scholarly journals Supporting students' learning on 'short project' placements.

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-57
Author(s):  
David Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Subject

Much of the research into higher education and its role in work-based learning (WBL), and especially in supporting undergraduate students on placements, has focussed on longer term internships and sandwich courses. Research has also focussed on subject areas that have traditionally been associated with the above; for example, Business, Health, and Engineering. By contrast, the aim of this study was to gather data from students on a much shorter period of placement, categorised as a ‘short project’ (Brennan & Little, 1996). Furthermore, the data recovered was from students studying within the social sciences paradigm, undertaking an undergraduate degree in Education Studies (not teacher education). The social sciences and humanities more generally have not been discussed to any great extent within the context of research on placement or work-based learning (see Smith, Clegg, Lawrence, & Todd, 2007); the subject of Education Studies is not covered at all by previous research. This paper considers the different ways practitioners might blend learning and support university students’ experiential and academic learning in this short project format. The results suggest that even a relatively short period of structured placement can be of significant benefit to students although for many respondents, face-to-face contact in the form of lectures and tutorials is still an important component of a blended approach to WBL.

scholarly journals Bringing the doctoral thesis by published papers to the Social Sciences and the Humanities: a quantitative easing?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Rigby ◽  
Barbara Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Degree ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk

This paper reflects on alternatives to the traditional form of doctoral thesis which are emerging to reflect a new approach to the valuation and designation of scientific outputs. We examine the changes and consider some implications. We suggest that the adoption of co-citation as underpinning principle for the measurement of knowledge structures has led to re-designation of the value of knowledge and knowledge producers in increasingly quantitative terms. We use notions of ‘institution’ and ‘logic’ to better understand such a change and its implications. Under a new logic that is gradually embedding itself across the higher education sector, the ‘constitutive rules’ concerned with the value of research now prioritize quantification, and tangibility of output, and quality is increasingly equated with citation. Whilst the scientific disciplines have traditionally been closer to this model, albeit with significant national variations, subjects within the Social Sciences and Humanities are now being affected. We present evidence from a small study of the UK higher education sector of university regulation of doctoral degree submission format in two disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences (History and Sociology). Our evidence shows the recent and gradual adoption of a practice, previously more common in scientific disciplines, that allows the doctoral thesis to be constituted by a series of publishable papers, known by a variety of names, the most common being ‘Thesis by Published Papers’, ‘Journal Format Thesis’, ‘Alternative Format Thesis’, and ‘Integrated Thesis’. As the thesis of the Social Sciences and Humanities – itself an important institution in the academic field - begins to reflect a greater emphasis upon quantity of knowledge outputs, a tension emerges with the most central of all scientific institutions, the peer-reviewed journal paper.

Connecting With Kinesiology: Observations of an Outsider

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Jay Coakley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Sociology Department ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Faculty Appointment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
The Social

This article is organized around the idea that a person can be a part of kinesiology without being in kinesiology. Trained as a sociologist and never having a faculty appointment outside of a sociology department, I am an outsider in kinesiology. However, my participation in kinesiology and relationships with scholars in kinesiology departments have fostered my professional growth and my appreciation of interdisciplinary approaches to studying sports, physical activities, and the moving human body. The knowledge produced by scholars in kinesiology subdisciplines has provided a framework for situating and assessing my research, teaching, and professional service as a sociologist. The latter half of this article focuses on changes in higher education and how they are likely to negatively impact the social sciences and humanities subdisciplines in kinesiology. The survival of these subdisciplines will depend, in part, on how leaders in the field respond to the question, Kinesiology for whom?

scholarly journals Augmented intelligence technology. The ethical and practical problems of its implementation in libraries

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Wójcik
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Science ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

PurposeThe subject of the article is the concept of augmented intelligence, which constitutes a further stage in the development of research on artificial intelligence. This is a new phenomenon that has rarely been considered in the subject literature so far, which may be interesting for the fields of social sciences and humanities. The aim is to describe the features of this technology and determine the practical and ethical problems associated with its implementation in libraries.Design/methodology/approachThe method of literature review was used. Systematic searches according to specific questions were carried out using the Scopus and Web of Science scientific databases, as well as Google Scholar and the LISTA abstract database.FindingsThe results established that the issue of augmented intelligence has barely been discussed in the field of librarianship. Although this technology may be interesting as a new area of librarian research and as a new framework for designing innovative services, deep ethical consideration is necessary before this technology is introduced in libraries.Research limitations/implicationsThe article deals with some of the newest technologies available, and this topic is generally very rarely discussed in scientific publications in either the social sciences or humanities. Therefore, due to the limited availability of materials, the findings presented in the article are primarily of a conceptual nature. The aim is to present this topic from the perspective of librarianship and to create a starting point for further discussion on the ethical aspects of introducing new technologies in libraries.Practical implicationsThe results can be widely used in practice as a framework for the implementation of augmented intelligence in libraries.Social implicationsThe article can help to facilitate the debate on the role of implementing new technologies in libraries.Originality/valueThe problem of augmented intelligence is very rarely addressed in the subject literature in the field of library and information science.

scholarly journals Teach a Student to Fish? International Relations Scholars in the Classroom

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (01) ◽  
pp. 214-220
Author(s):  
Nina Srinivasan Rathbun ◽  
Brian C. Rathbun
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The Social

ABSTRACT American higher-education institutions are under increasing pressure to prepare their students with practical skills for the workplace, and the social sciences—including political science—are not immune. Political figures have suggested—sometimes seconded by academics themselves—that research distracts academics from imparting practical skills to undergraduate students. Using a survey of international relations (IR) scholars, this article shows that this is not the case. Those who spend more time on research actually devote more time to policy-relevant research in their courses than more abstract and theoretical work, and they incorporate more contemporary issues. Research seems to encourage academics to teach their students to fish.

A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THESES ON “CALL CENTER” IN TURKEY BASED ON CALL CENTER COMPONENTS: 2003-2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (15) ◽  
pp. 246-260
Author(s):  
Selin AYGEN ZETTER ◽  
Yasemin BİLİŞLİ
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Call Center ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Strategy Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

In this study, it is aimed to systematically examine the theses on the call center. On the subject the thesis archive of the Council of Higher Education was searched using the keyword "Call Center". As a result of the search, 224 studies were reached, however, a total of 206 studies that met the inclusion criteria were reviewed. It was determined that 120 of the scanned articles were written by the Social Sciences Institute, 28 were written by Marmara University, and 180 were postgraduate theses. When the subjects of the examined studies were classi-fied in terms of call center components, it was observed that 114 postgraduate theses were related to the human factor. In addition, it was found that strategy, process and technology-related subjects were among the research topics in the call center components. As a result, other disciplines as well as social sciences should show interest equally in the subject of call center, which should be addressed by many disciplines, in terms of contributing to the development of call centers. It is thought that it is possible to improve the system by focusing on the studies that examine the "strategy" and "technology" factor, as well as the employee and customer-oriented studies investigating the "human" factor from the call center components.

Beauty

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Transcendental Philosophy ◽  
Sensory Property ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Aesthetic Pleasure ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Philosophic Tradition

On the subject of beauty, theorists generally agree only on rudimentary points about the term: that it commends on aesthetic grounds, has absolute and comparative forms, and so forth. Beyond this, dispute prevails. Realists hold that judgments of beauty ascribe to their subjects either a nonrelational property inherent in things or a capacity of things to affect respondents in a way that preserves objectivity. In both cases acute problems arise in defining the property and in explaining how it can be known. Classical Platonism holds that beauty exists as an ideal supersensible Form, while eighteenth-century theorists view it as a quasi-sensory property. Kant’s transcendental philosophy anchors the experience of beauty to the basic requirements of cognition, conferring on it ‘subjective universality and necessity’. Sceptics complain that the alleged property is merely a reflection of aesthetic pleasure and hence lacks objective standing. Partly due to its preoccupation with weightier matters, the philosophic tradition has never developed any theory of beauty as fully and deeply as it has, say, theories in the domain of morality. Comparative neglect of the subject has been encouraged by the generally subjectivistic and relativistic bent of the social sciences and humanities, as well as by avant-gardism in the arts. However, several recent and ambitious studies have given new impetus to theorizing about beauty.

scholarly journals Innovations in Co-ordinating Undergraduate Students’ Oral Tutorial Presentations

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-110
Author(s):  
Kristyn E. Harman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Strong Trend ◽  
The Social ◽  
Improved Learning

Individual oral tutorial presentations have been utilised in numerous undergraduate courses to develop and assess students’ skills in organising and communicating ideas and information to a select audience. However, evidence from the literature, interviews with academics (n=5), and the author’s own experiences have demonstrated that these presentations have been plagued with issues ranging from poor quality presentations to non-attendance on the part of students and boredom for both academics and undergraduates alike. This article highlights these issues, then details a variety of successful ways in which academics have innovated to improve the level of student engagement and facilitate a higher achievement of learning outcomes. Some of these innovations pertain to individual presentations, yet interview data gathered indicated a strong trend towards replacing these with small group and whole group exercises, models for which are also explicated in this article. These models have been drawn from the Social Sciences and Humanities and provide templates that may be adapted for use in a range of different contexts. The resultant improvements in co-ordinating undergraduate students’ tutorial presentations may contribute towards a more satisfying experience for lecturers, tutors, and students, and improved learning outcomes.

scholarly journals “Perfiles digitales: Nueva configuración del uso de TIC’s en la carrera de Ingeniería Industrial”

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 7218-7237
Author(s):  
Oswaldo Fernando Terán Modregón ◽  
Paula Mónica Lino Humerez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
Social Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Virtual Classes ◽  
Educación Virtual

Una de las preocupaciones de los docentes en la educación superior siempre ha sido el grado de formación académica que tienen los jóvenes que acaban la formación secundaria. Tras los acontecimientos sociales del octubre, noviembre de 2019 en Bolivia y la decisión mundial de suspender las clases presenciales y pasar a las clases virtuales, surge la preocupación por si los estudiantes están preparados para migrar de las clases presenciales a las clases virtuales. Por otro lado, los estudiantes también tienen la inquietud de si los docentes están preparados para poder administrar la educación virtual, así como de los padres de familia si existen las condiciones tecnológicas y económicas para poder migrar a la educación superior virtual. Con los resultados del proyecto se quiere develar y clasificar el perfil digital de los docentes y estudiantes en un periodo corto de tiempo. Los usuarios de las TIC’s tanto estudiantes como docentes han cambiado acentuando el uso de las herramientas, pero al mismo tiempo como se han adaptado y adecuado al ritmo y velocidad con que aparecieron nuevas herramientas para la formación sincrónica y asincrónica. Las actuales circunstancias han permitido el incremento y variedad de estas herramientas que van mucho más aceleradas que la de docentes y estudiantes que pueden incorporar en la actividad académica, sin embargo el reto es justamente medir y cuantificar esta variación para establecer la brecha y clasificación entre los usuarios: docentes y estudiantes en las fases que implica nuestra investigación. (200 palabras máximo)   One of the concerns of teachers in higher education has always been the degree of academic training of young people who finish secondary education. After the social events of October, November 2019 in Bolivia and the worldwide decision to suspend face-to-face classes and move on to virtual classes, there is concern about whether students are prepared to migrate from face-to-face classes to virtual classes. On the other hand, students are also concerned about whether teachers are prepared to manage virtual education, as well as parents whether the technological and economic conditions exist to be able to migrate to virtual higher education. The project wants to reveal and classify the digital profile of teachers and students, and how this change in a short period of time. It will be seen how the users of ICTs, both students and teachers, have changed, accentuating the use of the tools, but at the same time it will be seen that the speed with which new tools for synchronous and asynchronous training appeared have a much higher speed than the teachers and students can incorporate them into academic activity.

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