scholarly journals Introduction of didactic principles in the “Floriculture and ornamental gardening” academic subject

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
M. O. Antonets ◽  
O. A. Antonets
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Plant Breeding ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Formative Experiment ◽  
Academic Subject ◽  
Ornamental Horticulture

The urgency of the topic is due to the search for new didactic principles and their introduction into the teaching of the discipline “Floriculture and ornamental gardening” at the Department of Plant Breeding PSAU. The study was conducted in 2019–2021 by the method of included observation and formative experiment among applicants for higher education 2nd year of the Faculty of Agrotechnology and Ecology, specialty 201 Agronomy. The introduction of four didactic principles, namely responsibility, patriotism, environmental and aesthetic principles, in the teaching of the discipline “Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture” promotes the education of spiritually mature, intelligent and hard-working professionals in the agricultural sector of Ukraine.

scholarly journals Gender Difference in Households’ Expenditure on Higher Education: Evidence from Mongolia

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-244
Author(s):  
Tansaya Khajikhan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Education Expenditure ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Educational Expenditure ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Household Heads

AbstractThe existing evidence suggests that there is a reverse gender gap in higher education in Mongolia. Prior studies on the reverse gender gap in education were based on the gross enrolment rates and did not delve deeper in terms of using empirical data analyzed over an extended time-period. This paper investigates gender bias in the households’ expenditure on higher education and tracks changes over the ten-year period from 2008 to 2018 using empirical data. In this regard, this study examines the factors and determinants responsible for the gender bias in the households’ expenditure on higher education. To address these questions, the study employs the Engel Curve approach (unconditional educational expenditure) and Hurdle model, which estimates bias in the enrolment decisions and bias in the conditional educational expenditure, both at the household and individual level in 2008 and 2018, using the Household Socio-Economic Survey of Mongolia. Its findings illustrate that gender bias in households’ expenditure on higher education does exist, and it favors girls over boys at the household and individual levels in 2008 and 2018. The findings show that households allocate a greater share of education expenditure to females aged 16–18 and 19–24 than to their male counterparts. Statistical analysis suggests that households’ residence and the occupation of household heads are two important factors affecting this gender bias. Thus, if a household resides in the countryside and its head is employed in the agricultural sector, female offspring are more likely to receive higher education than male offspring. Traditional gender roles and the Mongolian way of life, which centers around attending to livestock and requiring a male labor force and the wage gap, are contextual factors that help explain this gender bias.

scholarly journals Contributions of the Instituto Agronômico (IAC) for plant breeding

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (spe) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio Augusto Morais Carbonell ◽  
Oliveiro Guerreiro Filho ◽  
Walter José Siqueira
Keyword(s):  
Plant Breeding ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Registration Service ◽  
Made In

The Instituto Agronômico (IAC) is a public institution that was founded in 1887 and has the mission of generating science and transferring technologies for the agricultural sector. This paper describes the main achievements in plant breeding and the use of IAC's cultivars. The impact in the agribusiness sector is demonstrated by the release of research results, especially in the form of products such as seeds and seedlings of 90 species. Out of these, 955 cultivars were properly described, characterized and made available to farmers (636 of them are registered in the National Cultivar Registration Service). Between 1932 and 2012, IAC released an average of 12 cultivars per year, and in the period of 2003 to 2012, 185 cultivars were registered (one new cultivar every 20 days). The results can be evaluated by the representativeness of IAC in the use, customs and food preferences, among other possible measurements on the economic impact and/or return on investments made in the Institution.

Determinants of entrepreneurial alertness: towards sustainable agribusiness development

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nematollah Shiri ◽  
Hossein Mehdizadeh ◽  
Mojgan Khoshmaram ◽  
Hossein Azadi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurial Alertness ◽  
Agricultural Students ◽  
Iranian Students ◽  
The Impact

PurposeEntrepreneurship is known to be important to the economy, and many scholars across the globe have researched it from a number of viewpoints. Currently, there is a need for an academic study to explore this area by combining sustainability value creating practices and the efforts of current entrepreneurs towards the said target, particularly in the case of the agricultural sector. While the entrepreneurship studies have mostly focused on the determinants of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition, few studies have attempted to analyze the factors influencing the entrepreneurial alertness (EA) of students, especially in relation to agricultural students. To fill this gap, this work investigated the impact of human and social capital on EA among the students of agricultural higher education in Iran.Design/methodology/approachThe sample consisted of 254 agricultural students in higher education from Ilam province in the Islamic Republic of Iran, selected by the stratified random sampling method for the study. Modeling of structural equations was used in inferential statistics.FindingsAccording to the results of the trial, human resources and social capital (SC) have been seen to have a strong, optimistic and measurable impact on EA. Key findings also show that human capital (HC) has an indirect, optimistic and important effect on EA through the mediator role of SC. Establishing higher education science teams, groups, networks and associations can foster opportunities to create and develop relationships and communication between agricultural students and entrepreneurs.Originality/valueThese findings illustrate the value of human and social resources in fostering entrepreneurship alertness among Iranian students of agricultural higher education. Considering the research results, the authors recommend some theoretical and realistic implications and suggestions for ways of promoting and increasing EA among farm students to encourage sustainable growth of agricultural careers in western Iran.

scholarly journals Recommendation on Correction of Female Students Physical State of Special Medical Group

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olesya Pletneva ◽  
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Galina Yamaletdinova ◽  
Marina Spirina ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Physical Condition ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Functional Fitness ◽  
Medical Group ◽  
Formative Experiment ◽  
Fitness Indicators

Physical education in modern higher education should contribute to an effective solution to reduce student morbidity. Therefore, one of the promising directions for improving the system of physical education in higher education institutions is the development of sound didactic techniques and methods that provide a comprehensive solution to the problem in question. The aim of the study is to develop recommendations for the correction of the physical condition of female students belonging to special medical groups, contributing to the improvement of the physical condition of these female students. The methods used were the theoretical analysis of literature, generalisation, the study of practical experience, self-observation, testing, a formative experiment and methods of mathematical statistics. The participants in the study were female first-year medical students in a special medical group comprised of 40 persons. The proposed recommendation for physical condition correction includes the exercises of Pletnev and Pilatas, their methodology and sequence of performance; components of physical activity considering the functional capabilities of female students. Upon the conclusion of the study, there was a significant improvement in health, endurance, strength and speed indicators. The growth rate of physical fitness indicators in the experimental group increased from 36.35 % to 49.21 %, and less significantly in the control group from 8.20 % to 22.02 %, the number of students with a higher level of health increased from 20 to 40 and decreased from 20 to 10, respectively. Thus, the proposed organisational-methodological recommendations make it possible to increase the level of physical and functional fitness of female students of the special medical group and to strengthen their physical health.

scholarly journals The activity approach implementation in the formation of students’ general technical competencies

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (26) ◽  
pp. 205-210
Author(s):  
Mikhail Semenovich Ivanov ◽  
Tatyana Alekseevna Parnikova ◽  
Vladimir Petrovich Gulyaev ◽  
Nikolay Vadimovich Petrov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Learning Interest ◽  
General Technical

Intensive reform of the higher education system requires a significant modernization of pedagogical technologies, methods and techniques used in the implementation of educational standards for the preparation of bachelors and specialists in all sectors of the economy. The practice of training engineering specialists for the agricultural sector of a region with a developed mining sector of the economy reveals deep roots of the objectively existing contradictions mentioned above. This article provides a summary of research results obtained during classes in the following disciplines of the general professional cycle: Resistance of Materials, Machine Parts, Engineering Technology. New paradigm of competency-based, activity approaches to the level of higher education should be adequately expressed by new pedagogical, educational and methodological developments. The modern educational and equipment status of most educational institutions allows active realizing innovative pedagogical technologies and methods, the effectiveness of which increases when they adapt to the mental characteristics of certain categories of students. The article outlines the main features for the development and implementation of practice-oriented classes activating and stimulating students' cognitive interest in mastering the necessary professional competencies in the study of general technical disciplines. The emergence and further maintenance of learning interest in the study of general technical disciplines by the rural youth among the students requires a full consideration of their personal experience, the mentality of a person brought up in the circumstances of purely practical everyday life. Therefore, a significant increase in the share of practice-oriented classes using the methods and techniques of the activity approach is probably the only way to stimulate and maintain the students’ learning interest.

scholarly journals Exploring critical conceptual space in hospitality higher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Kelvin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Conceptual Space ◽  
Academic Subject ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Alternative Approaches

This article employs criticality, a concept that embodies various intellectual values, to evaluate the forms and degree of criticality currently manifested in hospitality higher education. Criticality is discussed in relation to the academic well-being of hospitality as an academic subject. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 55 academics working in nine universities in the United Kingdom, capturing how they interpret criticality in relation to teaching hospitality courses and conducting hospitality research. The study revealed that conceptualizations of criticality in relation to the academic subject of hospitality largely occupy an uncritical conceptual space. Hospitality is restrictively understood with its commercial manifestations, namely ‘the hotel industry’, with alternative understandings of hospitality and hospitality offerings largely missing. The primary purpose of teaching criticality is perceived as an essential competency crucial for graduate employability. Critical research is perceived as studies that are relevant and applicable to ‘the hotel industry’. The conceptualizations of criticality revealed an unwelcoming academic community, whereby a dismissive attitude was expressed towards alternative approaches to the study of hospitality. With the prevalent neo-liberal influences on higher education, an uncritical conceptual space of hospitality raises serious concerns regarding the future development of hospitality as an academic subject in higher education.

scholarly journals 418 Results of an Ornamental Horticulture Survey Conducted at High Schools in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin

HortScience ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 465C-465
Author(s):  
Michael E. Compton
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
University Students ◽  
Plant Breeding ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Soil Science ◽  
Ornamental Horticulture ◽  
High School Freshman ◽  
Breeding And Genetics ◽  
Turfgrass Management

Fifty high schools were surveyed in northwestern Illinois, northeastern Iowa, southeastern Minnesota, and Wisconsin to determine the number of students interested in pursuing a horticulture degree at a 4-year university. Students were asked several questions pertaining to horticulture. About 45% of our surveys were returned. Of the 451 surveys received, about 47% of the high school freshman, sophomore, junior, and seniors indicated that they were interested in horticulture. About 41% of the students interested in horticulture wanted to work in landscaping, 20% greenhouse, 14% florist shop, and 7% in turfgrass management. About 70% of the students indicated that they wanted to own and operate their own horticultural business. Almost 53% of the students indicated that they would prefer an emphasis/minor in Agribusiness or Business Administration compared to plant and soil science (19%), biotechnology (14%), plant breeding and genetics (13%), or comprehensive horticulture (1%) in combination with their horticulture degree. The above information was used by our School of Agriculture and Depts. of Biology and Business and Accounting to develop a major in Ornamental Horticulture.

scholarly journals Activating model of professional training of persons with disabilities as competitive specialists in higher education establishment

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3A) ◽  
pp. 235-244
Author(s):  
Tatyana I. Bonkalo ◽  
Svetlana V. Shmeleva ◽  
Veronika V. Nazarenko ◽  
Vladimir Yu. Karpov ◽  
Nikita V. Logachev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Formative Experiment ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

The purpose of the study is Assess the effectiveness of an activating model of vocational training at a university for persons with disabilities as competitive specialists. The developed model was implemented in a formative experiment that lasted from 2014 to 2018 – from the 1st to the 4th year of higher education programs in different training areas. The experimental group consisted of 18 inclusive student groups, where 416 students graduated in 2018, 71 were graduate students with disabilities. The proof of the effectiveness of the developed model is the fact that the percentage distribution of students with disabilities, who made up the experimental and control groups, according to the levels of their academic, practical, and personal readiness, significantly differed from each other by the end of the experiment. The variety of teaching methods, the alternation of traditional, standard methods with methods of activating cognitive activity, even without the use of special technical means, determine the success of memorizing educational and scientific information by persons with disabilities.

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