scholarly journals Technological university in Brazil: examining the development and (de)construction of the model

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2060-2080
Author(s):  
Luiz Marcelo de Lara ◽  
Celso Bilynkievycz dos Santos ◽  
Bruno Pedroso ◽  
Camila Lopes Ferreira ◽  
Luiz Alberto Pilatti
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Technological Education ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Development Context ◽  
World Class ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Technological University ◽  
Federal Center

Based primarily on an analysis of laws and legal frameworks, this qualitative exploratory study aims to examine the development, context, construction, as well as deconstruction, of the technological university model in Brazil. The Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR) is the only technological university in the country. The analysis presented herein demonstrates that its development is the outcome of movements and efforts within its predecessor, the Federal Center of Technological Education of Paraná (CEFET-PR), to respond to the deconstruction of the technical education model, on which the Institution was based, during the Fernando Henrique Cardoso government. The concept of a technological university has not been replicated in any government since the transformation of CEFET-PR to UTFPR, not even during the Workers’ Party (PT) government, which introduced the model. We conclude that, despite efforts from within, the legal apparatus and the pursuit of certain characteristics and goals, such as obtaining world class status, are aligning UTFPR increasingly toward the profile of traditional universities.

scholarly journals Can Young Universities Achieve World-Class Status?

2013 ◽  
pp. 2-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamil Salmi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Maturity Period ◽  
World Class ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Academic Ranking

What chance does a university stand to be among the best, if it does not have hundreds of years of experience? The top 10 universities in the latest Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities ranking (2011) were all founded before 1900, and two are more than eight centuries old. As is the case with good wines, academic excellence requires a wealth of expertise, careful care, and a long maturity period.

Architects, stadia and sport spectacles: Notes on the role of architects in the building of sport stadia and making of world-class cities

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Horne
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Sport Facility ◽  
Global Spread ◽  
World Class ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Initial Exploration

From the point of view of the production of consumption this article considers a less often researched aspect of sport spectacles and mega-events: who the agents and institutions are that assemble, build and design the material infrastructure — especially the stadia and facilities. The article seeks to dig below the surface of the reified world of the material infrastructure of global cities to discuss the creators of the emblematic buildings and the leisure and sport spaces constructed to assist in the pursuit or maintenance of ‘world-class’ status. It provides a necessarily brief overview of architects and the architecture field, explores the global spread of stadium and sport facility building and the role of architects in this process. It provides an initial exploration of some issues rather than an account of fieldwork or empirical research.The conclusion summarizes the discussion and identifies future research questions.

scholarly journals Preface

2021 ◽  
Vol 958 (1) ◽  
pp. 011001
Keyword(s):  
Program Committee ◽  
Technical Program ◽  
Committee Chair ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Questions And Answers ◽  
Keynote Speech ◽  
Poster Presentations ◽  
Technological University ◽  
Oral Presentations ◽  
Resource And Environment

Supported by I-Shou University and Xi’an University of Technology, the 7th International Conference on Water Resource and Environment (WRE2021) was successfully held online via Microsoft Teams Meeting from November 1-4, 2021. About 150 participants from 31 countries and areas, including United Kingdom, Uruguay, Romania, China, Russia, Germany, Thailand, Japan, India, Malaysia, United States, South Africa, Portugal, Canada, Indonesia, Norway, Poland, Vietnam, Philippines, Greece, Slovakia, Uzbekistan, Italy, etc., have joined the conference. The technical program of WRE2021 comprised 4 keynote speeches, 24 invited speeches, 72 oral presentations and 21 poster presentations. Two welcome speeches were delivered separately by the Conference General Chair Prof. Jiwei Zhu from Xi’an University of Technology (lasted for 10 minutes) and the Technical Program Committee Chair Prof. Chih-Huang Weng from I-Shou University (lasted for 10 minutes). Four keynote speeches were delivered by Emeritus Prof. S. A. Abbasi from Pondicherry University (India), Prof. Dominic C. Y. Foo from University of Nottingham Malaysia (Malaysia), Prof. Teik-Thye Lim from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Assoc. Prof. Rengui Jiang from Xi’an University of Technology (China), each keynote speech was lasted for 45 minutes including questions and answers. List of WRE2021 Scientific Committee Members are available in the pdf.

scholarly journals A superação do tecnicismo em uma perspectiva de formação humana integral na educação profissional e tecnológica

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (31) ◽  
pp. 389-303
Author(s):  
Erinaldo Silva Oliveira ◽  
Ana Maria Silva Pantoja ◽  
Rosa Oliveira Martins de Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Technology Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Technological Education ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Human Formation ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Productive Process ◽  
Education Model

RESUMO Este artigo tem como objetivo abordar a superação do ensino tecnicista em uma perspectiva de formação humana integral na Educação Profissional e Tecnológica, por meio de pesquisa de revisão bibliográfica, na qual se analisa o tecnicismo e sua influência na educação atual. A concepção da formação humana integrada e seus principais objetivos apresenta ações para uma proposta de superação do tecnicismo, ainda vigente em nossa educação. Abordar-se-á ainda o desafio da proposta do ensino médio integral. A pesquisa constata que é necessária a superação de um modelo educacional tecnicista, para uma forma de educação ampla, visando uma sociedade mais justa e igualitária, buscando desenvolver o potencial do indivíduo, como cidadão e como trabalhador, na formação de um sujeito que saiba ser crítico e reflexivo com relação às etapas e fundamentos do processo produtivo atual. Palavras-chave: Formação Humana. Tecnicismo. Educação profissional e tecnológica. ABSTRACT The objective of the following paper is to overlook how to overcome the excessive use of technology in a comprehensive human training perspective within the technical and technological education through a bibliographical review research, which analyzes the excessive use of technology and its influence in current education. The concept of comprehensive human training and its main goals propose overcoming the excessive use of technology still present in Brazilian education. It also overlooks the challenge of fulltime high school proposal. The study shows that it is necessary to replace the excessive use of technology education model for a broader one, aiming a fairer and more equalitarian society. Such society would seek to develop people’s potential, as citizens and workers, in order to form a person who is critic and reflexive when it comes to the stages and foundation of the current productive process.   Keywords: Human Formation. Excessive use of technology. Technological and Professional Education.   RESUMÉN Este artículo tiene como objetivo abordar la superación de la enseñanza tecnicista en una perspectiva de formación humana integral en la Educación Profesional y Tecnológica, por medio de investigación de revisión bibliográfica, en la que se analiza el tecnicismo y su influencia en la educación actual; la concepción de la formación humana integrada y sus principales objetivos y se presenta acciones para una propuesta de superación del tecnicismo, aún vigente en nuestra educación. Se aborda también el desafío de la propuesta de la enseñanza media integral. La investigación constata que es necesaria la superación de un modelo educativo tecnicista, para una forma de educación amplia, buscando una sociedad más justa e igualitaria, buscando desarrollar el potencial del individuo, como ciudadano y como trabajador, en la formación de un sujeto que sepa ser crítico y reflexivo con relación a las etapas y fundamentos del proceso productivo actual.   Palabras clave: Formación Humana. Tecnicismo. Educación profesional y tecnológica.   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22169/revint.v14i31.1561

DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR WORLD-CLASS MAINTENANCE SYSTEMS

2006 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 141-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAJESH PRASAD MISHRA ◽  
G. ANAND ◽  
RAMBABU KODALI
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Maintenance System ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
Maintenance Systems ◽  
Class Status ◽  
New Framework

A world-class maintenance system (WMS) refers to the best practices in maintenance that are followed and adopted by various organizations to transform themselves to be a 'world-class manufacturer'. One of the important factors in developing a 'world-class' maintenance system within an organization is the adoption of a sound framework that provides the necessary conceptual and theoretical details of best practices to be followed, to reach the world-class status. Several authors, consultants and large organizations have proposed different frameworks representing the best practices in maintenance, which seem to have been developed and derived primarily from the context and experience of such large organizations and consultants respectively. A comparative study revealed that most of the frameworks are unique and proposes several unique best practices in maintenance. Hence, in this paper, an attempt has been made to identify such best practices from the existing frameworks and integrate these practices to develop and propose a new framework for world-class maintenance systems.

The International Origins and Global Aspirations of Chinese Universities

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
William C. Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The West ◽  
Chinese Universities ◽  
Academic Collaboration ◽  
China Model ◽  
World Class ◽  
Class Status

Despite the resurgence of nationalism in China, the United States, and several European countries, and rhetoric of a “decoupling” between China and the West, the internationalist agendas of Chinese universities remain robust. This trajectory would appear to be strengthened by the broad, inclusive, if still ill-defined mission given to Chinese institutions by Beijing to “go out” along the “New Silk Road” (NSR). Although the international origins and aspirations of Chinese universities have been shaped mainly by Western models, there are increased incentives for exchange between Chinese and NSR-based universities. However, hopes that educational exchanges will strengthen higher education in both China and the NSR may be unrealistic. Themselves products of international models, Chinese institutions have no distinct “China model” to offer NSR universities. Furthermore, although academic collaboration along the NSR may increase the quantity of Chinese scholarship, it is unlikely to help Chinese universities achieve a larger goal: world-class status.

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