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‘Then we were ready to be radicals!’ : school student activism in Finnish upper secondary schools in 1960–1967
2021
In the Western countries, Scandinavia and Finland included, the legacy of the student movement of the 1960s has been extensive and established a fixed narrative of a radical movement. This article challenges the elitists and university-centred grand narrative and argues that the student movement was more multifaceted and mobilized young people of various ages and backgrounds. This is done by addressing the international student movement from the perspective of school-aged students in Finnish upper secondary schools, focusing on student activism carried out in school-sanctioned student associations. Above all, this article aims to distinguish the relatively unknown history of the Scandinavia…
Faculty Perception of Inclusion in the University: Concept, Policies and Educational Practices
2021
European universities must face the challenge of diversity and design inclusive practices to address it as part of their social responsibility. However, not all universities are doing the same in terms of diversity practices, so it is important to gather the perceptions of the protagonists. To this end, we have analysed university faculty’s perceptions using a mixed model with a concurrent methodological strategy, including an ad hoc questionnaire validated with 880 educators, as well as 17 semi‐structured interviews. The triangulation of these two instruments allowed us to analyse three key dimensions associated with the idea of attention to diversity in the university: diversity concept o…
Selection of suitable housekeeping genes for expression analysis in glioblastoma using quantitative RT-PCR
2009
Abstract Background Considering the broad variation in the expression of housekeeping genes among tissues and experimental situations, studies using quantitative RT-PCR require strict definition of adequate endogenous controls. For glioblastoma, the most common type of tumor in the central nervous system, there was no previous report regarding this issue. Results Here we show that amongst seven frequently used housekeeping genes TBP and HPRT1 are adequate references for glioblastoma gene expression analysis. Evaluation of the expression levels of 12 target genes utilizing different endogenous controls revealed that the normalization method applied might introduce errors in the estimation of…
Manuale Breve Diritto Penale
2010
Il volume analizza, con un taglio concreto e un linguaggio chiaro ed immediato, tutti i profili istituzionali del diritto penale sia di parte generale che di parte speciale e, pertanto, si rivolge sia a studenti universitari che a tutti coloro che si apprestano ad affrontare le prove per l'abilitazione alla professione forense o all'esame di uditore giudiziario. Il volume analizza, con un taglio concreto e un linguaggio chiaro ed immediato, tutti i profili istituzionali del diritto penale sia di parte generale che di parte speciale e, pertanto, si rivolge sia a studenti universitari che a tutti coloro che si apprestano ad affrontare le prove per l'abilitazione alla professione forense o all…
Vēsture: Latvijas Universitātes Žurnāls, 3
2017
https://doi.org/10.22364/luzv.3.2017
Turning Migration Disadvantage into Educational Advantage. Autobiographies of Successful Students with an Immigrant Background
2018
The article focuses on unexpected pathways of successful students with an immigrant background, in order to investigate the implication of this phenomenon from a theoretical, methodological and empirical point of view. After a review of the main sociological studies on “immigrant optimism” towards educational success, I will reflect on biographical approach, particularly suitable to study this topic. A on-going research project based on the collection of educational autobiographies of successful immigrant-origin students, attending upper secondary schools in Northern Italy, is presented. Then, the story of Destiny, a 16 years-old girl with Moroccan origin, is used as a case study to explore…
Una experiencia estudiantil y colectiva de investigación feminista decolonial en la Universitat de València. Trayectorias epistémicas y metodológicas
2017
<p class="Cuerpodetexto"><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p class="Cuerpodetexto">Necesitábamos producir conocimientos situados y llevar a cabo prácticas feministas al margen de las epistemes eurocéntricas y metodologías positivistas aprendidas en las aulas universitarias en favor de <em>querer-hacer-vivir</em> feminismos no hegemónicos. Nos propusimos crear y dinamizar una Colectiva como estrategia de participación universitaria sociocultural que sostuviera una complementariedad dinámica tanto epistemológica como metodológica. El presente texto narra parte de la trayectoria de la Colectiva como <em>locus </em>propicio para llevar a cabo una…
The influence of improvisation activities on speaking confidence of EFL student teachers
2020
The purpose of the present study was to explore the application of improvisation activities in English teacher education, specifically to investigate their influence on the student teachers’ confidence when speaking English spontaneously. The improvisation activities consisted of storytelling, conversations and status expressions. Data were drawn from both pre- and post-questionnaires and retrospective texts. The statistical findings showed significant improvements in the student teachers’ level of speaking confidence and degree of relaxation while speaking English. The findings of the qualitative analysis confirmed this, and participants stated that the fun, collaboration and high degree o…
Impact of the "salary scholarship" impact profile and student achievement.
2013
In Spain, within the framework of the Strategy 2015, the implementation of scholarships, grants and wages especially adapted to the new situation of the European Higher Education, intended to ensure access to university education to those most disadvantaged social groups economically. This research makes an ex post facto, descriptive-comparative aimed at assessing the impact of the grant salary, as an economic factor, on equity, access and academic performance in the first year of college. The study was conducted with a total of 10,394 new students in the 2010-11 cohort at the University of Barcelona, from the database from the institution itself. A total of 642 students agreed to grant sal…
Experiences of Refugees When Entering Higher Education and Over the Course of Their Studies: A Literature Review of Structural and Personal Challenges
2021
In view of the significantly increasing number of individuals around the world who are forced to flee their country of origin, research discussions about integrating refugees into education are gaining relevance. A central research area is their entry into and study success in higher education, focusing on the associated challenges this learner group faces. Though the results of studies dealing with this topic often overlap, they usually focus on individual sub-areas and set specific thematic priorities. As a result, certain sub-areas such as administrative challenges are examined far more frequently than others. In this literature review, data from 14 English-language studies published bet…