Significance of Narrative Knowing in Student-centered University Education Curricula: a Hong Kong Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai Ming Yu ◽  
John Chi Kin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
University Education ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Narrative Knowing

Interactive co-teaching strategies: developing effective partnerships

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-269
Author(s):  
Carolyn Casale ◽  
Stephanie Thomas
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
University Education ◽  
Education Faculty ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Teacher Education Faculty

Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand how to develop closer partnership ties among university education faculty and local high school teachers. This study consisted of a university-based teacher education faculty and a high school social studies teacher co-teaching controversial topics using interactive student-centered approaches at a high school in the southeastern United States. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative design included data sources from lesson plans, student assignments and the co-teacher’s reflection process. The theoretical frame integrates reflective practice, culturally relevant teaching and Zeichner’s hybrid space. Findings The findings of this research identified best practices for an effective co-teaching partnership between university-based teacher education faculty and social studies high school teachers. Originality/value The significance and practical implications are to develop partnerships to promote effective teaching.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF STUDENT-CENTERED APPROACH IN MODERN CONDITIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
Mahdalyna Opachko ◽  
Iryna Kozlovska ◽  
Iryna Kliuchkovska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
School Development ◽  
University Education ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Active Subject ◽  
The Social ◽  
Student Centeredness

In modern conditions of higher school development the problem of student-centrism realization is actualized, which encourages to design educational environment for the development and formation of personality of future specialist, capable of independent construction of educational trajectory, of constant self-development and self-improvement, self-realization of creative potential. Modern students are an active subject and participants of international and domestic scientific and educational forums, public initiatives and social transformations. The purpose of the study was to carry out an aspect analysis of student-centeredness as a characteristic feature of modern university education and to reveal the conditions for the effectiveness of its implementation. To achieve this goal, the following research methods were applied: analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization to identify aspects of student-centeredness: social (civilizational), philosophical, social, psychological, pedagogical, managerial, personal and revealing the essence of each. The modeling method was used to penetrate into the essence of the social phenomenon − student-centeredness and to define markers for its characterization and criterion assessment of levels of manifestation. The method of interpreting the results of the survey clarified the nature of non-adaptability to the perception of the idea of student-centeredness. The зкщоусештп method was used to outline the strategic directions of higher school development on the example of a specific university in terms of student-centered learning. The result of the study is the formulation of conditions for the effectiveness of the student-centered approach in the context of university education. The prospects for the further research: to identify markers of student-centeredness, which would make it possible to recognize the levels of its displays and comparative analysis (foreign and domestic) of higher education institutions to implement the idea of student-centeredness.

scholarly journals Comparative Study of Graduate Physical Education Teacher Preparation Program among Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Lulu GAO ◽  
Ting WU
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Program Development ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
University Education ◽  
Teacher Preparation Program ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Physical Education Teacher ◽  
Normal University

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese. The purposes of this study were to use the teacher preparation models of graduate programs from Capital Sports University, Education University of Hong Kong, and National Taiwan Normal University as examples, to analyze and compare the differences in the aspects of program development, aims of program, recruitment policies and curriculum system these four difference regions. The results of this study illustrated the diverse teacher preparation models from three different educational systems, cultures, and teacher preparation models, would greatly help experts to understand these differences, and learn from each other. 本研究以首都體育學院、香港教育大學、臺灣師範大學的體育專業研究生培養模式為例，從三所高校的發展歷程、培養目標、招生制度、課程體系四個方面做比較研究，從而分析和對比中國大陸與香港、臺灣地區高校體育專業研究生培養模式的差異及優缺點，通過比較與借鑒擁有“中西合璧”風格的香港、臺灣地區的體育學研究生教育方式，優化和改革中國大陸體育研究生教育的課程結構、內容、培養方式等措施，以提高我國體育專業研究生的教育品質。

PBL Implementation in Material Science and Engineering Education at Chinese Universities

2019 ◽  
pp. 130-158
Author(s):  
Xiu Song
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
University Education ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Chinese Universities ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
Science And Engineering Education

Traditional university education with ordinary lectures is changing to more practical and actively student-centered learning systems. Materials science and engineering is originally the study of actual engineering materials but now becomes more interdisciplinary and sophisticated in the rapidly advancing industrial society. It is very necessary to cultivate the practical materials engineers and it also becomes a big challenge for Chinese universities to make a change. PBL is one of the potential approaches for Chinese universities. This chapter describes PBL theories, discusses PBL principles, PBL models, and also some PBL experiences at Aalborg University. In addition, this chapter exposes how PBL could be applied to materials science and engineering education in Chinese universities, and a case of PBL implementation has been given to show the process of transformation from traditional education at Chinese universities to PBL in the materials science and engineering field.

Application Research of Flipped Classroom Teaching Model based on MOOC in the Course of Biochemistry Teaching

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Xingli Zhang ◽  
Congping Tan ◽  
Ding Feng
Keyword(s):  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
University Education ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Teaching Content ◽  
Educational Concept ◽  
The Development Trend

Flipped classroom teaching model based on MOOC is the development trend of higher education and also the development direction of university education teaching reform in the future. Flipped classroom and MOOC breaks through the typical limitations of traditional classroom and truly embodies the educational concept of "student-centered". Biochemistry is a very important core course in biology, food science, pharmacy and other related to majors. The teaching content is complex and abstract, and the class time is relative less. Therefore, it is of great significance to use the flipped classroom teaching model in biochemistry teaching. Based on the practice of biochemistry teaching in recent years, this paper expounds the application of flipped classroom in biochemistry teaching.

Reforming University Education in Hong Kong and Singapore

2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. Lee ◽  
Saravanan Gopinathan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
University Education ◽  
Education In Hong Kong

scholarly journals Are the Filipino domestic helpers caring the home-dwelling elders in Hong Kong competent to provide first aid in a medical emergency?

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheuk-Him Ho ◽  
Tsz-Kit Chan ◽  
Nicholas ATC Leung ◽  
Reynold Leung ◽  
Kit-Ling Fan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Confidence Score ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
First Aid ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
University Education ◽  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Healthcare Need

Background: The healthcare need of the elderly in Hong Kong is a major issue. Foreign domestic helpers, especially those from the Philippines, play a significant role in response to the healthcare need of a home-dwelling elder as they are often the sole caregiver of the elders. Objectives: This study primarily aimed at exploring the Filipino domestic helpers’ knowledge of and attitude to managing a medical emergency of a home-dwelling elder. Methods: This was a questionnaire survey of the Filipino domestic helpers working in Hong Kong and was conducted from 1 July 2015 to 29 February 2016. The survey collected their demographic data, evaluated their first aid knowledge by a test of multiple-choice questions and assessed their attitudes to providing first aid to the elders they cared in terms of confidence and perceived responsibility. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the findings. Results: In all, 398 Filipino domestic helpers were surveyed. Most had completed university education. About one third had been trained in first aid. The average mark attained by the respondents on first aid knowledge assessment was 4.5 (full mark = 16). Their knowledge was especially poor in heat exhaustion, choking, external bleeding, epistaxis and scald injury. Their median confidence score was 10 (full score = 15) and median perceived responsibility score was 13 (full score = 20). Conclusion: The first aid knowledge among the Filipino domestic helpers surveyed in this study was poor. They were not confident enough in providing first aid to an elder and their perceived responsibility was also low.

Learning from Wikipedia

PMLA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
pp. 694-699
Author(s):  
Marjorie Perloff
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
College Education ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
University Education ◽  
Usual Sense ◽  
Traditional Curriculum ◽  
Experiential Training ◽  
Student Centered

The jobs of the future require deep understanding of the technologies changing our workplace and our society. That understanding requires experimental and experiential training and the kind of grounded academic thinking that lets big ideas soar. The programs, the faculty, and the universities that understand that challenge will lead us all. (Davidson 132)For cathy n. davidson, university education is equivalent to job preparation, which is not to say that she is talking about vocational training in the usual sense—the training, say, of medical technicians or park rangers, computer programmers or hotel personnel. On the contrary, her “new education” is designed as broadly as possible to be a replacement of the old liberal arts paradigm. The soaring cost of college education, she argues, will not decrease until public officials can be convinced that four (or even two) years of “university” training “can provide exactly the analytical and cross-cutting interdisciplinary thinking and communication skills that are most in demand in a complex workplace” (185). Goodbye, accordingly, to the traditional curriculum that has been in force for over a hundred years, goodbye to “passive, hierarchical models of teaching and learning” (103), to individual majors (and minors) like English, history, economics, or chemistry, with their lecture courses and discussion sessions, their final exams and pop quizzes, and welcome to the new world of “student-centered,” “project-based” “learning,” to the classroom “where students learn how to learn” (263).

Experience and coping of employment risks in Hong Kong

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 166-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
May Tam ◽  
Chung Yan Ip
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
University Education ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
And Coping

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use the case of Hong Kong to assess the equalisation and individualization claim of the risk society approach to studying experience and coping of employment risks. Design/methodology/approach Two types of survey data are used: quarterly official surveys from the year of 1993 to 2008 and a cross-sectional territory-wide representative telephone survey conducted in 2009. Findings The findings show that contrary to the equalisation claim, experiences of employment risks have continued to concentrate on disadvantaged groups: unskilled manual workers and those with education levels below lower secondary school had continuously fared worse than professionals, managers and university degree holders. These disadvantaged groups were also not particularly proactive in adopting either capital-based or work-related coping methods when they encountered unemployment. Research limitations/implications The lack of trend data to examine the use of different coping means is one of the main drawbacks of the current study. The study carries important theoretical implications. Practical implications Policy implications for the government to provide more comprehensive and proactive employment-related support measures and further expansion of university education. Originality/value This paper examines the case of Hong Kong so as to extend the empirical assessment of the risk society approach beyond the Anglo-Saxon context to mature Asian economies. The study further shows that we need to go beyond the secular trend globalisation which the risk society theory emphasises. Historical factors and business-government-labour power relations are critical factors that shape the policies and institutions of labour market regulations and welfare provision in the local context

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