scholarly journals Personality Development at University Level as Reflected in Works of Researchers in Lithuania in the Period of 1990–2015

Pedagogika ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-93
Author(s):  
Asta Meškauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Process ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
University Education ◽  
Educational Mission ◽  
University Studies ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
The University ◽  
Intellectual Potential

The present article is focused on the works of researchers in Lithuania in the period of restored independence (1990–2015) that analyse the issues of personality development through university studies alongside the identified key trends of research in the area. The article comprises two parts, with the first part of it devoted to the analysis of works of researchers, who view personality development as the educational mission of university, and the second part discusses the major preconditions for the implementation of the mission of personality development through university studies. The overall tendency, well noticeable in the works of Lithuanian researchers published in the period 1990–2015, speaks for the fact that researchers strongly believe in the significance of the educational mission of university to educate the intellectually rich personality capable of thinking critically. The researchers tend to emphasize the important role that liberal thinking plays in the university studies. The researchers consider liberal education of personality to be the exceptionally significant characteristics of higher education, capable of preconditioning the overall education of the type of personality that can have a significant impact on the intellectual and cultural development of the society at large. In the researchers opinion, the essential indicators of university education comprise the individual’s world outlook, well-balanced attitudes towards societal problems and manifestations of diversity among individuals alongside fundamental understanding of processes and solid knowledge in the subject area. University studies in the works of Lithuanian researchers are viewed not as a mere package of services provided for the client but rather as a powerful developmental process of transforming nature. The researchers point out the importance of solid theoretical preparation in the field of broadly understood humanities that is crucial in making university studies significantly meaningful. The value of the acquired skills of critical thinking, in turn, consists in their emancipating power for the intellectually and socially active personality. The researchers treat studies as a constructive activity in which students are able and ready to select the best-suited ways and methods of study. This kind of approach involves stages of the student active participation in the study processes as well as reflective processes; it guarantees student self-initiation, decision making and solutions to study-related problems, with the utmostly beneficial effect of attempts at inquiry, personal experience, creativity and personality maturity. In the works of Lithuanian researchers published in the period 1990–2015, the ideas are put forward that universities, as one of the major institution types where intellectual potential of personality gets developed and matured, have become the object of on-going transformations, and thus universities should be well-prepared to react immediately to the fast-changing social, economic, and cultural environment, they should search for new approaches in helping student to become critically thinking and creative personalities, with highly-developed adaptive skills that are so significant in the present-day world.

scholarly journals Access to University Studies: Implementing and Evaluating Multi-point Videoconferencing

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Keast
Keyword(s):  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Mode Of Delivery ◽  
University Education ◽  
Geographic Barrier ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Primary Mode ◽  
Aboriginal Students ◽  
University Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

A formidable geographic barrier exists in Canada for institutions wishing to provide opportunities for university education but serving clients and communities in remote regions of a province. In early September l995, the University of Alberta, Fairview College, and Kayas Cultural College embarked on a new partnership in offering a selected number of introductory Faculty of Arts courses in remote regions of northwestern Alberta. The primary mode of delivery was synchronized, multi-point videoconferencing (to as many as six sites), with all courses delivered from the University of Alberta campus. Slightly more than 70 percent of the student cohort for the first academic year were Aboriginal students. This paper provides a contextual background, describes the implementation, and reports the findings from a detailed formative evaluation of this partnership. The focus is primarily administrative in that questions addressed will relate to how such programs can be planned, implemented, managed, and monitored.

A Modern Model of the Educational Environment of the University with Regard to the Context of its Historic Developmen

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Tatiana Nickolaevna Korneenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Environment ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
University Education ◽  
Cultural Identification ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Pedagogical Model ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

For several centuries, the mission of the university, original created for the intellectual and cultural development of man, has changed little. The main task of the university is undergoing changes today. The growing antropogical contradiction: the uncertainty of the future, enormous technological variability and existential unpreparedness for this person, contributes to the revision of the university model. The purpose of the article is to develop a pedagogical model of the university that can respond to modern challenges. Methodology. The university always focuses on the future, accepts young people who will develop this future, so the emphasis of modern methodology in the design of educational systems should be “from the future”. This means that it should be based on the reflection of existing phenomena in culture today (see V.S. Stepin). In this work, university models from the late 17th century to the beginning of the 21st century were selected as materials of research in this work and their missions were analyzed. It is concluded that the era influences the formation of the university’s mission, its purpose, goals and methods of education. In particular, classical university education has always been built on three vectors: the vector of the search for the ideal self, the vector of social identification and the vector of cultural identification. In the modern period, the advantage of the vector of socialization over others is increasing. The results of the study. The pedagogical model of education at a modern university is presented. The basis is the thought of M.K. Mamardashvili about a self-fulfilling person and the principles of liberal education: the principle of active independent activity efforts, the principle of a varied educational environment, the principle of volumetric communication, communicativeness and creativity, the principle of reliance on independent learning. Thus, the modern educational environment of the university should be a varied, multi-level, practice-oriented, reflective environment in which 3 educational vectors are concentrated: the search for one’s purpose (idealization), cultural identification and social self-realization. Their combination allows us to overcome the one-sided emphasis of the educational process on socialization. The results of the research may be applied in design and implementation performance of blended learning models or their components in practice of universities.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING THE PROJECT COMPETENCE OF FUTURE EDUCATORS IN THE SYSTEM OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
E.G. Novolodskaya ◽  
◽  
E.B. Manuzina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
University Education ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Project Activity ◽  
Pedagogical Design ◽  
University Studies ◽  
The University

The article considers the development of the project competence of future teachers during the university studies. The authors describe the theoretical and practical blocks of the module “Project Competence of a Teacher” in the course “Pedagogy”, and the students’ mastery of the project activity logics. A set of tasks for students to perform their own pedagogical design is presented.

scholarly journals J. H. Newman - uloga sveučilišta u intelektualnom i moralnom razvoju čovjeka

Diacovensia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-565
Author(s):  
Maja Poljak
Keyword(s):  
Informal Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Moral Formation ◽  
Primary Position ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Third ◽  
Important Means ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Intellectual Potential

Education belongs among the most important means for the development of human intellectual potential. Whether formal or informal, education has always played an important role both in the life of the individual and in the life of the community. In the paper before us, the author discusses some of the basic principles of educational theory of the English thinker J. H. Newman. The first chapter of the paper discusses man seen as a being of development who needs certain means to help him reach his intellectual excellence. Among these means education holds a primary position. The second chapter brings Newman’s attitude towards the utilitarian concept of university education, and the third chapter deals with the influence of the university on the moral formation of the individual.

scholarly journals Resultados y propuestas de un servicio de orientación universitaria

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Benito Del Rincón Igea ◽  
Agustín Bayot Mestre
Keyword(s):  
Support Services ◽  
University Education ◽  
University Studies ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
The University

RESUMENEn esta aportación nos proponemos justificar con algunas investigaciones realizadas en el contexto de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Campus de Cuenca) que, en el marco de nuestras estructuras universitarias, es necesario crear órganos de orientación y apoyo a los estudiantes como condición para que éstos consigan la formación que el mundo laboral y la sociedad en general les exigen. Los resultados obtenidos indican que el 98% de los participantes consideran necesaria la existencia de un servicio de estas características, el 30% del alumnado manifiesta no tener información acerca de la proyección laboral de su carrera y el 94,60% señala que la Universidad no le ha facilitado ninguna ayuda posterior a la finalización de los estudios para obtener un puesto de trabajo. Además, aportamos referentes que pueden ser de utilidad para organizar uno de estos servicios.ABSTRACTOn this contribution, we will be able to justify, having carried out recent researches in the University of Castilla La Mancha (Campus of Cuenca), the necessity of the establishment of guidance and support services for students as a condition to ensure they obtain the best possible university education available in order to enable the students to overcome the difficulties they can find when they conclude their university studies. The collected information show that 98% of the participants consider that it is necessary the establishment of such kind of services, 30% of the students declare having no information about what kind of post-graduated studies or jobs they can apply for and 94,60% assure that they have received no support from University institution when looking for a job. Furthermore, we add strategies in order to develop these kind of services.

scholarly journals ODERN UNIVERSITY LECTURER TYPE: TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-139
Author(s):  
Татьяна Ивановна Руднева
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
University Education ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Study Selection ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Lecturers ◽  
The University ◽  
Intellectual Potential

Актуализируется проблема трансформации образовательных процессов в университете, вызванных изменением его миссии и задач, решаемых преподавателями. Обращается внимание на факторы появления нового типа преподавателя (формированию которого должна способствовать подготовка аспирантов), интеллектуального потенциала современного общества, новых педагогических кадров. Инновации предполагают уважительное отношение к прошлому, к истории российского университетского образования, преимущество которого перед другими образовательными учреждениями заключается в научной направленности. Исследование показало, что успешность педагогической деятельности обусловлена взаимосвязью педагогического и научного. В доказательство в статье приводятся результаты исследований особенностей деятельности преподавателя университета, характеристики преподавателя нового типа университета -когнитивного, полученные автором статьи в ходе лонгитюдного исследования, выборку которого представили преподаватели классических университетов (Самара, Москва, Санкт-Петербург). Материалы статьи будут интересны преподавателям вузов, руководству образовательных процессов, аспирантам и исследователям в области профессионального образования. The article updates the problem of educational processes transformation at the university caused by changes in its mission and tasks which are solved by lecturers. Attention is drawn to the emergence factors of a new lecturer type, the formation of which should be facilitated by postgraduate development of competence, the intellectual potential of modern society, new pedagogical personnel. Attention is drawn to the fact that innovation implies a respectful attitude towards the past, to the history of Russian university education, the advantage of which over other educational institutions is scientific. The study proved that success of pedagogical activities is due to the relationship between pedagogical and scientific activities. The evidence in the article contains the results of studies of the peculiarities of the university lecturer’s activity, characteristics of a new university lecturer type - cognitive, obtained by the author of the article during the longitudinal study, selection of which was presented by lecturers of classical universities (Samara, Moscow, St. Petersburg). The article materials will be interesting to university lecturers, educational process direction, postgraduate students and researchers in the field of vocational training.

Hindrance to the Integration of e-learning Adoption in Nigerian Universities

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Abasiama G. Akpan ◽  
Chris Eriye Tralagba
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
University Education ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
University System ◽  
Electronic Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Nigerian University ◽  
The University

Electronic learning or online learning is a part of recent education which is dramatically used in universities all over the world. As well as the use and integration of e-learning is at the crucial stage in all developing countries. It is the most significant part of education that enhances and improves the educational system. This paper is to examine the hindrances that influence e-learning in Nigerian university system. In order to have an inclusive research, a case study research was performed in Evangel University, Akaeze, southeast of Nigeria. The paper demonstrates similar hindrances on country side. This research is a blend of questionnaires and interviews, the questionnaires was distributed to lecturers and an interview was conducted with management and information technology unit. Research had shown the use of e-learning in university education which has influenced effectively and efficiently the education system and that the University education in Nigeria is at the crucial stage of e-learning. Hence, some of the hindrances are avoiding unbeaten integration of e-learning. The aim of this research is to unravel the barriers that impede the integration of e-learning in universities in Nigeria. Nevertheless, e-learning has modified the teaching and learning approach but integration is faced with many challenges in Nigerian University.

The Sinful University?

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel James Cook
Keyword(s):  
University Education ◽  
Moral Failure ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

There is a difference between doing something well and doing something good. And there is a difference between failing to do something well, and failing to do something good. In this paper, I assess our contemporary University in the latter sense of failure. While the University can be ineffective, or fail to function well, there is more at stake if the University, as an institution, is in conflict with nature. That is, it is one thing for the University to be ineffective in its means, but here I will pose the question: is the contemporary University sinful? Using Josef Pieper's elucidation of moral failure and John Henry Newman's analysis of the proper ends of University education, I defend the thesis that because the aim of our contemporary University seems to come in conflict with the goal of nature as a whole, it may be understood as sinful.

WORK-BASED LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: EXPERIENCE AND CHALLENGES OF LEARNERS, WORKPLACES AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Roosipõld ◽  
Krista Loogma ◽  
Mare Kurvits ◽  
Kristina Murtazin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Constructivist Learning Theory ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
Restaurant Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Constructivist Learning

In recent years, providing higher education in the form of work-based learning has become more important in the higher education (HE) policy and practice almost in all EU countries. Work-based learning (WBL) in HE should support the development of competences of self-guided learners and adjust the university education better to the needs of the workplace. The study is based on two pilot projects of WBL in HE in Estonia: Tourism and Restaurant Management professional HE programme and the master’s programme in Business Information Technology. The model of integrative pedagogy, based on the social-constructivist learning theory, is taken as a theoretical foundation for the study. A qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with the target groups. The data analysis used a horizontal analysis to find cross-cutting themes and identify patterns of actions and connections. It appears, that the challenge for HE is to create better cooperation among stakeholders; the challenge for workplaces is connected with better involvement of students; the challenge for students is to take more initiative and responsibility in communication with workplaces.

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