scholarly journals Making the virtual tangible: using visual thinking to enhance online transnational learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt ◽  
Denielle J. Emans
Keyword(s):  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Boundary Objects ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Visual Thinking ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Data Visualizations

Tangible visual thinking activities can enrich long-distance intercultural learning experiences by improving realism, respect, and equity. This occurs through the creation of boundary objects, which can be physical objects that generate shared understanding across diverse teams and disciplinary boundaries. In the case of this study, visual thinking activities produce boundary objects in the form of visual creations – such as sketches, photographs, collages, and data visualizations. Used strategically in conjunction with Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) curricula in any academic discipline, these activities cultivate self-reflection, communication, mutual understanding, cultural learning, and cooperative work. The benefits of visual thinking enrich and enhance transnational learning, as illustrated and observed in the course of the authors’ ongoing nine-year study of Virtual Exchanges (VEs) between learners situated in the Middle East and North America. The visual thinking activities in this study complement and work in parallel with COIL curricula or existing courses that instructors have already planned. They can also occur in conjunction with regular course activities leading up to and throughout a collaboration to enhance relationship-building and trust. Visual thinking activities offer ways for learners to understand and appreciate their collaborative partnerships beyond the screen. In the context of long-distance intercultural experiences, the tangible and tactile nature of these activities reinforces the verisimilitude of the collaboration and its participants. After completing these preliminary activities, the study findings indicate an increase in the quality of projects that students produce together.

Application of Practice Oriented–Peer Review for Prosthodontics (PRO-PReP)—A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 009121742199014
Author(s):  
Varsha Murthy ◽  
KR Sethuraman ◽  
Sunayana Choudhury ◽  
R Shakila
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Residency Education ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Difficult Situations ◽  
Balint Method

Objective Communication skills diminish with time and must be applied and updated frequently. Due to various professional constraints, the dentists may not be able to attend training programs to sharpen their skills. During patient interactions, dentists may face difficult situations which they may be unable to handle and, consequently, make them overreact. Therefore, there is a need to provide a platform to freely discuss their feelings, ideas, and take opinion from peers. Methods Training in communication skills customized for dealing with complete denture patients was conducted for the prosthodontic postgraduates. Based on feedback obtained, it was decided to have periodic meetings and the concept of Practice-Oriented–Peer Review for Prosthodontics (PrO-PReP) was introduced. This novel concept is a combination of the Relationship building, exploring Reactions, exploring Content, and Coaching (R2C2) model of residency education and the Balint method. The meetings were scheduled every one or two months based on the available caseload of the patients treated by the postgraduates. Results The thematic analysis of the postgraduates’ self-reflection during the sessions and the video recorded observations (assessed using the Kalamazoo scale) revealed that these sessions were effective in positively engaging the postgraduates to discuss their experiences, reflect on their performances, practice their newly gained skills, and learn from peer sharing. Conclusion The postgraduates felt that they have changed in their working style and were more confident to manage patients. They found such sessions very useful for being updated with the already-learned skills.

The historiography of academic international relations

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brain C. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Third ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
Great Debate ◽  
Academic Controversy

Throughout the 1980s and continuing into the 1990s the academic discipline of international relations has witnessed a prolonged period of intense intellectual ferment about the contemporary identity of the field. The significance of this academic controversy is evidenced by the designation that it most fundamentally represents the discipline's third ‘Great Debate’. The importance of the third debate to a field characteristically immune from meta-theoretical self-reflection has been aptly acknowledged by those who recognize the changed nature of philosophical and theoretical inquiry in the post-positivist age. The variety of contending classifications that have been put forth to elucidate the overall character of the third debate is but another indication of the considerable importance that scholars have attached to the outcome of this dispute as we approach the next millennium.

scholarly journals Data visualization in the time of coronavirus

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-288
Author(s):  
Júlia Rabetti Giannella ◽  
Luiz Velho
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Civic Responsibility ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Hypothetical Data ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The One ◽  
Data Visualizations

Currently, we observe a proliferation of data visualizations about Covid-19 in the media, which makes it a convenient time to study the topic from the perspective of different disciplines, including information design and mathematics. If, on the one hand, the abundance of such pandemic representations would already be a legitimate reason to address the issue, on the other hand, it is not the central motivation of the present discussion. The uniqueness of the epidemiological phenomenon that we are experiencing highlights new aspects regarding the production and use of data visualizations, one of which is its diversification beyond counting and visual representation of events related to the virus spread. In this sense, the article discusses, through the analysis of examples, three different approaches for this type of schematic representation, namely: visualization of hypothetical data, visualizations based on secondary data, and visualization for social criticism and self-reflection. Ultimately, we can argue that design contributes to the production of data visualizations that can help people to understand the causes and implications involved in the new coronavirus and encourage civic responsibility through self-care and the practice of social distancing.

Investigating Transformation in Tutoring Sessions

Relay Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 385-393
Author(s):  
Airi Ota
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Support ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Tutoring Program ◽  
Student Tutor

The focus of this paper is to investigate the process of becoming an effective student tutor based on perspectives from other student tutors and my own self-reflection, while working at Kanda University of International Studies. The data on which this research is based was from a survey for student tutors registered in the spring semester of 2018. The survey consisted of questions about student tutors’ motivation and approaches to their tutoring sessions, individual interviews with current tutors and weekly written reflections on my own sessions. It discusses challenges that those student tutors faced such as differences in tutoring style, personal English levels, motivation and tutor autonomy. It also explores the reasons why peer tutoring programs are highly beneficial to students. This paper also offers suggestions for future student tutors and tutees as well as for school administrators. Peer supported learning has been studied by many researchers and the benefits are well documented: improving relationship building skills, self-esteem, social competence and psychological well-being (Briggs, 2013). However, there has only been limited research analyzing how student tutors and tutees have changed over the course of their sessions and created a deep positive learning relationship. When I first became a student tutor, instructors who were in charge of this tutoring program shared a lot of information with us, such as sample questions to ask students and materials to use in sessions. Administrative support given by the instructors was very helpful but it was slightly too general and I struggled with how to improve my sessions. After discussing the situation with professors at my institution, I obtained many useful ideas and significantly improved relationships with my students. This paper discusses my experiences as a peer tutor and the process of how I became a more efficient tutor while investigating how other peer tutors struggled and improved their tutoring skills.

Theatre and Performance at a Time of Shifting Disciplines

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
American Universities ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Traditional Organization ◽  
And Performance

The boundaries of theatre as an academic discipline have never been particularly clear, and its relationship to other disciplines has been the focus of constant struggle and negotiation. This essay traces that negotiation, focusing upon its process in American universities. Competing with literature departments for the study of dramatic texts, American theatre departments drew their own new disciplinary model, based primarily on German Theaterwissenschaft, with emphasis upon the staging history and historical context of dramatic texts. More recently such emerging fields as performance studies and cultural studies have sought to transcend such traditional disciplinary boundaries. Despite some resistance from existing academic and publishing structures, the trend towards the breaking down of these traditional boundaries seems clear. Our academic culture seems headed towards a considerably more fluid organization of its materials of study than the traditional organization into fairly discrete disciplines could offer.

scholarly journals Australian Journalism Studies after ‘Journalism’: Breaking down the Disciplinary Boundaries (For Good)

2012 ◽  
Vol 144 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Harrington
Keyword(s):  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Object Of Study

This article argues that if journalism is to remain a relevant and dynamic academic discipline, it must urgently reconsider the constrained, heavily policed boundaries traditionally placed around it – particularly in Australia. A simple way of achieving this is to redefine its primary object of study: away from specific, rigid, professional inputs towards an ever-growing range of media outputs. Such a shift may allow the discipline to freely reassess its pedagogical and epistemological relationships to contemporary news-making practices – or the ‘new’ news.

Exploring the Diverse Effects of Stakeholder Engagement on Organizational Performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 634-647
Author(s):  
Thaddieus W. Conner
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Indirect Measures ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
Using Data

Collaborative partnerships and stakeholder engagement support an exchange of information, ideas, and resources that are critical to successful policy implementation in the 21st century. Such multiorganizational arrangements accompany expectations that collaboration will lead to improved policy outcomes and organizational performance that would not otherwise be possible in more hierarchical settings. However, our knowledge of how collaborative partnerships contribute to the full spectrum of potential impacts ranging from direct substantive outcomes to more indirect process-oriented improvements remains limited. Using data from a unique survey of 150 Indian education directors in New Mexico and Oklahoma, the following study explores how collaboration between public officials and Native American communities is related to perceived improvements in organizational performance across eight different direct and indirect measures. The results demonstrate that higher levels of collaboration are positively related to perceived improvements in direct substantive outcomes for Native American students. However, collaboration has less of an impact on more process-oriented outcomes including improved joint problem solving and cross-cultural learning with stakeholders suggesting the presence of differential effects. This research makes meaningful contributions to our understanding of the diverse impacts of collaboration, and the degree to which stakeholder engagement is related to more positive outcomes in public school districts.

scholarly journals Sex robot technology and the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF): A relationship in the making?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 390-403
Author(s):  
David C. Mainenti
Keyword(s):  
Belief Systems ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Societal Norms ◽  
Technological Artifacts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Robot Technology ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework

AbstractThe use of sex robots is expected to become widespread in the coming decades, not only for hedonistic purposes but also for therapy, to keep the elderly company in care homes, for education, and to help couples in long-distance relationships. As new technological artifacts are introduced to society, they play a role in shaping the societal norms and belief systems while also creating tensions between various approaches and relationships, resulting in a range of policy-making proposals that bring into question traditional disciplinary boundaries that exist between the technical and the social. The Narrative Policy Framework attempts to position policy studies in such a way so as to better describe, explain, and predict a wide variety of processes and outcomes in a political world increasingly burdened by uncertain reporting, capitalistic marketing, and persuasive narratives. Through content analysis, this study identifies coalitions in the scientific community, based on results gathered from Scopus, to develop insights into the manner in which liberal, utilitarian, and conservative influences alike are shaping narrative elements and content both in favor of and against sex robot technology.

World System History

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Denemark
Keyword(s):  
World System ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Continuity Hypothesis ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Origins ◽  
History Of ◽  
Transition To Capitalism

World system history is a perspective on the global sociopolitical and economic system with a structural, long-term and transdisciplinary nature. The intellectual origins of the study of world system history can be characterized by three general trajectories, beginning with the work of global historians who have worked to write a “history of the world.” Attempts were also made by scholars such as Arnold Toynbee to write global history in terms of “civilizations”. A second pillar of world system history emerged from anthropology, when many historians of the ancient world, anthropologists, and archaeologists denied the importance of long-distance relations, especially those of trade. A third pillar emerged from the social sciences, including political science and sociology. One of the central ideas put forward was that sociopolitical and economic phenomena exhibited wave-like behavior. These various intellectual strands became self-consciously intertwined in the later 1980s and 1990s, when scholars from all of these traditions began to cross disciplinary boundaries and organize their own efforts under the rubric of world system history. This period saw Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills questioning the value of identifying a uniquely modern system based on a transition to capitalism that was said to have occurred in the West. Frank and Gills introduced the “continuity hypothesis,” which suggests that too much scholarly emphasis has been placed on the search for and elucidation of discontinuities and transitions. World system history faces two important challenges from determinism and indeterminacy, and future research should especially address the implications of the latter.

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