Search results for "academic"

Students’ Perceptions of Family Entrepreneurship – A Study on Family Business Academic Education

2010

L’objectif de cette recherche est d’analyser les points de vue d’étudiants universitaires envers la condition des entrepreneurs. Le fond théorique analyse l’interaction entre l’entreprise familiale, le propriétaireship, et l’éducation sur la condition des entrepreneurs. 211 étudiants de l’Université de Jyväskylä ont participé à cette étude pendant le cours fondamental de Basic business studies appelé “Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Business Operations” en septembre 2007. 143 d’entre eux ont écrit un essai d’une page, soit en finnois soit en anglais, sur les entreprises familiales et les propriétaires familiales. Les étudiants ont écrit sur le phénomène avec leurs propres mots. Les rés…

«Una gestazione lunga e travagliata» : la fondazione delle Università di Sassari e Cagliari

2020

Riassunto: Il lento iter di fondazione delle Universita di Sassari e di Cagliari vide impegnate le due citta sarde per l’ottenimento di una scuola di istruzione superiore per i propri giovani. La lunga gestazione fu il frutto di numerose richieste parlamentari e spasmodiche ricerche di finanziamenti che portarono, attraverso una lotta continua per la supremazia verso il riconoscimento di prima universita del regno e i controversi rapporti con la Compagnia di Gesu, al primo passo verso una istruzione di tipo accademico. Il presente contributo ricostruisce il processo di formazione delle universita dalle prime istanze poste in seno al Parlamento presieduto dal vicere Antonio de Cardona fino a…

Combining Academic Education With Soft Skills Development: Some Common Aspects of Educational Preparation of IT Professionals and Schoolteachers

2021

In the modern educational process aimed on preparing professionals in the applied areas, it’s crucial, along with purely professional training, to provide students both with solid theoretical background and help them to develop “soft skills” that will facilitate their smooth and efficient adaptation to the industry realities when they start their professional careers. In this paper we consider practical cases of acquiring soft skills through intensive field experience in two areas related to mathematical education.

Competency Orientation in Higher Education

2016

In recent years, higher education, particularly in Germany, has been marked by fundamental structural and programmatic changes after the implementation of the Bologna reform and the orientation towards competencies in the national standards for education, for instance, set forth by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs in Germany. The quality of academic education and its social returns have received increasing attention, and endeavors to develop and implement fair assessments of students’ learning outcomes have revealed diverse challenges. In Germany and internationally, it is becoming increasingly important to define and assess in an objective, reliabl…

Training Programs – Training and Development Alternatives for Students

2013

Abstract Training programs have been established as a form of training for adults, being generally used within companies’ personal development alternatives starting from the employees’ performance assessment processes. The current century requires a different way of approaching academic education, starting from the employers’ observation in reference to the lack of the graduates’ key competencies in the hiring process. We intend to demonstrate that it is useful to introduce training programs as an alternative form of education in academia, as well as in the high school environment.

Being, Doing, Making – A Paradigm for the Connective Curriculum

2008

Integrating the Real and Virtual World for Academic Language Education in Second Life

2013

This chapter focuses on a Second Language Acquisition (SLA) study conducted in virtual worlds that could help teachers in terms of knowledge about acquisition processes, in which technology is integration between formal and non formal education. The research comprises of two studies strongly focused on the development of Italian oral language proficiency. It was held within Second Life® (SL™)1 in order to explore the affordances of public spaces to enhance Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC)2 and to stimulate the oral production through learner’s engagement. Since 2007, a new pilot project, Café Italia, was developed by Carmela Dell’Aria (aka Misy Ferraris) in Second Life®. Startin…

Promoting children’s participation: the role of teachers in preschool and primary school learning sessions

2010

The aim of this study is to provide insights into the social construction of participation in joint activities in Finnish preschool and primary school classrooms. The article deals with two issues: How do teachers promote participation in a preschool classroom as compared with a primary school classroom? What similarities and differences are found? It also considers the question of how the similarities contribute to the continuity from preschool to primary school in terms of participation. Based on observation data insights are provided into the interactions between teachers and children by using extracts from teacher‐led learning sessions. The teachers used a diversity of strategies to pro…

The need to grow, learn and develop – how does management affect motivation for professional development?

2018

This article argues that knowledge management and social recognition is important for organisational learning and professional self-esteem in academic libraries. An anonymous survey was issued in 2016 to investigate how library staff’s self-esteem is affected by how they experience their management’s view and overview of their knowledge. The need for what Axel Honneth refers to as social recognition will also be discussed as an important part of how professional self-esteem and work satisfaction is experienced and further how this affects motivation to participate in professional development.

Digital resources in senegalese hight education : state of play and prospective study

2014

It is in the context of poverty or information exclusion that the massive dissemination of information and technology tools in Senegalese academic libraries responds to an urgent need for transformation and improvement of operational modes as well as modernization of services for different audiences, in particular students. Currently, in almost all academic and research libraries of Senegal digitization activities that crossed the rise of the Internet are being developed. This has created a real increasing effect of digital resources, by the establishment of means of creation and by expansion of access and of sharing of scientific and technical information in higher education institutions. …