scholarly journals Housing Planning for Informal Settlements: Pante-Macassar (East Timor)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Santos ◽  
Ana Virtudes
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
East Timor ◽  
Community Characteristics ◽  
Conceptual Issue ◽  
Housing Programs ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Sustainability Problems ◽  
The University

Regeneration of informal settlements is a topic being studied worldwide. Generally, cities comprise informal settlements, and consequently sustainability problems, requiring urgent actions. Often, the solutions regarding informal settlements do not adequately consider the local features, leading to difficulties such as environmental and public health deteriorations, weakening of housing access or troubles related to economic sustainability. Additionally, some housing programs don’t fit in community characteristics of social inequalities and poverty.  In this sense, this paper intends to show the results of the development of a research methodology, to carry out strategies and to pursuit strategies of rethinking informal housing settlements, in an integrated and resilient way. It concludes with the application of a theoretical model to an informal neighbourhood in Pante Macassar, a city in the Oé-Cusse region of East Timor. The interest in this approach results from an ongoing Doctorate program in Civil Engineering at the University of Beira Interior, focused on the development of a set of good practice guidelines for the informal city regeneration. It aims to identify and assess informal and unhealthy features of urban settlements and their integration at city scale. The theoretical-conceptual issue addresses the informal settlements, comparing with formal housing programs.

Teaching Computer Based Historical Data Analysis

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Anderson ◽  
Robert J. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social History ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Historical Data Analysis ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The University

A case study ofa third year course in the Department of Economic and Social History in the University of Edinburgh isusedto considerandhighlightaspects of good practice in the teaching of computer-assisted historical data analysis.

scholarly journals Do LEGO® Models Aid Reflection in Learning and Teaching Practice?

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrissi Nerantzi ◽  
Craig Scott Despard
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Good Assessment ◽  
The University ◽  
Assessment Strategies ◽  
The Impact

In this paper we describe the use of LEGO® models within assessment of the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) offered at the University of Salford. Within the context of the PGCAP, we model innovative and contextualised assessment strategies for and of learning. We challenge our students, who are teachers in higher education (HE), to think and rethink the assessment they are using with their own students. We help them develop a deeper understanding and experience of good assessment and feedback practice in a wider context while they are assessed as students on the PGCAP. We report on an evaluation of how the LEGO® model activity was used with a cohort of students in the context of the professional discussion assessment. We share the impact it had on reflection and the assessment experience and make recommendations for good practice.

Quality Assurance and Institutional Research for University Strategic Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 287-308
Author(s):  
Ngepathimo Kadhila ◽  
Gilbert Likando
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Evidence Based Decision Making

Strategic management in higher education (HE) has become data-reliant. Most higher education institutions (HEIs) all over the world have implemented quality assurance (QA) and institutional research (IR) with the purpose of generating data that that would assist in evidence-based decision making for better strategic management. However, data generated through QA and IR processes have to be integrated and streamlined in order to successfully inform strategic management. One of the challenges facing higher education institutions is to integrate the data generated by QA and IR processes effectively. This chapter examines examples of good practice for integrating the data generated by these processes for use as tools to inform strategic management, using the University of Namibia as a reference point. The chapter offers suggestions on how higher education institutions may be assisted to overcome challenges when integrating the outcomes of QA and IR processes in order to close the quality loop through effective strategic management.

Just design: Healthy prisons and the architecture of hope

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Jewkes
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Care ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Healthcare Environments ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
The University ◽  
Public Lecture

This article develops the notion that institutional places and spaces are layered with meaning and that their architecture and design have a profound psychological and physiological influence on those who live and work within them. Mindful of the intrinsic link between ‘beauty’ and ‘being just’, the article explores the potential ‘healing’ or rehabilitative role of penal aesthetics. As many countries modernise their prison estates, replacing older facilities that are no longer fit-for-purpose with new, more ‘efficient’ establishments, this article discusses examples of international best (and less good) practice in penal and hospital settings. It reflects on what those who commission and design new prisons might learn from pioneering design initiatives in healthcare environments and asks whether the philosophies underpinning the ‘architecture of hope’ that Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres exemplify could be incorporated into prisons of the future. The article was originally presented as a public lecture in the annual John V Barry memorial lecture series at the University of Melbourne on 24 November 2016.

OUTLIERS OF ACTION RESEARCH – THE IDENTITY CONSTRUCT OF FUTURE TEACHERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 290
Author(s):  
Jiří Kropáč ◽  
Štefan Chudý
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Educational Preparation ◽  
University Environment ◽  
The University

Queries, activities and those sufficient solutions of teaching and learning situations are daily bread of the teaching profession. Thus, in learning of future teachers exist possibilities how to influence the progress of the teachers’ identity construction with self-creative and critical tools which are connected to the complexity of the personality. However, action research helps to deeply understand techniques which are behind the line of the traditional point of view and helps to understand the situations from the pragmatic way of natural learning in the process of preparation at the university. The research aim is focused on the support of integration of the action research as a tool for the teachers’ preparation in the good practice of the university environment. Mixed research methods are based on the narrative corpus which consists of the coded interviews and specific tasks connected to the educational preparation. Results reflect the current various ways of developing future teachers and their impact on future teachers‘ identities.  

scholarly journals Clinical legal education in Croatia – from providing legal assistance to the poor to practical education of students

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Barbara Preložnjak
Keyword(s):  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Procedural Cost ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
The University

<p>Although clinical legal education has a long tradition in common law countries, the countries of the continental European legal system, to which the Republic of Croatia (hereinafter Croatia) belongs, have recognized its importance in the last few years. The first established legal clinic in Croatia was the one of the Faculty of Law at the University of Rijeka. It has been implemented as part of the curriculum for the academic year 1996/1997 and offered to the fourth year students as an elective course entitled “Clinic for Civil Law”. Within the Rijeka Clinic, law students were able to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge, by resolving hypothetical cases, under the supervision and with the support of teachers, lawyers, judges, notaries public and state attorneys. In 2002, with the support of the Institute Open Society from Budapest, the Faculty of Law at the University of Osijek established a legal clinic in the form of practical training for students of the third and fourth year of legal studies. By participating in the clinic’s activity, students of Osijek Law Faculty helped provide legal aid to citizens of lower economic status. This included help in providing general legal information and legal advice, as well as help in covering procedural cost from the funds donated to the Clinic. The lack of financial means that were needed for daily expenditures meant that the Legal Clinic in Osijek was temporarily closed. Nowadays, faculty members of Osijek Law Faculty are trying to solve financial problems and to continue previous good practice in providing legal aid to the poor citizens.</p>

scholarly journals Library SkillUP

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Monica Jane Rivers-Latham ◽  
Helen Singer ◽  
Louise Conway
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Workflow Model ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
Project Report ◽  
Information Skills ◽  
The University

This project report describes the workflow model used at the University of Hertfordshire to develop and test a suite of new digital information skills materials for students. The approach taken was informed by findings from the Jisc Student Digital Experience Tracker and good practice from Jisc’s NUS Benchmarking tool. Content was mapped against the digital information literacy segment of Jisc’s Digital Capabilities framework and CILIP’s information literacy definition. The project set out to reuse, refresh and repurpose existing online resources and identify new content where necessary to provide a set of up to date learning objects, which academics could easily embed at point of need into their programmes of study, according to the university’s Guided Learner Journey principles. The project also sought to make an informed decision around which digital technology/platform to use for content creation. Due to the required functionality, Instructure’s Canvas, which is already used by the university for all its courses, was chosen as a platform for the materials. The team used University College London’s ABC Learning Design methodology to design the curriculum and writing teams followed a pedagogical approach to create content and interactive learning elements for the Canvas Library SkillUP module. Students were consulted and provided feedback at all stages of the project.

scholarly journals Transfer of Non-Academic Skills in Academic Context: towards a Sustainable Employability

2018 ◽  
pp. 399-409
Author(s):  
Maria Luisa Iavarone ◽  
Fausta Sabatano
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
The University ◽  
Didactic Planning

This essay is an element of dialogue between educational practices acquired in territorial education contexts and the University. In particular, starting from the 10-year long experience consolidated in three educational centres operating in border areas of the Province of Naples, a series of ‘key competences’ have been highlighted that are indispensable to the containment of social risk disadvantage in an inclusion (Bertolini 1977; Freire 2004; Rossi 2014; Sabatano 2015a, 2015b) and well-being project (Iavarone 2007, 2009) from an educational point of view. Such competencies have become subject of a ‘participatory didactic planning’ between expert educators working in these contexts and a university course on ‘Pedagogy of relationships’ within the Department of Motor Science and Well-Being at the University of Naples Parthenope. The participatory planning practice has set the most ambitious goal of achieving a ‘system methodology’ to be used in the curriculum-design of the university courses in order to make the academic education offer a proper link element between the educational demand of young people, the demand for professional skills in the territory and the emerging social needs in order to improve employability processes. The main results that this experience has highlighted can be deducted from the student’s satisfaction survey, as well as from the data collected and processed by the University Assessment Team, in the Department’s Joint Commission Reports, which show a clear and overall improvement of the communication processes between non-academic institutions collaborating with the University for the conduct of internships, training sessions and placement-targeted activities. The empirical evidence and the positive results obtained provide substantial comfort in considering that the experience gained can be a ‘good practice’ to be included in the didactic planning process of the courses, even in relation to the need to improve the educational and didactic offer with reference to the new quality assurance parameters (QA) for the periodic accreditation of the CdS according to the AVA-ANVUR legislation in force

scholarly journals LA URDIMBRE Y LA TRAMA DE LA DESIGUALDAD EN LOS PROCESOS EDUCATIVOS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Maris Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Digital Book ◽  
Education In Mexico ◽  
The University

Esta presentacion es la  reseña del libro digital Racismo, Interculturalidad y Educación en México, de Bruno Baronnet, Gisela Carlos Fregoso e Fortino Domínguez Rueda. Xalapa: Editorial de la Universidad Veracruzana, 2018. Los coordinadores publican un conjunto de investigaciones etnográficas sobra las manifestaciones del racismo en instituciones educativas de Mexico y reflexionan analítica y criticamnete sobre sus efectos ante la diversidad cultural y las desigualdades sociales de  la formacion socia mexicana.ABSTRACT This presentation is the review of the digital book Racismo, Interculturality and Education in Mexico,by Bruno Baronnet, Gisela Carlos Fregoso and Fortino Domínguez Rueda. Xalapa: Editorial of the University of Veracruzana, 2018. The coordinators publish a set of ethnographic researches to spare the manifestations of racism in educational institutions in Mexico and reflect analytical and critical on its effects on the cultural diversity and social inequalities of Mexican social formation. 

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