scholarly journals Who is we? Attending to similarity and difference as discourse praxis in the university classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-27
Author(s):  
Collective on Praxis in Health Sciences Education

The word we evokes ideas of both belongingness and non-belongingness through its ability to create constellations of solidarity and exclusion. In education, its use has the power to draw invisible yet substantial lines between dominant and counter-hegemonic ideologies—and teachers and students—in ways that dynamically influence the operation of power between actors. Reflections emerging from a collaborative partnership between a student, teaching assistants, and professor during an undergraduate course on sex/gender and health revealed significant opportunities for critical pedagogical practice around we. This paper analyzes how we and related terms (like they, us, them, etc.) function in the higher education classroom and offers our analysis into the possibilities of using we as a starting point for anti-oppressive and reflexive educational praxis. Ultimately, we contend that we has the potential to work as an intervention countering dominant ideologies and normative assumptions operating in the classroom.

Author(s):  
Kush Bubbar ◽  
Alexandros Dimopoulos ◽  
Cynthia Korpan ◽  
Peter Wild

As engineering education strives to progress towards a student-centric learning model, a competency gap with future educators becomes more apparent. In particular, the expectation of graduate student teaching assistants (GTAs) in attaining teaching competency to support this dynamic learning environment, often without sufficient training, is unrealistic.In the following paper, we present an implementation of the flexible Teaching Assistant Consultant (TAC) program, which serves to support the development of novice GTA competencies using a discipline-specific model with emphasis on assisting the unique challenges of international teaching assistants.We introduce the specific role of the TAC in terms of core principles and deliverables, and the strategic structure of the campus wide program at the University of Victoria. We conclude by detailing the specific implementation of the program in engineering by illustrating the role and deliverables of the engineering TAC.


GEOgraphia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (50) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clesley Maria Tavares do Nascimento ◽  
Anderson Felipe Santos Oliveira

O presente artigo foi concebido para discorrer as reflexões geradas a partir do projeto de iniciação científica Janela Geográfica realizado por professoras e estudantes da Universidade Regional do Cariri (URCA). Tendo como objetivo geral desenvolver a autonomia e o senso crítico dos graduandos através da produção de vídeos para utilizá-los como ferramenta didático-pedagógica no processo de ensino-aprendizagem do saber geográfico, dentro e fora da universidade. A educomunicação e o holismo foram os pilares teóricos norteadores do percurso metodológico dessa pesquisa-ação. O vídeo Paisagem expressão de vivência é um resultado imagético de uma discussão maior sobre trabalhar no ensino de geografia a educomunicação e o holismo. GEOGRAPHIC WINDOW, A HOLISTIC EDUCOMMUNICATIVE EXPERIENCE IN GEOGRAPHY TEACHING Abstract: This article was designed to discuss the reflections generated from the scientific initiation project: Geographic Window, which was carried out by teachers and students at the Universidade Regional do Cariri (URCA), with the general objective of developing the autonomy and critical sense of students, through the production of videos to use them as didactic-pedagogical tools in the teaching-learning process of geographic knowledge, inside and outside the university. Educommunication and holism were the theoretical pillars that guided the methodological path of this action research. The video “Landscape expression of experience” is an imaginary result of a larger discussion about working, in the teaching of Geography, Educommunication and holism. The collective construction of this generated debates on the theme addressed and prompted reflections on pedagogical practice, in addition to enabling the development of skills and competences related to audiovisual language.Keywords: Video. Geography teaching. Educommunication. Holism. VENTANA GEOGRÁFICA, UNA EXPERIENCIA EDUCOMUNICATIVA HOLÍSTICA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DE LA GEOGRAFÍA Resumen: Este artículo fue diseñado para discutir las reflexiones generadas a partir del proyecto de iniciación científica: Ventana Geográfica, que fue realizado por docentes y estudiantes de la Universidade Regional de Cariri (URCA), con el objetivo general de desarrollar la autonomía y el sentido crítico de los estudiantes de pregrado, mediante la producción de videos para utilizarlos como herramientas didáctico-pedagógicas en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje del conocimiento geográfico, dentro y fuera de la universidad. La educomunicación y el holismo fueron los pilares teóricos que guiaron el camino metodológico de esta investigación acción. El video “Paisaje expresión de la experiencia” es el resultado imaginario de una discusión más amplia sobre el trabajo, en la enseñanza de la Geografía, la Educomunicación y el holismo. La construcción colectiva de éste generó debates sobre el tema abordado y suscitó reflexiones sobre la práctica pedagógica, además de posibilitar el desarrollo de habilidades y competencias relacionadas con el lenguaje audiovisual.Palabras clave: Video. Enseñanza de la geografía. Educomunicación. Holismo.


1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-284
Author(s):  
Wilmer K. Schnure

In the fall of 1972, the Department of Humanities of the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan adopted a lecture-recitation format for its required course in scientific and technical communication. The recitations were conducted by graduate student teaching assistants of which I was one. Though I found my educational background, which was in electrical engineering, to be an advantage rather than a disadvantage in many ways, there were certain aspects of the department, the course, and the teaching techniques of my colleagues that I did not originally anticipate. This article presents some of these.


Professare ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Sardi

<p class="resumoabstract">La residencia docente en el Profesorado en Letras universitario se presenta como una instancia de intervención en escuelas secundarias donde la dimensión de los cuerpos y las corporalidades se escenifica dando cuenta de experiencias corporales diversas que, en algunos casos, entran en tensión en el territorio del aula. Es allí donde aparece la pregunta acerca del cuerpo y sus límites, de las formas de vincularse con el cuerpo propio y con los cuerpos de los otros/as.En este artículo nos proponemos analizar –a partir de registros de clase y entrevistas de profesores/as en formación- cómo al momento de entrada en la escuela, los/as profesores/as en formación toman conciencia de su cuerpo sexuado en relación con los cuerpos de los/as estudiantes. Y es ahí, en ese vínculo tensionado donde, como señala Rella (2004), se escenifica el cuerpo en tanto “límite y lo que lo excede, confín y lo que está más allá” (12). Asimismo, en tanto juego dialéctico, los cuerpos de docentes y estudiantes se mueven midiendo el espacio y la relación con los demás cuerpos (RELLA, 2004); en ese territorio se muestran los cuerpos docentes plegados sobre sí mismos – a veces, atravesados por la vergüenza- y los cuerpos festivos (DIEZ, 2010) de los/as jóvenes estudiantes.</p><p class="resumoabstract"><strong>Palabras-clave</strong>: Residencia docente. Cuerpos. Contexto escolar.</p><h3>ABSTRACT</h3><p class="resumoabstract">Student teaching at the university Language and Literature Teacher Training Course stands as an example of the intervention there is in secondary schools, in which the dimension of the bodies and of corporealities is staged, thus acknowledging diverse bodily experiences, which, in some cases, come into tension in the classroom environment. It is in the early teacher training course, where there raises the question about the body ant its boundaries, about the way to connect to one’s body and with the bodies of others. In this article we set out to analyze –from class records and interviews to teachers-in-training– how it is that, ever since the first moment they enter the school, the teachers-in-training become aware of their sexed body in relation to the students’ bodies. And it is there, in that tensed connection, where, as Rella (2004) points out, the body becomes staged inasmuch as it is “a boundary and what exceeds that boundary, an edge and what is beyond it”<a title="" href="https://d.docs.live.net/2a02ec9296c4390c/UNIARP/Revistas%20Cientificas/Professare/2018v7n1/final/PROFESSARE_V.7_N.1_15_2018.docx#_ftn1">[1]</a> (12). Additionally, as a dialectic game, the bodies of teachers and students move measuring the space and their relation to the other bodies (RELLA, 2004); in this territory, the teachers’ bodies are shown folded upon themselves –sometimes experiencing embarrassment– before the young students’ festive bodies (DIEZ, 2010).</p><p class="resumoabstract"><strong>Keywords</strong>: Teacher training. Bodies. School context.</p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div><p class="Textodenotaderodap1"><a title="" href="https://d.docs.live.net/2a02ec9296c4390c/UNIARP/Revistas%20Cientificas/Professare/2018v7n1/final/PROFESSARE_V.7_N.1_15_2018.docx#_ftnref1">[1]</a> Todas las traducciones de las citas son nuestras.</p></div></div>


1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-184
Author(s):  
Ellen McCullough

Children, who otherwise would not have had music teachers, experienced music though ‘Project Experience’, a co-operative music education laboratory designed by the University of New Mexico Department of Music and the Albuquerque, New Mexico, Public School District. ‘Project Experience’ provided university music students with the opportunity to teach music to children prior to student teaching practice; raised the consciousness of parents, teachers, and students about the importance of music in the schools; and assisted in easing the pinch upon a school district forced to tighten its financial belt.


Author(s):  
Michael Gallagher ◽  
Markus Breines ◽  
Myles Blaney

Abstract The steady migration of higher education online has accelerated in the wake of Covid-19. The implications of this migration on critical praxis—the theory-in-practice of pedagogy—deserve further scrutiny. This paper explores how teacher and student-led educational technology research and development can help rethink online critical praxis. The paper is based on a recent research project at the University of Edinburgh that speculatively explored the potential for automation in teaching, which generated insights into current and future pedagogical practice among both teachers and students. From this project emerged a series of pedagogical positions that were centred around visions of the future of teaching in response to automation: the pedagogical potential of visibility and invisibility online, transparency, and interrogating the hidden curricula of both higher education and educational technology itself. Through the surfacing of these pedagogical positions, this paper explores how critical pedagogy can be built into the broader teacher function and begins to identify the institutional structures that could potentially impede or accelerate that process.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Takaaki Hiratsuka

Research on the experiences of international student teaching assistants (TAs) in the context of Japan is scarce even though for the majority of TAs the position provides them with their first experience of being an educator at the university level. In this research, I used an action research methodology to better understand and improve the quality of classroom life with three international student TAs. Data were gathered, using interviews, picture drawing, and classroom field notes. Overall, there was an agreement among the participants that the action research endeavor enabled them to feel empowered as teacher professionals in that they reported increases in both their collaboration with me (the course instructor) and the frequency and quality of their engagements with their students. They also noted that the feedback they received from and offered to me became more insightful and wide-ranging. I will conclude this article with my recommendations for future research on TAs.


Author(s):  
Jorge Daher Nader ◽  
Amelia Patricia Panunzio ◽  
Marlene Hernández Navarro

Research is considered a function aimed at obtaining new knowledge and its application for the solution to problems or questions of a scientific nature, The universities framed in the fulfillment of their social function have a complex task given by training a competent professional who assumes research as part of their training and who learns to ask questions that they are able to solve through scientific research.  Scientific research is an indicator of the quality of processes in the university environment, so it must be increased by virtue of the results of the work carried out by research teachers and students the objective of this work is to know the perception of the teachers of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Guayaquil about the scientific activity. Objective: to know the perception of the teachers of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Guayaquil about the scientific activity. Methods: theoretical and empirical level were used, a questionnaire with closed questions aimed at knowing the opinions on the research activity in this institution was applied. Result: that of the sample analyzed 309 (39.3%) said they agreed with the training for the writing of scientific articles. 38.6% said they agree with the training on research projects. Conclusion: that teacher’s research should be enhanced to ensure the formation and development of research skills in students.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-244
Author(s):  
Elena A. M. Gandini ◽  
Tania Horák

AbstractThis contribution reports on the developing and piloting of a computer-based version of the test of English as a foreign language produced by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), where it is currently used for the admission of international students and the subsequent evaluation of their language progress. Among other benefits, computer-based testing allows for better and individualised feedback to both teachers and students, and it can provide a more authentic test experience in light of the current digital shift that UK universities are undergoing. In particular, the qualitative improvement in the feedback available for test-takers and teachers was for us a crucial factor. Providing students with personalised feedback, that is, directly linked to their performance, has positive washforward, because it means we can guide their future learning, highlighting the areas they need to work on to improve their language skills and giving them suggestions on how to succeed in academia. Furthermore, explaining the meaning of test results in detail improves transparency and ultimately washback, as teachers can use the more accessible marking criteria, together with information on how their students performed, to review plans and schemes of work for subsequent courses.


2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 1068-1077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Cuenca ◽  
Mardi Schmeichel ◽  
Brandon M. Butler ◽  
Todd Dinkelman ◽  
Joseph R. Nichols

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