scholarly journals The Good Citizen: problematising citizenship in the social sciences curriculum

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-88
Author(s):  
Judith Burnett ◽  
Erika Cudworth
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Social

This article explores the critical pedagogical issues that emerge when attempting to develop active citizenship among undergraduates as an integral part of the student experience. It presents part of the findings from a C-SAP-funded project (Gifford et al. 2006) that we undertook with a partner higher education institution. This article explores our particular contribution carried out in a post-1992 London higher education institution. Our innovations in the social sciences undergraduate curriculum aimed at creating situations in which students would explore the diversity of citizenship in educational settings, namely, a local school, a further education college, and Summerhill School (founded by A.S. Neill). The research leads us to conclude that citizenship is a problem of praxis influenced and shaped by the local-global contexts of communities with diverse heritages of meaning, stratified social settings, and specific local and historical characteristics. This challenges the notions underpinning the Crick curriculum with its national orientation, and demonstrates the need to sensitise citizenship learning experiences to the needs of students and staff embedded in their social contexts. Such an approach can be understood as a form of situated citizenship characterised by active engagement with an assumption of heterogeneity which is positively sensitive to diversity.

scholarly journals Accessibility of people with disabilities to higher education: social attitudes of students and professors of a higher education institution

Revista CEFAC ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Assunção Brunhara ◽  
Ana Paula Berberian ◽  
Ana Cristina Guarinello ◽  
Angela Regina Biscouto ◽  
Simone Krüger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Private University ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
University Professors ◽  
The Social

ABSTRACT Purpose: to compare and analyze social attitudes of students and professors of a higher education institution about the inclusion of people with disabilities according to variables gender, age and areas of knowledge of participants. Methods: the quantitative study was conducted on 601 academics, 583 being students and 18 university professors from a private university, who have contact with individuals with disabilities in the classroom. A questionnaire was applied to identify the social attitudes related to the variables correlated above. Results: the sample included 97% of students, 417 being females and 184 males. Nearly 43% were younger than 20 years and 6% older than 40 years. The female professors and students had higher agreement with the questionnaire, while male professors and students reported lower satisfaction. Concerning age, the younger individuals were the most dissatisfied ones. In relation to the field of knowledge, the Exact, Human and Health Sciences, in this order, presented increased agreement with the research instrument. Conclusion: the study investigated the social attitudes of professors and students about the inclusion of people with disabilities, analyzing the results according to gender, age and area of knowledge, comparing and correlating with the agreement about the questionnaire. The results revealed the need to deepen the studies about variables that may influence the social attitudes related to the inclusion and permanence of these individuals in higher education institutions.

scholarly journals ORGANISATIONAL APPROACHES TO THE FORMATION OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE MARKET OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

Management ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-121
Author(s):  
Valentyna Yatsenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The Social

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES. Social responsibility is a system of innovative working relationships that acts as an essential technology that enhances the effectiveness of a higher education institution with employees, partners, customers and the community, and ultimately contributes to its prosperity and civil society. Social responsibility should focus on enhancing the image of the higher education institution, recognising its successes in society by civil institutions and individual citizens. This will increase the social value of the higher education institution, its competitiveness, sustainability and efficiency, allowing society to use the resource voluntarily provided by the higher education institution to balance organisational and social interests.METHODS. The methods used to conduct the research were: interview, expert. The questions selected for this study were taken either from the literature or from individual interviews. The literature helped to identify important dimensions of the concept of social responsibility. The interviews helped to identify new points and possible dimensions to contextualise organisational approaches to shaping the social responsibility of higher education institutions.FINDINGS. Organizational approaches to the formation of social responsibility of higher education institutions in the market of educational services are proposed. Mechanisms to increase socio-commercial value of socially responsible higher education institutions are argued: creation of public institutions to identify, formulate public interests and present them to corporations; selection of social projects taking into account stakeholder expectations.CONCLUSION. In order to increase the efficiency of using the principles of social responsibility in HEIs, to improve their ratings, students' competitiveness in the labour market and their involvement in the task-setting and decision-making process, it is necessary to develop a programme of corporate social activity, which can become the basis for developing the HEIs' development strategy. The formation and adoption of such a strategy should be based on the interests of all stakeholders, based on the core values of the university to achieve the indicators at micro-, meso- and macrolevels.

scholarly journals The Social Impact of CSR Campaigns Among a Higher Education Institution From Romania

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2 (28)) ◽  
pp. 113-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Ioana Ilieş ◽  
◽  
Paul-Alexandru Fărcaş ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Social Integration of Hearing-Impaired Students by Means of Health-Enhancing and Recreational Activities

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Orikhovska ◽  
Olena Andrieieva ◽  
Vitaliy Kashuba ◽  
Olena Lazarieva ◽  
Yurii Lytvynenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Hearing Impairments ◽  
Recreational Physical Activity ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hearing Impaired Students

Purpose: To substantiate and develop a program of health-enhancing and recreational physical activity for the social integration of students with hearing impairments in a higher education institution environment. Materials and Methods. The study involved 65 students with hearing impairments 17–18 years of age (30 males and 35 females). Theoretical analysis and generalization of special scientific and methodological literature, pedagogical experiment, anthropometric measurements of the hearing-impaired, Apanasenko’s method, methods of mathematical statistics were used. Results. The structure and content of the program of health-enhancing and recreational physical activity for students with hearing impairments were scientifically substantiated and developed. The program takes into account the factors, principles, objectives, tasks, methods, organizational and socio-pedagogical conditions for its effective implementation in higher education institutions. The program includes a system for monitoring the results of its implementation and performance criteria. The effectiveness criteria for the health-enhancing and recreational physical activity program were identified as follows: social integration of hearing-impaired students, restoring their psycho-emotional state, and involvement of the young people in regular physical activity. Conclusions. The results of the study confirmed the effectiveness of the developed program of health-enhancing and recreational physical activity in a higher education institution for the social integration of hearing-impaired students.

“Some people work a bit more than me, and so we tease them”: the production of an elite student community in an elite French higher education institution

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Birolini
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Social Closure ◽  
Student Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Presentations

Abstract This article presents the results of an ethnographic study of student humor in a French elite higher education institution, specifically how students in the student community use the term polard. The data was collected between 2014 and 2018 in one of France’s most prestigious elite higher education institution. There are two main ways this term is used as humor, indirectly mocking students, notably those outside the student community, a practice that constructs the polard as a foil figure of a student who spends all their time doing schoolwork and refrains from participating in extracurricular activities, and teasing friends and acquaintances in interactions following a devalued behavior, seeming over-concerned with studies. Furthermore, there exist interactional scripts students can use to successfully navigate these teasing interactions without losing face. Finally, this humor is discussed in relation to the elite setting, as it is linked to the social closure of these elite higher education institutions, and it contributes to the production of an elite student community, by socializing students to privileged self-presentations characterized by ease and by creating distinctions between students, separating the truly elite students from the others.

How (Not) to Lead Academia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Abambres
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Academic Leadership ◽  
Academic Department ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Role Assignment ◽  
Professional Career

This work reports several issues found by the author throughout his professional career, concerning academic leadership. Topics like (i) out-of-field teaching/researching, and (ii) time management in faculty hiring or new role assignment, are addressed. Besides, the author describes which fundamental decisions he´d take if he could manage a higher education institution or academic department. The topics covered are crucial for the success of any higher education institution, such as (a) hiring, (b) social engagement, (c) student assessment, (d) open mindedness, (e) prompt communication, (f) passion in work, and (g) freedom / trust.

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