scholarly journals The Educational Social Practices and their metaphors. Approaches to a reconstruction of meanings from critical perspectives

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-130
Author(s):  
Néstor Horacio Cecchi ◽  
◽  
Fabricio Oyarbide ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public University ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Meanings

For those of us who have been going through the public university for decades, a clear tendency in most of our institutions to rethink their senses, their missions, their functions, in sum: their must be. In these times and these contexts in which deep inequalities are made visible with absolute clarity, these tendencies to construct new meanings acquire a particular relevance. We understand that public universities in the exercise of their autonomy and as members of the State, must assume a leading role with a contribution that contributes to guaranteeing rights, in particular, of the subalternized sectors. This critical positioning is inescapable to consolidate the social commitment of our higher education institutios. This compelling transformative intention has a valuable background. In this sense, we warn that both in Argentina and in some of the countries of the Region, tendencies to consolidate, systematize, institutionalize processes of emancipatory articulation in their relations with the territory, organizations and social movements have been reproduced for some years, many of them, through curricularization processes in its different meanings. These experiences, dissimilar by the way, find the need to settle, to institutionalize themselves through various conformations that in some cases converge in Educational Social Practices or similar names, with different, unique formats, but with different meanings as well. That is why we propose to display, analyze, make visible some of the salient characteristics of these processes, the regulations, their singularities, similarities, the multiplicity of their feelings, in sum, their metaphors.

scholarly journals Evaluating Operation Performance in Higher Education: The Case of Vietnam Public Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 4082
Author(s):  
Tien-Chin Wang ◽  
Binh Ngoc Phan ◽  
Thuy Thi Thu Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Operation Performance ◽  
Investment Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Current State ◽  
Post Hoc

The system of public universities plays an important role in the socioeconomic development of each country. In Vietnam, public universities perform a leading role in the national higher education system’s operation and development. Therefore, public universities are assigned funds, assets, and facilities to implement goals and prioritize investment policies in the country’s education and training. However, to appropriately allocate funding, the state must reconsider the performance of the public education system. This paper presents a methodology to evaluate the operating performance of public higher education in Vietnam. The research design model includes cluster analysis and ANOVA, and Duncan post hoc tests have been used to provide an overview of public universities’ current state in Vietnam and to identify each of the strengths and weaknesses in cluster-specific groups. Based on this study’s results, educational administrators can develop a reasonable financial budget allocation plan for each university cluster.

scholarly journals Higher Education and Graduate Employment in Albania

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Armanda Keqi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Economic Transition ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

In the social and economic transition, the Higher Education in Albania has tremendously ocercomed its capacities and the opportunities offered. Albania is considered the champion country in Europe for the high number of universities. Besides the public universities, in the country also operate dozens of private universities. in Albania there are about 20 universities per million inhabitants, (161500 students for a population of 2,8 million people), nearly eight times more than countries like UK that have internationalized higher education and have a very large percentage of foreign students. This paper takes into account the development of higher education and the responsible institutions of this development during the transition in Albania, the current structure of universities, the financial problems and the reform of higher education. It also examines issues such as: the measurement of quality, the ranking and the competition between public universities and private institutions. Then the focus of the paper runs on the employment of the young graduates who have finished albanian universities in the last five years. Firstly, relying on foreign literature, I have analyzed some of the main models of employment of graduates, their skills in the labor market, and also the changes that have occurred in the careers of the graduates in the last century. for the extraction of data are used questionnaires distributed electronically to over 230 employees that have brought significant conclusions about the employment of graduates in Albania, as well as the impact of such factors as: GPA, the training, the number of foreign languages spoken and other qualifications and skills that affect the level of salary and their position at work. Also starting from the above models, the scope is to identify the key elements that affect the careers of albanian graduates, and the key factors that have driven their employment. In the end of the paper are given some conclusions and recommendations on how higher education in Albania should be reformed, given by the sample responses of the interviewers, but also by a concrete analysis of the problems that are facing this sector in Albania, and how this reformation of higher education can increase its fruits on more qualified and employed youths in their respective fields. The methodology used is mainly from primary sources, ranging from the data collected by the respondents, as well as from secondary sources of data published for this area of study. The main limitation of such a work is the limited number of samples under the survey, the data of whom has been generalized for all the population of the paper.

scholarly journals The public university and the retreat from globalisation: An economic geography perspective on managing local-global tensions in international higher education

2020 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2095908
Author(s):  
Eric Knight ◽  
Andrew Jones ◽  
Meric S Gertler
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public University ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
International Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
The City

As a growing backlash against globalisation gathers momentum, internationally oriented public universities face a period of great unrest. In particular, they find themselves caught between the narrowing local agendas of their public funders and the global outlook of their researchers and students. We suggest that an economic geography lens provides a powerful perspective for how universities might navigate these tensions. Specifically, we show how local-global tensions can be managed through strategies engaged at the city and regional level. Our contribution seeks to inform current debates in the higher education sector and bring economic geography more centrally into public discourse on this topic.

scholarly journals El papel de la Universidad Pública en el bienestar social y en el derecho al trabajo

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Carlos Javier Martínez G.
Keyword(s):  
Public Universities ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Public University ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

La disertación desarrolla tres aspectos. Primero, una reflexión teórica sobre los efectos de la actual crisis estructural de las universidades públicas y el bienestar social; segundo, presenta, con base en algunas cifras, las magnitudes del subdesarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe y su influencia en la ciencia, la tecnología, la educación, el trabajo y, en consecuencia, el bienestar individual y social. Por último, expone las bases teóricas e históricas que han llevado a la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Surcolombiana, a proponer la creación de la Especialización en Derecho del Trabajo y la Seguridad Social, cuya aprobación se espera cumplir próximamente.AbstractThe rol of the public university in social well-Jare and in the labor law The essay develops three topics: First, a theoretical reflection about the effects of the current structural crisis of the public universities and the social well-fare; second, based on some numbers, it presents the magnitude of sub development in Latin America and The Caribbean and its influence in Science, Technology, Education, Labor and, consequently, the individual and social well-fare. Finally, it exposes the theoretical and historical bases that had carried the Low Faculty of the Universidad Surcolombiana to propose the creation of the Specialization on Labor and Social Security Law, which approbation is nearly expected. 

Is a public university an enterprise?

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Roman Sobiecki
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public University ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Unique Character

The essay is a voice in the discussion about the activities of public universities in the context of the new Law on Higher Education and Science of 20 July 2018. Due to the unique character of this institution, the author thinks that the answer is not simple. However, the most important thing is that universities should retain priority in realizing the public goals for which they were established.

Globalization, Social Movements, and Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 113 (6) ◽  
pp. 1196-1213
Author(s):  
Regina Cortina
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Public Education ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Meanings

Background/Context This essay is a part of a special issue that emerges from a year-long faculty seminar at Teachers College, Columbia University. The seminar's purpose has been to examine in fresh terms the nexus of globalization, education, and citizenship. Participants come from diverse fields of research and practice, among them art education, comparative education, curriculum and teaching, language studies, philosophy of education, social studies, and technology. They bring to the table different scholarly frameworks drawn from the social sciences and humanities. They accepted invitations to participate because of their respective research interests, all of which touch on education in a globalized world. They were also intrigued by an all-too-rare opportunity to study in seminar conditions with colleagues from different fields, with whom they might otherwise never interact given the harried conditions of university life today. Participants found the seminar generative in terms of ideas about globalization, education, and citizenship. Participants also appreciated what, for them, became a novel and rich occasion for professional and personal growth. Purpose/Objective With globalization—a term that signifies the ever-increasing interconnectedness of markets, communications and human migration—social and economic divides in countries around the world are hindering the access of many people to the major institutions of society, including and especially education. My goal in this essay is to reflect on the dilemma that John Dewey identified in Democracy and Education regarding the “full social ends of education” and the agency of the nation-state. Against the historical background of the nation-state's control of the meaning of public education, my intent is to search for new meanings defining public education through human agency and social movements, using Mexico as an example. My essay, written on the 200th anniversary of Mexico's Independence in 1810 and on the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, reflects on these two major events and how they contributed to shifts in the social meaning of education over time. Two groups—women and indigenous people—did not benefit proportion-ately from education, citizenship and social opportunity. My argument is that the empowerment of women and indigenous groups took place not because of state action but because of social movements contesting the restricted identity and incomplete citizenship provided for them through the capacity of the nation-state. It is crucial to understand the “full social ends of education” to see the way forward in strengthening education, citizenship and social opportunity. Conclusions/ Recommendations My participation in the faculty seminar and the readings we discussed led me towards the rediscovery of the writings of John Dewey, which stimulated my thinking about the “full social ends of education” against the historical background of the nation-state's control of the meaning of public education and my own inquiry to search for new meanings of public education through human agency and social movements. Moreover, the writings of Dewey during his visit to Mexico in 1926 opened a new research agenda for me. I have become increasingly interested in a period of Mexican education that is not well researched, particularly the role of John Dewey's students at Teachers College, Columbia University in the development of Mexico's public education system during the 1920s and 1930s and the creation of the Mexican rural schools and the middle schools during that era.

scholarly journals Inayatullah, Rubina Saigol, and Pervez Tahir (eds). Social Sciences in Pakistan: A Profile. Islamabad: Council of Social Sciences, 2005. 512 pages. Hardbound. Rs 500.00.

2004 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faiz Bilquees
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Peace And Conflict Resolution ◽  
And Linguistics

Commissioned by the Council of Social Sciences (COSS), this volume evaluates the seventeen social sciences departments in the public universities in Pakistan for a given set of parameters. The social sciences departments or the topics covered in this volume and their respective authors include: Teaching of International Relations in Pakistani Universities (Rasul Bakhsh Rais); Development of the Discipline of Political Science in Pakistan (Inayatullah); The Development of Strategic Studies in Pakistan (Ayesha Siddiqa); The State of Educational Discourse in Pakistan (Rubina Saigol); Development of Philosophy as a Discipline (Mohammad Ashraf Adeel); The State of the Discipline of Psychology in Public Universities in Pakistan: A Review (Muhammad Pervez and Kamran Ahmad); Development of Economics as a Discipline in Pakistan (Karamat Ali); Sociology in Pakistan: A Review of Progress (Muhammad Hafeez); Anthropology in Pakistan: The State of [sic] Discipline (Nadeem Omar Tarar); Development of the Discipline of History in Pakistan (Mubarak Ali); The Discipline of Public Administration in Pakistan (Zafar Iqbal Jadoon and Nasira Jabeen); Journalism and Mass Communication (Mehdi Hasan); Area Studies in Pakistan: An Assessment (Muhammad Islam); Pakistan Studies: A Subject of the State, and the State of the Subject (Syed Jaffar Ahmed); The State of the Discipline of Women’s Studies in Pakistan (Rubina Saigol); Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies (Moonis Ahmar and Farhan H. Siddiqi); and Linguistics in Pakistan: A Survey of the Contemporary Situation (Tariq Rahman).

scholarly journals Statistical analysis of the structure and dynamics of material and human resources in public education over the past two academic years in Bacau

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia Harja
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Education ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
Material Basis

The public university education in Bacau, represented by “Vasile Alecsandri” University from Bacau has developed over the past two years not only in terms of student numbers, but as human and material resources available to them. After the number of students per teacher, public higher education from Bacau is situated on the second place after Iasi, the number of teachers representing 1% of the country. The structure by scientific degrees of teachers has improved in the last year, reaching over 36% professors and lecturers and 144 PhDs. Over 55% of the teachers are younger than 40 years. The material basis has improved both quantitatively and qualitatively by putting into use a new building, bringing an additional 27 classrooms and 11 seminar rooms and providing the conditions of modern higher education.

scholarly journals Mass Higher Education in Russia: Features of Dynamics

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
V. F. Pugach
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Massification Of Higher Education ◽  
Unmet Demand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Soviet Russia

The article considers the massification of higher education in post-Soviet Russia and shows its special aspects against the background of the studentship history in our country from 1917 to 2017. The main cause of the boom in the sphere of higher education at the turn of the century is the social and economic transformation of the society. The emergence of private universities and fee-based education in the public sector of higher education provided opportunities for broad segments of society. The unmet demand for higher education has resulted in an upsurge in the interest to higher education among the society. The similar boom and wave-like dynamics may be traced regarding postgraduate training due to long lasting deficit. The paper presents the results of comparing student body dynamics in universities, postgraduate and doctoral schools and shows the boom synchronicity at the levels of universities and postgraduate schools.

scholarly journals ALTERNANCE IN THE FORMATION OF COUNTRYSIDE EDUCATORS: LOOKING FOR MARKERS IN THE ACADEMIC PRODUCTIONS AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF EDUCATION STUDENTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (26) ◽  
pp. 339-350
Author(s):  
Josiane das Graças Carvalho ◽  
Lourdes Helena Da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Rural Education ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rural Teaching

The Education in the Countryside is part of a national movement that, starred by collective individuals of the countryside, has conquered several social, political and academic accomplishments. Among them, the Program of Support to Higher Education in Countryside Teaching – PROCAMPO, which has its origins in the fights and claims of social movements, allowed the creation of 42 new courses of Education in Rural Teaching in different Brazilian Higher Education Institutions. These courses work under Alternance training, between Time-School and Time-Community, contributing to the expansion, in our society, of the Formation by Alternance in the Higher Education, particularly in the Rural Education Graduation Courses, constituting a very recent phenomenon in the Brazilian Universities. Aiming to find a better comprehension about this educative phenomenon, the present paper has the purpose of presenting an overview of the national academic production about the alternance in the courses of formation of countryside educators, analyzing the social representations of alternance built by Rural Education students of the Federal University of Viçosa, looking for advance makers, challenges and perspectives in this pedagogical dynamic in the Higher Educaction.       

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