Texts and contexts

This chapter analyzes how rhetorical training and the literary culture used and abused historical evidence during the Roman imperial and Byzantine eras to maintain cultural continuity insofar as intellectual life and education (paideia) remained rooted in material from classical Greece. The largely uniform rhetorical curriculum helped to create a class of educated people, the pepaideumenoi, with similar social norms, cultural tastes, and intellectual expectations. While relying on real or alleged classical records, progymnasmata, or preliminary exercises in rhetoric, approached that material in a liberal fashion: students were expected to attain a more powerful effect by improvising; switching out the lead characters in the same situation or putting the same person in different settings; adding and molding direct speech; and combining different types of exercises. This imagined rhetorical past acquired a life of its own, concealing, obscuring, and effectively replacing the historical reality. This environment produced most of our evidence about Demades.

Equipment Condition’s Effect on Student Perceived Workload and Efficiency of Problem Based Projects in an Aeronautical Engineering Technology Program

Aeronautical Engineering Technology (AET) of Purdue University’s School of Aviation and Transportation Technology offers its students a comprehensive and holistic approach to engineering in an applied fashion. Students’ learning outcome includes an application of technical knowledge and hands-on skills in areas of aerospace design, operations, and manufacturing. The curriculum of the program includes a course in which students must learn advanced maintenance concepts and practices including the overhaul of reciprocating engines. This study examined the relationship between engine operational vs. non-operational statuses, time spent to finish a task, and student perceived workloads regarding the maintenance procedures. The tests followed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requirements for the practical test questions from the Airframe and Powerplant Certificate (A&P) Exam. Students were also required to fill out a task perceived load index developed and used by NASA.

body in its digital expansion

Recognizing the importance of Tributo as a creation space where pedagogical and digital processes are linked, allows the Fashion Design program of the Corporación Unificada Nacionalde Educación Superior CUN in Bogota to move from a personal experience to virtual teaching, as a result of the context variables, to guide the creation processes of the students that areconsolidated from the distant viewpoint of the professor. Three fundamental elements are identified to articulate the research process: the otherness to understand the strategies from the virtual education; the possibility of diversifying the products from the digital creation andthe use of didactic tools, where it gamifies to harness the levels of motivation of the students;the pedagogic and creative practice from the sustainability. We find that teachers establish strategies to take the training of university students through a motivating route that is evidenced in the diversity of products that goes beyond the conventional costume format and focuseson the iconic message, photography, editing, visual and musical remix, which enhance other skills that fashion students in the search for a comprehensive, competitive, sensitive and creative professional.