scholarly journals Transformative Role Of Education: An Autoethnographic Reflection

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-111
Author(s):  
R. B. Pasa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Narrative Imagination ◽  
Exceptional Student ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Local Levels

This study appraised my momentarily missing twelve years of formal education life (1990-2002) and thoughtful higher education life (2002 to onward). Through this appraisal, I explored how I have been experiencing transformative role of education since my school education life. In so doing, I applied auto ethnography methodology and narrative imagination method for interpreting narrative information. While exploring my experiences, I found I was worry to improve my economic condition in the beginning. Thereby, I applied vocational rehabilitation therapy and resiliency against my frustration and engaged in working life that implicitly encouraged me to embark in higher educational voyage. However, later wards, I started worrying with poor socio-cultural and economic structures of own society and nation. Even my involvement in higher education/training and academic journeys in ever changing environment made me more critical, reflective and transformative because of my resilient will and inner urges. I successfully transformed my identity from rural development graduate to educationist and academician. Finally, this study also revealed that I was/am an exceptional student because of my good educational achievement. Hence, my reflections on transformative role of education are equally important to the students, teachers and development stakeholders for plying institutional agentic role to mobilize rural development graduates in local levels.

scholarly journals INFORMAL EDUCATION AS A PROJECTED IMPROVEMENT OF THE PROFESSIONAL SKILLS OF EMPLOYEES OF ORGANIZATIONS

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
Warul Walidin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
Personality Features ◽  
Two Sides

Technologies of vocational training play an important role in the concept of informal education and they can be implemented as in higher education, and organizational learning. In the modern understanding of education the two sides are emphasized - the communion of each person to the society and the development of individual personality features. If formal education is moving towards these goals systematically and purposefully at certain training sessions, the place and time of informal education is in no way limited. Informal education can be characterized not only by independent, human progress in cultural development, but also directed and projected improvement of professional and personal skills of employees of organizations. The purpose of this papers to examine informal education not only as an independent, but also as a guide and the projected improvement of the professional and personal skills of employees of organizations. The leading approaches to the study of this problem are social-pedagogical and managerial approaches to substantiate the essence of the process and the role of leaders of organizations trained in the management of such education.

scholarly journals My Journey from a Waiter to a Lecturer: An Autoethnography

NUTA Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Rajan Binayek Pasa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Narrative Imagination ◽  
Education Status ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Being There ◽  
Organic Intellectual

This study appraised my momentarily missing twelve years of formal education life (1990-2002) and thoughtful higher education life (2002 to onward). One of the main aims was to ascertain; what are the turning points of my education/working life struggles. In that context, I appraised how I became success to improve my family livelihood by working as a waiter, achieve higher educational status and started my academic career as a lecturer since my engagement with in/formal education. I applied autoethnography as methodology and narrative imagination and writing as inquiry as methods and meditation, self-reflexivity and self-interviewing as major sources of narrative information. While exploring my past, I found, I was ambitious/reflective actor, and rejected the reproduction of my occupational and educational status. I could not become astronaut but I was emotionally committed to perform and produce something unique in my life. Being there, by supporting my family livelihood, I was planning to pledge against stratified socio-economic and cultural structures. I applied vocational rehabilitation therapy and resiliency against my frustration and engaged in working life. My involvement in livelihood not only improved family livelihood but also encouraged me to embark in higher educational voyage. Ultimately, my higher education status and critical thinking ability helped me to transform my life from an anger driven behavior and feelings into happy oriented actions/interactions with self and others. Being here, after becoming a lecturer, I am seeing myself as a new potential organic intellectual as an outcome of my thoughtful education/working life struggles.

scholarly journals Editorial Leadership for Transformation in Tourism Education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Schott ◽  
Ulrike Gretzel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Business Studies ◽  
Tourism Education ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
University Level ◽  
Industry Needs ◽  
Job Prospects

In light of ever greater financial and philosophical attacks on tourism higher education across the world, it is critical to contemplate the role of tourism education at university level and its place in modern societies. This need for reflection is given urgency by increasingly neoliberal education policies, market-driven universities, and ‘consumers’ with distinctive demands that are able to choose from a growing variety of educational ‘products’. Often relegated to an area of specialization within business studies, tourism is increasingly under pressure to demonstrate its value, which is commonly interpreted as producing graduates with industry-ready skills and good immediate job prospects. This focus has led to tourism higher education that seeks to cater to industry needs and is fundamentally vocational. In doing so it is at the mercy of an industry that still largely subscribes to the dream of the self-made leader/entrepreneur, who emerges in a senior managerial position at the end of a career path that starts with washing dishes and/or cleaning toilets, rather than actively promoting and rewarding formal education.

Acquiescence Response Bias — Yeasaying and Higher Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane Costello ◽  
John Roodenburg
Keyword(s):  
Response Bias ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Model Fit ◽  
Education Group ◽  
Lower Education ◽  
Education Groups ◽  
Ideal Matrix

Acquiescence response bias is the tendency to agree to questionnaires irrespective of item content or direction, and is problematic for both researchers and clinicians. Further research is warranted to clarify factors relating to the confounding influence of acquiescence. Building on previous research that investigated the interaction between acquiescence, age, and secondary education, the current study has considered the role of adult higher educational achievement and acquiescence. Using the Big Five Inventory (BFI), acquiescence scores were calculated for a sample of 672 Australian adults (age M = 41.38, SD = 12.61). There was a significant inverse relationship between the variance in acquiescence scores and formal education. The greatest difference was found between the lowest education groups and the highest education groups, with the variance of the lower groups more than twice as large as the higher groups. The confounding influence of acquiescence was demonstrated using the BFI and targeted rotation to an ideal matrix, where worse model fit was found in the lower education group compared to the higher group. Implications for both researchers and clinicians are explored.

scholarly journals Role of Transformative Learning Interventions in Developing Conducive Environment for Female Adult Learners in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 491-500
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shabbir ◽  
Sajid Masood ◽  
Ghazal Khalid Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Female Adult ◽  
Learning Interventions ◽  
Conducive Environment

The increasing number of female adult learners required a need for a deeper and more additional background related consideration on the effects contributing toward educational achievement for the learners who return to study. The aim of this study is to define the role of Transformative Interventions in developing Conducive Learning Environment for female adult learners in higher education with the consideration on hindrances faced, as they re-engage and continuing their post-compulsory educational passage. Qualitative approach with explanatory case study design has been employed to conduct this study. Semi-structured open-ended interviews conducted for 16 purposefully selected female participants. Two private and two public universities were selected from which adult working students and experienced of having transformative learning interventions during their course. Moreover, the experiences and responses highlighted the needs, hindrances and expectations of the adult students in higher education. They identified reflective activities including article review and reflective writing, faculty support, seminars, educational conferences, presentations, projects on real life issues, discussion and introducing demanding courses are the important transformative learning interventions for developing Conducive environment for adults. The major factor responsible for developing Conducive environment was experiences and exposure by the adult learner and providing opportunities through the Andragogy and expertise. Notes on interviews and reflection journals were utilized to triangulate data to support these methods. Data analysis and results of the study indicated that participants experienced transformative learning interventions through both educational and non-educational related activities held in university by Higher Education.

scholarly journals New Media in Formal and Non-formal Higher Education in Social Sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Ljubica Kordić ◽  
Željko Rišner ◽  
Dubravka Papa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New Media ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Translation Tools ◽  
Human Reality ◽  
New Type

IT-era has changed not only the notion of intercultural communication worldwide, but also every aspect of human reality. In this paper, the authors present the application of electronic media in formal and non-formal education in Croatian higher education institutions on the example of the Faculty of Law, University of Osijek. Special attention is paid to specific computer programmes, language databases and tools for machine translation and machine-assisted translation used in the teaching process within the Lifelong Learning Programme for Lawyer-Linguists as a new type of non-formal interdisciplinary education delivered at that faculty. In the introductory part, the authors discuss the role of new media in formal higher education and present results of a questionnaire conducted among teaching staff of the Faculty of Law Osijek related to application of the Internet and other new IT-media in specific courses. The main part of the paper is focused on the analysis of the course Online Translation Tools and EU Vocabulary, carried out within the Lifelong Learning Programme for Lawyer-Linguists. Teaching contents of that course are delivered by using computer technology (translation tools and databases accessible online), which serves as a medium for teaching translation. Simultaneously, instructing students in proper and skilful usage of those media represents the principal goal of that course. In the concluding part, the authors try to determine the role of new media and IT in formal and non-formal types of tertiary education in the future.

scholarly journals Assessing Generic Competence Development among Higher Education Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashfaque Ahmad Shah ◽  
Muhammad Sarwar ◽  
Shafqat Ali Shah
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Generic Competences ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Modest Level

Present study intended to assess the generic competences of higher education students. Self-perceived level of generic competences of the students in the beginning and the end of an academic session was recorded to explore the role of higher education in imparting them the generic competences. All the students entering the University of Sargodha (Pakistan) during 2012, constituted the population of the study. Cluster sampling technique was used to carry out the panel survey. The same cohort of the students was surveyed twice over a period of one academic year. This study adopted a version of the Reflex Project instrument, consisting of 19 competences, to collect data from students of both genders in public-sector universities in Pakistan. Data were collected from 932 students (cluster sampling) studying at 10 (randomly) selected departments. There were 408 male and 525 female students in the study. The students rated themselves on a seven-point scale whose reliability was 0.82. The results indicated that higher education played its role in imparting and promoting the existing set of generic competences from the beginning to the end of the academic session; but the increase in the competence level was noted only to a modest level. Gender differences were found among the students in a few of the generic competences. 

Schott and Gretzel 2014 JTTT Special Issue TRansformational Leadership Editorial.pdf

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Schott ◽  
Ulrike Gretzel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Business Studies ◽  
Tourism Education ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
University Level ◽  
Industry Needs ◽  
Job Prospects

In light of ever greater financial and philosophical attacks on tourism higher education across the world, it is critical to contemplate the role of tourism education at university level and its place in modern societies. This need for reflection is given urgency by increasingly neoliberal education policies, market-driven universities, and ‘consumers’ with distinctive demands that are able to choose from a growing variety of educational ‘products’. Often relegated to an area of specialization within business studies, tourism is increasingly under pressure to demonstrate its value, which is commonly interpreted as producing graduates with industry-ready skills and good immediate job prospects. This focus has led to tourism higher education that seeks to cater to industry needs and is fundamentally vocational. In doing so it is at the mercy of an industry that still largely subscribes to the dream of the self-made leader/entrepreneur, who emerges in a senior managerial position at the end of a career path that starts with washing dishes and/or cleaning toilets, rather than actively promoting and rewarding formal education.

Entrepreneurship, economic crisis, and the role of higher education: Evidence from Greece

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-189
Author(s):  
Christos Bagiatis ◽  
Anna Saiti ◽  
Michael Chletsos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Anonymous Questionnaire ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Athens Area

This article, through an empirical investigation, examines (a) the attitudes toward entrepreneurship among those of a productive age, and (b) the effect of the economic and political characteristics of a country on an individual’s tendency toward entrepreneurship. An anonymous questionnaire was designed and administered to a random sample of 180 people, ranging in age from 18 to 58, in the Athens area (Attica region) during the 2015–2016 academic year. Of those issued, 100 were completed sufficiently for analysis (response rate: 55.5%). The study supports the view that entrepreneurship is a vital asset for sustainable development and that integrating entrepreneurship into the formal education system (including higher education), together with greater flexibility, consistency, and continuity in public policy, will help improve its impact.

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