scholarly journals Zkušenosti z projektového přístupu ve výuce technologických předmětů na VŠCHT Praha – výuka pro praxi

2022 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-70
Author(s):  
Hugo Kittel
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Operational Program ◽  
The University ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Project Approach

A proposal was formulated at the University of Chemical Technology (UCT) Prague in 2016 to implement the project approach in teaching technology subjects. A grant was awarded for an Operational Program Research Development and Education project called "Education Improvement – UCT Prague Priority" from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. The project's main goals were that UCT graduates would understand the application of chemistry in practice simultaneously in the context of the given field of study, as well as the law, economy, safety and environmental impact, realize the importance of viability and profitability of technical projects, learn about usable methods applied in the implementation of technical projects, and get acquainted with the principles of creation of teams and team work. A team of teachers and outside consultants from practice have been created. Using the Internet and personal contacts, experience with the use of project approach in teaching at the Czech universities has been gathered. Experience from the project approach in teaching at UCT Prague has been summed up. Basic 12 modules of real-life technical projects have been defined and described in a Methodical Handbook which also includes a number of tools for students. A new subject has been created on the use of scheduling software. A total of 8 technology subjects have been selected for piloting of the project in 2018–2021, employing the created tools. The experience with teaching the pilot subjects was used in the lifelong education of the university teachers. The results will also be used for the teaching other technology subjects at UCT Prague. It can be expected that the project will contribute to a better employability of fresh graduates, their faster adaptation to the requirements of practice, a faster career growth, and that it will improve the feedback from graduates to the teaching staff and their activities at UCT Prague.

scholarly journals STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCE OF LEARNING ESP: FINDINGS FROM A CASE STUDY IN LITHUANIA

2019 ◽  
pp. 489
Author(s):  
Nijolė Burkšaitienė ◽  
Jolita Šliogerienė
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Team Work ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The University ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Personal Engagement

This study explores undergraduate students’ experience of learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and aims to reveal their views regarding university teachers’ and peers’ feedback provided to them during the course of ESP as well as to establish the students’ views regarding their own learning ESP. The present article reports on the results of a case study from a Lithuanian university. The data were collected from feedback questionnaires of 111 students in 11 study programmes. To analyse the data, quantitative methodology was used. The main conclusion of the present study is that most study participants viewed their own learning ESP at the university as a positive experience, i.e. the students were satisfied with their engagement in learning this study subject and considered that learning was aligned with teaching and assessment. The results of the study also demonstrated that the study participants considered that collaboration and team work fostered meaningful learning, as well as that peer feedback helped them to understand how to improve in learning ESP. It was established that students valued their teachers’ patience and personal engagement and that the teachers’ feedback improved the ways of learning ESP, encouraged them to think and analyse the content of the study material, and helped them to clarify things they did not understand learning on their own. 

Supporting English competence development in university teachers: Principles and practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-268
Author(s):  
Irina V. Kulamikhina ◽  
Zhanbota B. Esmurzaeva ◽  
Dinara G. Vasbieva ◽  
Aleksei Yu Alipichev
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Visual Thinking ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Content Design

In today’s world, the English language communicative competence is a major soft skill of university teachers which is needed for personal and professional fulfilment and career development. This study aimed at the design and practical realisation of the 72-hour English course stimulating the teaching staff’s engagement in language learning and English communicative competence development at the Omsk State Agrarian University. The authors have discussed the principles and approaches to the course content design and efficacy of four classroom management strategies: the use of real life communication situations, making presentations, visual thinking strategy and short-film-based discussions for developing EFL communicative competence in university teachers. The situational approach to the content design introduced ‘real-life’ communicative situations serving as a teaching method and an assessment tool. The participants of the course took an online test: ‘Evaluation of Readiness for The Certificate Exam in English’, developed by the Tomsk Polytechnic University, at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the course. Keywords: Communicative competence, adult language learning, university teaching staff, visual thinking, situational approach, communicative environment.

scholarly journals Political Repressions at Leningrad State University

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 1085-1106
Author(s):  
Andrey L. Belonogov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Background ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
State University ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Psychological Pressure ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
The University ◽  
Evidential Basis

This article analyses socio-biographical characteristics of the Leningrad State University (LGU) teaching staff, subjected to political repressions from 1935 to 1938. It determines the scale of repressions in LGU during the abovementioned period as well as identifies the groups of University teachers who were exposed to the highest risk of being repressed, taking into consideration their social background, party membership, ethnic origin, position in the University ranks, affiliation with a certain faculty or department, and other socio-biographical characteristics. Thus “socio-demographic portrait” of an average LGU teacher subjected to political repressions is formed within the framework of the current study. Apart from that, the article discusses the course of investigation and court proceedings, defining under which paragraph of Article 58 of RSFSR Criminal Code LGU teachers were sued. It specifies to what extent the severity of the verdict depended upon pleading guilty or not guilty by the accused, and upon which judicial or extrajudicial body the case was heard. Evidential basis used by investigators, including physical evidence, denunciations, incriminations and self-incriminations are also examined within this study. The efforts of NKVD to “reclassify” meetings between groups of fellow professors as “counterrevolutionary collusions of terrorists” are also considered in the article. At the same time, the article attempts to estimate the level of physical and psychological pressure to which suspects were exposed in the course of the trial in order to obtain from them the testimony needed for the prosecution. The study also traces the fate of the convicted LGU professors, namely the likelihood of them becoming the victims of subsequent political repressions after serving the sentence.

scholarly journals International Academic Exchange of Students and Teaching Staff in Human Geography Study Field: The Case of Klaipėda University / Visuomeninės geografijos studijų krypties studentų ir dėstytojų tarptautiniai akademiniai mainai: Klaipėdos universiteto atvejis

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
Daiva Verkulevičiūtė - Kriukienė ◽  
Angelija Bučienė
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Academic Exchange ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Universities

The participation in Erasmus and Erasmus+ programmes is the most popular form of mobility among the university teachers and other academic staff as well as students. The geographers of Klaipėda University can study in more than 20 universities of different regions of Europe, and the geography of studies expands from year to year. While studying in foreign countries, they not only deepen their knowledge, but also broaden the geographic scope, acquaint with new people and cultures, strengthen the knowledge of foreign language. From the other side, the students of foreign universities, having been chosen the geographic modules at Klaipėda University, have a possibility to see and learn about the nature of Western Lithuania, social and economic objects, the cultural environment. According to the foreign students, the studies are organized so, that academic staff is able to collaborate with each student immediately, and the atmosphere of studies is very good. Besides the foreign students, Klaipėda University receives also the foreign academic staff, organizes the international practices, develops the projects, and the academic staff of Klaipėda university has a possibility to visit the universities of foreign countries. Those visits give the invaluable benefit to the teachers, because one can receive more experience, and the newly adopted methods may be applied at Klaipėda University.

scholarly journals ALUMNI SURVEY FOR UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA DEPARTMENT OF BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.L. Mackie ◽  
D.D. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Team Work ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
The University ◽  
Competency Level ◽  
Alumni Survey

This paper presents the results of a survey of61 alumni from the University of Manitoba Department ofBiosystems Engineering. A three-section survey wasdeveloped to evaluate 12 attributes outlined by theCanadian Engineering Accreditation Board. The surveyrequested that alumni assess the 12 attributes in threeways: the importance of each attribute in their currentemployment, the level of preparedness they had receivedin each attribute from their education in the BiosystemsEngineering program, and the competency level requiredin each attribute by their current employment. Using gapanalysis, the level of preparedness received by BiosystemsEngineering alumni was compared with level ofcompetency required in current employment. The level ofpreparedness exceeded competency required on 10 of 12attributes; only attributes of “communication” and“impact of engineering on society and the environment”were found to be deficient using this analysis.Comparison of the importance of attributes to level ofpreparedness showed that level of preparedness ismeeting industry expectations on attributes of “knowledgebase for engineering”, “design”, “use of engineeringtools” with room for improvement on “problemanalysis”, “investigation” and most of the soft skillattributes. Interestingly, alumni who had participated onan extra-curricular team rated their preparedness on“team work” and “communication skills” lower than theoverall response even though these extra-curricularactivities provide real-life experience with theseattributes.

scholarly journals Finansowanie kształcenia studentów kierunku turystyka i rekreacja ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego na przykładzie Instytutu Geografii UP w Krakowie)

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 406-410
Author(s):  
Witold Warcholik
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
Education Needs ◽  
Polish Higher Education ◽  
The Given

The key challenge that Polish higher education needs to face in the early 21st century is to adjust its educational offer to the dynamic changes taking place within the employment market. Higher vocational schools and universities are expected to provide students with crucial skills that will in the future empower their mobility on the employment market as well as enhance their professional development. The multifaceted modernization of the educational offer could effectively be supported by means of the European Social Fund. The passport to success in such undertakings as launching a new specialization „Tourism and Recreation” within the initiative: „Development of Didactical Potential of The Pedagogical University in Cracow”, financed by ESF, is not only built up on a clever idea (e.g. new, attractive studies) but above all, on committed and well­prepared organizational team. What constitutes the essential factor is the interaction between coordinators along with determined teaching staff, heads of departments, heads of teaching and public procurements divisions, Ministry of Education and Labour, as well as employers and tourism industry experts. The beneficiaries of the projects implemented with the financial support of ESF belong to difficult target groups. Their deficiencies make it hard to stimulate their active participation in the projects and to make them persevere in the given task.

scholarly journals Competence-based learning and societal awareness: Building up experiences within the discipline of interior architecture

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Vallet ◽  
Inge Somers ◽  
Michel Corthaut
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Design Students ◽  
The University

By means of the bachelor proof, students of interior architecture of the University of Antwerp (Faculty of Design Sciences) are stimulated to design interiors for real-life public libraries in view of particular societal challenges. During three subsequent years the teaching staff elaborated a set of learning objectives and activities that jointly form a competence-based learning process focussed on the development of the societal awareness of design students. In this paper we report on the intermediate experiences of the teachning staff and the students as indicated by a set of mainly qualitative data. In short it concerns four lessons learned relating to the over- and underestimation of (i) disciplinary filters, (ii) comfort-zones, (iii) motivating complexities and (iv) copy-cat behavior.

scholarly journals TO THE ISSUE ABOUT SOCIAL FACTORS OF FORMATION OF MODERN UNIVERSITY’S SCIENTIFIC POTENTIAL

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
D. Yu. Znamenskiy
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Social Foundations ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Potential ◽  
The University

The object of the research is the scientific potential of the modern university, and the subject is the system of social factors of its formation. The purpose of the study is to identify the role of social factors in the development of the scientific potential of the modern university. The methodological basis of the paper is a system-dynamic approach to the study of scientific potential, which consists in the consistent disclosure of its spatial, temporal and technological components. Within the framework of the first component, it is necessary to emphasize such a little-studied aspect as the social foundations of scientific potential, including the system of values of employees and students of the university, their motivation to engage in scientific activity and the level of prestige of scientific activity at the university. The components of the scientific potential of the modern university have been analysed in the article. In particular, the close interrelation of the specified social factors with personnel bases of scientific potential of higher education institution, namely with tendencies of development of its personnel structure has been revealed. A system for assessing the social factors of the scientific potential of the university has been proposed. The results of the study can be used by universities to increase the level of motivation of teaching staff to research activities, as well as the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia – in assessing the research activities of Russian universities.

scholarly journals The integrated curriculum, university teacher identity and teaching culture: the effects of an interdisciplinary activity

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel Alonso Sáez ◽  
Naiara Berasategi Sancho
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Integrated Curriculum ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Teaching Culture ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The People ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Investigative Process

The results of an investigative process are reported that centre on the impact that modular curricular organization and its interdisciplinary activity are having on the teaching culture in the Degree in Social Education at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). This understanding of the curriculum is a seminal change for teaching staff and affects their professional identity by encouraging co-responsibility throughout the process. Communicative methodology is employed, which assists in the integration of the people in the investigation, so that they form part of the process of study under equal terms. The production of data was done through in-depth interviews, discussion groups, and documental analysis. The Interdisciplinary Activity Module (IAM) was developed in small groups, of 12-15 individuals, through active methodologies, and the university teachers needed to incorporate it into their discourse and relations with other colleagues and with their students. The results show that an integrated curriculum provides a worthwhile training opportunity to achieve learning of greater significance and depth, and that it happens through changes in their ways of relating and acting as teachers.

scholarly journals Dynamics of the gender structure of teaching staff in modern Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 02001
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Alekseevna Brushkova ◽  
Ivan Andreevich Vladimirov ◽  
Niginakhon Arslanovna Shermukhamedova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Pay Gap ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The University

The subject of the article is the dynamics of the gender structure of university staff in modern Russia. The purpose of the article is to reveal the changes that have occurred in the gender structure of university teachers over the past 20 years. Research methods include the analysis of statistical and sociological data, cross-tabulation and calculation of the feminization index. The authors note that over the twenty-year period, the feminization of Russian universities has intensified. It captures increasingly higher levels of the university job hierarchy, which is manifested in an increase in the number of women in the positions of associate professors, professors, heads of departments, vice-rectors, etc. The significant predominance of women in the positions of assistants, teachers and senior teachers is the basis for the further feminization of university staff in Russia. The analysis of the gender structure of postgraduate and doctoral students shows that women lag behind men only in the youngest age categories of postgraduate students (up to 27 years old) and doctoral students (up to 39 years old) and the oldest category of doctoral students (over 60 years old). This is explained by the fact that at these ages, women are likely to perform their reproductive and educational functions. Women dominate in all other age cohorts of postgraduate and doctoral students. The authors conclude that, despite the existing manifestations of discrimination against women in higher education (gender pay gap, low representation of women at the highest level of university administration, the glass ceiling effect in promoting women up the career ladder, etc.) In general, women are making progress in higher education, making the industry increasingly feminized.

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