scholarly journals Accessibility of people with disabilities to higher education: social attitudes of students and professors of a higher education institution

Revista CEFAC ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Assunção Brunhara ◽  
Ana Paula Berberian ◽  
Ana Cristina Guarinello ◽  
Angela Regina Biscouto ◽  
Simone Krüger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Private University ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
University Professors ◽  
The Social

ABSTRACT Purpose: to compare and analyze social attitudes of students and professors of a higher education institution about the inclusion of people with disabilities according to variables gender, age and areas of knowledge of participants. Methods: the quantitative study was conducted on 601 academics, 583 being students and 18 university professors from a private university, who have contact with individuals with disabilities in the classroom. A questionnaire was applied to identify the social attitudes related to the variables correlated above. Results: the sample included 97% of students, 417 being females and 184 males. Nearly 43% were younger than 20 years and 6% older than 40 years. The female professors and students had higher agreement with the questionnaire, while male professors and students reported lower satisfaction. Concerning age, the younger individuals were the most dissatisfied ones. In relation to the field of knowledge, the Exact, Human and Health Sciences, in this order, presented increased agreement with the research instrument. Conclusion: the study investigated the social attitudes of professors and students about the inclusion of people with disabilities, analyzing the results according to gender, age and area of knowledge, comparing and correlating with the agreement about the questionnaire. The results revealed the need to deepen the studies about variables that may influence the social attitudes related to the inclusion and permanence of these individuals in higher education institutions.

scholarly journals The expressiveness of a university professor in his classroom performance: analysis of verbal resources and implications for nursing

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 1188-1196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristiane Conceição Romano ◽  
Liliana Amorim Alves ◽  
Iara Aparecida de Oliveira Secco ◽  
Lilian Neto Aguiar Ricz ◽  
Maria Lúcia do Carmo Cruz Robazzi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Communication Skill ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Classroom Performance ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
University Professor ◽  
Previous Contact

Expressiveness is the ability of individuals to make their thoughts alive through language and body, effectively transmitting information. This study investigated the expressiveness of a university professor during nursing classes in relation to verbal resources from the perspective of students. This descriptive and quantitative study was carried out in a Higher Education Institution using specific instruments to assess expressiveness. The professor's class was video recorded and the video was first assessed by three speech and language experts and later assessed by 141 students with whom he had no previous contact. The results reveal that students and experts agreed in relation to the professors' expressive skills, which proved the ability of students to evaluate this communication skill.

scholarly journals Customer Experience Management: A Study of Mechanic versus Humanic Clues and Student Loyalty in Nigerian Higher Education Institution

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6563
Author(s):  
Taiye Tairat Borishade ◽  
Rowland Worlu ◽  
Olaleke Oluseye Ogunnaike ◽  
Deborah Oluwaseun Aka ◽  
Joy Ifiavor Dirisu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Private University ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
University Management ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Ogun State ◽  
Customer Experience Management ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
The University

This study surveyed customer experience management (CEM) and student’s loyalty in higher education institution (HEI) sector using a private university in Ogun State, Nigeria as a case study. The primary intent of this study was to determine the roles of humanic and mechanic clues on student’s loyalty. The two hypotheses formulated to address the research questions and objectives raised in this study were analysed with Categorical Regression, which is also known as CATREG analysis. This study applied survey research design and the data were spawned via designed questionnaire. An overall of 215 copies of the questionnaires were regained from the student of the private university in Ogun State. Multi-stage sampling methods were engaged in this study. The research findings of this study show that mechanic clues significantly influence students’ retention, while humanic clues significantly influence students’ disposition to endorse the institution of higher education to others. As part of the recommendations of the study, it was suggested that the university management should deliberately focus on mechanic clues in terms of providing a conducive environment, especially one that is clean for its students at all times.

scholarly journals ORGANISATIONAL APPROACHES TO THE FORMATION OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE MARKET OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

Management ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-121
Author(s):  
Valentyna Yatsenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The Social

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES. Social responsibility is a system of innovative working relationships that acts as an essential technology that enhances the effectiveness of a higher education institution with employees, partners, customers and the community, and ultimately contributes to its prosperity and civil society. Social responsibility should focus on enhancing the image of the higher education institution, recognising its successes in society by civil institutions and individual citizens. This will increase the social value of the higher education institution, its competitiveness, sustainability and efficiency, allowing society to use the resource voluntarily provided by the higher education institution to balance organisational and social interests.METHODS. The methods used to conduct the research were: interview, expert. The questions selected for this study were taken either from the literature or from individual interviews. The literature helped to identify important dimensions of the concept of social responsibility. The interviews helped to identify new points and possible dimensions to contextualise organisational approaches to shaping the social responsibility of higher education institutions.FINDINGS. Organizational approaches to the formation of social responsibility of higher education institutions in the market of educational services are proposed. Mechanisms to increase socio-commercial value of socially responsible higher education institutions are argued: creation of public institutions to identify, formulate public interests and present them to corporations; selection of social projects taking into account stakeholder expectations.CONCLUSION. In order to increase the efficiency of using the principles of social responsibility in HEIs, to improve their ratings, students' competitiveness in the labour market and their involvement in the task-setting and decision-making process, it is necessary to develop a programme of corporate social activity, which can become the basis for developing the HEIs' development strategy. The formation and adoption of such a strategy should be based on the interests of all stakeholders, based on the core values of the university to achieve the indicators at micro-, meso- and macrolevels.

scholarly journals Who uses home as informal learning spaces: A Bangkok private university case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Sonthya Vanichvatana
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Grade Point Average ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Private University ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Cumulative Grade Point Average

Home is one type of off-campus informal learning spaces (ILS). It is important to understand the behaviours of students who use home as ILS. Such information will enlighten universities to provide/improve proper on-campus ILS and/or other academic supports. This research used a quantitative approach through an online questionnaire survey during February 2019. This study used business students at a Bangkok private university as a case study. The descriptive analysis was done according to students’ cumulative grade point average (CGPA) and undergraduate levels. The results revealed how and why students, especially those with different levels of CGPA, chose to study at home. This study also suggests how higher education institution (HEI) can support ILS to students who do not study at home. Students with different CGPA levels should be supported by HEI differently. Keywords: Cumulative grade point average, higher education institution, home, informal learning spaces, learning spaces.

scholarly journals The Good Citizen: problematising citizenship in the social sciences curriculum

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-88
Author(s):  
Judith Burnett ◽  
Erika Cudworth
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Social

This article explores the critical pedagogical issues that emerge when attempting to develop active citizenship among undergraduates as an integral part of the student experience. It presents part of the findings from a C-SAP-funded project (Gifford et al. 2006) that we undertook with a partner higher education institution. This article explores our particular contribution carried out in a post-1992 London higher education institution. Our innovations in the social sciences undergraduate curriculum aimed at creating situations in which students would explore the diversity of citizenship in educational settings, namely, a local school, a further education college, and Summerhill School (founded by A.S. Neill). The research leads us to conclude that citizenship is a problem of praxis influenced and shaped by the local-global contexts of communities with diverse heritages of meaning, stratified social settings, and specific local and historical characteristics. This challenges the notions underpinning the Crick curriculum with its national orientation, and demonstrates the need to sensitise citizenship learning experiences to the needs of students and staff embedded in their social contexts. Such an approach can be understood as a form of situated citizenship characterised by active engagement with an assumption of heterogeneity which is positively sensitive to diversity.

scholarly journals Effects of an intervention on the participation of people with disability in the workplace

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laiza Oliveira VILELA ◽  
◽  
Lúcia Pereira LEITE
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
People With Disability ◽  
Laws And Regulations

Abstract Current laws and regulations have generated discussions about the accessibility of disabled people in the labor force. However, there is a need for changes in the physical, functional, and attitudinal and/or behavioral environment to create an inclusive environment. The objective of this research was to evaluate the effects of an intervention aimed at a critical reflection on the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace. The intervention was carried out in a higher education institution with academic staff and administrators; its effects were evaluated using the Conceptions of Disability Inventory. The results indicated that after having completed the course, the participants developed a broader and more human conception of the participation of people with disabilities in the workplace.

scholarly journals The Social Impact of CSR Campaigns Among a Higher Education Institution From Romania

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2 (28)) ◽  
pp. 113-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Ioana Ilieş ◽  
◽  
Paul-Alexandru Fărcaş ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
The Social

Factors predicting job satisfaction among faculty members of a Saudi higher education institution

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Al Kuwaiti ◽  
Hasan Ali Bicak ◽  
Saeed Wahass
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Ordinal Scale ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Overall Job Satisfaction

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the level of job satisfaction among faculty members of the health sciences program at a Saudi higher education institution; and predict the influence of various factors on overall job satisfaction. However, this study is quite different since it intended to evaluate the level of job satisfaction of faculty members using a self-structured questionnaire and ascertained the various factors influencing the overall job satisfaction of Saudi academics. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory study design was adopted and Academic Job Satisfaction (AJS) survey was administered to 943 faculty members of the health sciences program through an online system. A total of 850 faculty members responded to 47 items and one global rating item (overall job satisfaction) using a five-point ordinal scale. Findings The level of job satisfaction of health sciences’ faculty members on all dimensions of AJS is observed to be high (>3.5) except salary, which is shown as medium (2.5–3.49). Regression analysis indicates the factors other than Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU) administrative policies and interpersonal relationships are significant predictors of overall job satisfaction; and salary is the most significant predictor of overall job satisfaction among health sciences’ faculty members. Originality/value This study adds a value to the existing literature by exploring the factors influencing job satisfaction of health sciences’ faculty members working in Saudi Universities. This would aid policy makers to focus on these factors, thereby improve and maintain job satisfaction among healthcare academics.

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