scholarly journals Exames nacionais: a influência de pequenos factores

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
João Paulo Leal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
National Examinations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Pedagogical ◽  
The Way

To construct external examinations is a complex and very serious matter. It is necessary time and the contribution of many people with complementary skills, who are specialists in various subjects (scientific, pedagogical and technical ones). Despite all this effort, a test always depends on many small factors. Small changes in quotations, the way one asks a question or the type of question chosen can have very marked effects in the grades of a test. Whatever the subject in analysis the fundamental question is: what are the national examinations for? If the examinations are to be the end of a cycle, i.e. the completion of secondary education, the way questions are placed and the distribution of quotations must follow a certain pattern if the examinations are meant to select students to access higher education the approaches to assume will be completely different. The option of using national exams as a way of select students to access higher education has been hijacking teachers who increasingly feel pressure to prepare students for exams instead of providing students with knowledge and skills. Universities and Polytechnics should assume their responsibilities and, in coordination with the Ministry of Education, take the initiative to select the students for Higher Education by releasing the national exams to fulfill their task, certifying the end of a cycle.

scholarly journals Evolution of university governance in Morocco: Which impacts?

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Khalid Ayad ◽  
Khaoula Dobli Bennani ◽  
Mostafa Elhachloufi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
University Governance ◽  
General Review ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

The concept of governance has become ubiquitous since it is recognized as an important tool for improving quality in all aspects of higher education.In Morocco, few scientific articles have dealt with the subject of university governance. Therefore, we will present a general review of the evolution of governance through laws and reforms established by Moroccan Governments from 1975 to 2019. The purpose of the study is to detect the extent of the presence of university governance principles in these reforms.This study enriches the theoretical literature on the crisis of Moroccan university and opens the way to new empirical studies to better understand the perception of university governance concept in the Moroccan context and to improve the quality of higher education and subsequently the economic development of the country.The findings of this study show an increasing evolution of the presence of university governance principles in reforms and higher education laws.

Adolescence in Jewish medieval society under Islam

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-281
Author(s):  
MIRIAM FRENKEL
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
Nature Versus Nurture ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
Basic Issue ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Adolescent Experience ◽  
The Way

Adolescent experience has been the subject of an intensive interdisciplinary discourse for the last century; a subject whose roots go back to the basic issue of ‘nature versus nurture’. In examining this topic in Jewish medieval society under Islam, an incongruity is revealed between the normative attitudes at the time and the reality. The normative attitudes, as exhibited in religious law (halakha) and in the moral literature represent man's life as a journey which peaks upon reaching full adulthood. The different stages of life along the way are acknowledged but they are perceived as subsidiary, sometimes even dangerous. But the reality does not concur: adolescents were far from invisible during this period. Indeed, their presence was prominent and reflected in the poetry and the prevailing images of youth from the time. Jewish society had developed an efficient system for socializing its adolescents, which included an apprenticeship system, higher education (the beit midrash) and early marriage.

Teaching grammar again after twenty years: corpus-based help for teaching grammar

ReCALL ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony McEnery ◽  
Andrew Wilson ◽  
Paul Barker
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Grammar ◽  
The Way

In this paper we consider how corpora may be of use in the teaching of grammar of the pre-tertiary level. Corpora are becoming well established in teaching in Universities. Corpora also have a role to play in secondary education, in that they can help decide how and what to teach, as well as changing the way in which puplis learn and providing the possibility of open-ended machine-aided tuition. Corpora also seem to provide what UK goverment sponsored reports on teaching grammar have called for – a data-driven approach to the subject.

scholarly journals A Comparison of the General Knowledge and Skills Displayed by Students Participating in International Geopolitical Competitions

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Piotr L. Wilczyński
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Material Good ◽  
The Subject

Three years ago, the Polish Geopolitical Society began an initiative focused on students, PHD candidates and interested academic societies, who wished to co-operate in popularizing the subject area of geopolitics. This initiative sought to serve as a forum for such groups and individuals to compete with other interested colleagues and groups from around the world. During the process, students strive to prove their level of professional knowledge, while their teachers assist them in preparing for their best presentations. All participants then meet during the final stages of the competition in order to exchange their experiences. This, in turn, benefits the development of general approaches and methods of study regarding the discipline of geopolitics. The question addressed in this paper then, is how such international competitions can improve the overall skills and knowledge of the subject area at hand among those participating. The importance of this question is underscored by various initiatives undertaken that attempt to measure the quality of higher education. The research presented in this article, then, is based upon interviews with both participants and organizing committee members, which attempt to gauge the experiences and results achieved during such competitions. The results show both the positive and negative aspects of organizing such gatherings. Most certainly, one could draw the conclusion that such events are the most attractive to the most ambitious of students and teachers, who consider education a privilege and as a process, which continues throughout one’s lifetime. Adversely, for those who place education in the same category as a material good, to be bought and sold, such competitions have little appeal especially when focused upon a narrow field of study.

The Problem of Mass Education in Africa

Africa ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bryant Mumford ◽  
R. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Mass Education ◽  
Educational Facilities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Village Communities ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Directors Of Education

Opening ParagraphThe Report of the De La Warr Commission on Education in East Africa, the recent Colonial Office pamphlet on Education and Village Communities, and repeated statements and proposals by Directors of Education in British African dependencies are again drawing attention to the pressing need for new advances in the development of educational facilities in Africa. From these studies, proposals and reports it becomes clear that there are three main directions along which the need for advance seems urgent, namely: the development of higher education of a University standing (and the establishment of centres for research at the projected University schools), the increasing of facilities for secondary education which shall, inter alia, open for a greater number of Africans the doors to University studies, and, lastly, an increase in the numbers of some kind of rudimentary schools for the peoples as a whole, which will help to spread the basic tools of modern living—reading, writing, and arithmetic. It is this last line of development which is the subject of the present article.

scholarly journals Principals’ Role in Promoting Teachers’ Professional Development and Learners’ Performance In Secondary Schools in Murang’a and Kirinyaga Counties, Kenya

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Irungu Cecilia Mwihaki ◽  
Kagema Josphat N ◽  
Gachahi Michael Wambugu
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Validated Questionnaires ◽  
National Examinations ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Practice Knowledge ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

Students’ overall performance in country wide national examinations in Kenya has recorded below mean achievement as attested by Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results. The number of students scoring grade D+ and below has consistently remained high compared with those attaining grade C+ and above which is the country’s minimum university entry. Concerns have been raised regarding this trend in students’ achievement. This study examined the performance of the principals’ role in promoting teachers’ professional development and learners’ performance in Kirinyaga and Murang’a counties, Kenya. The study involved a sample of 205 principals and 367 teachers selected from secondary schools in the two counties. Researchers used validated questionnaires and interview schedules to collect data from teachers and principals and analysed data using descriptive and inferential statistics. The hypothesis was tested at p>0.5 level of significance using Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The study established that there was no statistically significant relationship between principals’ role in promoting teachers’ professional development and learners’ performance. The study recommended that principals should ensure that teachers put into practice knowledge and skills learnt during in-service courses so that students benefit from the investment. The Ministry of Education should also take keen interest in how in-service courses are conducted.

scholarly journals RETOS DE ENSEÑAR HISTORIA EN EL CONTEXTO UNIVERSITARIO

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Gustavo Josué López Ramírez ◽  
Adolfo Luis Rojas Tur
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
General Education ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

La Historia es una ciencia social y también una disciplina escolar, de ahí que sus principales problemas teóricos se reflejan en la manera de enseñar, lo que condiciona que las corrientes historiográficas influyan en la forma de concebir el curriculum de la asignatura. La teoría que sustenta a una determinada escuela histórica aporta su metodología, que redunda en el campo epistemológico, lo que supone cambios y afectaciones en los fundamentos científicos de la Historia y sus métodos. A la par, esa metodología de la ciencia llega de forma directa a la estructura didáctica de la asignatura, lo que tiene su explicación desde la relación de esta con la ciencia. En el contexto de la Educación Superior se suscita una interrogante de actualidad, ¿qué contenido histórico enseñar y aprender?, en tanto el estudiante ya ha transitado por el sistema de la educación general, en el que ha recibido diferentes contenidos históricos con diferentes niveles de gradación y corresponde a la universidad completar el ciclo de profundización en los contenidos históricos. En el artículo se reflexiona en torno a las problemáticas fundamentales que enfrenta la enseñanza de la Historia en el contexto universitario, desde la perspectiva de una Historia holística, multidimensional y pluricausal, protagonizada por actores individuales y colectivos, en una dimensión temporal y espacial específica.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Historia; enseñanza de la Historia; Educación Superior. CHALLENGES TO TEACH HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY CONTEXT ABSTRACT History is a social science and also a school discipline, hence its main theoretical problems are reflected in the way of teaching, which conditions the historiographical influence the way of conceiving the curriculum of the subject. The theory behind a particular historical school provides its methodology, resulting in the epistemological field, representing changes and effects on the scientific basis of history and its methods. At the same time, the methodology of science comes directly to the educational structure of the subject form, which can be explained from the relation of this science. In the context of the Higher Education questioningly current arises, what to teach and learn historical content ?, while the student has already gone through the general education system, which has received different historical content with different levels gradation and corresponds to the university to complete the cycle of deepening the historical contents. In the article it reflects on the fundamental issues facing the teaching of history in the university context, from the perspective of a holistic, multidimensional and pluricausal story featuring individual and collective actors in a specific temporal and spatial dimension. KEYWORDS: History; history teaching; Higher Education.

scholarly journals Przemiana – społeczna i osobista. „Chłop polski” jako przyczynek do analizy współczesnych przemian w szkolnictwie wyższym na świecie

1970 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph C. Hermanowicz Joseph C. Hermanowicz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Personal Change ◽  
The World ◽  
Curriculum Vitae ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

The present work represents an extrapolation of Wiliam I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki’s study, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, on behalf of the development of sociological theory. The subject consists of careers and institutions in higher education. The curriculum vitae serves as the novel human document by which to investigate both social and personal change. Academic careers are studied by virtue of their objective and subjective dimensions. Objectively, the institution of education is revealed for the shifting expectations that govern work in academia in specific historical times (indicated by the cohort in which academics earned their Ph.D.s) and in specific socially bound places (indicated by the type of university in which academics work). Major social change in education likely spells personal change for the way in which people subjectively experience the contemporary academic career. The data come from U.S.-based academics; parallel transformational changes are observable globally. The global change discussed in the work centers on diffusion and institutionalization of the research role. The sources and consequences of this change are problematic. Akin to Thomas and Znaniecki’s larger analytic aims, patterns of change are used inductively to formulate theory: the paper culminates by postulating a theory of increasing tendencies in the way knowledge is produced in higher education institutions throughout the world.

Teachers’ perceptions of linguistic mediation in the curriculum for advanced English in Madrid secondary schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 136216882110056
Author(s):  
Miguel Fernández Álvarez ◽  
Silvia García Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
English Subject ◽  
The Way

After the publication of the CEFR Companion Volume in 2018, a revision of the curriculum in force for the English subject in the Bilingual Sections in the Community of Madrid has been implemented. One of the main changes is the inclusion of the concept of linguistic mediation in the subject ‘Advanced English’ in the last stage of secondary education. In an attempt to understand how linguistic mediation strategies and activities are being developed in real classroom contexts, this study has focused on teachers’ perceptions of linguistic mediation. A questionnaire and a focus group were used to examine teachers’ understanding and awareness of linguistic mediation, as well as the type of mediation activities that are relevant for their students and the extent to which they include linguistic mediation activities and strategies in their lessons. Additionally, the study has shown some of the deficiencies that exist in the way linguistic mediation is currently being addressed in the classroom, as well as teachers’ needs in order to better implement it.

scholarly journals Role of Math in the Working of the Internet

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (08) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Arshad Ahamad ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Encryption And Decryption ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

The goal of many mathematicians since the dawn of time has been to apply mathematics to practical applications and to also derive the mathematics behind many everyday things. Although we seldom have such pursuits, many everyday things have been affected by the principles of math. And things like the internet, run on fundamental mathematics principles, and hardly any credit is given to the subject. This paper aims to uncover contributions of everyday Math in the working of the internet. From encryption and decryption all the way to how search engines to index various web pages online, if one looks hard enough, concepts related to mathematics are bound to pop up. This paper also sheds light on various concepts taught in higher education that are often forgotten and only treated as something solely scholastic, but in reality, has a lot of applications in real life.

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