scholarly journals Islam and the University Curriculum

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-156
Author(s):  
Muhammed Haron
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New York ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The University

This special academic event was organized by the Sociology of Religion(Socrel) Study Group of the British Sociological Association in London on December7, 2013. One of its main objectives was to discuss, in the light of negativepublicity and the increasing number of Muslim students pursuing certainprofessions, whether “Islam” as a module or a course has been adequatelywoven and integrated into the university teaching and learning contexts.The organizers, Socrel chair Abby Day (Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths,University of London) and Sarah-Jane Page (School of Languages andSocial Sciences, Aston University), sought answers to the following questions:To what extent are higher education institutions responding to this relationship?How do Muslim students feel that Islam is represented in higher education?Does a Christianized curriculum still dominate the way these courses are designed?How do non-Muslim students respond to the content of courses thatmainly deal with Islam and Muslims? How do teachers respond to a more diversestudent body that hails from various socio-cultural backgrounds?Sociologists of religion have realized the importance of reflecting criticallyupon the study and teaching of religion. Publications such as Robert Orsi’s editedThe Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies (New York: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2012) has paid attention to these and related aspects. A qualitativeshift of scholary endeavors has been noted; scholars and researchershave now turned their lenses to specific religious traditions that have comeunder the spotlight because of their adherents’ apparent “violent” acts. Since9/11, Islam and Muslims have naturally become one of the targeted traditions(see “The Muslim World after 9/11,” Rand report at www.rand.org).This scholarly attention has resulted in the spread of Islamophobia in westernEurope and elsewhere, not to mention the gradual securitization of Muslimcommunities. This latter development seems to have enormous implicationsfor the academic arena where courses/modules on aspects of “Muslim extremism”in countries such as the United Kingdom have been closely watched and ...

Exploring Intercultural Communication Through the Act of Translation in Subtitling

2018 ◽  
pp. 261-281
Author(s):  
Duo Luan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Practice ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The University

This chapter explores how intercultural teaching and learning can take place through the practical act of translation in subtitling. The method discussed in this chapter uses audio-visual media in the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in higher education (HE). Translation in Subtitling is an undergraduate course offered to students with advanced Chinese competencies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in the United Kingdom. This applied language practice develops advanced skills in intercultural communicative competence (ICC) to students working on projects related to specific professional and cultural contexts. The audio-visual-driven course and its workshop style aim to provide a practical and fun intercultural learning experience, as well as to enhance employability by preparing students to work in a Chinese linguistic environment.

Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Institutional policies, research and practices in Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Huet ◽  
Teresa Pessoa ◽  
Fátima Teresa Sol Murta
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Initial Idea ◽  
The University

The initial ‘idea’ for the book emerged during the seminar Sharing of Innovative Pedagogical Practices that occurred at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) in 2018. Like all ‘good ideas’, this one originated in a conversation between colleagues from the University of Coimbra and the University of West London in the United Kingdom. The ‘idea’ of this book was to move away from sharing experiences related to teaching and learning in higher education in just one or two countries, but instead to organise a more European view about the policy, research and teaching practices that are shaping the way our students learn, academics teach and do research. We have a total of 16 chapters from academics in Portugal, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, and the Czech Republic.<br>The book is organised in four interrelated themes: (1) policy and quality; (2) professionalisation of teaching and academic development; (3) research and teaching nexus; and (4) pedagogy and practice. <br>Enjoy reading the book!

scholarly journals PELAKSANAAN RENCANA PEMBELAJARAN SEMESTER DALAM PROSES PEMBELAJARAN DI PERGURUAN TINGGI

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
B.P. Sitepu ◽  
Ika Lestari
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New York ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Higher Education Curriculum ◽  
Learning Plan ◽  
Evaluative Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Learning Contract

Higher-education curriculum is contained in Semester Learning Plan (RPS) as stated in Permenristekdikti No. 44 of 2015. RPS should bind lecturers and students into the contract of study/ college so that it needs to be supervised and examination of the quality of RPS made by lecturers. The purpose of this study is to conduct surveys and observations within the Fakultas Ilmu Pendidikan, Universitas Negeri Jakarta to obtain complete and accurate data and information. Referring to its purpose, this research includes descriptive evaluative research using qualitative and quantitative data. Data collection techniques used questionnaires, interviews, and document studies. Data is processed and analyzed using simple and descriptive statistics. The research was conducted in the Fakultas Ilmu Pendidikan, Universitas Negeri Jakarta in 2017. The results from the research are the percentage of lecturers to make RPS, student involvement in refining RPS, RPS utilization for students, students' knowledge on the subject and learning objectives during the course, and the references used. Further recommendations can be evaluated on the content of RPS made by lecturers in accordance with Permenristekdikti No. 44 of 2015.   References Boak, G. (1998). A complete guide to learning contract. Aldershot: Gower. Evans, T. & Nation, D. (2000). Changing university teaching: Reflection on creating educational technology. London: Kogan Page. Harvey, L. & Knight, P.T. (1996). Transforming higher education. Buckingham: SRHE and University Press. Hussey, T. & Smith, P. (2010). The trouble with higher education: A critical examination of our universities. New York: Routledge. McNeil, J.D. (1996). Curriculum: A comprehensive in-troduction. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers. Reigeluth, M. C. (1983). Instructional-design theories and models, An overview of their current status. New jersey: London. Sanjaya, W. (2009). Strategi pembelajaran berorientasi standar proses pendidikan. Jakarta: Prenada Shattock, M. (2004). Managing successful universities. Berkshire: SRHE and University Press. Suciati. (2001). Kontrak perkuliahan. Jakarta: PAUPPAI-UT. Tyler, R.W. (1949). Basic principles of curriculum and instruction. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Permendikbud No 49 Tahun 2014 Permenristekdikti No 13 Tahun 2015 Permenristekdikti No 44 Tahun 2015 Peraturan pemerintah No 19 Tahun 2005

scholarly journals Art Education in the Age of Metrics. A critical exhibition about how we teach and learn art under neoliberal conditions

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Brasó
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
University Life ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Data Culture ◽  
The Town

The higher education sector in the United Kingdom finds itself immersed in a data culture that evaluates every aspect of the university life according to a metrical paradigm. Art education, an area with its own teaching and learning characteristics, is particularly incompatible with a model that favours efficiency, productivity and success over all other aspects. In this essay I describe an exhibition, Art Education in the Age of Metrics, which took place in 2017 at the campus gallery of a specialist university located in the town of Canterbury. This was a curatorial project that tried not only to represent the difficulties of art education in the current climate, but that by engaging the university community—particularly students— in the process of organizing the exhibition, tried to actively intervene in the debates on the impact of this neoliberal model in how we teach and learn art today.

scholarly journals What do university teachers do all day (and often into the night)?'

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-23
Author(s):  
Josie Arnold ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
University Research ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Teaching and the student experience are interlocked. This paper takes a personal look at the pleasures and pressures of teaching in contemporary higher education. In doing so it adds to the definition of teachers’ work in higher education, surveys some of the creative and positive sides of University teaching and shines a light upon the impact of increased commercialisation and managerial approaches upon academic work. It focuses upon the teaching and learning activities that academics undertake in the service of the university, including the research that adds to and updates their own knowledge, and hence underpins their teaching, so as to enable and enrich the learning journeys of their students. This paper has been written as a personal narrative, as what I have come to call a ‘subjective academic narrative’. The ‘subjective’ refers to acknowledgement of the inevitability of the personal being an integral part of research; the ‘academic’ refers to the analytical and the intellectual ambience in which university research takes place; and the ‘narrative’ refers to the story, that is, the way in which we re-tell all of our research. Above all, this paper contributes to a sense of understanding some of the elements of teaching that are involved in student engagement.

scholarly journals Communication and didactics, the difficult but needful symbiosis in higher education systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Stefano Mustica
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

Abstract The first purpose of the university system is to deliver qualitative education through solid didactics/educational, but not many university structures seem really interested in the subject. Sets of laws, measures, rules, and prescriptions of all kinds are in fact relegating it to a corner, making it less and less central and effective while also increasing the difficult to decipher, update and innovate it. As a matter of fact, the issue of modernization of teaching methods has been tackled decisively by the European Commission, which has placed it among the priorities of its agenda. By acting in this way, EU is manifesting the conviction that a better quality for higher education will determine a growth in development and competitiveness not only for the Union itself but also for the individual universities that will define a strategy to improve the level of their teaching and learning and to give equal importance to research and teaching. In its report on the theme of modernization and quality of teaching and learning, the European Commission summarizes its conclusions in 16 recommendations, including: - the need for adequate teaching training for teachers; - the need for the merits of teachers who make a significant contribution to improving teaching and learning methods to be recognized and rewarded. But in order to achieve such quality prospects, it is necessary for university teachers to combine the knowledge of their discipline with specific communicative, cognitive and, more generally, relational skills. All this must become a principle of the university teaching of the future. However, on a practical level, it is not uncommon to meet teachers who are not sufficiently attentive to these dimensions of the teaching-learning dynamic, failing to identify the “language” capable of transferring their theoretical/practical knowledge in the function of real learning of the student.

scholarly journals PÉDAGOGIE UNIVERSITAIRE RÉNOVÉE À L’ÉPOQUE DE LA PANDÉMIE : COMMENT PASSER DE L’AUTRE CÔTÉ DE L’ÉCRAN ?

Neofilolog ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 249-264
Author(s):  
Jolanta Sujecka-Zając
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The State ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Virtual Classes ◽  
Pedagogie Universitaire ◽  
The University

The 2020/2021 pandemic year has been difficult for teachers at all levels of education including higher education. There was a need to switch quickly to another type of education that would achieve the same objectives as before. How did the university teachers face this challenge? What consequences have been drawn for university teaching in general? We propose to take a global perspective of the state of current university pedagogy to highlight the need to renovate its approaches and to put the learner at the center of the process so to provide pedagogical support in his learning. We will analyze the results of three surveys concerning remote teaching and learning in Poland and in Europe. Finally, we will show what tools can be used to better monitor students` learning in virtual classes. 

Exploring Intercultural Communication Through the Act of Translation in Subtitling

2020 ◽  
pp. 794-810
Author(s):  
Duo Luan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Practice ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The University

This chapter explores how intercultural teaching and learning can take place through the practical act of translation in subtitling. The method discussed in this chapter uses audio-visual media in the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in higher education (HE). Translation in Subtitling is an undergraduate course offered to students with advanced Chinese competencies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in the United Kingdom. This applied language practice develops advanced skills in intercultural communicative competence (ICC) to students working on projects related to specific professional and cultural contexts. The audio-visual-driven course and its workshop style aim to provide a practical and fun intercultural learning experience, as well as to enhance employability by preparing students to work in a Chinese linguistic environment.

scholarly journals Analyze students' learning processes to innovate university teaching. The Formative Educational Evaluation model of the University of Bologna

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Balzaretti ◽  
Elena Luppi ◽  
Dina Guglielmi ◽  
Ira Vannini
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Educational Evaluation ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Pilot Studies ◽  
The University

The article aims to highlight how the knowledge of university students' characteristics is a key-point for planning innovative teaching. The Bologna University Project refers to a Formative Educational Evaluation model, which is focused on higher education teaching skills and aims to have an impact on teaching and learning processes' multiple levels and dimensions, in a diachronic perspective. The application of the model to different academic contexts of the University of Bologna was carried on by two evaluation research pilot studies with "Nursing" and "Economics and Finance" (CLEF) Degree teachers. This model includes evaluation actions specifically oriented in the formative sense (analysis and progressive re-planning of teaching actions supported by ad hoc higher education teachers training interventions) in order to promote teachers' capacity for reflection, self-analysis of their teaching practices and specific training actions based on innovative methodologies

scholarly journals PROCESSOS COMPARTILHADOS DE FORMAÇÃO PEDAGÓGICA NO ENSINO SUPERIOR (SHARED PROCESSES OF PEDAGOGICAL FORMATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION) - Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5212/OlharProfr.v.11i2.313325

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elenice Maria Cammarosano Onofre
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Pedagogical Knowledge ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Activity ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
The University

Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar reflexões sobre os processos de ensino e aprendizagem no ensino de graduação, tendo em vista o significado que coordenadores de curso e docentes conferem ao papel de autores e atores da atividade docente em seu cotidiano, buscando substituir formas individualistas e solitárias de trabalho por processos compartilhados, construindo vínculos, expondo-se e deixando-se conhecer, posturas essas nem sempre presentes no contexto do Ensino Superior. Pensar a universidade como instituição educativa, colocando o ensino ao lado da pesquisa e da extensão, constitui-se um desafio para a docência — considerada atividade menos nobre na academia —, uma vez que se propõe ir além do domínio restrito de uma área do conhecimento, buscando desenvolver um saber pedagógico igualmente necessário ao fazer docente.   Palavras-chave: Docência universitária. Processos compartilhados de formação. Ensino de graduação.   This article aims to present reflections on the processes of teaching and learning in the graduate education, focusing on the meaning that course coordinators and teachers give to the role of authors and actors of the teaching activity in their daily routines, trying to substitute individual and solitary forms of work for shared processes, building bonds, exposing themselves and letting themselves known, postures which have not always been present in the higher education context. Considering the university as an educational institution, placing education next to research and extension, consists of a challenge for the teaching activity – considered the least noble activity in the university –, once it aims to go beyond the restricted domain of an area of knowledge, searching for the development of pedagogical knowledge equally necessary to the teaching activity.   Keywords: University teaching. Shared processes of formation. Graduate education.

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