scholarly journals Volunteer student: the society-university interaction as a territory for the configuration of its professional profile

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
MS Rezzónico ◽  
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MG Scatena ◽  
SR Barembaum ◽  
AR Carpentieri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Volunteer Teachers ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Professional Profile ◽  
Student Volunteers ◽  
Scientific Technical ◽  
The University

Extension, together with research and teaching, constitutes one of the substantive functions of the university, which facilitates a continuous exchange of shared knowledge between the university and society. This has been revalued through the Student Social Commitment Program that opens the possibility for university students to insert themselves and interact with differentsectors of society. Inthis way, our team developed projects that bring together in an interdisciplinary work, the educational community of the Curaca Lino Acevedo school in Córdoba and a team made up of volunteer teachers and students from different UNC faculties. The story ofthis experience is made by recovering the voices of one of its main protagonists, the student volunteers. The volunteer is above all an active, critical, co-responsible person, sensitive to social problems, both individual and collective, being a key piece to identify the demands of the environment and achieve an optimal combination between scientific-technical knowledge and the most contextualized (popular/social). Likewise, it plays a preponderant role so that the members of the community can recognize themselves as subjects of right, and to demand the conditions for a full exercise of health. In the extension activities that the volunteer students create and recreate, they find a different space to develop skills of exchange, dialogue, critical thinking,deployment of their creativity and respect for cultural diversity. The participation of students in interdisciplinary teams is also an opportunity for the development of social and civic communicative competence, and to experience values of respect, tolerance, commitment and solidarity, which are essential to perform in today's society. In this context, the volunteer student becomes a mediator between two realities, the university and society.

scholarly journals The Research-Teaching Nexus and Its Influence on Student Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Begoña Gros ◽  
Manel Viader ◽  
Albert Cornet ◽  
Miquel Martínez ◽  
Jordi Palés ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Systems ◽  
Learning Capacity ◽  
Shared Spaces ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Research Competences ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Year

The relationship between teaching and research in universities has been widely studied in the higher education literature, but no clear relationship between the two has been identified. Nevertheless, in recent years, research has been linked to a form of teaching that is more focused on the development of competences and learning capacity through enquiry and the generation of new knowledge. In this context, it is important for teachers and students to work together on the design of shared spaces for research and learning. This work examines the case of the University of Barcelona to analyse whether there is enough connection between research and teaching to allow students to experience this link and to successfully develop research competences. Teaching plans of the academic year 2018-19 were screened to identify research-related competences, the modules they appear in, and the descriptions of the evaluation systems. This information was compared to the students’ perceptions of the actual training they had received on these research competences. Results showed that teaching plans establish numerous competences related to research and generating new knowledge. However, students consider that this knowledge is not developed until the final year project.

Pensée 2: Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Middle East Studies in the Aftermath of 9/11

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-349
Author(s):  
SETENEY SHAMI ◽  
MARCIAL GODOY-ANATIVIA
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
Key Questions

Although it may be too early to determine whether the events of 9/11 will significantly transform key questions and analytic approaches driving research and teaching in the field of Middle East studies (MES), we can say with certainty that 9/11 has dramatically affected the political and institutional environments within which this research and teaching takes place in the United States. Thus, “impact” or “change” must be evaluated across three distinct yet interrelated arenas: (1) the quotidian environment in which scholars, teachers, and students conduct their activities; (2) the varied institutional architectures through which research and teaching on the Middle East are undertaken inside and outside the university; and (3) the long-term intellectual history of the field.

PROFESSORS' PERCEPTION OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY IN THE FACULTY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GUAYAQUIL

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 70-76
Author(s):  
Jorge Daher Nader ◽  
Amelia Patricia Panunzio ◽  
Marlene Hernández Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Scientific Nature ◽  
The University

Research is considered a function aimed at obtaining new knowledge and its application for the solution to problems or questions of a scientific nature, The universities framed in the fulfillment of their social function have a complex task given by training a competent professional who assumes research as part of their training and who learns to ask questions that they are able to solve through scientific research.  Scientific research is an indicator of the quality of processes in the university environment, so it must be increased by virtue of the results of the work carried out by research teachers and students the objective of this work is to know the perception of the teachers of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Guayaquil about the scientific activity. Objective: to know the perception of the teachers of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Guayaquil about the scientific activity. Methods: theoretical and empirical level were used, a questionnaire with closed questions aimed at knowing the opinions on the research activity in this institution was applied. Result: that of the sample analyzed 309 (39.3%) said they agreed with the training for the writing of scientific articles. 38.6% said they agree with the training on research projects. Conclusion: that teacher’s research should be enhanced to ensure the formation and development of research skills in students.

scholarly journals Mobilizing foreign language students for multilingual crisis translation in Shanghai

Multilingua ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 587-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongyan Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Local Community ◽  
University Student ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Student Volunteers ◽  
The University

AbstractThis paper examines the multilingual translation efforts of a group of university student volunteers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews of the volunteer team leader, team members, and a local community health worker. Findings identified time constraints, limited language proficiency, and limited technical knowledge as the major challenges confronting the university volunteers. In order to overcome the challenges, they worked in close collaboration and used translingual and network strategies to facilitate prompt and high-quality crisis translation. Findings suggest that foreign language university students in local universities may serve as readily available multilingual resources and can be mobilized in prompt response to the grassroots multilingual needs of the local community in times of crisis. The paper ends with implications for measures and strategies to enhance effective emergency language service and crisis communication for global multilingual cities.

Promoting positive washforward through personalised test feedback and other benefits: Piloting a computer-based testing system

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-244
Author(s):  
Elena A. M. Gandini ◽  
Tania Horák
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Testing System ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Test Feedback ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Computer Based Testing ◽  
The University ◽  
Future Learning ◽  
Personalised Feedback

AbstractThis contribution reports on the developing and piloting of a computer-based version of the test of English as a foreign language produced by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), where it is currently used for the admission of international students and the subsequent evaluation of their language progress. Among other benefits, computer-based testing allows for better and individualised feedback to both teachers and students, and it can provide a more authentic test experience in light of the current digital shift that UK universities are undergoing. In particular, the qualitative improvement in the feedback available for test-takers and teachers was for us a crucial factor. Providing students with personalised feedback, that is, directly linked to their performance, has positive washforward, because it means we can guide their future learning, highlighting the areas they need to work on to improve their language skills and giving them suggestions on how to succeed in academia. Furthermore, explaining the meaning of test results in detail improves transparency and ultimately washback, as teachers can use the more accessible marking criteria, together with information on how their students performed, to review plans and schemes of work for subsequent courses.

Ellen Gleditsch: Duty and responsibility in a research and teaching career, 1916-1946

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNETTE LYKKNES ◽  
LISE KVITTINGEN ◽  
ANNE KRISTINE BØØRRESEN
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
Atomic Weight ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Full Professor ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Grant Applications ◽  
Network Building ◽  
Ellen Gleditsch ◽  
University Of Oslo ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT Ellen Gleditsch (1879-1968) became Norway's first authority of radioactivity and the country's second female professor. After several years in international centers of radiochemistry, Gleditsch returned to Norway, becoming associate professor and later full professor of chemistry. Between 1916 and 1946 Gleditsch tried to establish a laboratory of radiochemistry at the University of Oslo, a career which included network building, grant applications, travels abroad, committee work, research, teaching, supervision, popularization, and war resistance work. Establishing a new field was demanding; only under her student, Alexis Pappas, was her field institutionalized at Oslo. This paper presents Gleditsch's everyday life at the Chemistry Department, with emphasis on her formation of a research and teaching laboratory of radiochemistry. Her main scientific work during this period is presented and discussed, including atomic weight determination of chlorine, age calculations in minerals, the hunt for actinium's ancestor and investigations on 40K.

Andrzej Jaczewski, Profesor Wydziału Pedagogicznego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego – jakim Go pamiętam...

2021 ◽  
pp. 226-234
Author(s):  
Janina Kamińska
Keyword(s):  
Educational Programme ◽  
Teaching Activity ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
The University

This article is devoted to an outline of the research and teaching activity of Professor Andrzej Jaczewski (1929–2020) at the Faculty of Education of the University of Warsaw. The author describes his commitment to lectures on school hygiene and extending the educational programme of educators to include sexology issues, as well as the creation of the Department of Biomedical Foundations of Development and Sexology at the Faculty of Education of the University of Warsaw. The author of the article presents Prof. Jaczewski’s publication achievements and his activity as vice-dean of the Faculty of Education, as well as his contribution to the organisation of cooperation with the University of Cologne. The text is enhanced with the author’s memories of Prof. Jaczewski from the 1980s, when the author was a student.

scholarly journals The challenges of adopting BIM for setting and infrastructure management of University of Minho

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 02002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo J. S. Cruz ◽  
Miguel Azenha
Keyword(s):  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Facilities Management ◽  
Infrastructure Management ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Modelling Framework ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
The University

The University of Minho (UMinho) is aware of the relevant role of higher education institutions in the global challenge of sustainability. The integration of sustainability values into its strategy encompasses all the fields of its activity. Taking into account the growing importance of shared knowledge resources as a reliable basis for decisions during infrastructures life cycle, the UMinho is currently undergoing an important process of implementing a ‘Building Information Modelling’ framework (BIM). This paper briefly describes the implementation steps that are current towards such a goal, in particular in terms of facilities management aspects.

scholarly journals Innovation in Web-Enhanced Learning

2011 ◽  
pp. 1197-1203
Author(s):  
Jane E. Klobas ◽  
Stefano Renzi
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
University Education ◽  
Virtual Universities ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Ict Infrastructure ◽  
The University ◽  
Remote Classrooms ◽  
Enhanced Learning ◽  
The Web

While virtual universities and remote classrooms have captured the headlines, there has been a quiet revolution in university education. Around the globe, the information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure needed to support Web-enhanced learning (WEL) is well established, and the Internet and the World Wide Web (the Web) are being used by teachers and students in traditional universities in ways that complement and enhance traditional classroom-based learning (Observatory of Borderless Education, 2002). The Web is most frequently used by traditional universities to provide access to resources—as a substitute for, or complement to, notice boards, distribution of handouts, and use of the library (Collis & Van der Wende, 2002). Therefore, most of the change has been incremental rather than transformational. Adoption of WEL has yet to meet its potential—some would say the imperative (Bates, 2000; Rudestam & Schoenholtz- Read, 2002)—to change the nature of learning at university and to transform the university itself.

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