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Student’s View of Education as the Merit and Private Economic Goods
Vera Anatol’evna Gnevasheva
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 5, October 2014
Pages:
141-145
Received:
4 September 2014
Accepted:
15 September 2014
Published:
30 September 2014
Abstract: Economic theory defines the market of the higher professional education as an intellectual property due to a system where product demand is formed by the higher education institutes. It is presently formed as the combined system of the state and non-state or private forms. The emergence of fee-based forms of education involves the formation of market relations and the determination of the price of such services. The higher professional education market arose in Russia together with the reform of other spheres of economic life in order to create out education, and also as the merit and the private economic goods. But the social importance of the role of these goods cannot identify education as the pure product of the market. The possibility of establishing education as the market product is formed in connection with the inseparability of the existing system of educational services from the labor market as the end user.
Abstract: Economic theory defines the market of the higher professional education as an intellectual property due to a system where product demand is formed by the higher education institutes. It is presently formed as the combined system of the state and non-state or private forms. The emergence of fee-based forms of education involves the formation of mark...
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Incorporating Interactive Teaching Approaches in the Tertiary Science Classroom; Benefits, Challenges and Deterrents to Use in a Jamaican University
Cliff Kelvin Riley,
Beverley Dawn Myers
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 5, October 2014
Pages:
146-151
Received:
22 September 2014
Accepted:
10 October 2014
Published:
20 October 2014
Abstract: The extent to which lecturers utilise interactive teaching strategies in the tertiary science classrooms at a tertiary institution in Jamaica was investigated. Interactive strategies used, preferred strategy, frequency of use, perceived benefits to students, deterrents to use, and challenges faced with implementation were investigated. The sample comprised of 60 full-time science lecturers with a minimum undergraduate teaching load of 10 contact hours per week. The population comprised primarily of females (93.3%) with a mean age of 38.1 ± 3.67 years. The results show that teacher-led discussion (90%) and cooperative learning strategies (50%) were the most frequently used interactive teaching approaches employed by the lecturers while peer teaching was the least (8%). Further analysis of lecturers’ views of their teaching approach revealed that all lecturers facilitated in-class discussions, student-teacher interactions and questions from students at some point during their lectures. Preparation time (40%), increased workload (40%) and poor student participation (40%) were identified as the primary challenges faced while time restriction (90%) was the main deterrent to using interactive strategies by lecturers in the classroom. Despite this however, lecturers reported that interactive teaching strategies were explored and incorporated during their lectures in a bid to improve student comprehension, improve the learning environment, and build critical and lateral thinking skills. The results also suggest that curriculum scope and institutional policies did not impact negatively on the lecturers’ ability to incorporate interactive teaching strategies in their classroom.
Abstract: The extent to which lecturers utilise interactive teaching strategies in the tertiary science classrooms at a tertiary institution in Jamaica was investigated. Interactive strategies used, preferred strategy, frequency of use, perceived benefits to students, deterrents to use, and challenges faced with implementation were investigated. The sample c...
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Legal Status Experience of Foreign Students Returnees from Immigration Center: A Case Study
Adekalu Samuel Olutokunbo,
Idowu Grace Tanimoonwo,
Oluwaseyitan Rotimi Cephas
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 5, October 2014
Pages:
152-157
Received:
3 October 2014
Accepted:
14 October 2014
Published:
30 October 2014
Abstract: This study presents a qualitative insight of legal status experience of foreign students’ returnees from immigration center. Convenience sampling was applied in the study, and in-depth semi-structured interview was adopted to collect specific data among selected eleven (11) undergraduate foreign students, studying at a private university college, who were released from leggeng immigration deportation camp, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Data were analyzed, and findings as themes were developed. Results of the study were classified into two categories. The first category indicates, the legal status challenges encountered by the students in the university. The second category reveals the students experience in the deportation camp. The study recommends with remarkable conclusion among others; initiatives to improve immigration collective services, roles of educators and school administration on foreign students’ supports services, and further suggested with a clarion call for more government supports, to improve the conditions of immigration deportation camp in Malaysia.
Abstract: This study presents a qualitative insight of legal status experience of foreign students’ returnees from immigration center. Convenience sampling was applied in the study, and in-depth semi-structured interview was adopted to collect specific data among selected eleven (11) undergraduate foreign students, studying at a private university college, w...
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Beginning Education of the Freshman in Universities Following the Maslow”s Need Theory of Gradation: To Medical College of Jiangsu University as an Example
Yingkun Sun,
Yingnan Lu,
Chengji Liu
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 5, October 2014
Pages:
158-161
Received:
31 August 2014
Accepted:
29 October 2014
Published:
30 October 2014
Abstract: The beginning education of the freshman in Universities is the key process to help students adapt to the university life, but the current status of entrance education for college students is not optimistic and effectiveness. In this paper, freshmen entrance education is divides three stages, entitled "my university", "my collective", "my schoolwork" under the guidance of maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, combining with previous working experience in education and the psychological demand for freshmen enrolled. With the help of a variety of education carriers and education forms, it has formed the unique entrance education mode and practice, and achieved good results.
Abstract: The beginning education of the freshman in Universities is the key process to help students adapt to the university life, but the current status of entrance education for college students is not optimistic and effectiveness. In this paper, freshmen entrance education is divides three stages, entitled "my university", "my collective", "my schoolwork...
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Imitation of a Pedagogical Agent’s Gestures Enhances Memory for Words in Second Language
Manuela Macedonia,
Kirsten Bergmann,
Friedrich Roithmayr
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 5, October 2014
Pages:
162-169
Received:
13 October 2014
Accepted:
28 October 2014
Published:
10 November 2014
Abstract: Pedagogical agents (PAs) are virtual characters in computer-based learning environments. PAs can train humans in various domains. Here, a PA cues subjects to learn vocabulary items through enactment, i.e., to perform an illustrative gesture while learning a word. It is well known that enactment impacts memory. Also, imitation is a natural mechanism driving learning. Combining both enactment and imitation could improve memory even more. In a within-subjects study, 44 school children learned 45 vocabulary items according to three conditions: an audio-visual baseline, an observation condition (participants watched the PA during enactment) and an imitation condition (participants imitated the PA’s gestures). We documented learning progress by cued recall tests. Over four days, we found that, compared to the baseline and to mere observation, imitation of enactment significantly enhanced memory for words in the foreign language.
Abstract: Pedagogical agents (PAs) are virtual characters in computer-based learning environments. PAs can train humans in various domains. Here, a PA cues subjects to learn vocabulary items through enactment, i.e., to perform an illustrative gesture while learning a word. It is well known that enactment impacts memory. Also, imitation is a natural mechanism...
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