scholarly journals Political Repressions at Leningrad State University

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 1085-1106
Author(s):  
Andrey L. Belonogov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Background ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
State University ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Psychological Pressure ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
The University ◽  
Evidential Basis

This article analyses socio-biographical characteristics of the Leningrad State University (LGU) teaching staff, subjected to political repressions from 1935 to 1938. It determines the scale of repressions in LGU during the abovementioned period as well as identifies the groups of University teachers who were exposed to the highest risk of being repressed, taking into consideration their social background, party membership, ethnic origin, position in the University ranks, affiliation with a certain faculty or department, and other socio-biographical characteristics. Thus “socio-demographic portrait” of an average LGU teacher subjected to political repressions is formed within the framework of the current study. Apart from that, the article discusses the course of investigation and court proceedings, defining under which paragraph of Article 58 of RSFSR Criminal Code LGU teachers were sued. It specifies to what extent the severity of the verdict depended upon pleading guilty or not guilty by the accused, and upon which judicial or extrajudicial body the case was heard. Evidential basis used by investigators, including physical evidence, denunciations, incriminations and self-incriminations are also examined within this study. The efforts of NKVD to “reclassify” meetings between groups of fellow professors as “counterrevolutionary collusions of terrorists” are also considered in the article. At the same time, the article attempts to estimate the level of physical and psychological pressure to which suspects were exposed in the course of the trial in order to obtain from them the testimony needed for the prosecution. The study also traces the fate of the convicted LGU professors, namely the likelihood of them becoming the victims of subsequent political repressions after serving the sentence.

scholarly journals Development of cooperation in Belarus and formation of personnel potential of the Belarusian State University in the 1920s

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Siarhei M. Khodzin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
State University ◽  
Scientific Schools ◽  
The Status ◽  
The University ◽  
University Science

The relevance of the problems of cooperative construction in the formation of Belarusian scientific schools is determined. The role of the Belarusian State University in the development of problems of cooperation in the 1920s is characterised. The activity of S. L. Pevsner as a representative of the economic thought of the 1920s is studied. In the perspective of «history through personality», the problems of the formation of the personnel potential of Belarusian State University are revealed. The relations between the management and the teaching staff of the university, the status and issues of material well-being of teachers invited to Belarusian State University are characterised. The conclusion is made about a significant personnel shortage and the presence of serious competition in the personnel sphere of university science in the 1920s with the development of higher education in the USSR.

scholarly journals PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT: RESULTS AND GUIDELINES OF A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY OF TEACHING STAFF AT THE UNIVERSITY

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-173
Author(s):  
V. A. Persianov ◽  
V. V. Borisova ◽  
A. V. Kurbatova
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
State University ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
The One ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
The University ◽  
High Degree

The analysis of the results of a questionnaire survey of heads of institutes, departments and members of Academic board of the State University of Management on a set of issues related to goal-setting in teaching managerial personnel has been presented. It has been revealed, on the one hand, a variety of respondents ‘ points of view, on the other hand, the presence of a sufficiently high degree of unanimity in goal-setting and ways of exit of the University to the trajectory of effective development. It has been concluded, that it is necessary to take serious measures to improve the quality of higher education using, first of all, rich domestic experience and strategic guidelines in the socio-economic development of the country.

scholarly journals Michigan State University

1966 ◽  
Vol 9 (02) ◽  
pp. 20-24
Author(s):  
Eugene de Benko ◽  
Margo A. Wells
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Field Research ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Development Education ◽  
African Languages ◽  
The University

The area of international programs, as part of a rapidly developing university, has become increasingly important to Michigan State University, in East Lansing, in the last two decades. Faculty research abroad has been a primary factor in the growth of private and federal agency-sponsored technical assistance programs in educational activities overseas. Projects in Turkey, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Okinawa, Guatemala, Colombia, Brazil, and Nigeria have been and are being conducted in the fields of business administration, public administration, agriculture, community development, education, and general university development. Continued outside financial assistance has enabled further enlargement of such programs on the campus as a whole. The initiation of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University in 1960 owes much to an offer from the U.S. Office of Education to support the teaching of West African languages on campus. By coincidence, this occurred at the same time that the University was engaged in two closely related projects: the ICA (AID) contract of establishing and developing the University of Nigeria at Nsukka and the initiation of a Ford Foundation-supported research program for African studies. New courses and additional teaching staff now allow for specialized courses in the departments of linguistics and Oriental and African languages, political science, history, anthropology, and geography. Much research is emerging from the Center's activity. In 1963-1964, for example, field research was under way in education, fisheries and wildlife, political science, economics, history, and geography, and there were four projects in the area of languages and linguistics.

scholarly journals International Academic Exchange of Students and Teaching Staff in Human Geography Study Field: The Case of Klaipėda University / Visuomeninės geografijos studijų krypties studentų ir dėstytojų tarptautiniai akademiniai mainai: Klaipėdos universiteto atvejis

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
Daiva Verkulevičiūtė - Kriukienė ◽  
Angelija Bučienė
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Academic Exchange ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Universities

The participation in Erasmus and Erasmus+ programmes is the most popular form of mobility among the university teachers and other academic staff as well as students. The geographers of Klaipėda University can study in more than 20 universities of different regions of Europe, and the geography of studies expands from year to year. While studying in foreign countries, they not only deepen their knowledge, but also broaden the geographic scope, acquaint with new people and cultures, strengthen the knowledge of foreign language. From the other side, the students of foreign universities, having been chosen the geographic modules at Klaipėda University, have a possibility to see and learn about the nature of Western Lithuania, social and economic objects, the cultural environment. According to the foreign students, the studies are organized so, that academic staff is able to collaborate with each student immediately, and the atmosphere of studies is very good. Besides the foreign students, Klaipėda University receives also the foreign academic staff, organizes the international practices, develops the projects, and the academic staff of Klaipėda university has a possibility to visit the universities of foreign countries. Those visits give the invaluable benefit to the teachers, because one can receive more experience, and the newly adopted methods may be applied at Klaipėda University.

scholarly journals Modeling of physical education in the e-learning system for the physical culture discipline

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 00073
Author(s):  
Artem Rayzikh ◽  
Andrey Rayzikh
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
State University ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
The University ◽  
Education Process

At the present dynamic development of education, distance learning is increasingly popular due to its mobility and a variety of different information. There are certain difficulties in organizing the educational process using electronic educational resources. The article describes the modeling of the physical education process in non-sports institutes of Udmurt State University. The developed e-learning system at the University based on the Moodle platform allowed us to simulate the process of physical education and create an e-learning course based on it. The training course has a block system for organizing the physical education model. Using the e-learning system in the educational process of higher education allows to modernize the process of students’ physical education non-sports institutions, and lay a solid foundation for further self-education. This material is useful for University teachers who have an electronic educational environment.

scholarly journals HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE AND HISTORY PRESERVED IN STUDENT DRAWINGS

2020 ◽  
pp. 24-24
Author(s):  
Evgeny M. Bazilevich
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
State University ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Art Teaching ◽  
Pacific State ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
The University

The articles presents the experiences of the fine art teaching staff at the Institute of Architecture and Design, the Pacific State University, in the study of historical architectural environment and history based on an archive of preserved student drawings. The author considers this approach as one of the possible ways of organizing research work in the university in the areas of "Architecture" and "Design of Architectural Environment".

scholarly journals The integrated curriculum, university teacher identity and teaching culture: the effects of an interdisciplinary activity

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel Alonso Sáez ◽  
Naiara Berasategi Sancho
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Integrated Curriculum ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Teaching Culture ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The People ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Investigative Process

The results of an investigative process are reported that centre on the impact that modular curricular organization and its interdisciplinary activity are having on the teaching culture in the Degree in Social Education at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). This understanding of the curriculum is a seminal change for teaching staff and affects their professional identity by encouraging co-responsibility throughout the process. Communicative methodology is employed, which assists in the integration of the people in the investigation, so that they form part of the process of study under equal terms. The production of data was done through in-depth interviews, discussion groups, and documental analysis. The Interdisciplinary Activity Module (IAM) was developed in small groups, of 12-15 individuals, through active methodologies, and the university teachers needed to incorporate it into their discourse and relations with other colleagues and with their students. The results show that an integrated curriculum provides a worthwhile training opportunity to achieve learning of greater significance and depth, and that it happens through changes in their ways of relating and acting as teachers.

scholarly journals Planning and Integration of Technologies for Effective Implementation of Blended Learning in Universities in Rivers State, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 452-462
Author(s):  
P. C. Ukaigwe ◽  
Innocent U. Igbozuruike
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
State University ◽  
University System ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
The University ◽  
Rivers State

The study investigated planning the integration of technologies in higher institutions as a strategy for effective implementation of blended learning in universities in Rivers State. The design used was descriptive. The population of this study consisted of the 4,377 teaching staff in the three (3) public universities in Rivers State, comprising 2,348 male and 2,029 female teaching staff.  The universities are the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State University and Ignatius Ajuru University of Education. The sample of this study was 590 elements, comprising 327 male and 263 female teaching staff that were drawn from the population using stratified random sampling technique. Instrument of data collection was a questionnaire that yielded a reliability index of 0.84, using test-retest and Pearson Product Moment Correlation techniques. The data generated were analysed using mean to answer research questions. z-test was used to test hypotheses at 0.05 significance level. Findings showed that aligning university's visions with the aspirations of full integration of blended learning into university system, provision of required communication networking infrastructures and modifying curriculum designs to become deliverable through blended learning mode are key ways of integrating blended learning in the university system. Recommendations made included that university managers should consider seriously, the advantages of blended learning in the school system, with a view to using planning to foster the integration of the learning innovation into the traditional face-to-face teaching and learning approach for improving students learning experiences and achievements.

scholarly journals Dynamics of the gender structure of teaching staff in modern Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 02001
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Alekseevna Brushkova ◽  
Ivan Andreevich Vladimirov ◽  
Niginakhon Arslanovna Shermukhamedova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Pay Gap ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The University

The subject of the article is the dynamics of the gender structure of university staff in modern Russia. The purpose of the article is to reveal the changes that have occurred in the gender structure of university teachers over the past 20 years. Research methods include the analysis of statistical and sociological data, cross-tabulation and calculation of the feminization index. The authors note that over the twenty-year period, the feminization of Russian universities has intensified. It captures increasingly higher levels of the university job hierarchy, which is manifested in an increase in the number of women in the positions of associate professors, professors, heads of departments, vice-rectors, etc. The significant predominance of women in the positions of assistants, teachers and senior teachers is the basis for the further feminization of university staff in Russia. The analysis of the gender structure of postgraduate and doctoral students shows that women lag behind men only in the youngest age categories of postgraduate students (up to 27 years old) and doctoral students (up to 39 years old) and the oldest category of doctoral students (over 60 years old). This is explained by the fact that at these ages, women are likely to perform their reproductive and educational functions. Women dominate in all other age cohorts of postgraduate and doctoral students. The authors conclude that, despite the existing manifestations of discrimination against women in higher education (gender pay gap, low representation of women at the highest level of university administration, the glass ceiling effect in promoting women up the career ladder, etc.) In general, women are making progress in higher education, making the industry increasingly feminized.

scholarly journals University teachers’ conceptions of “Changemaker”

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 588-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany Alden Rivers ◽  
Ming Nie ◽  
Alejandro Armellini
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Social Betterment ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
The University

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a study aimed at understanding the different conceptions that University of Northampton teachers hold of “Changemaker”, an institutional initiative to develop capacities for social innovation. Design/methodology/approach – The study took a phenomenographic approach to identify a small number of qualitatively different conceptions of Changemaker among teaching staff. Face-to-face, phenomenographic interviews were carried out with 30 teachers across the university. Transcript data were analysed using thematic inductive analysis. Findings – Five different conceptions of Changemaker were found: Changemaker as university strategy; Changemaker as critical thinking, perspective shifting and problem solving; Changemaker as employability; Changemaker as social betterment; and Changemaker as personal transformation. Research limitations/implications – The outcome space of conceptions represents the beliefs of teaching staff at the University of Northampton. The approach to research and plans for the practical application of findings may be of direct benefit to other education providers as they develop their own models for teaching and learning. Practical implications – The findings from this study will inform the next phase of the project, which involves the development of a skills/attributes/behaviours matrix for social innovation education. Social implications – An initiative, such as Changemaker, works to enhance the capacities of university students to work as agents of positive social change. By building a research programme around this initiative, the findings from this work can be disseminated and used by other higher education institutions. Originality/value – The findings of this study will address the absence of literature on teachers’ conceptions of phenomena related to social innovation, social entrepreneurship and intrepreneurship. Understanding teachers’ beliefs of such phenomena is relevant to the growing number of universities that address these subjects in the curriculum.

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