VISUALIZATION OF CULTURE: EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS

The authors of the article focus on changes related to education. Education is considered as a communicative construct arising from the process of symbolic interaction between individuals who establish meanings when coordinating their statements. The communicative generation of situations and orders of knowledge is interpreted as educational semiosis. Analyzed is the discourse of modern humanities which are competing with each other in determining the current socio-cultural situation. Highlighted is the research tendency, asserting the point of changing the cultural morphogenesis by means of its visualization processes. Based on this, the hypothesis of a gap between culture and education is put forward. According to this hypothesis, cultural relations are increasingly mediated by figurative participation, while educational practices appeal to verbal and textual forms of the situational mediation. Within the relations between actors in education, this is reflected in the dominance of legitimate (metanarrative) samples, the transmission model of educational knowledge, the communicative preference for orderliness, the desire for unambiguity, the clarity and completeness of logocentric forms of thinking, and so on. The change of the mediation form in the organization of educational interaction and the transition from the verbocentric order to the ocular-centric one, is suggested as a step in the development of modern education. It must affect the way educational relations (educational communication) function, the way words (speech) and images (vision) are inter-related, the principles of students’ orientation in their attitudes to the sign-symbolic world, their partners in interaction, and to themselves. In the first case, the point is to organize educational communication based on the principles of paradoxicality, paralogicality, and disproportionality of statements and images of the situation. Here the most important educational objective is to make the participants of the educational interaction consider their differences in their interpretations of the world, their styles of utterance, and their discursive positioning. In the second case, the educational objective is the liberalization of vision, which emerges in the course of perceptual work emancipated from the primary procedures of interpretation and comprehension of the visible and relying on the action of the image as the context of the statement. The third case is about worldview constants, radical changes in the position of the educational subject, acquiring the experience of self-detachment in learning. In the final analysis, this provides an opportunity for differentiation and diversification of the worlds of human presence.

Landeskunde im DaF-Unterricht: kognitiv, kommunikativ, interkulturell oder diskursiv?

Information about culture and civilization has always been an integrated part of the courses for German as a foreign language. In the past few decades were developed several theoretical approaches regarding that aspect, for example the cognitive, the communicative or the inter-cultural approach. In course books and learning materials the culture and civilization component is most of the times related with the linguistic component, but recently, influenced by the development of the field of cultural studies, the cultural discourse has also become a priority. In the following article my aim is to depict to what extent this paradigm shift on a theoretical level is being reflected in learning materials. While the first part of the article is dedicated to the theoretical aspect, in the second part I intend to analyze examples of exercises and worksheets with regard to the educational objective.

956. Neurosurgical Infectious Disease Curriculum for Infectious Disease Fellows and Application of a Novel Surgical Infectious Disease Framework

Background Infectious disease (ID) consultations from surgical services account for 30-41% of all ID consults at academic medical centers. However, adult ID fellows in the United States complete residency training in Internal Medicine and may have limited prior exposure to patients on surgical services. We surveyed 16 first and second-year fellows of the combined Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital ID Fellowship to evaluate their self-perceived ability to approach ID consults from surgical services. While 75% self-reported confidence in their ability to approach general surgery consultations, only 33% reported confidence with neurosurgical related consultations. Methods We created a novel framework for approaching surgical ID consult questions (Figure 1). We then developed two interactive case-based discussion sessions for first-year fellows to address common neurosurgical consult scenarios (post craniotomy/ craniectomy surgical site infections and cerebral spinal fluid shunt infections). The session materials, including images of common surgical approaches and risk factors for infection, were reviewed by a neurosurgeon content expert. An ID faculty member facilitated the discussions. Each discussion took place during a 30-minute teleconference. The learners then completed a self-assessment survey to evaluate the extent to which they could meet the educational objectives (Table 1) using a 1-5 Likert scale. Figure 1. Surgical Infectious Diseases Framework Table 1. Educational Objectives for Case 1 and 2 Results All sixteen learners (eight per case) completed the educational objective self-assessment surveys. The educational objectives were achieved with all questions reaching a mean response of 4 or greater indicating that the mean of learners agreed (4) or strongly agreed (5) that they were able to meet the outlined educational objectives after participating in the discussion session for Case 1 (Figure 2) and Case 2 (Figure 3). Figure 2. Educational Objective Self-Assessment Scores for Case 1 Figure 3. Educational Objective Self-Assessment Scores for Case 2 Conclusion Based on self-assessment surveys, our educational objectives were achieved. In turn, these first-year fellows may be better prepared to address ID consults from neurosurgical services in the future. While the case-based discussions were designed to address specific neurosurgical ID cases, our standardized framework could be adapted to a variety of surgical ID cases. Disclosures Molly L. Paras, MD, Deckermed (Other Financial or Material Support, Payment for book chapter)

Psychology of Creativity and Innovation in Engineering and Business Curriculum

The paper describes the development of a new course. Psychology of innovation, which is in the process of being approved as an elective course for four different majors: engineering, business, psychology, and art. The paper describes the course content, course educational objective, weekly assignments and projects. The new course is expected to be approved and implemented in the Fall 2021 Semester. The Course is expected to strengthen innovative potential of students from four different majors.

Learning environments in higher education: Their adaptability to the 4th industrial revolution and the 'social transformation' discourse

The South African higher-education sector is currently undergoing a significant phase in its transition. The phase is marked by a sense of uncertainty felt across institutions and entities that make up the sector. This uncertainty, to a large extent, is brought about by the socio-political realities the transition entails. Compounding this situation is the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution (Hadden), a phenomenon to which the higher-education sector needs a heightened degree of adaptability. The learning environments provided by the higher-education sector are therefore crucial in terms of advancing the cause of positive social change as a realisable educational objective. Against this backdrop, this conceptual article examines the issue of social change as a moral imperative. The purpose is therefore to contribute to the 4IR discourse currently evolving in the context of South African higher education and its social change agenda, with cognitive capitalism as a theoretical lens. Significant scholarly work has been done on the issue of technological advancement and its implications for the social practice of education. However, a concerted effort has not been undertaken to examine the 4IR as an inevitable educational experience with potential to be both materialistically transformative and morally enslaving. The article concludes that, as 4IR unfolds into a magnificent event and starts to control every aspect of human life in general, and education in particular, the moral and ethical affirmations that support the experience of education may run into troubled waters

BIOE and the Teaching of Physics: inferences from the Critical Theory of Technology

This article reads from Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology, analyzing the International Bank of Educational Objects (BIOE) in Physics teaching, investigating whether the Educational Objects (EO) available in BIOE contemplate a process of teaching and learning that is critical and reflexive and that articulates with one or more pedagogical conceptions linked to its educational objective. For this, the qualitative approach of the documentary type was used for data collection and content analysis to arrive at the results. Thus, we verify that the EO for Physics available in BIOE do not contemplate a critical and reflexive teaching and learning process articulated to one or more pedagogical conceptions linked to its educational objective; it does not broaden the problematization related to educational practices in physics towards the politicization of science and technology, in understanding the implications of an educational technology; and it is absent in the very understanding of human relations with such objects and the systems in which they operate, including the teaching and learning process.

Construction and Exploration of an Intelligent Evaluation System for Educational APP through Artificial Intelligence Technology

To improve the evaluation accuracy of educational applications (APPs), the evaluation methods of educational APPs under artificial intelligence (AI) technology are explored. First, based on the principles of establishing evaluation indexes, the evaluation indexes for educational APPs are established. Second, an index evaluation system for educational APPs is constructed, and weights are assigned to the established evaluation indexes of educational APPs with the aid of analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Finally, the availability and effectiveness of the established evaluation system are investigated through empirical analysis. The results show: Five first-level indexes and 20 second-level indexes have been established through the existing index establishment principles, and a framework for intelligent evaluation of educational APPs has been successfully constructed; AHP is utilized to calculate the weight of each index; among the first-level indexes, the weight ratios of the educational and scientific indexes of the educational APPs are larger, whose proportion exceeds 60%; among the second-level indexes, the educational objective, educational principle, and knowledge systematization account for the highest proportion; therefore, the intelligent evaluation system of education APPs is obtained; finally, the empirical analysis has revealed that the score given by the intelligent evaluation system and the actual score of users have a high consistency, which proves that the proposed intelligent evaluation system is feasible and effective. The proposed intelligent evaluation system can be used as the basis for the design of educational APPs to improve the values of educational APPs.

Inquiry and Participatory Action Research in Primary School

In Jamaica, learner-centered instruction is commended for teaching a curriculum focused on environmental education and sustainable development. This study investigated the potential of participatory action research (PAR) as an inquiry-based instructional method in a sixth-grade Jamaican classroom. Mixed methods compared the academic performance of students between teacher-led and PAR-driven groups, and analyzed key attributes of sustainable development. Though practicing PAR had no significant effect on students’ academic performance, perceived collaboration skills, and interest in science, participants displayed leadership skills, such as self-confidence, commitment, and teambuilding. Moreover, the inquiry group conducted cross-curricular research towards place-based environmental improvement. These assets correspond to the Jamaican educational objective of integrating multiple disciplines and stakeholders in the equation for a sustainable future and warrant a further evaluation of PAR in Jamaican schools.

Exploring Teachers’ Satisfaction and Students’ Entrepreneurial Competencies in Four Entrepreneurial Programs Carried Out in Extremadura (Spain) Schools

The question of whether the entrepreneur is born or made, forces us to respond that the entrepreneurial culture clearly breaks with the myth that entrepreneurs are born. Currently, it is considered that entrepreneurial skills can be acquired like any other discipline and that is why it should be taught (Timmons, 2003). Their teaching and learning are key to the well-being of the teacher and to the positive achievement of the students. The entrepreneurial culture is an educational objective of developed societies and has its origin in the business culture (Peña Calvo et al., 2015). There are two current models, American and European (Erkkilä, 2000). The one that develops in the Extremadura region (Spain), based on the European model, tries to create a vital state in the participating students that enhances competences such as creativity, personal initiative or self-confidence, elements that try to generate a true motivation to undertake. The motivated, accomplished and positive teacher contributes to that achievement and achieving it favors the well-being of teachers. It’s a round trip. It is a “do ut des.” In our research, we evaluated four entrepreneurial culture programs in the classroom: “Junioremprende,” “Teenemprende,” “Experemprende,” and “Youthemprende.” The teachers involved in the programs are 356, and the valid questionnaires are 154. The students enrolled in the programs are 4800, and the questionnaires valid 1198. In the questionnaire, one of the key questions is “general teacher satisfaction,” with 17 common questions for all the programs. An essential question posed is: “I am satisfied with the achievements obtained by my students to participate in the program” The results of our research, according to a seven-point Likert scale, gives a very high degree of teachers’ satisfaction. Their satisfaction was centered on the perception of their teachings are conducive to the achievement of his students. The degree of teacher satisfaction for each of the programs and significantly means differences were found with Junior program resulted the more satisfied for teachers. For students, participation in the programs resulted in high development of entrepreneurial competencies. Similarly to teachers results, Junior program was found more significant in developing students’ entrepreneurial competencies indicating that entrepreneurial education is very appropriate for children. Findings of this study suggest that entrepreneurial education should be encouraged for students at every stage of education.