Writing Programs Worldwide

Writing Programs Worldwide
Author: Chris Thaiss
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2012-07-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1602353468

WRITING PROGRAMS WORLDWIDE offers an important global perspective to the growing research literature in the shaping of writing programs. The authors of its program profiles show how innovators at a diverse range of universities on six continents have dealt creatively over many years with day-to-day and long-range issues affecting how students across disciplines and languages grow as communicators and learners.

Civic Engagement in Global Contexts

Civic Engagement in Global Contexts
Author: Jim Bowman
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2021-12-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 164642123X

This volume examines the role of writing, rhetoric, and literacy programs and approaches in the practice of civic engagement in global contexts. Writing programs have experience in civic engagement and service learning projects in their local communities, and their work is central to developing students’ literacy practices. Further, writing programs compel student writers to attend to audience needs and rhetorical exigencies as well as reflect on their own subject positions. Thus, they are particularly situated to partner with other units on college campuses engaged in global partnerships. Civic Engagement in Global Contexts provides examples and evidence of the critical self-reflection and iteration with community partners that make these projects important and valuable. Throughout its thirteen chapters, this collection provides practical pedagogical and administrative approaches for writing studies faculty engaging with global learning projects, as well as nuanced insight into how to navigate contact zones from the planning stages of projects to the hard work of self-reflection and change. Partnerships and projects across national borders compel the field of rhetoric and composition to think through the ethics of writing studies program design and teaching practices. Doing this difficult work can disrupt presumptive notions of ownership that faculty and administrators hold concerning the fields involved in these projects and can even lead to decentering rhetoric/composition and other assumptions held by US-based institutions of higher education. Civic Engagement in GlobalContexts will be useful to instructors, advisors, and project managers of students in faculty-led project learning in overseas settings, international service learning through foreign study programs, and foreign study itself and to faculty members introducing civic engagement and community-based learning projects with foreign students in overseas institutions. Contributors: Olga Aksakalova, James Austin, Maria de Lourdes Caudillo Zambrano, Rebecca Charry Roje, Patricia M. Dyer, Tara E. Friedman, Bruce Horner, Kathryn Johnson Gindlesparger, Adela C. Licona, Ian Mauer, Joyce Meier, Susan V. Meyers, Sadia Mir, Stephen T. Russell

WAC Partnerships Between Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions

WAC Partnerships Between Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions
Author: Jacob Blumner
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2016-03-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1602358109

Working with educators at all academic levels involved in WAC partnerships, the authors and editors of this collection demonstrate successful models of collaboration between schools and institutions so others can emulate and promote this type of collaboration.

Traditions of Writing Research

Traditions of Writing Research
Author: Charles Bazerman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2009-10-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 113584996X

Traditions of Writing Research reflects the various styles of work offered at the Writing Research Across Borders conference. This volume, like the conference that it grew out of, will bring new perspectives to the rich dialogue of contemporary research on writing and advance understanding of this complex and important human activity.

Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal) 12 - December 2015

Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal) 12 - December 2015
Author: AA.VV.
Publisher: LED Edizioni Universitarie
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2015-12-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 8879167596

CONTENTS: Un paradosso italiano e una importante riforma della scuola - The Measurement of Socially Responsible Leadership: Considerations in Establishing Psychometric Rigor - The Evidence Base for School Inspection Frameworks - Una ruta hacia un sistema de aseguramiento de la calidad en Educación Superior: el proyecto TRALL - Good Practice in Teaching and the Risk of Educational Exclusion in Compulsory Secondary Education - Le dimensioni motivazionali dell'apprendimento scolastico: uno studio correlazionale sul concetto di sé e gli stili di attribuzione - Conditions, Standards and Practices of Inclusion for Children with Disabilities in Italian Infant School - Il linguaggio audiovisivo, gli studi di genere e la critica dei modelli culturali occidentali: il caso della serie televisiva «Top of the Lake» - The Development and Psychometric Properties of the «Self-Regulated Knowledge Scale - University» - La formación integral del estudiante y la formación continua de los profesores en la Educación Superior cubana: el papel de la Responsabilidad Social Universitaria en su consecución - Relación dialógica entre el profesorado senior y el profesorado novel universitario

Cultural Views on Online Learning in Higher Education

Cultural Views on Online Learning in Higher Education
Author: María Gabriela Di Gesú
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030631575

This book opens up a fruitful conversation by and between invited academics from Europe and Latin America on the features of online learning in higher education. The authors analyse online education from interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical reflections to reveal the existing tensions and turning this book into a valuable artifact on how learning is shaped when technology comes in-between diverse geographical and social contexts. Like any other human activity, e-learning can be seen as a context-dependent educational system with many objects in mutual interaction. Applying a cultural psychology perspective to this provides new answers to questions such as: How can cultural psychology shed new light on online learning? Why do students and academics still opt for classic classes? What inner boundaries are pushed when studying online? How can online learning be influenced by affect? How do teachers and students mold their identities when they move in and out of online environments? This book reveals the existing tensions, resistances and appropriation strategies that students and academics from diverse backgrounds and places go through when attending online learning courses in higher education and furthermore shows how these theoretical frameworks can be successfully applied to practice.

La vía rápida hacia nuevas competencias

La vía rápida hacia nuevas competencias
Author: Maria Marta Ferreyra
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464817340

La educación superior en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) ha experimentado un extraordinario crecimiento con la llegada del nuevo milenio, pero la matrícula en programas de ciclo corto (PCC) sigue siendo relativamente baja. Los PCC —más cortos y prácticos que los programas universitarios— pueden generar capital humano calificado en poco tiempo. La crisis económica provocada por la pandemia del Covid-19 ha acentuado tendencias latentes como la automatización, el uso de plataformas electrónicas y la necesidad del aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida. Para hacer frente a estas demandas, se hace indispensable la formación complementaria y readaptación profesional de la población —una tarea particularmente adecuada para los PCC. La vía rápida hacia nuevas competencias: programas cortos de educación superior en América Latina y el Caribe explora los resultados del mercado laboral y los retornos de los PCC, estudia quiénes son sus proveedores e identifica las prácticas adoptadas por los mejores programas. Este volumen, fundamentado en datos exclusivos que incluyen una novedosa encuesta a directores de PCC en cinco países de ALC, concluye que, si bien los PCC generan, en promedio, buenos resultados en el mercado laboral, su calidad varía en gran medida. Los proveedores de PCC se adaptan con rapidez y flexibilidad a las necesidades de la economía local, y las prácticas específicas relacionadas con el personal docente, el apoyo a la búsqueda de empleo y la interacción con los posibles empleadores constituyen características inherentes a los mejores programas. La vía rápida hacia nuevas competencias se sirve de estas conclusiones para analizar cómo crear un entorno en el que se ofrezcan buenos programas y los estudiantes dispongan del interés y los medios para cursarlos. Además, hace hincapié en un sector de la educación superior que habitualmente ha pasado desapercibido, tanto en el ámbito de la investigación como de la política. La vía rápida hacia nuevas competencias despertará el interés de las autoridades responsables del diseño de las políticas, el personal investigador y el público en general.

Signum v.24 i.1/april 2021 (Versão Inglês)

Signum v.24 i.1/april 2021 (Versão Inglês)
Author: Vera Lúcia Lopes Cristóvão
Publisher: EDUEL
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2022-03-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 6589814406

Signum: Estudos da Linguagem is a publication edited by the Graduate Program in Language Studies of the State University of Londrina (UEL). It aims at disseminating original papers (articles and reviews) on linguistic description and analysis, text/discourse studies, teaching/learning and Portuguese, foreign and other languages teachers' education.

Libertad de emprender

Libertad de emprender
Author: Daniel M. Mondéjar
Publisher: Editorial Almuzara
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2012-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8483566435

El actual modelo económico en el mundo occidental se caracteriza por un sobredimensionamiento del Estado que ha provocado déficit público, desempleo y bajas tasas de crecimiento económico. Esta obra defiende la necesidad de recuperar las bases del libre mercado que hicieron triunfar al sistema capitalista occidental y que ahora están aplicando con éxito Corea del Sur, Taiwán, Hong Kong y Singapur, casos que se estudian pormenorizadamente en este trabajo. Alentar al individuo a desarrollarse plenamente por sí mismo, sin olvidar a los más necesitados, favorecer el espíritu emprendedor, la tolerancia y la autonomía, fomentar la cooperación recíproca y voluntaria sin restricciones ni privilegios y con un Estado limitado que proteja la propiedad privada y los contratos individuales son algunas de las recetas propuestas para superar la situación actual y volver a un camino de crecimiento sostenido.