scholarly journals The Argumentation in the University Training from a Humanistic Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Raisa Torres ◽  
Andrea Vidanovic ◽  
Martha Viveros
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Training Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
The World ◽  
Contextual Support ◽  
Personal Performance ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training

Abstract The argumentation is an inherent activity to the human being, no matter neither the culture nor the level of schooling. It is implemented according to the referential and contextual support in which it was formed. In the teaching field, this argument obtained in a reasoned way is valuable in itself, and constitutes a direct way for the acquisition of knowledge. In this way it is possible to develop critical and reflective thinking of the students. The humanist perspective advocates learning as a planned activity, but by means of the dialogue which seeks to expand the perspectives of meanings, accepts them and it involves the transformation of the world and the development of the students themselves. Starting from these considerations it was decided to analyze their influence on the training process and therefore in the social and personal performance as a fundamental element in the conceptual thinking of the university students. As a result, it was found that developing the argumentative skill of the students is meaningful for their training, so that there must not only be promoted the acquisition of technical knowledge, but also the development of a critical and argumentative thinking. It is concluded that the work of argumentation in educational spaces is still insufficient.

scholarly journals SUSTENTACIÓN DE UN OBSERVATORIO ARQUITECTÓNICO EN LA UNIVERSIDAD ANTONIO NARIÑO, SEDE VILLAVICENCIO (META)

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
SANDRA NARANJO ◽  
◽  
JUAN GONZALEZ
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
University Education ◽  
Social Projection ◽  
The Social ◽  
Training Research ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training

This article presents the results of the interdisciplinary collaboration of the authors, from their fields of research, to reflect on the guidelines of the three substantive functions of the university: training, research and extension, linked these last two with the social projection, to support the design of an architectural observatory at the Antonio Nari- ño University, Villavicencio headquarters, under the premise that a research scenario of this type, in addition to linking these functions offers a series of conditions and benefits in terms of the demands of university education and the role of the university in society.

Higher Education, Social Welfare, and Corruption

2019 ◽  
pp. 54-78
Author(s):  
Marlene M. Mendoza-Macías
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Management

The world is facing multiple changes and challenges; the environment shows inequalities, poverty, and corruption. Ecuador is not the exception. The man is declared the primary focus of the Ecuadorian Constitution to meet such changes. The objective of decreasing poverty, improving wealth distribution, and contributing to sustainable human development is unavoidable. In that context, the university has the pivotal role in generating interaction with society and its reality, to train professionals social and humanly responsible towards such facts, to promote the social management of knowledge from different action fields. The goal of this chapter is to specify the role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in a society where they take part, to draw up social responsibility of universities in Guayaquil and the challenges they face, as well as actions that contribute to the eradication of corruption and greater wellbeing of the society.

The Worldwide Instantiation of the University

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-42
Author(s):  
David John Frank ◽  
John W. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Research Universities ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
The University ◽  
University Expansion

This chapter describes the multi-dimensional expansion of the university, focusing especially on its accumulating numbers and global diffusion. It stresses the transcendence and universalism of the university at the global level. It also analyzes how university expansion is expected to occur earlier and more fully in the global core than in the global periphery, in democracies than in dictatorships, in the natural sciences than in the social sciences or humanities, and in world-class research universities more than local teaching colleges. The chapter highlights the university as a global institution and the global knowledge society that arises upon it. It examines the spread of universities around the world and studies local instances of a general model that is a central point to sociological neo-institutional theory.

scholarly journals SUPERVISION IN THE SOCIAL PRACTICE OF ART THERAPY AND COUNSELING

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nely Boiadjieva
Keyword(s):  
Art Therapy ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training

Supervision is viewed within the process of art-therapy and counseling in social work practice as an applied field of social pedagogy. The consulting and counseling within the helping professions in the social sphere is viewed as an important issue in the university training of specialists working with individuals, families and groups with different problems. The specifics of the consulting and counseling in the social sphere have been defined. On the basis of the analysis and the study of one’s own teaching experience as well as the empirical study of the feedback from students` opinions conclusions have been made about the problems of the methodology of the preparation for the helping professions. Attitudes towards professional counseling, self-estimation of the level of education and expectations for realization in the social sphere have been viewed as indirect orientations. In the end some generalization are made about the practice of supervision in art-therapy and counseling in social practice and teaching.

scholarly journals The Founding of The University of Melbourne, 1852-1855

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. W. Selleck
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

In part this paper is about ideas, especially those held by some men in nineteenth-century Melbourne who set about establishing a university. They had carried a set of ideas about what a university should be with them as they journeyed across the world, some of them in search of a promised land. They found that turning these ideas into reality was complex and disappointing, but their struggle sheds light on the social, political, and educational life of Antipodean society.

scholarly journals PhD research in social sciences amid a pandemic: introduction to a situated and reflexive perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 198 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 227-229
Author(s):  
Simone Tulumello ◽  
Kátia Favilla
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
The University

This short essay introduces a forum made up of six Reflection pieces on what it means to carry on a PhD research in the social sciences amid a pandemic. Sparked by discussions held during the 2020 edition of the "Open Day" of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, this forum collects solo-authored and collective texts that focus on a number of dimensions along two main threads: the problems, uncertainties and potentialities of researching in these times; and similar reflections with specific focus on gendered dimensions. Together, though situated (all these researchers work in or about Portugal and Brazil), we hope these experiences will speak to peers around the world that are dealing with the pains and challenges of these times.

scholarly journals Separating out the levels: Globalization, identity, and the Ekistic Grid in sociological perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 169-175
Author(s):  
William Michelson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Environmental Sociology ◽  
World Society ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The author is S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto. His special areas are Urban Sociology and Social Ecology, with a focus on built environments. His most recent book is Time Use: Expanding Explanation in the Social Sciences (Boulder, CO,Paradigm Publishers, 2005). Previous books include: Man and his Urban Environment: A Sociological Approach (1970 and 1976), Environmental Choice, Human Behavior, and Residential Satisfaction (1977), From Sun to Sun: Daily Obligations and Community Structure in the Lives of Employed Women and their Families (1985), Methods in Environmental and Behavioral Research (1987), and the Handbook of Environmental Sociology (2002). He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics, as well as the Royal Society of Canada. The text that follows is a slightly revised and edited version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity," organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

Reconstructing the University

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-41
Author(s):  
Keith Tribe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
University Research ◽  
Component Part ◽  
London School ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
The University

The ‘modern university’—research-based, in which teaching and research are pursued by academic specialists organised departmentally—was created in the United States in the later nineteenth century in a productive misunderstanding of the organisation of knowledge and teaching in contemporary German universities. While the latter enjoyed international recognition, academic careers remained in thrall to an apprenticeship structure in which senior staff represented their entire discipline, supported by their juniors. The American structure, fostered by endowments and grants, presumed that departments would be composed of specialists who advanced their careers by developing their specialism. This was decisive for the disciplinary development of universities around the world. In London, the university was a federal, administrative body whose degree courses could be followed both within Britain and in the wider Empire. As a component part of this structure, the London School of Economics shared in this reach, and so came to dominate the teaching of the social sciences in Britain and the Empire.

The Self-Image of the Masters of Theology at the University of Paris in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries

1995 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian P. Wei
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
University Of Paris ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
Medieval Universities ◽  
The University ◽  
Broad Approach

Much has been written about the masters of theology at the University of Paris in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries and their views on the nature of theology. Less work has been done on their view of themselves as a social group and what they were supposed to do with their distinctive kind of knowledge, however they defined it. Furthermore, analysis of their self-image has remained very general, included within studies of masters in all subjects in all universities over several centuries. This broad approach is entirely justified in that many sources deal with learning in general and because study of the Paris theologians contributes to wider debate about the social and political significance of medieval universities and intellectuals. It is, however, important to examine the self-image of the masters of theology at Paris specifically because, whatever the wider contemporary ideals, the world of learning was in reality far from homogeneous and harmonious.

scholarly journals Evolving cities into a sustaining and sustainable habitat

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (424-426) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Willem H. Vanderburg
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
International Association ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The author teaches Engineering, Sociology and Environmental Studies on issues of how to deal with the social and environmental problems related to the use of technology. He is the director of the Centre for Technology and Social Development at the University of Toronto, one of 25 leading innovators recognized by the Canada Foundation for Innovation in 2002, editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, and president of the International Association for Science, Technology and Society. He is the author of The Growth of Minds and Cultures, The Labyrinth of Technology, and Living in the Labyrinth of Technology (University of Toronto Press 1985, 2000 and 2005 respectively). The text that follows is an edited and revised version of a paper presented at the international symposion on 'The Natural City, " Toronto, 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environment, Institute for Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.

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