scholarly journals Subject specific encyclopedias as an important stage in the development of scientific disciplines and terminology systems (on example of The Mining Encyclopedia as a work in mining industry and geology)

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Biletskyi ◽  
Hennadii Haiko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Mining Geology ◽  
Important Stage ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
Terminology System

The peculiarities of the development of some scientific disciplines (such as mining, geology), primarily the professional terminology system are shown on the example of the project The Mining Encyclopedia (ukr .: Hirnycha Entsyklopediia). The study describes The Mining Encyclopedia, its relevance for technical education in Ukraine, as well as for the integration of national higher education in the European and world educational space in general.

scholarly journals A New Face of Mining Engineer—International Curricula to Sustainable Development and Green Deal (A Case Study of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1393
Author(s):  
Karolina Adach-Pawelus ◽  
Anna Gogolewska ◽  
Justyna Górniak-Zimroz ◽  
Barbara Kiełczawa ◽  
Joanna Krupa-Kurzynowska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Mining Engineer ◽  
European Institute ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Development Goals

The mining industry in the world has undergone a major metamorphosis in recent years. These changes have forced higher education to modify the curricula in a thorough way to meet the mining entrepreneurs’ needs. The paper’s scope is to answer the research question—how to attract students and implement Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in higher education in mining engineering? Based on the case of international cooperation carried out at the Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST) within the framework of educational projects co-financed by European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities Raw Materials (EIT RM), the authors prove that the idea of sustainable development can be introduced into the system of teaching mining specialists at every level of their higher education (engineering and master’s studies), through developing their new competencies, introducing new subjects taking into account innovative solutions and technologies, or placing great emphasis on environmental and social aspects. Examples of new curricula show a good way to change into the new face of a mining engineer.

scholarly journals Workshops for subject-specific teachers’ training: A case study for teaching cancer biology

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Pecorino ◽  
Richard Grose ◽  
Pinar Uysal-Onganer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cancer Biology ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Teachers Training

Teachers’ training in higher education institutions widely serves general purposes. However, recent dialogues and research highlight the importance of teachers’ deep understanding of the material being taught and the ways students think about the content as critical components of great teaching. We explored the novelty of providing a one-day workshop entitled, ‘Effective strategies for teaching cancer biology’. The Biochemical Society supported the event and marketed it throughout the UK – not with any targeted level of university teaching experience and attendees therefore ranged from those who had never taught to those at the level of Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. The day included various short talks, the sharing of good practice and the opportunity to experience a demonstration lesson as a student. Twelve out of thirteen who provided feedback had not received previous subject-specific teacher-training. Half of the attendees gave feedback with the highest score out of five, having found the event ‘very valuable’. This experience suggests that subject-specific training may be beneficial and applicable to other subject areas.

scholarly journals Bringing the doctoral thesis by published papers to the Social Sciences and the Humanities: a quantitative easing?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Rigby ◽  
Barbara Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Degree ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk

This paper reflects on alternatives to the traditional form of doctoral thesis which are emerging to reflect a new approach to the valuation and designation of scientific outputs. We examine the changes and consider some implications. We suggest that the adoption of co-citation as underpinning principle for the measurement of knowledge structures has led to re-designation of the value of knowledge and knowledge producers in increasingly quantitative terms. We use notions of ‘institution’ and ‘logic’ to better understand such a change and its implications. Under a new logic that is gradually embedding itself across the higher education sector, the ‘constitutive rules’ concerned with the value of research now prioritize quantification, and tangibility of output, and quality is increasingly equated with citation. Whilst the scientific disciplines have traditionally been closer to this model, albeit with significant national variations, subjects within the Social Sciences and Humanities are now being affected. We present evidence from a small study of the UK higher education sector of university regulation of doctoral degree submission format in two disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences (History and Sociology). Our evidence shows the recent and gradual adoption of a practice, previously more common in scientific disciplines, that allows the doctoral thesis to be constituted by a series of publishable papers, known by a variety of names, the most common being ‘Thesis by Published Papers’, ‘Journal Format Thesis’, ‘Alternative Format Thesis’, and ‘Integrated Thesis’. As the thesis of the Social Sciences and Humanities – itself an important institution in the academic field - begins to reflect a greater emphasis upon quantity of knowledge outputs, a tension emerges with the most central of all scientific institutions, the peer-reviewed journal paper.

Qualification Frameworks and Field-specific Approaches to Quality Assurance

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
Giuliano Augusti ◽  
Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Peer Reviews ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
Degree Structure

“General” and “field-specific” Quality Assurance procedures, although sharing many “technical” instruments (self evaluation reports, peer reviews, benchmarks vs. reference points, etc.), have different directions. The motivations behind “field-specific” initiatives are critically presented in this paper. They are strictly correlated with Qualification Frameworks that, while preserving the autonomy of higher education institutions in defining their teaching offers, define common and transparent employability objectives for the benefit of students, graduates and all other stakeholders. However, “while learning outcomes have been generically defined for the degree structure”, it is now necessary “to further develop descriptors for subject specific knowledge, skills and competences. ... leaving still plenty of freedom for programme diversity.” (Bologna Process, 2009a). Qualification Frameworks and field-specific Quality Assurance lead naturally to “pre-professional accreditation” that can be given an international value by “European Quality Labels”.

scholarly journals Adaptive Technology Training of Human Capital for the Mining Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 04010
Author(s):  
Vadim Mikhalchenko ◽  
Irina Seredkina
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Technological Process ◽  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Original Method ◽  
Customer Requirements ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Adaptive Technology ◽  
The University

In the article the original method Quality Function Deployment in relation to the preparation of University specialists with higher education. The method is based on the process of a phased conversion of customer requirements in specific organizational, substantive and functional transformation of the technological process of the University. The ultimate goal of these reforms - training knowledge and skills which meet the requirements and expectations of the customers of universities - enterprises of the mining industry.

scholarly journals Support of the International Students Studying Earth Sciences at Mining Region University

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 04019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Greenwald ◽  
Anna Resenchuck ◽  
Tatyana Sergeychick
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Nature Management ◽  
Sociocultural Adaptation ◽  
Educational Support ◽  
University Departments ◽  
Mining Region ◽  
Russian Higher Education

Being the leading coal mining region in Russia, Kuzbass has significant experience in training specialists in geology, mining industry, ecology and nature management. Therefore, the states-partners of Russia such as Tajikistan, Kirgizia and Uzbekistan are interested in training their specialists for mining industry at Kuzbass universities. In accordance with the Russian state policy for internationalization of Russian higher education it has resulted in sharp increasing of the number of international students at the universities of Kuzbass. A survey of the international students’ attitudes carried out at Kemerovo State University, the leading regional university, indicates the necessity to arrange their sociocultural and educational support aimed at their socialization and sociocultural adaptation to the conditions of educational environment of the university. The main principle of sociocultural and educational support of international students is based on the consolidation of different university departments in their organization of educational, scientific, cultural events to create favorable conditions for sociocultural adaptation of international students and their successful achievements in higher education programmes. Moreover, students’ intercultural communication promotes business relationships with representatives of the leading coal mining countries.

Educating researchers in the metadiscipline of foresight

foresight ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 703-715
Author(s):  
James P. Kahan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Logical Type ◽  
The Usa

Purpose The science of Foresight differs from the commonplace notion of what a science is because it is a metadiscipline – a logical type of science higher than the logical type of disciplinary sciences. It is practical, uses transdisciplinary processes that combine scientific disciplines and often examines counterfactuals in a scientific manner. This study aims to demonstrate that Foresight is a science, by presenting a number of best practices and potential innovations in higher education that could facilitate obtaining skills for Foresight science. Design/methodology/approach The methods of scientific education that have served us well in the past are inadequate for metadisciplinary sciences such as Foresight. The paper discusses what metadisciplinarity is, using a variety of examples, and distinguishes it from disciplines and ways of crossing disciplinary boundaries. Understanding the essential characteristics of Foresight as a metadisciplinary science leads to identifying current best practices and possible educational innovations in undergraduate education that will facilitate obtaining Foresight skills. Throughout the paper, examples are drawn from the education and professional experience of the author in the USA and Europe. Findings This paper demonstrates that Foresight is a science and presents a number of best practices and potential innovations in higher education that could facilitate obtaining skills for Foresight science. It identifies barriers to those innovations and approaches to overcome them. Originality/value This viewpoint paper clarifies the meaning of the terms interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and metadisciplinarity to identify the essential characteristics of Foresight as a science. Then, it identifies and advocates needed changes in North American higher education to provide earlier and more efficient opportunities for Foresight researchers and users to obtain the skills they need.

scholarly journals Concept of a Sino-German Summer School on Multiscale Processes in Oceans and the Atmosphere

Challenges ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Gerrit Lohmann ◽  
Xueen Chen ◽  
Xun Gong ◽  
Shuang Li
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
Internationalization Of Education ◽  
Climate Evolution ◽  
Earth’S System

A concept for an interdisciplinary summer school for “multiscale processes in oceans and the atmosphere” is presented. It aims to deepen students’ understanding of scientific issues as well as their experience in multicultural communication. The theme covers climate evolution, which is partially dominated by far-reaching anthropogenic changes and their possible consequences on the Earth’s system. An integrated approach helps to change rigid subject-specific mindsets among faculties and students and across cultures, so as to broaden their horizons in both research and life. Research has shown, however, that the development of intercultural competence in students does not happen automatically but needs to be fostered and supported. Therefore, a primary goal is also to provide young researchers from several countries (mainly China and Germany) with the opportunity to gain more indepth knowledge on research in Germany, to be exposed to scientific culture, and thus to prepare for foreign research visits either during the PhD phase or as postdoctoral fellows, supporting the internationalization of education and opportunities in marine sciences. Finally, the students have the chance to further develop their scientific profiles by attending scientific talks, lab exercises, and excursions and by combining rigorous scientific disciplines with the awareness of multidisciplinary issues related to the topic of global climate change.

scholarly journals Washington Hotline

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (8) ◽  
pp. 460
Author(s):  
Kevin Maher
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Career And Technical Education ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Career And Technical

Higher education victory in Perkins CTE reauthorizationCongress is not known for moving at lightning speed, until they do. Case in point is the recent reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education (CTE) Act.

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