Unexpected Outcomes: Impacting Higher Education Teaching Practice via High School Outreach

2013 ◽  
Vol 043 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Kaser ◽  
Patricia Bourexis ◽  
Michael Dougherty
Author(s):  
Francisco Samuel Mendoza Moreira ◽  
Jacqueline Rosalfa Terranova Ruiz ◽  
Víctor Geovanny Zambrano Cedeño ◽  
María Manuela Macías Loor

Abstract:SENSIBILATION AND ATTENTION STRATEGIES FOR THE INTERES GENERATIONIN THE LANGUAGE LEARNINGThe generation of learning processes in the Language Arts area is one of the challenges that high school teachers takes, to a generation that every day is losing interest for oral and written communication uses by the appearance of Telematics and virtues and benefits that provide in the transfer of information through channels such as internet and their tributaries. In this context of competing interests , the psycho pedagogy models offered contain in their elements a set of mental processes that explored from neuroscience are responsible for building cognitive schemes that result highly significant and lasting learning, to enable the bachelor exceed the test quality standards implemented by the National Institute for Educational Evaluation (INEVAL) and the National Test of higher Education (ENES) requirements to pass the intermediate level and join higher education respectively. The experience performed at the Center for Teaching Practice: Juan Montalvo High School of Education Faculty of University Eloy Alfaro of Manabi, begins in an exploration of the strategies used by teachers and evaluation of students response against these methodologies, which generated the key to try new practices that combine cooperative purposes to intercultural practices with specific strategies language learning idea.Keywords: Cooperative learning, cognitive strategies, communicative competence, intercultural development, meaningful learning.Resumen:La generación de procesos de aprendizajes en el área de Lengua y Literatura es uno de los retos que asumen los profesores de bachillerato ante una generación que cada día va perdiendo interés en el uso de la comunicación oral y escrita por la aparición de la telemática; las virtudes y ventajas que éstas brindan en la transferencia de información a través de canales más amplios como lo es el internet y sus afluentes. En este marco de competencia de intereses, los modelos psicopedagógicos ofertados a la pedagogía contienen entre sus elementos un conjunto de procesos mentales que explorados desde la neurociencia son los responsables de construir esquemas cognitivos que resultan en aprendizajes altamente significativos y duraderos, que le permitan al bachiller superar las pruebas de estándares de calidad implementadas por el Instituto Nacional de Evaluación Educativa (INEVAL) y el Examen Nacional de Educación Superior (ENES), requisitos para aprobar el nivel medio e ingresar a la formación superior respectivamente. La experiencia realizada en el Centro de Práctica Docente: Colegio Juan Montalvo de la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, inicia en una exploración de las estrategias utilizadas por los docentes y la evaluación de la respuesta de los estudiantes frente a estas metodologías, lo que generó la idea fundamental para intentar nuevas prácticas con fines cooperativos que combinen prácticas interculturales con estrategias propias del aprendizaje de la lengua.Palabras clave: Aprendizaje cooperativo, estrategias cognitivas, competencia comunicativa, desarrollo intercultural, aprendizaje significativo.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reema Harrison ◽  
Lois Meyer ◽  
Patrick Rawstorne ◽  
Husna Razee ◽  
Upma Chitkara ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Geraldine E. Lefoe ◽  

Welcome to the first issue of Volume 10 of Journal of University Teaching and Learning (JUTLP) in 2013. This year also marks the tenth year of the journal and we have seen it grow incredibly in that time. As an open access journal we struggled initially for acceptance. However last year there were 32000 downloads from the site, an indication of improved access as well as more interest in improving teaching practice. This increased recognition for research related to higher education teaching practice is also reflected in opportunities for grants. In Australia this year the federal government has recently announced that Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) grants and fellowships are included in the Competitive Grants Register for the first time providing further avenues for our scholars to support their research.


2003 ◽  
pp. 4-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Grebnev

The dynamics of several demographic indicators of Russia - child and teenage cohorts in 1970-2000, life expectancy in 1995-2000, migration flows among federal districts in the period between two censuses of 1989 and 2002 - are considered in the article. The author puts forward the hypothesis about the influence of these indicators on the level of education in narrow and broad senses - in educational institutions and the society as a whole. He estimates the perspectives of regional higher educational institutions under conditions of absence of plan distribution of graduates and the double cyclical fall in the number of high school graduates. The agenda for the development of a two-stage system of higher education corresponding with international integration processes is formulated.


Author(s):  
Jane Kotzmann

The Introduction highlights the importance of higher education and the existence of educational disadvantage in society, contextualised within current political events and discussions. It describes the intrinsic importance of education in allowing people to learn about themselves and the world they live in. It details the significant instrumental importance of education in the likelihood people will obtain employment and command higher incomes. It also provides a brief outline of different historical perspectives in relation to how best to provide higher education teaching and learning. The importance of law and policy for higher education is discussed, and the purpose and limitations of the research identified.


2021 ◽  
pp. 193672442110021
Author(s):  
Emily Milne ◽  
Sara J. Cumming

Public confidence and trust in higher education has declined (Johnson and Peifer 2017) and the future of the higher education sector has been questioned (AGB 2020). More specifically, the discipline of sociology is considered to be in “crisis” and applied sociological approaches are offered as a solution (Graizbord 2019; Weinstein 1997). The purpose of this introduction article as well as the broader special issue is to explore the nature and state of applied sociology in Canada. With a collection of seven articles authored by Canadian sociologists on topics including application research, reflections on process, and teaching practice, this special issue provides a platform to discuss and showcase the distinct nature and contributions of applied sociology in Canada as well as highlight the work of Canadian applied sociologists.


Author(s):  
Rachel Forsyth ◽  
Claire Hamshire ◽  
Danny Fontaine-Rainen ◽  
Leza Soldaat

AbstractThe principles of diversity and inclusion are valued across the higher education sector, but the ways in which these principles are translated into pedagogic practice are not always evident. Students who are first in their family to attend university continue to report barriers to full participation in university life. They are more likely to leave their studies early, and to achieve lower grades in their final qualifications, than students whose families have previous experience of higher education. The purpose of this study was to explore whether a mismatch between staff perceptions and students’ experiences might be a possible contributor to these disparities. The study explored and compared staff discourses about the experiences of first generation students at two universities, one in the United Kingdom (UK), and the other in South Africa (SA). One-to-one interviews were carried out with 40 staff members (20 at each institution) to explore their views about first generation students. The results showed that staff were well aware of challenges faced by first generation students; however, they were unsure of their roles in relation to shaping an inclusive environment, and tended not to consider how to use the assets that they believed first generation students bring with them to higher education. This paper explores these staff discourses; and considers proposals for challenging commonly-voiced assumptions about students and university life in a broader context of diversity and inclusive teaching practice.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Khodi ◽  
Sayyed Mohammad Alavi ◽  
Hossein Karami

AbstractThe present paper appraises a standardized test, the entrance exam of Iranian universities, known as “Konkur” that is administered annually as a means of gaining admission to higher education in Iran. This norm-referenced test is administered for students majoring in mathematics, experimental sciences, and humanities whose scores along their weighted GPAs in the last 3 years of high school are used as indicators of students’ rank. Based on the rank achieved, they would find the opportunity to select the highly regarded university for their education. Due to the importance of such a high-stake test which may bring about social and long-time consequences for the participants, the present paper tries to evaluate the test and its psychometrics aspects. It is ostensible that the exam provides a limited  situation for measuring the participants “knowledge of language” rather than their “knowledge about language.” Therefore, the dimensionality and validity of the test are debatable. Thus, the present review tries to characterize Konkur examination and discusses the rooms for untouched aspects for the betterment of its quality.


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