scholarly journals Implementing CLIL in Schools: The Case of the GoCLIL Project in Portugal

e-TEALS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Ellison ◽  
Álvaro Almeida Santos
Keyword(s):  
Educational Approach ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Rich Description ◽  
Monitoring Process ◽  
Grassroots Initiatives ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The University ◽  
State Schools ◽  
Academic Year

Abstract Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), an educational approach in which an additional language is used to teach school subjects, has become increasingly widespread within state schools across Europe since the acronym was coined in the mid-nineties. This now includes Portugal where CLIL activity across educational levels has been growing in recent years. Like other national contexts in Europe, this has also been through the grassroots initiatives of individual schools keen to influence positive change in educational practices and reap the benefits which CLIL is purported to bring about. One such case is the GoCLIL project at Escola Secundária Dr. Joaquim Gomes Ferreira Alves in Valadares, Vila Nova de Gaia, which has been operating a CLIL programme through English since the academic year 2013-2014. This article outlines fundamentals of implementing CLIL in schools and provides an overview of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of the case. It uses data collected from questionnaires administered to teachers, pupils and parents, lesson observations, pupil focus groups, and teacher reflections obtained during the ongoing monitoring process led by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. The data contribute to the rich description of the project from which it has been possible to identify and compare findings across years, as well as factors which have contributed to its sustainability. Insights gained from this case study will be interesting and potentially useful for schools which are considering setting up a project of this kind.

Successes and Failures of the University-Community Partnership: A Case Study of Imbali Semi-Rural Settlement

2021 ◽  
pp. 001312452110273
Author(s):  
Molise David Nhlapo ◽  
Dipane Joseph Hlalele
Keyword(s):  
Community Partnership ◽  
Relational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Model ◽  
Rural Context ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Effective Group ◽  
University Leaders ◽  
The University ◽  
University Community

Universities should conduct research and provide services to the society in their environment. In this article, the relational leadership model was used to evaluate a University-Community partnership in a semi-rural context in South Africa. The relational leadership model is an aspirational model supporting a healthy, ethical, and effective group. It comprises five components necessary for sustainable positive change in an organization. The model advocates for five components of which four were used to evaluate the project which the article is based on. Data were produced through interviews with two main university leaders of the project and the results show that the partnership has lost momentum in recent years based on non-conformity to some of the principles of the components suggested by the relational leadership. Through the rich experiences from participants, the article reflects on methods and recommendations in which the threads facing the partnership can be circumvented.

Visual Storytelling as Generative Strategy for Social Educators

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-35
Author(s):  
Laura Fedeli
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Visual Storytelling ◽  
The Third ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Contexts

The chapter deals with the discussion of the results of an experimentation run in two consecutive academic years within the classes of the graduate course “Instructional Technology” in the graduate course “Science of Education” at the University of Macerata, Italy. The IT course is programmed in the third year of the curriculum for “Social Educators” and the contribution reports the results of a case study related to a workshop activity in which students could find a further opportunity to identify different dimensions of relation among theoretical aspects and the potential practical/applied connotations in professional contexts. The workshop was structured as an experiential learning process in which the value of the digital storytelling as educational approach was a strategy adopted to foster the students' understanding toward the intercultural issues in terms of improvement of relationship by taking a prospective position oriented to the other.

scholarly journals “Oh This Learning, What a Thing It Is!”—Putting Sustainability First in Teaching Techniques and in Content

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Gusc ◽  
Coen Heijes
Keyword(s):  
Management Accounting ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Teaching Approach ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Masters Students ◽  
Academic Year

Although sustainability has become a strategic topic at many universities, working towards a learning approach in which sustainability is the fundament underlying and permeating the entire course is hardly straightforward. This paper is a case study on the development, the teaching, and the evaluation of one specific course that aims to achieve this. Based on (participant) observation, documents, and discussion with students and other stakeholders, we describe and analyze the results of the transformation of the course ‘advanced management accounting techniques’ for Masters students at the University of Groningen, in the academic year 2017–2018. We show how the course was transformed in a way to increase both a general, a business, and an accounting awareness of the importance of sustainability, while also applying a new teaching approach, namely lemniscate learning, to support this. Our course was the first in the faculty to make this transformation, and although the majority of the students were enthusiastic, the faculty staff was cautiously positive. In presenting our findings, we aim at supporting educators and other stakeholders at universities, by supplying a case study on the transformation of our course, and by scrutinizing the problems that we encountered, the feedback, both positive and negative, that we received, and the challenges that still face us, both on a course and a university level. Thus, we hope to be a source of inspiration and advice for others and to further advance our understanding of the dilemmas, practicalities, and challenges in working towards sustainability in teaching.

scholarly journals Monitoring system of student performance using data warehouse (Case study: INSTITUT TEKNOLOGI SUMATERA)

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Luky Ramdani ◽  
Raidah Hanifah ◽  
Okta Pilopa
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Data Warehouse ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Test Scenario ◽  
Monitoring Process ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Academic Year

Improving the quality of learning is one of the things that must be achieved in the college academic process. To achieve this, monitoring and evaluation of the results of the learning process is needed, namely by looking at student performance. Based on this, the research aims to develop a university data warehouse with student performance objects that will be used by the board application for the monitoring process. The application was successfully developed with several main features, namely: a) displaying the number of students based on year, region and the entrance to college, b) displaying a comparison of the number of students in each academic year based on student status , d) display student performance every academic year and e) KPI values based on needs analysis. These features have been tested using the blackbox approach and the test results show that the features work properly and produce outputs in corresponding to the test scenario.

scholarly journals Building Compassion Capacity: Chester Retold and Storyhouse, a Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Eileen Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Module Design ◽  
Learning Module ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The University

This article is a case study of a level five experiential learning module that I designed and taught at the University of Chester in the summer term of 2018 in collaboration with the city’s innovative new arts hub, Storyhouse. As a case study, it will demonstrate how ‘compassion’ can be placed at the heart of module design within Higher Education Arts and Humanities teaching, as well as how compassionate practice can emerge organically from innovation.

scholarly journals EFL Female Students’ Perception of Feminist Poetry: A Case Study in the Department of English at Umm Al-Qura University

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadeel Jamal Azhar
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Feminist Poetry ◽  
Changing Roles ◽  
The University ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Insight Into

This study examines the perception of English as a Foreign Language female students in the Department of English at Umm Al-Qura University regarding feminist poetry. It offers an insight into their understanding of the genre and its themes and how these are relevant to women’s changing roles in Saudi Arabian society. Research was conducted among forty students who studied the Poetry course (731478-2) during the first and second semesters of the academic year of 2019-2020 at the university. The study adopts a qualitative methodology with a survey as the primary tool to collect data. Students were asked to complete a questionnaire which directly addressed the research questions and were then given a chance to add their comments and personal inputs. Given that women’s empowerment is a vital part of the Saudi vision of 2030, the majority of the responses show positive attitudes towards studying feminist poetry. In doing so, this study sheds light on the value of integrating feminist poetry as it raises students’ awareness of women’s rights in different cultures, allowing them to reflect on their own experience.

Interactive Response Systems in Higher Education

2006 ◽  
pp. 305-320
Author(s):  
Mick Wood
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Response System ◽  
Pilot Scheme ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Future Plans

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) undertook an “interactive response system” (IRS) pilot scheme using IML Question Wizard (IML), complete with 100 handsets, during semester one of the 2004/2005 academic year. This case study will explain the scheme rationale and methodology of implementation. A number of example applications will be explored and evaluated, including IRS use by academic and support staff, as well as utilising the system at a number of conferences. The case study will conclude with a look at UCLAN’s future plans to expand the system.

scholarly journals Diagnosis of the Skills of the Master’s Degree: Case Study at the University Pablo of Olavide

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-164
Author(s):  
Eva Ordóñez Olmedo ◽  
Miguel Baldomero Ramírez Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Master's Degree ◽  
Theoretical Description ◽  
Work Team ◽  
Master's Degrees ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
Master Level ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

The work team of the Postgraduate Studies Centre (henceforth CEDEP) of Pablo de Olavide University (henceforth UPO) has submitted a questionnaire in order to identify the training needs of the directors of the master’s degrees which are implemented in The UPO during the academic year 2016/2017. This article aims to analyze how the lessons are planned and how the acquisition of the competencies defined in each master’s degree are achieved, in order to assess the current situation and propose solutions for university quality improvement. This research presents a mixed design: quantitative and qualitative non-experimental descriptive through a questionnaire. Further to the study analysis conducted, the need to create a manual of recommended practice to arrange curricula by competencies at the master level is presented, as 62.16% of the participants reflect a great lack of knowledge about the theoretical description of the competencies classification and 73% support a complementary material need for the design of the curriculum.

scholarly journals The Effect of Geographic Constraints on the Academic Achievement of Students at King Saud University Using GIS Techniques: A Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Mofareh Qoradi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Learning Achievement ◽  
King Saud University ◽  
Delay Times ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

This research studied the effect geographic constraints of students' daily journey to King Saud University (KSU) on their learning achievement, their participation in extracurricular activities, and their visit of the university library. The data was collected from a random sample of KSU students that consisted of 854 students via an online survey during the academic year 2016.  The technologies of geographic information systems have been employed to build a spatial model to measure the distance and taken time for the daily student drive from their houses to the university.  30% of the students’ houses are at a 20 km distance from KSU, 35% of the students need about 40 minutes to arrive at the university, and 8% who need about one hour to arrive. Since Riyadh is urbanized, high in population density, and has a lot of traffic, theses distances and time students spend in their daily drives to the university are causing stress and exhaustion and affect students' academic achievement. 68.42% of students indicated that the location of their homes affects their learning achievement and 63.95% answered that it affects their attendance of activities in the university. Regarding visiting the library, about 58.16 responded that location of their homes affects library visits. The study clarified that there is a negative correlation between the students’ delay times and their academic rate, in other words as the delay times increase, students GPAs decline and subsequently, their academic achievement is less. Finally, the study suggested to specifying and rescheduling the work times for employees and students in Riyadh to reduce the daily drive times, the environmental pollution, and economic depreciation and help increase students' academic achievement by delaying the official working hours for Higher Education institutions by an hour; to start at 9.00 a.m. instead 8.00 a.m. as is currently the case.

scholarly journals The response of the University of Isfahan to COVID-19: remote online language teaching

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-178
Author(s):  
Adel Rafiei ◽  
Zahra Amirian
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Instructional System ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Assessment Procedures ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

This study describes the changes in the instructional system experienced by the language departments in the University of Isfahan, Iran, during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak and the consequent national lockdown. After providing a very brief scenario of a regular academic year in higher education in Iran, this chapter focuses on the changes made to the instructional system in response to this world-wide pandemic and the non-academic measures taken across the university in general and language departments in particular. After pointing to some challenges of online instruction, the advantages and disadvantages of remote instruction with regard to the four language skills from both teachers’ and students’ perspectives will be discussed. A review of the assessment procedures in the platform used by the University of Isfahan will then be provided. This case study will come to an end by providing some outlook for the future.

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