scholarly journals The Quest for Sustainable Teaching Praxis: Opportunities and Challenges of Multidisciplinary and Multicultural Teamwork

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7210
Author(s):  
Elli Doukanari ◽  
Despo Ktoridou ◽  
Leonidas Efthymiou ◽  
Epaminondas Epaminonda
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Case Based Learning ◽  
Method Approach ◽  
Case Based

This article investigates the prospect of implementing multidisciplinary and multicultural student teamwork (MMT), along with Case-based Learning (CBL) and Problem-based Learning (PBL), as a sustainable teaching practice. Based on a mixed-method approach, which includes direct observation (both physical and virtual), questionnaire distribution, and focus groups, the study reveals that MMT through CBL and PBL can both facilitate and hinder sustainable learning. Our findings show that while MMT enhances knowledge sharing, it also poses a wide range of challenges, raising questions about its social significance as a sustainable teaching practice. The study suggests the implementation of certain mechanisms, such as ‘Teamwork Training’ and ‘Pedagogical Mentors’, aiming to strengthen the sustainable orientation of MMT through CBL and PBL.

scholarly journals The Quest for Sustainable Teaching Praxis: Opportunities and Challenges of Multidisciplinary and Multicultural Teamwork

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elli Doukanari ◽  
Despo Ktoridou ◽  
Leonidas Efthymiou ◽  
Epaminondas Epaminonda
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Case Based Learning ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Case Based

This article investigates the prospect of implementing multidisciplinary and multicultural student teamwork (MMT) involving Case-based Learning (CBL) and Problem-based Learning (PBL) as a sustainable teaching practice. Based on a mixed methods approach, which includes direct observation (both physical and virtual), questionnaire distribution and focus-group interviews the study reveals that MMT through CBL and PBL can both facilitate and hinder sustainable learning. Our findings show that while MMT enhances knowledge sharing, it also poses a wide range of challenges, raising questions about its social significance as a sustainable teaching practice. The study suggests the implementation of certain mechanisms, such as ‘Teamwork Training’ and ‘Pedagogical Mentors’, aiming to strengthen the sustainable orientation of MMT through CBL and PBL.

scholarly journals The Quest for Sustainable Teaching Praxis: Opportunities and Challenges of Multidisciplinary and Multicultural Teamwork

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elli Doukanari ◽  
Despo Ktoridou ◽  
Leonidas Efthymiou ◽  
Epaminondas Epaminonda
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Case Based Learning ◽  
Case Based

This article explores the dynamics arising by multidisciplinary and multicultural student teams (MMT), working through Case-based Learning (CBL) and Problem-based Learning (PBL); as well as its use as a sustainable teaching practice. Based on a mixed methods approach, which includes observation (both physical and virtual) and questionnaires, the study reveals that MMT through CBL and PBL can both facilitate and hinder sustainable learning. Our findings show that while MMT enhances knowledge sharing, it also poses a wide range of challenges, raising questions about its social significance as a sustainable teaching practice. The study suggests the implementation of certain mechanisms, such as ‘Teamwork Training’ and ‘Pedagogical Mentors’, aiming to strengthen the sustainable orientation of MMT through CBL and PBL.

scholarly journals BARRIERS TO CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY STAKEHOLDERS’ ENGAGEMENT WITH SUSTAINABILITY: TOWARD A SHARED KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian E. Wilson ◽  
Yacine Rezgui
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Energy Reduction ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Mixed Method Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Method Approach

Sustainability ill-practices in the construction industry can have major drawbacks on meeting governmental targets on carbon and energy reduction. Using a mixed-method approach drawn from three studies to explore the level of engagement of construction stakeholders in adopting government sustainability agendas, the research identifies a wide range of perceived barriers, which operate broadly at ‘individual’ and ‘organisational’ levels. Sustainability knowledge in construction is fragmented, diverse, embedded in various documents, and developed in a non-concerted and integrated way across stakeholders, localities, regions, and countries. There is an emergent need for a socio-technical ‘knowledge solution’ to create circles of impacts that bind building professionals, energy administrations, and citizens in a shared sustainability experience to address a number of issues.

Who owns the student voice?

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Dickinson ◽  
Antonia Fox
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Student Voice ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
Personal Connection ◽  
Student Union ◽  
The University ◽  
Method Approach ◽  
Insight Into

This research, undertaken by Student Fellows (a scheme managed by both the University of Winchester and Winchester Student Union), aims to evaluate students’ perceptions of student voice at the University and to raise awareness of the opportunities available. Through the mixed-method approach of concept mapping, focus groups and surveys, the hope is to target the gap in the literature of this field. Having a personal connection with this project gave us a powerful insight into the students’ mindset and therefore allowed us to address the issue directly, particularly with regard to the decrease in engagement with student activities from school to university.

Engineering to Management Transition

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-123
Author(s):  
Leonidas Efthymiou ◽  
Epaminondas Epaminonda ◽  
Despo Ktoridou
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Managing Diversity ◽  
Case Based Learning ◽  
Case Based

This chapter identifies the main challenges in the transition from engineering to management and discusses how management education may assist in this transition. Mixed methods were used to achieve the above. Initially, two focus groups were conducted, and at a later stage, 126 engineers reported through a questionnaire the most common challenges in the transition from engineering to management and then a few were also interviewed. Results demonstrate that skills such as delegation, communication, convincing, coaching, and guiding others pose important challenges. In relation to the second inquiry, it is proposed that, other than management theory, offering examples, opportunity to practice with feedback, and case-based learning can help minimise the challenges. Also, leadership skills, such as delegation, developing personality, cross-cultural understanding, and managing diversity, can be strategically used to facilitate learning in the field of engineering and better prepare engineers in their transition to management.

Promoting Case-Based Learning in Business Higher Education in the Middle East and North Africa Region

2021 ◽  
pp. 105256292110621
Author(s):  
Nizar Becheikh ◽  
Maha Mourad ◽  
Ahmed Tolba
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Case Method ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Case Based Learning ◽  
Case Based

The case method has made inroads as a pedagogical tool that can sharpen students’ analytical skills and better prepare them for the reality awaiting them professionally. Despite its deep-seated origins in the West, the case method remains underused in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The purpose of this study is to explore the main challenges that MENA business higher education institutions face in effecting case-based learning and the key initiatives that may help in addressing them. Building on our extensive experience with case studies production and teaching in the MENA context, and a pioneering exploratory research involving 40 instructors, students, and administrators from three leading business schools in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, we shed new light on the skills and contextual challenges that MENA business higher education institutions encounter when implementing the case method. We also propose a framework that integrates a wide range of initiatives to promote case-based learning in MENA. At the heart of this framework is the “community building” effort advocated as a catalyst to support case writing, teaching, solving, and publishing, as well as the development of a culture conducive to an effective deployment of the case method in the specific MENA context.

Secretless pastry chefs on Instagram: the disclosure of culinary secrets on social media

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai-Sean Lee ◽  
Chen-Wei (Willie) Tao
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
Culinary Knowledge ◽  
Systems View ◽  
Method Approach

Purpose Informed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s systems view of creativity and Chad Borkenhagen’s conceptualization of open source cooking, this study explored how a group of extraordinary pastry chef used Instagram to openly express creativity, disseminate knowledge and reveal culinary secrets. The subsequent impacts of such actions were also assessed. Design/methodology/approach A qualitatively driven mixed-method approach was conducted using a nested mixed-method design. A total of 2,456 Instagram posts were visually analyzed alongside a series of interviews with elite pastry chefs over a two-year period. Findings Analysis distilled three themes that delineated how elite pastry chefs express creativity and share knowledge mindfully, ethically and altruistically on Instagram. The findings also converged to form a new theoretical model, “systems view of culinary creative sharing,” which accounts for the multifaceted considerations of culinary knowledge sharing on social media. Research limitations/implications Findings converged to form a systems view of culinary knowledge sharing. This is peculiarly useful for scholars who are interested in developing a greater understanding about “where and how” creative ideas and knowledge originate, disseminate and receive corroborations in the contemporary digital era. Originality/value This study highlighted that a new praxis of open sharing looms large in the culinary profession. This praxis symbolizes a movement away from the traditional mindset of safeguarding culinary secrets and toward a more transparent and open philosophy toward knowledge sharing in the culinary community.

scholarly journals An Orchestral Audience: Classical Music and Continued Patterns of Distinction

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garry Crawford ◽  
Victoria Gosling ◽  
Gaynor Bagnall ◽  
Ben Light
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Mobile Telephone ◽  
Sample Group ◽  
System A ◽  
Method Approach

This paper considers the key findings of a year-long collaborative research project focusing on the audience of the London Symphony Orchestra and their introduction of a new mobile telephone (‘app’) ticketing system. A mixed-method approach was employed, utilizing focus groups and questionnaires with over 80 participants, to research a sample group of university students. This research develops our understanding of classical music audiences, and highlights the continued individualistic, middle-class, and exclusionary culture of classical music attendance and patterns of behaviours. The research also suggests that a mobile phone app does prove a useful mechanism for selling discounted tickets, but shows little indication of being a useful means of expanding this audience beyond its traditional demographic.

scholarly journals Sustainability in the New Congo’s Tropical Architecture: A Case Study of The Sabena Towers by Claude Laurens

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Alexis Tshiunza ◽  
Manlio Michieletto ◽  
Olatunde Adedayo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Mixed Method Approach ◽  
Tropical Architecture ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Method Approach

Tropicalizing a building might seem like the best option for a young architect who lands in the tropics, but this is an approach contrary to sustainability. Claude Laurens, through one of his first projects in Congo, understood that it was better to deal with the place from the start. His project became one of the best examples of tropical modernism. The article attempts to contrast an import approach with a more sustainable one, to deal with the present and future context. The research method adopted for this study was a mixed method approach where data was sourced from literature as secondary source and compared with direct observation of the selected case study (The Sabena Towers). The results are presented as figures which were used to further illustrate findings. The result showed that the architect, with little information, did his utmost to offer Congo a new architecture that fitted with the objectives of sustainable development. The study concluded that the architect chose not to adopt the foreign architecture as a solution for the sustainability issues he encountered in the design, rather he evolved solutions that were Congolese based and therefore responded adequately to the challenges of sustainability in Congo and created an architecture for Congo.

scholarly journals PREPAREDNESS FOR EMANCIPATION OF YOUTH LEAVING ALTERNATIVE CARE IN SERBIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Burgund Isakov ◽  
Jasna Hrnčić
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Young People ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Alternative Care ◽  
Mixed Method Approach ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
Method Approach

The process of preparing young people for leaving alternative care is not sufficiently researched in Serbia. In order to define what support is necessary for their successful emancipation, this study of 150 young people in care aims to analyse both their preparedness for leaving alternative care, and whether the type of placement (kinship, foster, or residential) makes a difference to the level of preparedness. A mixed method approach was applied. Quantitatively, questionnaires assessing factors contributing to successful emancipation were administered<strong>.</strong> Qualitatively, transcripts of discussions from 5 focus groups, consisting of a total of 26 participants from all 3 types of placement, were analysed. Most of the youth in the sample indicated they have self-care and housekeeping skills, social skills to make friendships and connections, good grades in school, and aspirations for further schooling and starting a family. However, negative feelings such as disturbance, fear, and sorrow, and a sense of missing support and feeling insufficiently prepared for leaving care were also evident in their answers. Both the focus groups and surveys suggest that the biggest concern with the independence of young people leaving alternative care is financial stability. Several recommendations for ways to influence the system in order to improve outcomes for young people are made.

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