An exploration of transformation theory and the western tradition: a critical evaluation of a graduate studies class

This qualitative study is an exploration of transformation theory, the Western tradition, and a critical evaluation of a graduate studies class at a university. It is an exploration of assumptions that are embedded in experience, that influence the experience and provide meaning about the experience. An attempt has been made to identify assumptions that are embedded in Western experience and connect them with assumptions that shape the graduate class experience. The focus is on assumptions that facilitate and impede large group discussions. Jungian psychology of personality type and archetype and developmental psychology is used to analyze the group experience. The pragmatic problem solving model, developed by Knoop, is used to guide thinking about the Western tradition. It is used to guide the analysis, synthesis and writing of the experience of the graduate studies class members. A search through Western history, philosophy. and science revealed assumptions about the nature of truth, reality, and the self. Assumptions embedded in Western thinking about the subject-object relationship, unity and diversity are made explicit. An attempt is made to identify Western tradition assumptions underlying transformation theory. The critical evaluation of the graduate studies class experience focuses upon issues associated with group process, self-directed learning, the educator-learner transaction and the definition of adult education. The advantages of making implicit assumptions explicit is explored.

What Matters? : the full-time graduate students' perceptions of teacher effectiveness

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the full-time graduate students' perceptions of teacher effectiveness at the graduate school level, to identify how graduate students perceive effective and ineffective teachers, and specifically to discover the main dimensions of teacher effectiveness that graduate students perceive as most significant. This topic was investigated because, although the teacher has been deemed as a crucial component in the teaching process, there is no common agreement on the definition and measure of teacher effectiveness. Graduate students' perceptions of teacher effectiveness have not been given much attention. The research design was based on a ground theory approach. It utilized qualitative data through interviews, field notes, andjournals. The findings ofthis study revealed that teacher effectiveness is markedly influential to graduate students. There is no universally consented definition or measure of teacher effectiveness due to the multidimensionality of teaching and learning. Nevertheless, several major dimensions ofteacher effectiveness were discovered and highlighted in this study. Such dimensions include good command of subject matter, presentation skills, challenging and motivating students, rapport with students, learning environment, course demands, as well as assessment and feedback. It was hoped that the study would move towards developing a theory that contributes to the knowledge base of graduate students' perceptions of teacher effectiveness. It was anticipated that the results would provide first-hand information for the instructor to improve teaching; for the administrator to promote the effective educational experiences and student achievements. It was intended that the findings would lay a theoretical and empirical groundwork for future research.

Exploring Gifted Adults' Perception of Giftedness in their Pursuit of Graduate Education

This qualitative study explores 8 gifted adults' perceptions of their own giftedness and how those perceptions influenced their pursuit of graduate education as revealed by retrospective interviews. This study serves to inform the existing literature surrounding giftedness especially as it relates to gifted individuals across the lifespan and their experiences and perceptions of education at all levels. This study also provides insight into the emotional impact being labeled gifted has on an individual's self-concept and academic identity. The major themes that emerged using the interpretive phenomenological analysis method (Smith & Osborn, 2003) were discussed under five main headings: Evolution of Giftedness, Success and Failure, Expectations, Effort, and Doubt and Proof. An adaptation of the listening guide method (Gilligan, Spencer, Weinberg, & Bertsch, 2003) was used to provide a unique and personal perspective of the phenomenon of giftedness and revealed the feelings behind the themes that emerged in the interpretive phenomenological analysis method. Specifically; this study illuminates the lack of evolution that an individual's understanding and perception of giftedness undergoes across the lifespan, and the impact such a static and school-bound understanding has on gifted adults' self-concept. It also reveals the influence that gifted individuals' innate need to achieve has on their academic aspirations and their perceptions of themselves as gifted. Furthermore, it reveals how important the understanding and internalization of failure can be on the self-concept of gifted individuals, and that this issue needs immediate attention at all levels of education.

Part-time research students: the`reserve army` of research students for universities

Over the past twenty years, in Australia, there has been a steady growth in the numbers of part-time research students. However, they have generally been invisible in government policy on research training, and have rarely been the focus of specific treatment in universities, where the full-time scholarship-holder is taken as the norm. Yet, these are people who often undertake their research in their workplaces on problems germane to their work. They do so with relatively less ‘drain on the public purse’ and they are well-placed to ensure their research has effect. This paper suggests that this ‘reserve army’ of research labour—part-time research students—could benefit from the integration of the perspectives that have driven other aspects of adult education with those, often economic rationalist perspectives, that have driven research training policy. In this way, government policy-makers may appreciate that this ‘reserve army’ provides good value, and universities may shape their research training policies and practices to provide support, infrastructure and supervision that matches the needs and contexts of part-time students, and which facilitates ‘technology transfer’ and links between universities and industries and the professions.

Surviving and thriving in postgraduate research

Surviving and Thriving in Postgraduate Research focuses on the effective planning and management of a postgraduate research project, from the inception and commencement of a relationship with supervisors through to the submission and examination of the thesis... This book has been designed specifically for Australian and New Zealand students as well as international students studying in those countries

Directory of purchasing offices, Illinois state government, universities and colleges /

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The function and needs of schools of education in universities and colleges,

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Aproximación al EEES en los estudios de tercer ciclo

En las últimas décadas, los cambios tanto sociales como económicos, educativos y políticos han inducido una transformación en la enseñanza universitaria y en la actuación de sus principales protagonistas: profesorado y estudiantes. Por otro lado, el proceso de creación del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (Praga 1998, Bolonia 1999) obliga a las instituciones universitarias y su profesorado a asumir un modelo educativo que centra su atención en el aprendizaje del alumnado, en la consecución de competencias y capacidades, lo que exige al profesorado universitario de nuestro país modificar de manera sustancial su manera de entender la función docente. Basándonos en estas directrices, los profesores de uno de los cursos de doctorado del programa de ‘Ciencia de Materiales e Ingeniería Metalúrgica’ en la Universidad de Oviedo (Asturias, España), presentamos una innovadora metodología docente llevada a cabo en este curso adaptada a las exigencias del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES). Teniendo en cuenta que un objetivo principal del tercer ciclo es la introducción del estudiante en el campo de la investigación, los profesores de esta asignatura hemos incluido entre los objetivos del curso la forma de plasmar, exponer y divulgar los resultados obtenidos en una investigación, realizando entre las sesiones del curso la celebración de un ‘congreso científico’

A Girona, la indústria agroalimentària hi té una gran empremta

Entrevista a Joan Manel Albacete que pertany a la primera promoció d'Enginyeria de Disseny i Desenvolupament de Producte de la UdG. Va trobar la primera feina gràcies al fet que l’empresa en què feia les pràctiques va industrialitzar el seu projecte de final de carrera. Creu en la formació continuada: ha cursat l’MBA de la UdG i un altre d'ESADE. Albacete és gerent del CENTA (Centre de Noves Tecnologies i Processos Alimentaris), que defineix com 'el punt des del qual s’ofereixen solucions d’I+D a la indústria agroalimentària'

Perfils. Josefina Matamoros

Entrevista a Josefina Matamoros que ha participat en la presentació del Màster en Gestió del Patrimoni Cultural de la UdG. Dirigeix el Museu d'Art Modern de Ceret. El 1978 va ser una de les impulsores del Centre de Documentació i Animació de la Cultura Catalana de la Vila de Perpinyà (Cedacc). El 1999 va rebre la Creu de Sant Jordi

Proceedings of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges ... annual Convention.

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Degree programs at universities and four year colleges in Illinois.

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Latin-American universities and special schools /

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