Structural and Functional Changes in Bosnian Family - Disappearance of the “Sofra”

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Amel Alić
Keyword(s):  
Social Economy ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
Know How ◽  
Dominant Structure ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Structure And Functions

The ‘sofra’ and ‘me′edeba’ are places where not only physiological needs of food consumption which are necessary for physical life are fulfilled, but they are also places where we prepare on fundamental, intellectual, emotional and social levels for participation in the society, adoption of basic knowledge about ways to satisfy own and others’ needs for safety, belonging, recognition, love, (Self) respect, and living of aesthetic and intellectual values. Before we sit at the ‘sofra’, we participate in serving of the food, and we learn to listen to and look at each other, to educate all senses by exchanging impressions and opinions about tastes. If all meanings of ‘sofra’ and ‘me’edeba’ are satisfied, we always happily go back to that place, but we also know how to transfer that knowledge to the next generation. Therefore, we learn to adopt culture through enculturation processes. The most explicit changes in dimension of adaptability and cohesion suggest that Bosnian family, besides social, economy, and political changes, passes through unprecedented and unique transformation, which could be connected to far more complex cultural changes – what we assume to be – transformation of normative / relational collectivism and individualism, increased migrations, different / changed role of religion, and a new paradigm of identity definition. In that sense, this article represents an attempt to determine in what way different custom, forms and functions of Bosnian family, above all, the dominant structure and functions, changes throughout the past three decades.

The experience of facilitating debriefing after simulation: A qualitative study

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Rachel Macdiarmid ◽  
◽  
Stephen Neville ◽  
Shelaine Zambas ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
Know How ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

Research suggests that debriefing is the most important component of simulation. Debriefing is the time when participants think over and reflect on what happened during the simulated experience. The aim of this research is to gain insight into the experience of facilitating debriefing following a simulated experience in a tertiary health care setting. This qualitative study was guided by phenomenology, as developed by Heidegger and Gadamer, and included 10 health professionals (nurses, doctors, and a midwife) debriefing simulation experiences. Data were collected through individual interviews and analysed through iterative re-writing and the generation of three stories as getting started; supporting the debrief to unfold, and knowing how to end. This study affirmed the role of the facilitator in debriefing following simulated experiences. The facilitator’s role includes leading the dialogue beyond “talk” and into “learning”. The art of asking a question, working with silence, and enabling learning all require skill. Through experience, facilitators learn to respond to whatever unfolds in the session. This study contributed detail of what facilitators do to draw out thinking, which confirmed their essential role. Facilitators cannot prepare a script for debriefing beforehand but must rely on their debriefing know-how to respond in each debrief. The facilitator’s know-how is therefore central to debriefing following simulated experiences.

scholarly journals Financial Knowledge’s Role in Portuguese Energy Literacy

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 3412
Author(s):  
Ana Martins ◽  
Mara Madaleno ◽  
Marta Ferreira Dias
Keyword(s):  
Financial Knowledge ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Public ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Global View ◽  
Energy Literacy ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University

Energy literacy is a concept which is not widely known by the public; however, it has captured the attention of several researchers in recent years. Concerning the assessment of energy and financial knowledge and people’s attitudes, intentions and behavior, it provides a global view of people’s knowledge, feelings, concerns and habits related to energy usage. Since energy is such an important resource in our daily lives, we can hardly imagine living without it. Moreover, considering that its production often requires the use of limited resources and leads to the worsening of already existing environmental problems, finding ways to alert consumers to the efficient management of their consumption is an urgent need. Therefore, in this article, we aimed to evaluate energy literacy levels, considering all the dimensions mentioned above, and search for the determinants of these levels. As an added novelty, we also aimed to determine the role of financial knowledge on energy literacy dimensions. After distributing a questionnaire to the university community in Portugal, we found good levels of energy literacy, despite moderate levels of energy and financial knowledge. Gender seems to be a determinant of all energy literacy dimensions, and financial knowledge has a positive and significant impact on energy knowledge.

Introducing the new CPOST dataset on suicide attacks

2021 ◽  
pp. 002234332097826
Author(s):  
Robert A Pape ◽  
Alejandro Albanez Rivas ◽  
Alexandra C Chinchilla
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Suicide Attacks ◽  
Data Program ◽  
The University ◽  
Program Data

The University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats presents the updated and expanded Database on Suicide Attacks (DSAT), which now links to Uppsala Conflict Data Program data on armed conflicts and includes a new dataset measuring the alliance and rivalry relationships among militant groups with connections to suicide attack groups. We assess global trends in suicide attacks over four decades, and demonstrate the value of the expanded DSAT with special attention to the growing diffusion of suicide attacks in armed conflicts and the large role of networks established by Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State through 2019 in this diffusion. Overall, the expanded DSAT demonstrates the advantages of integration across datasets of political violence for expanding research on important outcomes, generating new knowledge about the spread of particularly deadly forms of political violence, and raising important new questions about the efficacy of current policies to curb their spread.

scholarly journals Urban Humanities Pedagogy

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 120-128
Author(s):  
Jonathan Banfill ◽  
Todd Presner ◽  
Maite Zubiaurre
Keyword(s):  
Racial Differences ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
The Core ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Founded in 1919, UCLA is nearing its first centenary, but the university builds on humanistic and liberal arts traditions that are many centuries long and globally diffused. The core disciplines that we recognize today as comprising the Humanities have deep roots in these institutional, cultural, and technological histories. But yet, for all its grand ambitions for reckoning with the world, the university has remained by and large an isolated institution, walled in and often walled off from its surrounding community, accessible to a chosen few, stratified by economic, social, and racial differences, and perhaps too invested in the security of its storied past. The Urban Humanities initiative is an attempt both to apply conventional tools in unconventional ways and to invent new tools by respecting the fundamental virtue of bricks, namely their porous nature. Is it possible to decolonize knowledge? If so, the studio courses it develops will have profound implications for the role of the classroom, syllabus, and for rethinking and developing new knowledge and practices.

scholarly journals Los ecos de las violencias silenciadas: anotaciones decoloniales para una lectura de las violencias de género en universidades públicas

Tequio ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 27-37
Author(s):  
Claudia Rocío Magaña González ◽  
Soraya Santana Cárdenas ◽  
Isabel Cristina Marín Arriola
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Know How ◽  
The University

In the last thirty years, violence in Mexico has intensified both in its manifestations and as a normalized experience. In this sense it is considered a sociological phenomenon present in daily life and in all representative human spaces: family, work, and educational institutions, of course. From a decolonial gender perspective, from two experiences, we want to make visible the kinds of violence lived in academic contexts and inside the university, to debate about: first, the role of universities as producers and reproducers of gender inequality in power relations (gender coloniality); and second, universities as a space in which questions about violence within begin to emerge and to weave relationships based on sorority, solidarity, resistance and resilience of women in day to day life. That is to say, a space of counter-resistance, counter-hegemony and decolonial inflection on what is naturalized and assumed; in this case, gender violence inside institutionalized spaces where colonialism, heteropatriarchy and capitalism of know-how predominate.

scholarly journals The Double Framing Effect of Emotive Metaphors in Argumentation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Ervas ◽  
Maria Grazia Rossi ◽  
Amitash Ojha ◽  
Bipin Indurkhya
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Framing Effect ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Reasoning Style ◽  
Verbal Arguments ◽  
And Behavior

In argumentation, metaphors are often considered as ambiguous or deceptive uses of language leading to fallacies of reasoning. However, they can also provide useful insights into creative argumentation, leading to genuinely new knowledge. Metaphors entail a framing effect that implicitly provides a specific perspective to interpret the world, guiding reasoning and evaluation of arguments. In the same vein, emotions could be in sharp contrast with proper reasoning, but they can also be cognitive processes of affective framing, influencing our reasoning and behavior in different meaningful ways. Thus, a double (metaphorical and affective) framing effect might influence argumentation in the case of emotive metaphors, such as “Poverty is a disease” or “Your boss is a dictator,” where specific “emotive words” (disease, dictator) are used as vehicles. We present and discuss the results of two experimental studies designed to explore the role of emotive metaphors in argumentation. The studies investigated whether and to what extent the detection of a fallacious argument is influenced by the presence of a conventional vs. novel emotive metaphor. Participants evaluated a series of verbal arguments containing either “non-emotive” or “emotive” (positive or negative) metaphors as middle terms that “bridge” the premises of the argument. The results show that the affective coherence of the metaphor's vehicle and topic plays a crucial role in participants' reasoning style, leading to global heuristic vs. local analytical interpretive processes in the interplay of the metaphorical and the affective framing effects.

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