Transitions and Transformations

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-176
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Funds Of Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Integrative Learning ◽  
Activity System ◽  
Expansive Learning ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
The University ◽  
Bidirectional Flow

University-community engagement involves the co-construction of “knots of collaboration” that must be reconstructed again and again in ever-changing contexts in which participants necessarily expand their perspectives on the task at hand. This chapter provides a greater understanding of this process of integrative learning and its relation to expansive learning by viewing the historical development of UC Links programs such as La Clase Mágica through the trifocal lens of the sociotechnical activity system. The example of LCM demonstrates how, as university and community participants engage, they find overlaps in their diverse perspectives and begin to integrate them. In this expansive learning process, the university and community participants come to approach each other as equal partners in mutual relations of exchange that provide for the bidirectional flow of cultural knowledge between disparate and often irreconcilable cultural systems, and for the integration of multiple funds of knowledge.

The CTSA Mandate: Are We There Yet?

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn M. Sampselle ◽  
Kenneth J. Pienta ◽  
Dorene S. Markel
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Health Priorities ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Front Line ◽  
The University ◽  
Bidirectional Flow ◽  
Flow Of Information

The ultimate aim of the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) initiative is to accelerate the movement of discoveries that can benefit human health into widespread public use. To accomplish this translational mandate, the contributions of multiple disciplines, such as dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, public health, biostatistics, epidemiology, and bioengineering, are required in addition to medicine. The research community is also mandated to establish new partnerships with organized patient communities and front line health care providers to assure the bidirectional flow of information in order that health priorities experienced by the community inform the research agenda. This article summarizes current clinical research directives, the experience of the University of Michigan faculty during the first 2 years of CTSA support, and recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of future CTSA as well as other interdisciplinary initiatives. While the manuscript focuses most closely on the CTSA Community Engagement mission, the challenges to interdisciplinarity and bidirectionality extend beyond the focus of community engagement.

scholarly journals The Necessity of Endowing EFL Learners with the Fifth Language Skill: A Key to a Successful Learning Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-348
Author(s):  
Fatma ZAGHAR ◽  
El-Alia Wafaâ ZAGHAR
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
The Status ◽  
Cultural Component ◽  
The University

In this increasingly interconnected epoch, the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) along with culture that is considered as a fifth skill has become inevitable. Therefore, EFL teachers are impelled to introduce cultural instruction in their classes. They are then advised to combine the teaching of language skills with the foreign culture because it prepares their learners to behave successfully in intercultural encounters, gain solid cultural knowledge, overcome cultural obstacles, and promote their cultural awareness. The main questions addressed in this research focus on the inclusion of the cultural component in language subjects’ syllabuses, and the type of teaching strategies that can ameliorate the status of cultural instruction. This study points out the key importance of implementing intercultural information in EFL contexts founded on a case study undertaken at the University of Oran 2 in Algeria. This paper targeted a group of Master II students by using an array of data collection means including a questionnaire given to the learners, an interview done with the teachers, and classroom observation sessions carried out by the researchers. The major aims of this work were to verify the learners’ perceptions of cultural learning, and outfit students with core foundations of culture. The results demonstrated that the incorporated teaching techniques have enriched the students’ cultural understanding and intensified their linguistic adeptnesses. It is suggested that these teaching initiatives can aid learners be compassionate, understandable, and tolerant human beings.

scholarly journals Developing creative product designs inspired by ethnic cultural heritage

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiphe Nani Setlhatlhanyo ◽  
Odireleng Marope ◽  
Richie Moalosi ◽  
Oanthata Jester Sealetsa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
University Of Botswana ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
The University

Due to colonisation and globalisation, ethnic cultures are changing and Botswana’s ethnic cultures are no exception to this change. This study aims to explore how the ethnic culture of different tribes in Botswana can be used to inspire the design of new products. A case study was conducted with students at the University of Botswana on particular themes of ethnic cultural knowledge, which inspired them to design futuristic innovative products. Visual analysis was used to assess the student designs for how they informed current trends without distorting their ethnic cultural meaning. The findings indicated that students were able to design using their own cultural heritage, to work in teams, thus, attaining soft skills, and to modernise ethnic cultural symbols to design symbolic, innovative, and futuristic products.

Injuries of Class: Mass Education and the American Campus Novel

PMLA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Findeisen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Mass Education ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Campus ◽  
American Society ◽  
The University

Although many believe that “mass higher education” increased opportunity and egalitarianism in postwar American society, the reality has been quite different. While a greater proportion of students are enrolled in higher-educational institutions now than at any other point in history, economic inequality is at an all-time high. Postwar American campus novels largely misunderstand this historical development. While the genre represents the university as an institution that combats social inequality by expanding enrollment, these novels simultaneously obscure the social inequality that the university cannot combat and instead helps to legitimate. The symbolic work of American campus novels has thus been to imagine a system that stages social conflicts between the deserving and the elite when in fact the postwar meritocracy has made the two categories functionally indistinguishable.

PER UN ARCHIVIO DELLA CORRISPONDENZA DEGLI SCIENZIATI ITALIANI

Nuncius ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 681-719
Author(s):  
LUCIANO CARBONE ◽  
FRANCO PALLADINO ◽  
ROMANO GATTO
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Mathematical Research ◽  
Conic Sections ◽  
Kingdom Of Naples ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
The University

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title Federico Amodeo (1859-1946) was a mathematician and a historian of the mathematical sciences. As a mathematician he was "libero docente" at the University of Naples. His interests extended from projective to algebric geometry and his mathematical research was carried out for the most part from the mid-1880s until the end of the nineteenth century. As a historian he was active from the first years of the twentieth century until his death. In this capacity he was interested in mathematics, mathematicians and institutions in the Kingdom of Naples (later the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, from 1815), and also in the historical development of analytical and projective geometry and the history of conic sections. He held the chair in History of Mathematics in the University of Naples from 1905 until 1910, the year in which the chair was suppressed. Nonetheless he continued to teach this subject as a "libero docente" until 1923. Here we present the list of more than 1.300 writings, constituting his Correspondence, amongst which the letters of Castelnuovo, Pascal, Peano, Segre and Achille Sannia are of particular significance. We also present the complete list of his publications, reconstructed thanks to the consultation of incomplete printed bibliographies and a manuscript list.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF PBL MODEL ON STUDY PROGRAM OF GEODESY AT THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, CIVIL ENGINEERING AND GEODESY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BANJALUKA

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dajana Todorović ◽  
Tanja Fržović ◽  
Branko Božić
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
The University ◽  
Pbl Model ◽  
A Current

The subject of this paper is the application of the PBL model in the teaching process of the first cycle of studies at the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy. The meaning of the term PBL model and its basic characteristics as well as its historical development are described. The application of PBL to SP Geodesy and evaluation of its implementation on the example of a current subject are presented.

scholarly journals The formation of a multicultural space as a real necessity of modern education

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 12159
Author(s):  
Valentina Demchenko ◽  
Ekaterina Egorova
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University ◽  
Language Competencies

The purpose of this study is to develop a model of the multicultural space of the university. The objectives of the research are to analyze the multicultural approach to education, its principles, methods, technologies and advantages for creating a safe educational space in the conditions of a modern intercultural society. The formation of a multicultural space in the university allows us to determine the main tasks and guidelines of the educational process, including: the socio-cultural approach to the organization of multicultural education; the priority of the relationship between language and culture; maximum personal development with a wide range of foreign language competencies. The research methodology is based on ethnographic, cross-cultural and semiotic methods of studying cultural systems and cross-cultural situations. As a result of the research, the principles, methods, and innovative pedagogical technologies of implementing the educational process in the conditions of intercultural interaction between students and university teachers are described and classified. The study presents a descriptive model of the multicultural space of the Russian university.

scholarly journals ONE SETTLER STUDENT’S STORY ON INCORPORATING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES IN ENGINEERING CURRICULA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Thomsen ◽  
Jill Seniuk Cicek ◽  
Afua Mante ◽  
Shawn Bailey ◽  
Farhoud Delijani
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Indigenous Knowledges ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The University of Manitoba Price Faculty of Engineering is actively working on initiatives to increaseIndigenous representation and ideology in engineering education. The initiatives aim to create ethical and equitable space for Indigenous Peoples, so their knowledges and perspectives are visible and valued in the Price Faculty of Engineering community. An Elder-in- Resident presented to an engineering ethics class the realities Indigenous communities face and how to work with Indigenous Peoples at the intersection of engineering projects such as oil and gas, hydroelectricity, andcommunity infrastructure. This study uses the threedimensional space narrative methodology and boundarycrossing theory to realize the impact on students’ learning.  The student’s perspective negotiated and represented in this study acts as an artifact of boundary crossing and provides insight into the exchange of cross-cultural knowledge. Findings reveal a distinction between relationship and knowledge, where knowledge exchange is dependent on the relationship between people. Key factors contributing to a relationship include identifying each other’s historical backgrounds; situational contexts, and values, which require active listening; genuine curiosity; empathy; and time. The research presented in this paper is part of a more extensive case study exploring the impact onstudents’ learning when integrating Indigenous knowledges and perspectives into engineering education and is approved by the University of Manitoba’s Research Ethics Board.

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