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Pearce Churchill, Meryl, Daniel Lindsay, Diana H Mendez, Melissa Crowe, Nicholas Emtage, and Rhondda Jones. "Does Publishing During the Doctorate Influence Completion Time? A Quantitative Study of Doctoral Candidates in Australia." International Journal of Doctoral Studies 16 (2021): 689–713. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4875.
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Aim/Purpose: This paper investigates the association between publishing during doctoral candidature and completion time. The effects of discipline and of gaining additional support through a doctoral cohort program are also explored. Background: Candidates recognize the value of building a publication track record to improve their career prospects yet are cognizant of the time it takes to publish peer-reviewed articles. In some institutions or disciplines, there is a policy or the expectation that doctoral students will publish during their candidature. However, doctoral candidates are also under increasing pressure to complete their studies within a designated timeframe. Thus, some candidates and faculty perceive the two requirements – to publish and to complete on time – as mutually exclusive. Furthermore, where candidates have a choice in the format that the PhD submission will take, be it by monograph, PhD-by-publication, or a hybrid thesis, there is little empirical evidence available to guide the decision. This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the association between publishing during candidature and time-to-degree and investigates other variables associated with doctoral candidate research productivity and efficiency. Methodology: Multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to examine the predictors (discipline [field of research], gender, age group, domestic or international student status, and belonging to a cohort program) of doctoral candidate research productivity and efficacy. Research productivity was quantified by the number of peer-reviewed journal articles that a candidate published as a primary author during and up to 24 months after thesis submission. Efficacy (time-to-degree) was quantified by the number of Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) years of candidature. Data on 1,143 doctoral graduates were obtained from a single Australian university for the period extending from 2000 to 2020. Complete publication data were available on 707 graduates, and time-to-degree data on 664 graduates. Data were drawn from eight fields of research, which were grouped into the disciplines of health, biological sciences, agricultural and environmental sciences, and chemical, earth, and physical sciences. Contribution: This paper addresses a gap in empirical literature by providing evidence of the association between publishing during doctoral candidature and time-to-degree in the disciplines of health, biological sciences, agricultural and environmental sciences, and chemical, earth, and physical sciences. The paper also adds to the body of evidence that demonstrates the value of belonging to a cohort program for doctoral student outcomes. Findings: There is a significant association between the number of articles published and median time-to-degree. Graduates with the highest research productivity (four or more articles) exhibited the shortest time-to-degree. There was also a significant association between discipline and the number of publications published during candidature. Gaining additional peer and research-focused support and training through a cohort program was also associated with higher research productivity and efficiency compared to candidates in the same discipline but not in receipt of the additional support. Recommendations for Practitioners: While the encouragement of candidates to both publish and complete within the recommended doctorate timeframe is recommended, even within disciplines characterized by high levels of research productivity, i.e., where publishing during candidature is the “norm,” the desired levels of student research productivity and efficiency are only likely to be achieved where candidates are provided with consistent writing and publication-focused training, together with peer or mentor support. Recommendation for Researchers: Publishing peer-reviewed articles during doctoral candidature is shown not to adversely affect candidates’ completion time. Researchers should seek writing and publication-focused support to enhance their research productivity and efficiency. Impact on Society: Researchers have an obligation to disseminate their findings for the benefit of society, industry, or practice. Thus, doctoral candidates need to be encouraged and supported to publish as they progress through their candidature. Future Research: The quantitative findings need to be followed up with a mixed-methods study aimed at identifying which elements of publication and research-focused support are most effective in raising doctoral candidate productivity and efficacy.
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Mirovský, Tomáš, Václav Hošek, and Markéta Šauerová. "Analysis of Adult Educational Opportunities in Wellness as a Starting Point for Building a Scientific Platform of the Wellness Discipline in the Czech Republic." Lifelong Learning 5, no. 1 (2015): 73–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/lifele2015050173.
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the current development of newly forming Wellness programme, particularly with regard to the experience evaluated in the field of education of the specialists working in this field. The starting point is the analysis of needs and competencies of wellness specialists followed by the analysis of many years of experience in adult education in the field of wellness on the level of retraining and lifelong learning courses, higher vocational education, bachelor's degree and subsequently analysis of the experience of two-year Wellness specialist Master's degree programme. With an emphasis on the quality of specialized education is related also improvement of professional environment and building specialized platforms for newly developing field, in which the network of experts is gradually expanding, new literature for professionals has been created, scientific and professional societies, scientific journals and also interest in scientific research in wellness disciplines has increased. Collaboration of science and research in the field of wellness in the context of possibilities to educate professionals at various professional levels is the basis for young profiling scientific discipline related to the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, prevention of burnout syndrome in many professions and promoting overall physical and mental health, which the National Health Strategy 2020 is appealing to.
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Mayisela, Tabisa. "A Practice-Based Approach to Developing First-Year Higher Education Students' Digital Literacy." International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning 14, no. 3 (July 1, 2022): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijmbl.314582.
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This paper contributes to the conceptualisation of digital literacy as a social practice. While previous studies have focused on student digital skills and digital practices in well-resourced environments, there is a research gap concerning digital literacy as a social practice in resource constrained environments, such as South African universities. A qualitative approach is used to explore the acquisition of discipline-specific digital literacy practices by a purposive sample of three first-year students from two extended degree programme courses. The findings reveal that the discipline-specific learning and assessment activities instantiated students' digital literacy practices in the technical, cognitive, and social-emotional dimensions. Furthermore, the participants acquired digital literacies in the technical and cognitive dimension. The research findings provide insight to how other higher education educators in developing contexts could integrate digital literacies into course curricula as a means of building students' capacity on discipline-specific digital literacies.
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LOPES, Juliana Crespo, Francielly de Oliveira Müller LIMA, Sandra Ferraz de Castilho Dourado FREIRE, and Lucia Helena Cavasin Zabotto PULINO. "Uma Formação Pedagógico-Reflexiva em Psicologia: Análise de Diários de Aprendizagem." PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES - Revista da Abordagem Gestáltica 27, no. 2 (2021): 159–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.18065/2021v27n2.3.
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The present article aimed, through the analysis of learning diaries, to discuss about the possibilities that a psychology university degree which promotes reflection and shelters students' thoughts and emotions can have in the training of psychology students. Were analyzed thirteen learning logs written by students of the sixth semester of an undergraduate degree course in Psychology enrolled in a discipline related to the Person Centered Approach.The logs were written based on the Sense's Version, after each class, with indication of free writing. Thematic Analysis was used, and from it six themes emerged that demonstrated the importance of building an academic context that promotes the facilitating conditions for personal and professional development. Palavras-chave : Psychology Degree; Learning Log; Reflection Process; Core Conditions to Facilitate Learning; Person Centered Approach.
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Fang, Xiaoping. "Bamboo Steamers and Red Flags: Building Discipline and Collegiality among China's Traditional Rural Midwives in the 1950s." China Quarterly 230 (May 11, 2017): 420–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741017000625.
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AbstractThis paper explores how the new Communist government developed a political consciousness of discipline and collegiality among traditional rural midwives in Chinese villages during the 1950s. It argues that selected traditional rural midwives were taught to observe discipline by attending meetings and studying, and to develop collegiality with peers through criticism and self-criticism of their birth attendance techniques and personal characters in short training courses from 1951 onwards. A legitimized midwife identity gradually formed in rural communities, but with it came conflicts and rivalry. By keeping these midwives under institutional surveillance and creating a dynamic and constant moulding process, the new government intended to foster professional and political discipline and collegiality within the group based on a normativized notion of selflessness performed within a changing series of indoctrination schemes that demonstrated continuity and complementarity and which I have described as common, preliminary, institutionalized, and dynamic schemes. This article examines how the state attempted to retrain marginalized and derided midwives with appropriate class backgrounds in order to incorporate them into the modern medical world, then still dominated by doctors and nurses with suspect class backgrounds. Ironically, in creating “socialist new people” to intervene in traditional rural birthing practices and introducing fee-for-service professionalism, the CCP accidentally created a degree of petit-capitalist thinking among women whose traditional mode of work may have been more selfless, thus complicating the process of indoctrinating selfless dedication.
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Zubarev, S., G. Shul'gin, and A. Furaev. "The Content of the Discipline “Material and Technical Support of Physical Culture and Sports” in Accordance with the Requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard 3++ in the Direction of 49.03.04 “Sport”." Standards and Monitoring in Education 8, no. 2 (May 29, 2020): 39–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1998-1740-2020-39-43.
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In the article authors propose the developed content of the discipline “Material and technical support of physical education and sports”. The application of the developed content will contribute to the development of knowledge and skills of bachelor’s degree students in sports, in accordance with the direction of training 49.03.04 “Sport”, recently approved by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, particularly, in the fi eld of maintenance and operation of sports buildings and facilities. The structure and content of the disciplines “Material and technical support of physical education and sports” are proposed in accordance with the competency-based requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard 3 ++ for the direction of training 49.03.04 “Sport”. Authors recommended labor functions and indicators of achievement, in accordance with the professional standards “Coach” and “Instructor-Methodist”.
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Schliephake, Kirsten, and Jennifer Mosse. "Practicum and work experience in microbiology and related disciplines." Microbiology Australia 31, no. 1 (2010): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ma10029.
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Gaining hands-on experience throughout an under graduate degree is regarded as a competitive advantage by science students. At the Gippsland campus of Monash University, the Industry Placement Program (IPP) allows students to gain industry experience throughout their entire course. Science students enrolled in the IPP undertake a practicum learning experience, equivalent to a 12-point unit, whose emphasis is on identifying and building transferable skills while gaining technical competency. The combination of academic studies, relevant paid work experience and professional development training produces capable, work-ready graduates.
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ROMDHANE, LOTFI BEN, NADIA FADHEL, and BECHIR AYEB. "BUILDING CUSTOMER MODELS FROM BUSINESS DATA: AN AUTOMATIC APPROACH BASED ON FUZZY CLUSTERING AND MACHINE LEARNING." International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications 08, no. 04 (December 2009): 445–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1469026809002692.
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Data mining (DM) is a new emerging discipline that aims to extract knowledge from data using several techniques. DM turned out to be useful in business where the data describing the customers and their transactions is in the order of terabytes. In this paper, we propose an approach for building customer models (said also profiles in the literature) from business data. Our approach is three-step. In the first step, we use fuzzy clustering to categorize customers, i.e., determine groups of customers. A key feature is that the number of groups (or clusters) is computed automatically from data using the partition entropy as a validity criteria. In the second step, we proceed to a dimensionality reduction which aims at keeping for each group of customers only the most informative attributes. For this, we define the information loss to quantify the information degree of an attribute. Hence, and as a result to this second step, we obtain groups of customers each described by a distinct set of attributes. In the third and final step, we use backpropagation neural networks to extract useful knowledge from these groups. Experimental results on real-world data sets reveal a good performance of our approach and should simulate future research.
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Solans-Domènech, Maite, Joan MV Pons, Paula Adam, Josep Grau, and Marta Aymerich. "Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure research impact." Research Evaluation 28, no. 3 (April 16, 2019): 253–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvz007.
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Abstract Although questionnaires are widely used in research impact assessment, their metric properties are not well known. Our aim is to test the internal consistency and content validity of an instrument designed to measure the perceived impacts of a wide range of research projects. To do so, we designed a questionnaire to be completed by principal investigators in a variety of disciplines (arts and humanities, social sciences, health sciences, and information and communication technologies). The impacts perceived and their associated characteristics were also assessed. This easy-to-use questionnaire demonstrated good internal consistency and acceptable content validity. However, its metric properties were more powerful in areas such as knowledge production, capacity building and informing policy and practice, in which the researchers had a degree of control and influence. In general, the research projects represented an stimulus for the production of knowledge and the development of research skills. Behavioural aspects such as engagement with potential users or mission-oriented projects (targeted to practical applications) were associated with higher social benefits. Considering the difficulties in assessing a wide array of research topics, and potential differences in the understanding of the concept of ‘research impact’, an analysis of the context can help to focus on research needs. Analyzing the metric properties of questionnaires can open up new possibilities for validating instruments used to measure research impact. Further to the methodological utility of the current exercise, we see a practical applicability to specific contexts where multiple discipline research impact is requires.
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Willison, John, and Femke Buisman-Pijlman. "PhD prepared: research skill development across the undergraduate years." International Journal for Researcher Development 7, no. 1 (May 9, 2016): 63–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijrd-07-2015-0018.
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Purpose Many countries are looking for ways to enable students to engage more effectively with PhD study. This paper aims to consider the effects of explicit discipline-specific research skill development embedded in multiple semesters of an undergraduate degree on PhD preparedness. Design/methodology/approach This case study of one Bachelor of Health Science programme determined the effectiveness of the implementation of a conceptual model, the Researcher Skill Development framework, across the undergraduate degree programme. Data were gathered through interviews of 9 academic staff and 14 students in their fourth year of undergraduate study, which is a research-focused year. Findings All students and academics stated the benefits of the use of the Researcher Skill Development framework in undergraduate study including: deepening metacognition of research processes; assisting students toward acting and thinking like researchers; and the research-capacity building of the school. While all academics and all but one student recommended that the framework be used early in the degree programme, a number of interviewees specified problems with the existing implementation of the framework. Research limitations/implications While the results are not generalisable, the approach is worth studying in other degree programme-wide contexts to determine its broader capacity to enable students to be more research ready for PhD study when compared to current practice. Practical implications When adapted to the context, whole-of-degree research skill development may enable developing countries to have more students and developed countries to better prepared students commencing PhD studies. Originality/value No studies currently provide results for explicit research skill development across a degree programme, or of the benefits of this approach for PhD preparation.
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Gentry, Bobbi, Christopher Lawrence, and Erin Richards. "The Tie That Binds: Exploring Community College Curriculum Design." PS: Political Science & Politics 49, no. 03 (July 2016): 535–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096516000937.
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ABSTRACTMore students are beginning their college careers at community colleges before completing degrees at four-year institutions. As enrollments swell at these two-year institutions, issues surrounding transfer and articulation agreements are increasingly important, and two- and four-year institutions must work together on the recruitment, retention, and transition of political science majors. Central to this collaboration is the curriculum. Building on conclusions from the 2011 Leadership Collaborative Core Curriculum and General Education track regarding a common curriculum in the discipline, this article examines the political science curriculum using data from 47 two-year colleges with separate political science departments. We examined similarities and differences among these programs and found sufficient commonality in curriculum to allow students to transfer credits to four-year institutions. The article also offers community colleges an indication of common curricular features and informs the wider profession about community college curriculum design.
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Bakhlova, O. V., I. V. Bakhlov, I. G. Napalkova, and A. S. Soldatova. "Development of the Programme of Applied Research as a Tool for the Formation of Research Competency of Future Political Scientists (on the Example of the Theme “Spatial Development of Russia as a Factor in Nation-Building and National Idea Formation”)." Education and science journal 21, no. 9 (November 27, 2019): 49–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.17853/1994-5639-2019-9-49-79.
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Introduction. Nowadays, the modern higher education involves not only advanced theoretical training, but also the formation of practical skills and universal professional skills, which contribute to the development of skills of future specialists and their successful careers. The participation of students in the research work is considered as a special direction of improvement of professional competency and an essential factor of general cultural development of the student’s personality. The research work creates prerequisites for qualitative change of the whole working practice through the acquisition of abilities to act reasonably in working situations, to solve tasks and problems independently and effectively, to assess the results of own work adequately. However, the active inclusion of students in research activities was characterised by the lack of guidelines, which could be used to fill the gaps in research methodology and research procedures. This fully applies to the students of political science specialties and updates the interpretation of research and political science practices.The aim of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of organisational and technological procedures of complex socio-political applied research, using a specific example of a training model.Methodology and research methods. The authors used general scientific and special methods and approaches: formalisation, abstraction, comparative analysis, system-based and conceptual approaches, etc. An interview was conducted as the main applied method to diagnose the degree of students’ (bachelor’s and master’s degree students training in the discipline “Political Science” at Ogarev Mordovia State University) interest in research work and their understanding of the importance of practice-oriented learning.Results and scientific novelty. On the basis of the studentsэ questionnaire responses, the factors characterising the problem situation “Quality of Student Research Work”, are worked out in detail. The survey questionnaire revealed that the research work is perceived by students as a qualification component for obtaining master’s / bachelor’s degrees, but not as an important element of professional development. A good level of theoretical knowledge of the subject area is frequently negated by the low development of practical skills, including due to the unwillingness or lack of opportunity to participate in practice-oriented research. However, the majority of respondents (77.7%) stated that they lack available information sources on the methodology of specific scientific papers with examples in order to indeppendently choose the research strategy and to develop their own professional skills. In this regard, on the example of the topic “Spatial Development of Russia as a Factor of Nation-Building and Formation of National Idea”, a universal programme of political applied research was developed. The programme can be used as a basis for long-term analysis and as a template for other thematic studies. The proposed scheme includes the selection of analysis methods and techniques to maximise the scope of the study area.Practical significance. The described research methodology can be used in educational practice, when teaching the following disciplines: “Methods and Technologies of Political Science”, “Information and Analytical Work”, “Political Analysis and Forecasting”, etc.
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Guo, Yanlong, Xinlei Geng, Denghang Chen, and Yufei Chen. "Sustainable Building Design Development Knowledge Map: A Visual Analysis Using CiteSpace." Buildings 12, no. 7 (July 7, 2022): 969. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings12070969.
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Based on the Web of Science (WoS) core collection database, this article compares the research results in this subject area since 2000 with the literature data on the theme of sustainable architectural design and conducts an in-depth investigation into the research themes, basic literature, development trends, and research frontiers. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were conducted through the CiteSpace scientific visualization software, and the degree of collaboration between authors, institutions, and countries was analysed through research power. The topical research hotspots and their evolution were explored through a word frequency analysis, cluster analysis, and timeline analysis; the origins and development of a particular issue in sustainable building design were explored in conjunction with mutation analysis; and the frontier hotspots were explored. The analysis of co-citations was used to identify important knowledge bases in the field; the flow of knowledge between disciplines was explored through biplot overlay analysis. By interpreting the scientific visualization knowledge map, it was concluded that the research trends in sustainable building design are mainly in the areas of resource control, energy consumption, renewable building materials, evaluation systems, and computer-aided tools, and so on. The major topics of future research related to sustainable building design are discussed and summarized.
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Cherep, Oleksndr, Viktoriia Tomareva-Patlakhova, and Olena Kabanova. "ASSESSMENT AND RESERVES FOR INCREASING LOYALTY OF ENTERPRISE STAFF." Herald of Khmelnytskyi National University 294, no. 3 (March 2021): 316–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.31891/2307-5740-2021-294-3-52.
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The article deals with the level of loyalty of the personnel of construction enterprises. The comprehensive methodology. recommendations for its improvement are developed. The comprehensive methods include the following methods: assessing staff turnover, determining the degree of team cohesion, assessing the state of moral and psychological climate, determining the level of work discipline, assessing the level of motivation based on self-esteem and direct assessment of loyalty by L. Porter’s method “Organizational Loyalty Questionnaire” V. Dominyak. The base of the study was five enterprises of Zaporizhia, the main type of economic activity of which according to the NACE belongs to group 42.2 “Construction of communications”. Among the surveyed organizations were medium and small enterprises, the total number of employees of which was 487 people. The application of a comprehensive methodology for assessing the level of loyalty of construction personnel allowed to determine that the average corresponds to a satisfactory level, due to: the average level of group cohesion of labor collectives; unsatisfactory state of moral and psychological climate in small production groups; the absence of any programs at enterprises to ensure and improve labor discipline of staff; low level of motivational influence of organizational culture and the desire for self-realization of workers. Solving certain problems of the internal environment of enterprises will significantly increase the level of staff loyalty. The main directions of organizational change should be: conducting team-building activities; control and improvement of working conditions of staff; moral and material incentives for staff; analysis and forecasting of potential loyalty / disloyalty of new employees; development of a program for adaptation of new employees; development of methods of working with disloyal staff; development of a program for the development and improvement of professional competencies of staff; improvement and development of organizational culture of enterprises; formation of loyalty of the personnel of the enterprises through realization of the program of social responsibility.
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Trainor, Kristin. "Maternal Substance Use Disorder." Advances in Social Work 22, no. 1 (June 14, 2022): 67–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/24282.
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Pregnant women with substance use disorder (SUD) can face varying degrees of negative interactions with healthcare providers, including judgment of the individual’s value and involvement in their infant’s care. This research explored potential stigma and attitudes among medical providers within a maternal/fetal healthcare setting towards women with maternal SUD. An electronic survey was administered to 117 health care providers, including social workers, who work with pregnant women in an urban, Midwest, healthcare facility. Attitudes and stigma differed significantly based on the health care providers’ discipline. Healthcare providers who viewed SUD as a disease had a more positive perception of mothers with SUD. By building professional awareness, creating policy change, increasing education, and continuing research regarding maternal SUD, social workers have an opportunity to develop responsive support programs for healthcare workers and promote overall change within the healthcare setting.
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Eleftheria, Tsourlidaki, Sofoklis Sotiriou, and Rosa Doran. "The “Big Ideas of Science” for the school classroom: Promoting interdisciplinary activities and the interconnection of the science subjects taught in primary and secondary education." Journal of Research in STEM Education 2, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 72–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.51355/jstem.2016.23.
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This paper presents the “Big Ideas of Science” set as an alternative means of organizing science educational content in an interdisciplinary way that goes beyond the traditional subject-based organizational structures. The “Big Ideas of Science” refers to a set of phrases which overarch all science subject domains and briefly describe our world; from the macrocosm to the microcosm. Building upon previous work done in the field, we introduce a set of phrases (eight) which constitute our proposed “Big Ideas of Science”. Our team carried out a research with teachers in primary and secondary education, and a small group of stakeholders, so as to examine the degree to which this set of phrases could facilitate science teaching and learning. In our research, we introduced to participants the “Big Ideas of Science” as an organization scheme that promotes interdisciplinary learning and it allows students to build more effectively on their existing knowledge by making connections between concepts and principles taught in different science disciplines. Our results indicate that such an organization scheme could be beneficial to teachers and students, as it can play or act as a backbone structure that promotes interdisciplinary science learning, and enable students to make easy connections between subjects taught. In addition, based on the feedback from stakeholders, the “Big Ideas of Science” could be helpful in promoting interdisciplinary learning, as they can be used to organize science content in schools in a sustainable way that is not affected by curriculum changes.
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Gordon, Andrew M., Doug W. Larson, Ray A. McBride, Glen P. Lumis, Kim Rollins, and Sally Humphries. "Learning about the forest using alternative curricula the Guelph experience." Forestry Chronicle 78, no. 3 (June 1, 2002): 373–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc78373-3.
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The University of Guelph is a mid-sized university in southern Ontario that has many historical underpinnings with respect to both undergraduate and graduate education in forestry and forest-related subjects. Some of the earliest forward-thinking forest policies found in Ontario came from early faculty associated with the predecessor of the University, the Ontario School of Agriculture. Today, the University has numerous faculty in Colleges across campus that are involved in a multitude of teaching and research aspects associated with forested environments. The research-teaching link with respect to forestry is strong and the undergraduate population appears appreciative of this. Undergraduate courses and course segments at both undergraduate and graduate levels exist, and a minor in forest science, housed in the Department of Environmental Biology but drawing on resources from across multiple disciplines, is also available. The University of Guelph is currently evaluating its options with respect to undergraduate education in the forest sciences. Building on past and present strengths, the University is considering offering a non-accredited B.Sc. program that embraces the science and management of forests and the environmental impact and community benefits associated with interventions in the forest. Key words: Ontario forests, historical perspectives, learner-centred undergraduate curriculum, forest environments, forest science, forest and natural resource economics, internationalism, non-accredited B.Sc. undergraduate degree, graduate forest research
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Pate, Amanda Geary. "Lessons learned from reflections on supporting the transition to remote learning following the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic." Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice 9, no. 2 (August 5, 2021): 181–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v9i2.479.
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Higher education has a rich history of pedagogical innovation and of championing blended and online learning for its students. However, the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic required quick action to enable courses and programmes to be delivered remotely – almost overnight. Following this initial shift, preparations were made to prepare for the worst and expect the best with a new academic year on the horizon. Academics and professional services staff came together to tackle the most challenging change in higher education in more than a generation. This case study shares two models created out of the process of supporting this transition at a Scottish university. The first model provides a route and process for shifting degree course components (i.e. courses or modules) to remote learning and teaching, which can also be used to provide consistency across a degree programme in order to enhance the student experience. The second model was inspired by a cycle used in professional media practice and was adapted to encourage active learning to be embedded at the grassroots of the curriculum – essentially in every teaching and learning event. Drawing on feedback from academics involved in the process, this article identifies the lessons learned from supporting the transition of delivery that mainly had an on-campus first approach (with varying elements of blended learning), to one that features pedagogical innovation at its forefront and is now set to remain permanently in the curricula. This paper will also reflect on how the process of revamping teaching and learning due to short-term necessity has provided an opportunity for curriculum development that embraces a range of sound academic practice, including: active learning; establishing effective communication channels; community building; managing students’ expectations; as well as retaining “jewels of the curriculum” (Cousin, 2006). Furthermore, these models can be applied to any academic discipline.
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Munkácsy, Gyöngyi, Péter Herman, and Balázs Győrffy. "Comparison of scientometric achievements at PhD and scientific output ten years later for 4,790 academic researchers." PLOS ONE 17, no. 7 (July 27, 2022): e0271218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271218.
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Introduction PhD is the highest awarded degree offered by universities in different disciplines. Owners of a PhD can teach at universities, start independent research and receive a higher salary while further building a scientific career. We examined whether the publication output before the PhD degree has a correlation with subsequent research activities. Methods We downloaded publication and citation data from the Hungarian Scientific Bibliography for Hungarian researchers who obtained PhD between the ages of 24 and 45. The researchers were grouped into eleven scientific sections. We examined the number of Q1 publications published in the previous 5 years, the H-index, the total number of citations for the last complete year, and the biological age of the researcher. Each parameter was computed for the year at which the PhD was obtained and ten years later. Pre-PhD publications (and citations for these) were excluded when assessing post-PhD track records. Spearman rank correlation and Kruskal-Wallis test were computed. Results We analyzed all together 4,790 researchers. We obtained a positive correlation between the number of Q1 publications before and after PhD (corr. coeff. = 0.21–0.54, p<0.01 in all sections), between the H-index before and after PhD (corr. coeff. = 0.32–0.56, p<0.01 in all sections), and between the citations received before and after PhD (corr. coeff. = 0.34–0.51, p<0.01 in all sections). All three metrics measured ten years after the PhD were negatively correlated with the age of the researcher at the time of obtaining the PhD (number of publications corr. coeff. = -0.09–0.22, p<0.05; H-index corr. coeff. = -0.09–0.29, p<0.08; number of citations corr. coeff. = -0.14–0.30, p<0.01). Among all disciplines, Philosophy and History and Engineering sciences show the strongest correlation between pre- and post-PhD output. When running multiple regression analysis for all three metrics as dependent variables and the number of articles, the H-index, the number of citations in the year of the PhD, the calendar year of PhD, and the gender of the researcher as independent variables, the number of articles and the H-index in the year of PhD reached the strongest positive correlations while gender had a negative correlation. Conclusions We independently evaluated pre- and post-PhD publication performance. In connection with age, the discipline-specific reference values of scientometric parameters at the time of obtaining the PhD can help to select candidates for postdoctoral grants and positions.
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Ray, Nicholas. "Architectural Ethics." Research Ethics 1, no. 2 (June 2005): 67–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/174701610500100207.
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The practice of architecture, a discipline that is inescapably contingent on the particular, but that is also required by society in some way to represent an ideal, raises a number of specific ethical issues. Following an essay by the philosopher Thomas Nagel, this paper argues that it is intrinsic to professional judgement that this involves the prioritizing of unquantifiable ‘goods’. A twentieth-century case study is examined, which exhibits the choices made by a well-known architect. The changed nature of architectural practice in the United Kingdom in the twenty-first century is then described, whereby the privilege of making such judgements has been severely limited by the substitution of managerial values for professional values. In the face of different ethical imperatives – most obviously to design responsibly within pressing ecological concerns – it is argued that the task for architects now is to re-establish a context within which sound judgements can be made, which of course implies a degree of professional trust. Their ability to balance managerial values (technical competence for example) with ethical decision-making is what may prove to be most valuable. There are implications for architectural education, which in the past has either pretended to be a science or has retreated into aesthetic speculation, providing training in the skills of persuasion rather than relationship-building. The conclusion is that ethical thinking is inescapable for the profession of architecture in the twenty-first century.
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Quattrini, R., R. Pierdicca, A. Lucidi, F. Di Stefano, and E. S. Malinverni. "THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH NIGHT: NEW WAYS FOR COMMUNICATING SCIENCE WITH ICT AND VIDEOMAPPING." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2/W9 (January 31, 2019): 647–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w9-647-2019.
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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Thrilling the society toward science and research is not trivial. Albeit the “academic industry” lavishes many efforts to spread its results not only among the insiders but to the whole mankind, the importance of sharing the knowledge of research is seldom a priority. The European Researcher Night is probably the most important EU action trying to overcome this limitation, putting altogether researcher from different disciplines to show their findings through stands, short communications and events. Within this framework, the event able to attracts citizens is the video mapping projection. In this article is described a multi-disciplinary process that makes use of a photogrammetric survey as an accurate source for video projection mapping. While well-established geomatics technologies (e.g. laser scanning and photogrammetry) paves the way for the virtual reconstruction of the architecture, they are even essential to perform analysis and studies which enables visual artist or art historians to tell the story of a building in a new and fascinating way. Besides the realization of the visual mapping and a critical discussion over the procedure that has been used to translate a 3D model in a visual storytelling of the building, the article also describes an innovative way that has been set up for the management of the whole SHARPER event. The system is app-based and was designed to allow the visitors to interact with the event directly from their smartphones; several active sensors have been displaced among the city, asking the user to search for virtual owls and to catch them by answering some questions, engaging the people by exploiting the gamification paradigm. This latter has been stressed further, since the video projection was conceived as a competition between the students of the Master degree course in Engineering-Architecture. Through the application, the attendant to the visual mapping where thus enabled to vote his/her favourite video in real-time.</p>
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Qidwai, Uvais, Muhammad Akbar, Muhammad Maqbool, and Mohammed Jahanshahi. "Hierarchical Inspection System Using Visual and MFL Probe Robots." IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA) 7, no. 4 (December 1, 2018): 283. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijra.v7i4.pp283-296.
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<p>Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) represents a critical appurtenance to modern engineering that amalgamates the skills and techniques from various disciplines of engineering and computational science. Modern civil architectures, involving high-rise buildings, complex structural designs, and innovative shapes, on one hand represent the urban development, but at the same time is a challenge from sustainability perspective. In order to ensure the tenability of such structures, advanced SHM procedures need to be developed. The presented work in this paper is an effort on these lines. The wear and tear in the buildings related to weather, as well as other natural disasters, needs to be monitored regularly and systematically in order to prevent any serious structural damage. In current SHM practices, human experts are deployed at various structurally critical places on these buildings to perform specific measurements and analyze them to decide on the structural health condition. This simple approach is becoming more and more complicated as well as perilous for the human personnel involved, due to the modern architecture that involves greater heights, and complex structures. The proposed system utilizes flying and crawling/roving robots for this purpose. The flying robots, first, scan the surface of the building to any height needed, and then the custom-designed algorithms analyze the images from these scans in order to discern the possible defects/anomalies in the structure. Using these defect pointers, the custom-designed rover robot on top of the structure lowers a robotic probe that scans only those areas for substantiating the anomalies and the degree of defects present.</p>
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Ignat'ev, S., Z. Tret'yakova, and Marianna Voronina. "Augmented Reality Technologies in Students Project Activities." Geometry & Graphics 8, no. 2 (August 17, 2020): 51–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2308-4898-2020-51-57.
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This study’s relevance is determined by the absence of serious research, science-based, tested and verified programs and training materials related to the use of Augmented Reality (AR) technologies when getting students education in Engineering and Computer Graphics (ECG). The study’s aim was the introduction of AR-technologies in the project activities of first-year students. The study was conducted on the base of St. Petersburg Mining University. 48 first-year students of the Civil Engineering Faculty, pursuing a specialist's degree in “Construction of Unique Buildings and Structures”, participated in the project activity. The students' project activities results showed that at present, AR-technologies have gained popularity not only among designers and planners, but also among schoolteachers, as well as among lecturers and students of technical universities. A student team of St. Petersburg Mining University solved the design problem using AR-technology and created an informational 3-D model of the building structure. The existing methods related to students training have been completed and updated with the method of graphical presentation for the students' project activities results with the help of AR-technologies. As a result of the students’ project activities study, has been revealed the thoroughly obvious need for teaching a new generation of students to use AR-technologies. The aim is implementation of AR-technologies by students in the perspective, with continuous and subsequent self-education, as well as teaching future designers of rational use of AR-technologies to solve educational and practical problems, including areas of engineering and computer graphics. The study had showed that currently there is not enough of scientifically based learning materials for the organization of students' project activities using AR-technologies. Has been revealed the need for further scientific research in the field of AR-technologies implementation in the students’ project activities within the framework of ECG academic discipline. The paper materials can be useful for lecturers of all levels.
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Silva, Matheus De Castro e., Penha Das Dores Souza e. Silva, and Fernando César Silva. "Construindo modelos científicos com materiais e obras artísticas em uma disciplina da licenciatura do campo (Building scientific models from artistic materials and work of art in a rural graduation classes)." Revista Eletrônica de Educação 14 (July 28, 2020): 3752108. http://dx.doi.org/10.14244/198271993752.
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Scientific models are constructions that integrate science teaching activity and constitute the focus of discussions in primary and higher education classrooms. Thus, the construction of a model and its evaluation are activities that promote a contact between the students and the sciences. For the formation of science teachers, the contact with the modeling process becomes relevant to understand of their educational duty. This paper presents an experience report on the construction of models in a discipline of the Field Education Degree course at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scientific discussions, as well as modeling activities, approached the arts through the use of some materials and openness to expressiveness. Starting of the class discussions, the students, besides being involved with the modeling process, also argued about the nature of this process, involving the evaluation and testing of the model built. One of these models elaborated by the undergraduates had the scope to explain the molecular kinetic theory of gases, corroborating other reports about the sciences. The elaboration of models contributed as much to the contact of the students with scientific practices as to the expression of their ideas through the approach to the artistic activities.ResumoOs modelos científicos são construções que permeiam diversos campos da atividade do ensino de Ciências e constituem o foco de discussões nas salas de aulas do ensino básico e superior. Desta forma, tanto a construção de um modelo quanto sua avaliação são atividades que permitem o contato dos alunos com as Ciências. Para a formação de professores de Ciências, o contato com o processo de modelagem se torna relevante para o entendimento de seu campo de atuação. Neste trabalho apresenta-se um relato de experiência sobre a construção de modelos em uma disciplina do curso de Licenciatura em Educação do Campo da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. As discussões científicas, bem como as atividades de modelagem, aproximaram-se das artes plásticas, por meio do uso de alguns materiais e abertura para a expressividade. A partir das discussões da disciplina, os alunos, além de se envolverem com o processo de modelagem, ainda argumentaram sobre a natureza desse processo durante a avaliação e o teste do modelo construído por eles. Um desses modelos elaborados pelos licenciandos possuía abrangência para explicar a teoria cinético molecular dos gases, corroborando com relatos outros sobre as ciências. A elaboração de modelos contribuiu tanto para o contato dos alunos com práticas científicas quanto para a expressão de suas ideias por meio da aproximação às atividades artísticas.Palavras-chave: Ensino de ciências, Modelo científico, Educação do campo.Keywords: Science education, Teaching models, Rural education.Palabras claves: Enseñanza de las ciencias, Modelo científico, Educación rural.ReferencesASKELAND, Donald R.; WRIGHT, Wendelin J. Ciência e engenharia dos materiais. 3ª edição. São Paulo: Cengage Learning, 2014, 648 p. BROWN, Theodore L. et al. Química: a ciência central. 9ª edição. São Paulo: Prentice-Hall, 2005, 972 p.CIPOLLA, Laura; FERRARI, Lia A. Big atoms for small children: building atomic models from common materials to better visualize and conceptualize atomic structure. Journal of Chemical Education, Washington, v. 93, n. 6, p. 1068-1072, janeiro 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00784EILAM, Billie; GILBERT, John K. The significance of visual representations in the teaching of Science. In: EILAM, Billie; GILBERT, John K. (Org.) Science teachers’ use of visual representations. Dordretch: Springer, 2014. p. 3-28.GILBERT, John K.; BOULTER, Carolyn J.; ELMER, Roger. Positioning models in Science education and in design and technology education. In: GILBERT, John K.; BOULTER, Carolyn J. (Org.) Developing models in science education. Dordretch: Kluwer, 2000. p. 3-17.GILBERT, John K. Visualization: a metacognitive skill in Science and Science education. In: GILBERT, John K. (Org.) Visualization in Science education. Netherlands: Springer, 2005. p. 9-27.HALPINE, Susana Maria. Introducing molecular visualization to primary schools in California: the STArt! Teaching Science through art program. Journal of Chemical Education, Washington, v. 81, n. 10, p. 1431-1436, outubro 2004.JUSTI, Rosária; GILBERT, John K. Teachers’ views on the nature of models. International Journal of Science Education, Toronto, v. 24, n. 4, p. 369-387, junho 2010. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0950069032000070324JUSTI, Rosária. La Enseñanza de Ciencias Basada en la Elaboración de Modelos. Enseñanza de las Ciencias, Barcelona, v. 24, n. 2, p. 173-184, junho 2006.JUSTI, Rosária. Modelos e modelagem no ensino de Química: um olhar sobre aspectos essenciais pouco discutidos. In: SANTOS, Wildson Luiz Perreira dos; MALDANER, Otavio Aloisio (Org.) Ensino de Química em foco. Ijuí: Editora Uniují, 2010. p. 210-230.JUSTI, Rosária. Relações entre argumentação e modelagem no contexto da ciência e do ensino de ciências. Revista Ensaio, Belo Horizonte, v. 17, n. especial, p. 31-48, novembro 2015. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1983-2117201517s03MAHAFFY, Peter. The future shape of chemistry education. Chemistry education: reasearch and practice, Cambridge, v. 5, n. 3, p. 229-245, outubro 2004.MANSO, Bruno Lara de Castro. Museu do Amanhã: uma nova proposta de museu de ciência? 2018. 157 f. Tese (Doutorado em Ciência da Informação) - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2018.MELZER, Ehrick Eduardo Martins; AIRES, Joanez Aparecida. A história do desenvolvimento da teoria atômica: um percurso de Dalton a Bohr. Amazônia – Revista de Educação em Ciências e Matemática, Belém, v. 11, n. 22, p. 62-77, junho 2015. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/amazrecm.v11i22.2137MORTIMER, Eduardo Fleury; MACHADO, Andréa Horta; ROMANELLI, Lilavate Izapovitz. A proposta curricular de Química do estado de Minas Gerais: fundamentos e pressupostos. Química Nova, São Paulo, v. 23, n. 2, p. 273-283, maio 2000.SILVA, Tainá Souza; SOUZA, João Jarllys Nóbrega de; CARVALHO FILHO, José Rodrigues de. Construção de modelos moleculares com material alternativo e suas aplicações em aulas de Química. 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Doa’ei, Yaser, and Amir Muhammad Jahan. "Application of Artificial Intelligence and Meta-heuristic Algorithms in Civil Health Monitoring Systems." Civil Engineering Journal 4, no. 7 (August 1, 2018): 1653. http://dx.doi.org/10.28991/cej-03091102.
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After the discovery and manufacturing of every accomplishment, the mankind tends to make it sustainable in terms of different aspects that one of them can be its durability. Nowadays, a science titled “health monitoring” has provided such a consideration in different fields. For example, civil engineering sciences, in various branches, aim to construct various civil engineering accomplishments, followed by the higher goals of making them durable and healthy. The present study tries to give an account about the various study fields like structural engineering, bridge construction, dam construction, hydraulic and on-beach constructions, road engineering and building, water resources management and so on along with the mentioning of the various methods extant for the implementation of such study fields. But, in between, there is an appropriate method that provides such objectives as cost-effectiveness, access to the entire required details, awareness of the civil infrastructures in order to estimate the remained lifetime of the structure in line with the continuation and/or change of the uses. Also, it has high precision and minimally influenced by the environment, so, it can be said that it has very little error in its collection of information. For instance, this method can be used to evaluate the ruination of the structures based on modal properties, which can have static or dynamic foundations such that the current state of the structure is compared to its ideal state to monitor the degree of the structure’s ruination or its soundness. In present study, it was tried to investigate the artificial intelligence science as one of the richest methods possessing all the prerequisites as well as having more traits in common with the various sub-disciplines of civil engineering so that it can be utilized more comprehensively and in a more centralized manner.
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Navickienė, Eglė. "DOCTORATE AT THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE OF VGTU: DEVELOPMENT AND TENDENCIES OF EVOLUTION IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT / DOKTORANTŪRA VGTU ARCHITEKTŪROS FAKULTETE: RAIDA IR KAITOS TENDENCIJOS EUROPOS KONTEKSTE." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 37, no. 4 (December 24, 2013): 279–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2013.859448.
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The article deals with doctoral dissertations prepared and defended at the Faculty of Architecture at current Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in spite of changes of its institutional subordination. It deepens into fields of scientific research investigated during doctoral studies that are considered an important part of research in architecture. The tendencies of evolution of doctorate at the Faculty of Architecture of VGTU are contextualised in architectural research and doctoral studies in architectural research and education institutions both in Lithuania and abroad. During the Soviet times, Lithuanian architects had a possibility to prepare and defend dissertations for a scientific degree of candidate of architectural sciences either at the Faculty of Architecture at Kaunas Polytechnic Institute (afterwards – at Vilnius Engineering Building Institute) or at institutions of architectural research and education in the Soviet Union, outside Lithuania, depending if Lithuanian institutions had the right to educate the aspirants for scientific degree and the right to defend their dissertations. It mostly influenced the dynamics of scientific degrees obtained (see Fig. 1). Architecture was defined as an autonomous research field under the Soviet classification and it helped to shape the identity of the discipline: its width, specific methods and questions. Architectural dissertations of Soviet times were rigorously specialised and empiric, closely connected with practice, deepening into urban issues more than architectural ones (see Fig. 2). Since 1998, architecture loses its integrity and becomes a subfield of Art Critics in Humanities. Since then doctoral dissertations defended at the Faculty of Architecture of VGTU investigate architectural history, theory and critics according traditional methodologies of humanities including interdisciplinary contexts; fundamental academic research dominates. Recent international dynamic changes in both doctoral studies and architectural research directs for the impact of research beyond academia generating more efficient contribution to architectural research and innovation related to ideas, forms, techniques, materials and practices based upon technological advances for the so-called society of knowledge; one of the means is creating various forms of doctorates. Nevertheless, the present situation of doctorate at the Faculty of Architecture of VGTU is not supportive for tuning to new tendencies – revision of national classification of research towards integrity of architecture field, and also introduction of a program of research by design, priorities for innovative, practice-embedded, interdisciplinary, future-oriented research in doctorate at the school might create much more positive medium for the progress. Santrauka Straipsnyje nagrinėjama doktorantūros (aspirantūros) Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universiteto Architektūros fakultete, nepaisant jo kitusios institucinės priklausomybės, raida. Pagrindinis dėmesys skiriamas apgintų disertacijų mokslinių tyrimų kryptims ir pobūdžiui kaip sudėtinei architektūros mokslo daliai, jų raidą ir kaitos tendencijas siejant su procesais kitose šalyse. Apžvelgiamos šiame amžiuje vykstančios aktualios dinamiškos permainos doktorantūros studijų sampratoje ir architektūros mokslo raidoje kaip architektūros doktorantūros studijų kaitą formuojančiuose veiksniuose. Naujų požiūrių kontekste įvertinamos doktorantūros studijų VGTU Architektūros fakultete pokyčių galimybės.
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Opuni-Frimpong, Nana Yeboaa, Harry Barton Essel, Emmanuel Opuni-Frimpong, and Elizabeth Asantewaa Obeng. "Sustainable Development Goal for Education: Teachers’ Perspectives on Climate Change Education in Senior High Schools (SHS)." Sustainability 14, no. 13 (July 1, 2022): 8086. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14138086.
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Any program intended to equip the populace, particularly young people, to combat climate change and its repercussions must include education. As crucial stakeholders in education, teachers have the primary responsibility of preparing young people to deal with the effects of climate change. In two districts of Ghana’s Bono region, the study assessed SHS teachers’ viewpoints on climate change and their willingness to include climate change concerns in classes. The degree to which climate change was incorporated into the syllabi of selected disciplines was also assessed. For this study, data was collected from a hundred (n = 100) SHS teachers from 10 of the 15 schools in the study area using a simple random sampling method. The Pearson chi-square test was used to examine the association between the subject content and teachers’ desire to teach climate change. The data were analyzed using SPSS (v25). The findings demonstrated that teachers’ readiness to educate about climate change was influenced by the subjects they taught. Subjects that were not science-based provided little information on climate change to teachers. Climate change is addressed in many areas in Integrated Science and Social Studies, and it is a core topic for all students. Climate change should be taught using an interdisciplinary approach, and in-service training for teachers could be beneficial.
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Knode, Tom. "Technology Focus: Health, Safety, and Environment (August 2021)." Journal of Petroleum Technology 73, no. 08 (August 1, 2021): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/0821-0055-jpt.
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In some respects, the prospect of returning to some degree of normality is evident on the horizon. However, climate and the future of energy show little sign of a return to prepandemic normalcy. The future of our energy system is being transformed, and oil and gas are crucial for energy stability as well as the transformation. One of the miracles over the past year has been the accumulated knowledge around the human genome and application of this science to the rapid development of efficacious vaccines. As within oil and gas, humans can rise to the challenge to solve complex problems when identified. This is playing out as we see societal drivers around climate change and net-zero carbon emissions. Over the past year, SPE produced 11 events focused on the energy transition and continued the development of the Gaia Sustainability Program initiated by the SPE Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability (HSES) discipline. It is now a thriving community of SPE members across all disciplines committed to enabling and empowering all members and other interested parties who wish to engage in the alignment of the future of energy with sustainable development. An on-demand library of Gaia Talks and other resources has been built using the strategic programming framework (www.spe.org/en/gaia). Advances in our understanding and application of technology, and the development of those who can use it to better the world, are highlighted in the selections made for this month’s Technology Focus—genome sequencing of invasive species, technology to identify fatigue, and development of human capital for the industry in Kazakhstan. We must not forget the key element in any strategic improvement of performance: the human being. This starts with developing human capital at the university level. The industry is also working on progressing our understanding and application of human factors and human performance. As mentioned in the October 2020 JPT, the oil and gas industry has formed the Human Performance Oil and Gas (HPOG) alliance modeled after the very successful Dropped Objects Prevention Scheme program. The return to a more-normal life also means that our traditional conference model can reengage membership. Face-to-face meetings accelerate networking and the transfer of knowledge, which is core to the SPE mission. Events focusing on HSES this year include a planned in-person gathering the first week of November: HSES Focus on the Future—Responding to Changes and How the HSES Function Will Grow (3–5 November). This event will primarily cover health, environment, and sustainability with one panel on land transportation safety. It is strategically planned for the same week and at the same hotel in Fort Worth, Texas, where the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers will hold its first Joint Congress on Safety (1–3 November). A key element in building strategies within the SPE HSES discipline is the future of the function. Leading the efforts around this will be the newly formed HSES Executive Advisory Committee (EAC). This EAC, led by Fawaz (Fuzzy) Bitar, senior vice president of HSE and carbon at BP and former chair of the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, includes HSE leadership from various upstream operators and contractors and will help with guidance and direction for SPE HSES Technical Director Annamaria Petrone. The EAC will hold a meeting and participate in plenary panels during the SPE HSES event in November. Recommended additional reading at OnePetro: www.onepetro.org. SPE 202737 6×6 Occupational Health Hazard Risk Rating Matrix: A Useful Tool in the Determination of Risk Levels of Workplace Health Hazards by Bufford Ang, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, et al. OTC 30840 Self-Certification and Safety Compliance for Robotics Platforms by Osama Farouk Zaki, Heriot-Watt University, et al. SPE 201312 Long-Term, Periodic Aerial Surveys Cost-Effectively Mitigate Methane Emissions by Sri Sridharan, Pioneer Natural Resources, et al.
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Zhuravel, Ihor, Łesia Mychuda, and Yurii Zhuravel. "Localization of steel fractures based on the fractal model of their metallographic images." Ukrainian Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science 6, no. 2 (2020): 12–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.23939/ujmems2020.02.012.
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There are a number of tasks that require assessment of the condition of the material and its mechanical characteristics. Such tasks may arise at the production stage, when there’s a need to control the content of various components of the material, strength, hardness, etc. Also similar tasks arise during exploitation of materials, which is especially relevant today, when most of the responsible products and structures in the field of nuclear energy, chemical industry, machine-building industry are on the verge of wearing down. Previously defectoscopy methods were mainly used to assess the reliability of such materials and products. These methods provided information on the presence or absence of a defect. But to prevent accidents, information about the pre-defective state of the material itself and the degree of its degradation is needed. Approaches involving methods and means of solid state physics, mechanics, chemistry, materials science and other scientific disciplines have become more informative for describing the state of degradation. However, these methods are quite laboursome and time consuming and cannot be applied to transient processes. Therefore, it is important to develop a method that would be based on the analysis of the microstructure of the material would allow to obtain its numerical mechanical characteristics. This approach would be used at the production stage of materials to determine their components and mechanical characteristics and at the stage of exploitation to determine the degree of degradation of the material. It is known that the fractal dimension of each microstructure of the material is an indicator of its qualitative characteristics. Thus, the numerical value of the fractal dimension establishes the relationship between the structure and the mechanical properties of the material. In this work the method of localization of fractures of heat-resistant steels on the basis of fractal models of metallographic images is developed and its advantages in comparison with other known approaches are analyzed.
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Komiyama, Hiroshi, and Kazuhiko Takeuchi. "Sustainability science: building a new discipline." Sustainability Science 1, no. 1 (August 24, 2006): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-006-0007-4.
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Bensaude Vincent, Bernadette. "Discipline-building in synthetic biology." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 44, no. 2 (June 2013): 122–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.03.007.
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Ulitin, Ilya. "Mercy Killing and the Specific Features of Its Subjective Side." Russian Journal of Criminology 15, no. 1 (March 9, 2021): 144–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2500-4255.2021.15(1).144-151.
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Building a rule-of-law state requires establishing rational priorities for legal protection. Human life and health should undoubtedly hold a center place in the criminal law policy as objects of protection against criminal infringements. Murder is one of such harmful infringements. At the same time, there is sometimes a considerable difference in the degree of public danger of its different varieties. Russian criminal law policy is aimed at a further humanization and harmonization of criminal law, which makes it necessary to examine the regulation of mercy killings. A killing committed out of mercy, at the victim’s request, to relief pain and unbearable suffering caused by a severe incurable illness is not regulated by Russian legislation. This type of killings is currently qualified by Russian law enforcers under Clause «в», Part 2, Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Thus, Russian legislation views this type of killing as a qualified crime which, according to the author, is not quite correct. The article cites international practice that categorizes mercy killing as a privileged type of crime. Besides, some theoretical considerations in the article are illustrated by examples from Russian court practice on this type of killing. The article is based on both Russian and foreign works in the sphere of criminal law. It discusses some disputed aspects of delineating a mercy killing and offences with similar corpus delicti. The author concludes that there is an objective necessity to legally fix the specific offence of mercy killing, and to amend the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to include this offence. A draft article of the CC of the RF regulating mercy killing is presented. The suggested and substantiated directions of amending Russian criminal legislation could be used in the lawmaking process for the future improvement of criminal legislation of the Russian Federation, and in teaching criminal law disciplines.
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Haftendorn, Helga. "The Security Puzzle: Theory-Building and Discipline-Building in International Security." International Studies Quarterly 35, no. 1 (March 1991): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2600386.
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Martín, Carlos E. "Building the Discipline: Developing Programs for Housing Science Research." Housing and Society 31, no. 1 (January 2004): 3–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2004.11430494.
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Yancey, Nan Russell. "Collaboration in Teaching-Learning: Honoring the Wisdom of Diverse Perspectives." Nursing Science Quarterly 32, no. 4 (September 12, 2019): 278–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894318419864329.
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As complexity challenges healthcare providers across disciplines, calls arise for greater collaboration across settings and disciplines. In this column, the importance of honoring the wisdom of the diverse perspectives of collaborators with varying educational and experiential backgrounds is explored. For authentic collaboration to be possible, collaborators must have a solid theoretical, scientific, and experiential foundation within their particular discipline. The challenge for nurse faculty is to prepare students for collaboration by providing teaching-learning opportunities for building a solid foundation in the discipline, being clear about the distinctions across disciplines as well as the distinctions among the many degree levels within nursing.
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LAITIN, DAVID D. "Toward a Political Science Discipline." Comparative Political Studies 31, no. 4 (August 1998): 423–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414098031004002.
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Harry Eckstein's 1973 classic article “Authority Patterns: A Structural Basis for Political Inquiry” is critically reviewed. In that article, Eckstein proposes that the scope of politics can be ascertained through a taxonomic exercise that he labels progressive differentiation. In so doing, he delimits political study to the systematic analysis of authority patterns, which he defines as the “set of asymmetric relations among hierarchically ordered members of a social unit that involves the direction of the unit.” This taxonomy is provocative in that it rules out of the discipline's domain standard fare within contemporary political science, concerning exchange among equals (virtually all of economic reasoning) and exchange between states (virtually all of international relations). An alternative delimitation is proposed, building on other insights from Eckstein's corpus but taking off from current research practice. Four subfields—political theory, comparative politics, democratic institutions, and international relations—are defined in such a way as to give coherence to the political science discipline.
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Damico, Andrea Beatriz, José María Aulicino, and Jorgelina Di Pasquale. "What Does Sustainability Mean? Perceptions of Future Professionals across Disciplines." Sustainability 14, no. 15 (August 5, 2022): 9650. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14159650.
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Given the negative externalities of the traditional productive system, sustainable development has become a productive alternative that attempts to improve the quality of life of present and future generations. The aim of this research was to understand the degree of perception and knowledge of sustainability of university students attending different courses, who represent future Argentinian professionals. A survey was conducted on a representative sample of those enrolled in the faculties of Agricultural, Economic, and Social Sciences of the National University of Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires. The results showed that, in terms of awareness, the environmental dimension of sustainability stands out above the others. Sustainability involves preserving natural resources, favoring biodiversity, reducing environmental risks, and finding a balance between the development of humanity and care for the environment. Only 10% of the respondents identified the three sustainability dimensions contemporaneously, and most of these individuals were not informed through university courses. No substantial differences were found in the knowledge of sustainability among students of different faculties. Universities, as trainers of professionals and leaders, should further develop the subject in their curricula, to improve knowledge of sustainability, so that graduates can better face future professional challenges. Similarly, students should strive to know about sustainability and its components to defend and improve it in all areas of work.
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Pouso-Iglesias, Pablo Xosé, Gustavo Arcones-Pascual, Santiago Bellido-Blanco, and David Villanueva Valentín-Gamazo. "Abandoned rural pre-industrial heritage: study of the Riamonte mil complex (Galicia, Spain)." Virtual Archaeology Review 14, no. 28 (January 11, 2023): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/var.2023.18652.
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Highlights: Graphic tools and virtual reconstruction applied to watermills contribute to their overall understanding as an anthropogenic landscape. Virtual reconstruction of the milling mechanisms allows us to understand the mill operation beyond the mere construction preservation. The Riamonte mills are an example of a group of canal mills linked to a single dam and with a social typology of inheriting turns to grind. Abstract: Each concello (municipality) in Galicia is home to a large number of pre-industrial rural heritage assets integrated into the landscape. Among them are the water mills, usually made up of small constructions that are difficult to reuse in their original function. They are not easily compatible with other uses either. Their current state of abandonment requires their cataloguing and correct valorization as pre-industrial archaeological heritage. These constructions must be conceived as interrelated constructive groupings, in their original physical and social context. A good example of this is the unpublished sample of the Riamonte milling complex. Its study, digitalization and virtual recreation by means of computer-assisted graphics have great potential for dissemination to the public and better integration into the nature trail near the riverbed. Graphically presenting archaeological heritage through virtual media helps to promote social understanding in order to raise awareness of the importance of its protection and irreplaceable nature, especially in case of those vestiges lacking sufficient security to survive. Due to the large amount of vegetation around the wall remains, a rigorous planimetric survey of the entire complex was carried out, followed by three-dimensional (3D) modelling of representative elements. In addition, applying a rigorous principle of transparency, a chromatic differentiation is made in the 2D and 3D virtual reconstructions between already existing and newly added elements. Regarding the 3D model, a historical-archaeological evidence scale is used, allowing a graphic identification of the authenticity degree required to provide reliability in the reconstruction of lost or altered parts. This facilitates virtual recreation interpretation among future researchers from different disciplines. The Riamonte mill complex is part of a typology typical of the region, in which the use of virtual models makes it possible to reach the scales of the territory, the building and the machinery, facilitating the correct understanding of this cultural heritage.
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Johnston, Barbara. "'Soft' skills identified by students who peer-led mathematics computing workshops." ANZIAM Journal 61 (July 6, 2020): C104—C118. http://dx.doi.org/10.21914/anziamj.v61i0.15034.
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Increasingly, employers are suggesting that 'soft' skills, such as communication and teamwork, are equally important as 'hard' skills, such as discipline specific knowledge. This makes it imperative for university programs to build in opportunities for students to practise and demonstrate such soft skills. For some years, small groups of students in my second-year numerical methods course have acted as peer-leaders, with each student taking a turn to help run the computer workshops. In 2018, I introduced a PebblePad reflection to give the students the opportunity to identify the skills that they had developed, as well as to reflect on the process. In analysing the students' responses, I found that the students were very positive about the experience and that they were able to articulate a range of soft skills that they had practised and developed during the activity. References G. Athony. Factors influencing first-year students' success in mathematics. Int. J. Math. Edu. Sci. Tech., 31(1):3–14, 2000. doi:10.1080/002073900287336 Deakinco. Soft skills for business success. Technical report, Deloitte Access Economics, 2017. https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/pages/economics/articles/soft-skills-business-success.html Deakinco. Premium skills. Technical report, Deloitte Access Economics, 2019. https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/pages/economics/articles/premium-skills.html M. Demaria, Y. Hodgson, and D. Czech. Perceptions of transferable skills among biomedical science students in the final year of their degree: What are the implications for graduate employability. Int. J. Innov. Sci. Math. Edu., 26(7):11–24, 2018. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/CAL/article/view/12651 T. L. Durksen, J. Way, J. Bobis, J. A. Anderson, K. Skilling, and A. J. Martin. Motivation and engagement in mathematics: a qualitative framework for teacher–student interaction. Math. Edu. Res. J., 29:163–181, 2017. doi:10.1007/s13394-017-0199-1 R. Gill. Building employability skills for higher education students: An Australian example. J. Teach. Learn. Grad. Employ., 9(1):84–92, 2018. https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/jtlge/article/view/739 M. V. Gruzdev, I. V. Kuznetsova, I. Y. Tarkhanova, and E. I. Kazakova. University graduates' soft skills: the employer's opinion. Euro. J. Contemp. Edu., 7(4):690–698, 2018. doi:10.13187/ejced.2018.4.690 B. M. Johnston. Implementing a flipped classroom approach in a university numerical methods mathematics course. Int. J. Math. Edu. Sci. Tech., 48(4):485–498, 2017. doi:10.1080/0020739X.2016.1259516 P. Klaus. Communication breakdown. California Job J., 28(1248):1–9, August 2010. http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/52911024/communication-breakdown A. Pennington and J. Stanford. The future of work for Australian graduates: the changing landscape of University employment transitions in Australia. Technical report, Graduate Careers Australia, 2019. https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/theausinstitute/pages/3083/attachments/original/1571640129/Future_of_Work_for_Australian_Graduates_GCA_Final_Formatted.pdf?1571640129 M. Pozzi and S. Bonson. I surprised myself: Skills awareness, reflection, and employability in final year mathematics students. In STARS: Students, Transitions, Achievement, Retention and Success, Melbourne, Australia, July 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131357/ H. M. G. Watt and M. Goos. Theoretical foundations of engagment in mathematics. Math. Edu. Res. J., 29:133–142, 2017. doi:10.1007/s13394-017-0206-6
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Stan, Maria Magdalena, Cristina Dumitru, Maria Magdalena Dicu, Sofia Loredana Tudor, Claudiu Langa, and Adriana Nicoleta Lazar. "Modelling Research Competence in Social and Engineering Sciences at Master’s Level Programs: A Scoping Review." Sustainability 15, no. 1 (December 29, 2022): 574. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15010574.
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The research–teaching nexus in higher education has been strongly discussed and debated, especially when it comes to developing research competence and introducing evidence-based practice into the master’s degree curricula for Educational Sciences and Engineering Sciences. Previous systematic reviews have summarised the manner in which research is taught in higher education, and revealed that there is a lack of cross-disciplinary comparative analysis in research–pedagogy in various scientific disciplines, as well as in assessing and measuring the development of research competence (RC) at the level of higher education. To provide a comprehensive picture of the RC development and of the teaching RC, a scoping review (SCR) methodology was performed. For the purpose of the present study, a total of 33 research articles were analysed to investigate RC development in Engineering and in Social Sciences. RC is regarded as a core competence in Engineering Sciences, while in Educational Sciences, it is not yet a standardised concept. Despite differences in Social and Engineering studies, the review revealed some common aspects concerning RC modelling, based on specific key skills that students are supposed to acquire at the master’s degree level. This SCR draws our attention to the complex process of RC development as a long process requiring practice and activities implemented throughout the entire higher education process, regardless of scientific field.
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Dean, Bill B. "Integrated Cropping Systems—A Multi-discipline Degree." HortScience 31, no. 4 (August 1996): 568a—568. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.31.4.568a.
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Washington State Univ. Tri-Cities offers a new agricultural degree program titled Integrated Cropping Systems. It is intended to provide a basic education on the fundamentals of crop production and the environmental context in which crops are grown. Courses are offered at the upper division level to interface with the lower division courses offered at local community colleges. The curriculum is composed of courses in environmental science, ecology and conservation as well as crop growth and development, crop nutrition, plant pathology integrated pest management and others. Students need to meet the same requirements as those at other Washington State Univ. campuses in regards to the general education requirements. The purpose of the Integrated Cropping Systems program is to provide an educational opportunity for agricultural professionals and others in the region who are unable to commute or move to the main campus location. The curriculum provides the background needed for such occupations as grower/producer, crop scouting, sales representative and other entry level agricultural professions. It will supply credits toward certification through the American Registry of Certified Professional Agricultural Consultants (ARCPACS). Integrated Cropping Systems is a unique agricultural curriculum designed to help agriculturists integrate their production practices into the local ecosystem in a way that the environment does not incur damage. It emphasizes the use of environmentally conscience decisionmaking processes and sound resource ethics. The program will graduate individuals who have heightened awareness of the impact agricultural practices have on the ecosystem in which they are conducted.
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Hart, Joanne Louise. "Interdisciplinary project-based learning as a means of developing employability skills in undergraduate science degree programs." Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability 10, no. 2 (May 31, 2019): 50–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/jtlge2019vol10no2art827.
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Project-based learning units are often used for large scale work integrated learning (WIL) experiences in Liberal Studies Degrees as they offer scalability and sustainability of delivery to large cohorts. This systematic search and review evaluates the effectiveness of interdisciplinary project-based learning in Science Degree programs for developing discipline knowledge and employability skills. Education literature databases were searched for peer-reviewed journal articles that discussed undergraduate science-based degree programs with project-based learning units involving students from multiple disciplines. Data were analysed for evidence of a skill gain in 6 areas (Discipline knowledge, Communication, Teamwork, Interdisciplinary effectiveness, Critical thinking and problem solving, and Self-management). Projects were assigned to categories based on interdisciplinary breadth and depth. Data was analysed by cross-tabulations, Fisher’s Exact test and by calculating odds ratios (OR), which indicate the effect size. Perception of a skill gain was significantly more likely to be reported than an objectively measured skill gain (p<0.001). Real discipline skill gains were 6.6 times more likely in projects narrow in discipline mix (OR 6.6), however perceived discipline skill gains were high irrespective of project type. Projects with wide interdisciplinarity were significantly associated with perceived gains in interdisciplinary effectiveness (OR 32, p<0.05) and more likely to have perceived gains in communication (OR 2.5) and teamwork (OR 3.4) skills. When projects have greater interdisciplinary breadth or depth, perceived student employability skill gains increase, perceived discipline skill gains are unaffected, however actual discipline skill gains are less reported. Further research and evidence that project-based learning is meeting the desired WIL learning objectives of the curriculum is needed.
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Simon, Josep. "Writing the Discipline." Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 46, no. 3 (June 1, 2016): 392–427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2016.46.3.392.
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The historiography of physics has reached a great degree of maturity and sophistication, providing many avenues to consider the making of science from a historical perspective. However, the big picture of the making of physics is characterized by a predominant narrative focused on a conception of disciplinary formation through leadership transfers in research among France, Germany, and Britain. This focus has provided the history of physics with a periodization, a geography, and a fundamental goal commonly considered to be conceptual and theoretical unification. In this paper, I suggest the interest of reassessing this picture by analyzing the temporal, national, and epistemological viewpoint from which it is written. I use for this purpose an exemplary case study: Adolphe Ganot’s physics textbooks in France and their translation by Edmund Atkinson in England. In this context, I suggest future avenues for the study of the making of physics as a discipline, which consider the canonical role of textbooks in disciplinary formation beyond the Kuhnian paradigm.
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Williams, Joyce E., and Vicky M. MacLean. "Studying ourselves: Sociology discipline-building in the United States." American Sociologist 36, no. 1 (March 2005): 111–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12108-005-1012-2.
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Alghamdi, Ghadi O., and Azala M. Alghamdi. "Towards Building Academic Entrepreneurial Programs at Saudi Universities: Predicting Future Jobs in Light of the NEOM Project." World Journal of Education 10, no. 4 (August 17, 2020): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wje.v10n4p60.
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The purpose of the current study was to examine the type and form of future jobs, in light of the modern technological trends of the NEOM project. To achieve its objectives, the study utilized descriptive statistics with the Delphi method. The researchers convened a sample of ten experts in the fields of Science and Technology, Human Resources Planning, and Educational Administration and Planning, who participated in three scientific rounds. The findings from these rounds provide a suggested model for future jobs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in light of the modern technological trends of the NEOM project. This proposed model consists of twenty types of future jobs expected to achieve high degrees of importance over the next decade. Examining the study hypothesis yielded no statistically significant differences at the level (α ≥0.05) between the second and third scientific-round averages, confirming the stability of the experts' responses and their approval of this list of future jobs. The study recommends directing Saudi universities to develop academic programs to meet the needs of the NEOM project in the disciplines of Mechatronics Engineering, Using Technology in Surgery, and Software Engineering. Building academic programs with specific learning outcomes will ensure that graduates can acquire the necessary entrepreneurial skills, especially in disciplines such as Computerized Quantity Encrypted Engineering, Virtual Reality Technologies Design, and Three-Dimensional Printing Specialization. These programs will reduce acceptance of traditional academic programs that do not match the future requirements of the labor market, the Saudi 2030 Vision initiatives, and projects such as the NEOM project. The benefit from seats in more closely related programs will include the development of all programs in various universities and colleges to be entrepreneurial, supporting the new and expected technical trends in the labor market and all promising sectors of investment, such as the NEOM project.
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Goncharova, Lyubov. "Working Program of the Discipline “Marketing Linguistics”." Scientific Research and Development. Modern Communication Studies 10, no. 5 (November 3, 2021): 51–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2587-9103-2021-10-5-51-57.
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Language tools that implement the marketing model of consumer behavior and ensure the consumer’s purchase decision, have occupied the focal place in linguistic studies. Such studies have led to the formation of a new pragmalinguistic direction – marketing linguistics. This syllabus is designed for 45.04.02 direction of training ("Linguistics"), the orientation (profile) "General and typological linguistics and applications in the field of linguistics" (training level – master's degree, graduate qualification – master's degree).
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Galpin, Ixent. "Data science: an emerging discipline." CITAS 2, no. 1 (July 1, 2016): 39–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15332/24224529.5178.
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The role of data scientist has been described as the “sexiest job of the 21st Century”. While possibly there is a degree of hype associated with such a claim, there are factors at play such as the unprecedented growth in the amount of data being generated. This paper characterises the already established disciplines which underpin data science, viz., data engineering, statistics, and data mining. Following a characterisation of the previous fields, data science is found to be most closely related to data mining. However, in contrast to data mining, data science promises to operate over datasets that exhibit significant challenges in terms of the four Vs: Volume, Variety, Velocity and Veracity. This paper notes that the current emphasis, both in industry and academia, is on the first three Vs, which pose mainly scientific or technological challenges, rather than Veracity, which is a truly scientific (and arguably a more complex) challenge. Data Science can be seen to have a more ambitious objective than what traditionally data mining has: as a science, data science aims to lead to the creation of new theories and knowledge. This paper notes that, ironically, the veracity dimension, which is arguably the closest one relating to this objective, is being neglected. Despite the current media frenzy about data science, the paper concludes that more time is needed to see whether it will emerge as discipline in its own right.
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Mazama, Ama. "Africology and the Question of Disciplinary Language." Journal of Black Studies 52, no. 5 (April 13, 2021): 447–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934721996431.
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This essay is a contribution to Africology’s discipline-building. It examines more particularly the importance of disciplinary language, stressing the need for clear language and consistent definitions. Of particular concern are terms like “African-centeredness” and “Africancentered” which have never been clearly defined although they are widely used. This clout, this essay argues, impedes discipline-building efforts by introducing and sustaining semantic and terminological incoherence.
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Borrego, Maura, David B. Knight, and Nathan Hyungsok Choe. "Research group experiences and intent to complete." Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education 8, no. 2 (November 13, 2017): 109–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sgpe-d-17-00009.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to better understand the nature of graduate training experiences in research groups and to identify factors that may lead to increased student retention and success. Design/methodology/approach Surveys administered at four US universities resulted in quantitative responses from 130 Master’s and 702 doctoral engineering students participating in graduate research groups. Missing data were imputed, and responses were weighted by gender, discipline, degree program and nationality. Exploratory factor analysis identified four factors describing research group experiences. Regression models were built for two outcomes: satisfaction with research group experience and intention to complete degree. Control variables included gender, discipline, degree program, nationality, year in program and institution. Findings Fifty-five per cent of the variance in satisfaction was described by a model including agency, support, international diversity and group climate. Sixty-five per cent of variance in intent to complete was described by a model comprising international diversity, agency and support. Several control variables were significant. Originality/value Agency and support in particular were the most influential predictors of both satisfaction and intention, suggesting that future efforts should emphasize stable funding, clear expectations, access to mentors and agency-building experiences to help students take an active role in their own success.
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Turner, Kathy. "Safety, Discipline and the Manager: Building a `Higher Class of Men'." Sociology 23, no. 4 (November 1989): 611–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038589023004006.
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