scholarly journals Enhancing professional practice and professionalism among Canadian rural paramedics

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu Grenier ◽  
Julia Van Vuuren ◽  
Evelien Spelten
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Clinical Expertise ◽  
University Environment ◽  
World Cafe ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

Introduction The scope of paramedic practice is being redefined and expanded. Professional development and clinical expertise are not only necessary for paramedics to perform their clinical functions and operational responsibilities, they are at the very core of their professionalisation. Professionalisation is a complex process, and the degree to which it can accomplished will impact society’s perception of the profession – and its trust in it – for years to come. This study investigated ways to enhance professional practice, from the point of view of the main healthcare providers in a rural area of Ontario, Canada. Methods A qualitative analysis informed by action research methodology was used. The research design was staged and consisted of focus groups and a World Café. The data were coded and organised into themes, using thematic analysis, and were triangulated with the literature. Results Three key themes emerged from the World Café and focus group conversations including current enablers of professionalisation; system components that promote professionalism; and community of practice to support professional development and clinical expertise. Conclusion Paramedic practice is evolving. This should be reflected in clinical practice and education, and more paramedic-led research. Paramedic training may need to move from the college to the university environment to reflect equal standing with colleagues in the broader healthcare system. This study shows strong motivation among paramedics and management to enhance professional practice and professionalism. To achieve this, a culture of trust, developing engagement and communication strategies and establishing a community of practice are crucial.

scholarly journals The effectiveness of talent management strategies in the development of human resources teaching from the point of view of the leaders and members of the faculty of Taibah University

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Badrya Abdullah Al-Skran
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Talent Management ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The University ◽  
Open Question

The study aimed to identify the effectiveness of talent management strategies in human resource development at the University of Taibah, And to develop the necessary scientific solutions and recommendations, which can contribute to enhancing the effectiveness of talent management strategies in human resource development. Using the descriptive approach, study sample consisted of 67 leader, the leader of the 95 representing the entire community of the original study, and88member of the faculty members out of 365. The study relied on questionnaire tool, included thirty-eight parts, distributed over four axes, polarization, the discovery, the professional development, and the retention. In addition to an open question. The study found a range of results, which are; The general grade of the effectiveness of talent management strategies in human resources development at the University of Taibah from the perspective of leaders and members of the faculty average, is a mean 3.13.The polarization strategy is the most effective in the talent management in the development of human resources at the University of Taibah, a mean 3.35. The second was professional development with an average (3.17) and third discovery with an average of (3.09) The retention strategy came to be the least strategy in the talent management effectiveness in human resource development at the University of Taibah, a mean 2.93.In light of the results , a number of recommendations and suggestions.

What Mathematical Subjects Should be Included in the Curriculum of the Secondary Schools

1913 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Charles L. McKeehan
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

The President of your Association has asked me to discuss this subject from the point of view of the professions. Surely a daring undertaking for one who knows nothing about mathematics except the simplest operations in integers and fractions, who knows as an abstract proposition that two and two make four, but who frequently finds that they make three or five to him when he adds them in a column of figures, and (to come closer to the point) who never did really understand the principles of mathematics, although he graduated from a famous preparatory school and escaped from the university of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree.

OUTLIERS OF ACTION RESEARCH – THE IDENTITY CONSTRUCT OF FUTURE TEACHERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 290
Author(s):  
Jiří Kropáč ◽  
Štefan Chudý
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Educational Preparation ◽  
University Environment ◽  
The University

Queries, activities and those sufficient solutions of teaching and learning situations are daily bread of the teaching profession. Thus, in learning of future teachers exist possibilities how to influence the progress of the teachers’ identity construction with self-creative and critical tools which are connected to the complexity of the personality. However, action research helps to deeply understand techniques which are behind the line of the traditional point of view and helps to understand the situations from the pragmatic way of natural learning in the process of preparation at the university. The research aim is focused on the support of integration of the action research as a tool for the teachers’ preparation in the good practice of the university environment. Mixed research methods are based on the narrative corpus which consists of the coded interviews and specific tasks connected to the educational preparation. Results reflect the current various ways of developing future teachers and their impact on future teachers‘ identities.  

scholarly journals Classical Myth in the University: A Contribution to Professional Teacher Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Antonio Giner Gomis ◽  
Marcos Jesús Iglesias Martínez ◽  
Inés Lozano Cabezas
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Teacher Professionalism ◽  
Classical Myths ◽  
University Course ◽  
The University ◽  
Constituent Elements ◽  
Professional Teaching

The use of Classical Greek myth as a narrative and metaphorical tool can contribute to the construction of a professional teaching identity. Adopting a biographical narrative approach, the present study sought to assess this contribution in a group of teacher and researcher trainees undertaking a postgraduate university course. The construction of personal narratives used for collective interpretation by the participants that generated them was analysed and interpreted in relation to the development of teacher professionalism. Our findings show the effective activation of metacognitive processes in order to rethink teacher professionalism from a narrative point of view. Using the structure and content of Classical myths as a scaffold, participants established valuable reflections on crucial aspects of teaching, identifying personal achievements and conquests as well as fears and insecurities. The structures latent in myth provided an effective framework with which to project and identify at least three hermeneutical themes—symbolism, function and structure—that form constituent elements of professional identity and are not only intertwined but are also constituted within a community of practice. Thus, Greek myths continue to offer an interesting cognitive and emotional scaffold that contributes to teacher professionalism, facilitating the formulation of a reflective, collaborative and personal meaning of identity which brings together personal teaching experiences and knowledge and is necessarily shared with the surrounding community of practice.

scholarly journals THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS MUSEUMS: PLACE IN THE CULTURAL TOURIST AREA OF THE CITY

2017 ◽  
pp. 110-122
Author(s):  
Svitlana Muravska
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Will ◽  
University Environment ◽  
City Life ◽  
National University ◽  
Western Ukraine ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The article attempts to analyze the place of higher educational establishments(HEE) in general and its museums in particular playing in the city life. Thethe empirical basis of the article is the information collected as a result of researchvisits to HEE in seven regions of Western Ukraine: Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk,Ternopil, Volyn, Rivne, Chernivtsi, and Zakarpattia, organized for 2013-2017.The main used method is interviews with personnel of HEE museums.The author points out these «temples of muses» gradually moved awayfrom its traditional educational and research mission in the 1980’s. Such reassessmentof priorities had been caused by the crisis of the museum. For thelast 30 years it has become clear reduction of using the collections for teachingand research in many universities; some HEE plan to dispose of collectionsand to close museums; many universities are working out alternative organizationalmodels for managing collections in the one newly created museum.The crisis in the museum environment has imposed on the crisis, which theparent universities as institutions are encountering today - «crisis of identity» and «a crisis of resources», caused by the increasing often contradictoryrequirements to the high schools. On this background, the museums as individualunits also began to increase requirements. It led to their gradual transformationinto a museum of « the third generation». One of their defining missionis promoting the HEE, cooperation with the public in order to disseminateinformation about the university, vocational guidance, involvement of patronsand organization of other works implementing this direction. In particular,the article highlights atypical for the Ukrainian context the role of HEE museums- «shop-windows» and «show-cases», through which representatives ofoutside university environment can acquaint themselves with the achievementsof high school and feel its special atmosphere. The author outlines a numberof touristic potential of some HEE in Western Ukraine, where physical objectsare interesting from an architectural and cultural point of view. Amongthe most striking examples is the main building of Yuriy Fedkovych ChernivtsiNational University., Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, campus of Lviv Polytechnic National University, campus of The National Universityof Ostroh Academy, Lviv State University of Life Safety, Kremenets ForestryCollege. Among the researched 74 HEE are roughly a quarter which can beclassified as «visually attractive». However, less than 10 % of them use thisadvantage for brand developing. The relevant policy concerning museumsand academic space in general will allow high school to become a separatepoint on the tourist map, to establish relationships with the surrounding communityand to participate actively in local cultural life.

scholarly journals Mathematics support centres from a sociocultural point of view

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Kirsten Pfeiffer
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Mathematical Practice ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
University Environment

Mathematics support centres provide opportunities for students to work in groups or explore mathematics with some guidance, which is often difficult to achieve in large lectures or tutorials. In this article I discuss the role of mathematics support centres from a socio-cultural point of view. In this view learning takes place as participation in a community of practice. Providing access to such a community is seen as crucial for the transition from school to university, however it is particularly challenging to provide authentic opportunities for mathematical practice in a university environment. I argue that mathematics support centres have potential to provide such opportunities for students and are therefore significant for the progress of newcomers in the practice.

scholarly journals University and Practice – Cooperation in Research and Science: Case study of the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Jana Jarábková ◽  
Marcela Chrenekova ◽  
Oľga Roháčiková
Keyword(s):  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Central Register ◽  
Practical Life ◽  
The University ◽  
Science And Research

<p><strong>Purpose:</strong> Besides their educational and research functions, universities are currently essential for dissemination of knowledge in innovation processes, thus affecting the economic and social development of their environments. The formalized cooperation of the Slovak University of Agriculture (SUA) in Nitra and its partners in research and science was examined in this context.</p><p><strong>Methodology/Approach:</strong> Formal cooperation of the university with working life partners in terms of their sectoral and geographic affiliation was analyzed in the paper. The Central Register of Contracts and the SUA Internal Register of Contracts were used as principal sources of data. Based on interviews and selected studies conducted in the Slovak Republic we further focused on identification of barriers to the transfer of the results of research into practice.</p><p><strong>Findings:</strong> The paper confirmed cognitive and spatial proximity between SUA and its partners. The sectoral focus of the partners is closely related to the profile of the university. From the spatial point of view, more significant concentration of SUA partners in the region of Western Slovakia was confirmed. We identified several barriers to the transfer of the results of scientific research activities from the university environment into practical life.</p><p><strong>Research Limitation/implication:</strong> We conducted research on the example of one university, thus it is not possible to generalize the results.</p><strong>Originality/Value of paper:</strong> The paper analyzes the collaboration of the University in science and research with partners in practical life and identifies weaknesses and barriers to this cooperation.

scholarly journals Plagiarism, rote memorizing and other "bad" habits in the Greek University and beyond.

Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Alexandra Bakalaki
Keyword(s):  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Rote Learning ◽  
University Environment ◽  
The University ◽  
Independent Thinking

Drawing on my experience as professor of Anthropology in Greece, this paper focuses on student practices like rote learning and plagiarism academics commonly consider inimical to meaningful learning, intellectual empowerment and the cultivation of critical independent thinking.  In this paper I refrain from viewing such practices from the standard academic perspective according to which they must be eradicated, and try to appreciate them from the perspective of the students who engage in them.  I suggest that they serve as means through which students navigate in and cope with the university environment, but they also provide a point of view from which the university appears as a setting within which the “bad habits” academics so despise are sensible and helpful.  

scholarly journals SARS-COV-2 Transmission in México´s Dental Practice: Measures, Clinical Implications and Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
José R. Palma ◽  
Pedro J. Palma ◽  
Patricia N. Olivares ◽  
Olivia Macías
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Open Channel ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Dental Practice ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Dental Professional ◽  
The University ◽  
Auxiliary Personnel

The SARS-COV2 outbreak began as a zoonotic transmission, with Chinese horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus sinicus) and pangolins being the most likely origin of the infection. Once the  patient has been infected, the virus is significantly present in the nasopharyngeal and salivary secretions.  The professionals who are most directly exposed to the risk of contagion are dentists since the evolutionary process of virus infection occurs due to the inhalation of particles in the dental environment, the formation of aerosols during practice, and what is more important, in the expectorations emitted by the patients. Therefore, it is necessary to act diligently in professional practice, as well as take the necessary preventive measures to avoid the spread of the infection. The appearance of this new disease forces us to modify all the sanitary measures that have been taken concerning dental care by the professional, as well as auxiliary personnel and the protection of patients, requiring strict sanitary control by the authorities of health. In the university environment, the changes that must be made to allow an open channel of communication between students, teaching, administrative and hygiene personnel must continue to prevent this and future diseases.  The aim of this article is to propose a protocol for dental clinical care, considering the real conditions and needs that prevail in our practice, highlighting the risk and preventive measures that the dental professional must consider, as well as the management of patients.

Assessing Research Productivity in University Environment: Institutional Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 1750016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Panikarova ◽  
Maxim Vlasov ◽  
Ivan Boyko
Keyword(s):  
Research Productivity ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The University

There is an ongoing discussion among experts concerning the result of university activities. One point of view is that universities should be considered as places of research and measured by their contribution to science. The aim of research is to formulate a methodological approach to assess scholarship and research productivity in universities based on the assumption that the growth transaction costs define higher education institution knowledge generation. The authors present a proposal of a new ratio, called the Knowledge Generation Efficacy Ratio (KGER), which assesses the research productivity in universities. To test this ratio, an empirical survey was carried out based on data collected from four different universities in Russia. The results of this study contribute to the development of scholarly and research productivity method. The KGER can be used as a tool for making decisions concerning the different research activities taking place in the university, the level of funding and return on investment.

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