Investigating into the Relationship between the Present Level of Tertiary Students’ Needs Relative to Maslow’s Hierarchy: A Case Study at the University of Mauritius

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 203-220
Author(s):  
Baby Ashwin Gobin ◽  
Viraiyan Teeroovengadum ◽  
Namratta Bye Becceea ◽  
Vittiyaiye Teeroovengadum
Keyword(s):  
Present Level ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Research and Teaching as Actions Supporting the Specificity of a Territory: Developing a Design and Pedagogic Strategy for the Abandoned Mining Landscapes of Sardinia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pier Francesco Cherchi ◽  
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Marco Lecis ◽  
Marco Moro ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Joint Venture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
East Side ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Natural Landscapes ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

This paper illustrates a case study of teaching and research applied to the abandoned mining landscapes of the Sulcis area, located in the south-east side of Sardinia, one of the poorest in Europe. Although the region’s critical condition in the present, the area is nevertheless extremely rich in fascination and history. It offers unique natural landscapes, mostly pristine, a variety of archeological sites and, as mentioned, the ruins of the mining installations. All of this makes fore-seeable a concrete possibility of regeneration for the area, based on tourism, one of the island primary resources. The local institutions of Sulcis started a partnership with the University of Cagliari aiming to pursuit not just a practical and economical outcome in the immediate present, more a cultural and deeper rescue with a wider perspective. In the following pages, we present our academic activities in this mark and how we managed to guarantee fruitful superpositions of pedagogy, design, and research in our work within this kind of cooperation.Our focus is, therefore, the relationship between researching and teaching activities and the actions in support of the territory, pursued in a joint venture with the political institution. During these experiences, we defined a strategy to intercross these different layers, bringing the real and concrete dimension into our classroom, sharing our work with the students, and, at the same time, transferring the fruits of the teaching experiences to the territory. The correspondence between these two levels is not free of ambiguity and contradictions, however, we are convinced that it might show very important and fruitful outcomes.

scholarly journals Environmental Comfort as a Sustainable Strategy for Housing Integration: The AURA 1.0 Prototype for Social Housing

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7734
Author(s):  
Álvaro López-Escamilla ◽  
Rafael Herrera-Limones ◽  
Ángel Luis León-Rodríguez ◽  
Miguel Torres-García
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
World Population ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Solar Decathlon ◽  
Natural Lighting ◽  
Human Habitat ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The AURA 1.0 prototype is a sustainable social housing proposal, designed by the University of Seville and built for the first Latin American edition of the prestigious Solar Decathlon competition. Different conditioning strategies were integrated into this prototype, optimized for a tropical climate, and focused on contributing positively to the health of the most humble people in society. In this moment, in which a large part of the world population is confined to their homes due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have the opportunity (and the obligation) to reconsider the relationship between architecture and medicine or in other words, between the daily human habitat and health. For this reason, this analysis of aspects derived from the interior conditioning of the homes is carried out. The main objective of the Aura proposal is to be able to extract data through a housing monitoring system, which allows us to transfer some design strategies to the society to which is a case study, in order to promote environmental comfort and, therefore, people’s health. The AURA 1.0 prototype develops flexible and adaptable living spaces, with a high environmental quality, in order to maintain the variables of temperature, relative humidity and natural lighting within a range of comfort required by the rules of the event. To achieve this end, the prototype develops an architectural proposal that combines passive and active conditioning strategies, using construction qualities and typical costs of social housing. These strategies allowed the project to achieve the first prize in the Comfort Conditions test. So, this paper presents an appropriate and tested solution that can satisfy comfortability and health of residents who live in social housing while maintaining low energy consumption.

scholarly journals Florence and the river: new urban perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.4) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Francesco Alberti ◽  
Raffaele Paloscia
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Florence ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The upgrading of riverfronts is a theme that has long played a central role in the renewal programs of large, medium and small cities throughout Europe. The case study presented in this paper is Florence, whose Roman origins and development, from the Middle Ages to today, are closely linked to the Arno River, which runs from east to west. After briefly reviewing some salient moments in the history of the relationship between the city and the river, the paper illustrates some research and projects carried out within the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence, focused on the role that Arno can still play in the future of the Florentine metropolitan area, as a catalyst for interventions aimed at improving urban sustainability, livability and resilience to climate change.

scholarly journals Verso il restauro

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio De Vita
Keyword(s):  
Final Stage ◽  
University Education ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
The World ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Specific Discipline ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

The book brings together critical considerations and experiences linked to the work of the author, lecturer in restoration at the Florence University Faculty of Architecture, as supervisor of degree theses on restoration. The reflections concern teaching Restoration as a subject, the conditions within which the knowledge and culture of restoration can ripen within our universities and the most recent problems encountered by both the discipline and restoration projects. In the first part of the publication, these aspects are set out in broad and more precisely conceptual and methodological terms in chapters and themed paragraphs which also act as a guide to drawing up degree theses on restoration, as well as a contributing to the didactics and efficiency of the specific discipline. This is followed by a selection of degree theses on restoration discussed in recent years which show the route from the principles, general problems and intervention criteria for every case study to drawing up a project. They are projects that deal with analysis methods and techniques, surveys, specialist restorations, regeneration, and the relationship between old and new. In short, the projects are what gave the final stage in the university education meaning and substance, also in order to acquire fundamental keys to restoration culture and activities in the world after university.

Brand believers : reconciling journalistic and organizational identity at a city magazine

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Joy M. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Representational Practices ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Civic Capital ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation uses an ethnographic case study to examine the perspectives and representational practices of local journalists through a case study of an award-winning city magazine, D Magazine in Dallas, Texas. The study assessed how staff members discursively constructed their journalistic identity within a geographically focused media organization. The study also considered the relationship between journalistic identity and organizational identity by addressing how the staff members described their surrounding community and their organization's function within it as well as how those understandings shaped D and its members. Lastly, the study used field theory to address how external and internal influences on newswork informed staff members' ideologies, routines, and perceptions of D's local function. The findings suggest that staff members operated within a networked hierarchy through which they collaborated both within individual publications and across departments while also fulfilling corporate needs for entrepreneurship and innovation. Within this environment, staff members balanced journalistic- and audience-oriented editorial emphases through reinforcing a city-magazine mentality that dictated and legitimized topic selection and content approaches. Lastly, the study recognized how D attracted and engaged various forms of capital while also shifting its focus to amassing civic capital as a means of manifesting its local agenda in tangible ways.

Becoming Trusted Research Partners Through InfoExpress at The University of Toronto

2021 ◽  
pp. 187-214
Author(s):  
Manda Vrkljan ◽  
Adrienne Findley-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Support Service ◽  
University Campus ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Document Delivery ◽  
Personalized Services ◽  
Productive Research ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

This case study discusses the importance of building initial trust in the relationship between researcher and academic library. Primary coverage serves the experience of two small humanities-based colleges serving approximately 125 faculty members within a larger university campus by providing the personal document delivery service of InfoExpress. The trust built through this initial research support service creates avenues for further support from the library and the wider university library system. As every relationship has challenges, the ones occurring here are opportunities to improve the relationship in favour of the researcher and library. If the researcher is unaware of what support the library provides, establishing a personal relationship will immediately provide productive research time and create an opportunity for future support through additional personalized services. The researcher, their research, and their library benefit by this trusted partnership.

Playful production

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Haddon ◽  
Catherine Laws
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Music ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Devised Theatre ◽  
Group Methods ◽  
Music Ensembles ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Methods Of Operation

This case study of The Assembled, an ensemble based at the University of York, UK, explores the approach, rationale, and processes used to develop performances operating at the intersection of experimental music and devised theatre practices. Detailing the rationale for the formation of the ensemble and the relationship to its institutional educational context, the chapter also discusses the historical background to the work of experimental music ensembles and illuminates the working practices of the group, examining components of collaborative facilitation emerging from participant interviews. These relate to the ethos of the group, methods of operation, considerations of space and audience, and verbal interaction.

scholarly journals From Policy to Pedagogy: The Implications of Sustainability Policy for Sustainability Pedagogy in Higher Education

1969 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Timmerman ◽  
Amy Scott Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Sustainability Education ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Sustainability Strategy ◽  
Sustainability Policy ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

In response to the growing number of sustainability policies being enacted at higher education institutions, this article examines the relationship between policy and pedagogy, asking how policy texts can both enable and impede the implementation of sustainability pedagogy in higher education. To explore this question, we have undertaken a case study at the University of British Columbia, analyzing two campus-wide visionary policies that call for sustainability education: Trek 2010: A Global Journey and Inspirations and Aspirations: The Sustainability Strategy. We analyze these documents to show how the goals and strategies within them have the potential to affect the teaching and learning of sustainability across the university, directly and indirectly. Our analysis is coupled with a series of suggestions on how the policy process might be better executed in the future for more pedagogically effective sustainability policy.  

Racial Politics and Racial Self-Identification: A Case Study of Arizona, 2010-2011

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-149
Author(s):  
Nolan L. Cabrera ◽  
Matthew R. Holliday
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Racial Ethnic

This study examines the relationship between Arizona’s anti-Latina/o policies and changing patterns of racial self-identification for students at the University of Arizona. Using institutional data and the university’s Entering Student Survey, we explored trends in racial/ethnic self-identification between two cohorts of students: one before and one after the summer of 2010 (passage of SB1070, HB2281, and Proposition 107). Descriptive analyses revealed that both White and Latina/o students declined to state a racial/ethnic background at substantially higher rates after the passages of the bills. After the passage of the legislation, Latina/os used “Mexican” identifiers at substantially lower rates and “White” identifiers at substantially higher rates. Implications are discussed for racial/ethnic self-identification and higher education practice.

scholarly journals A teoria do aprendizado orientado ao projeto: Projeto Boulevard Imigração/ The Theory of Project-Based Learning: Boulevard Immigration Project

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cláudio Lima Ferreira ◽  
Fabíola Marialva Marques Gilio
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Urban Project ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThe article seeks to demonstrate the relationship between project theory and design practice in the course of Architecture and Urbanism at the University Anhembi Morumbi - São Paulo - Brazil from the application of the Theory of Project-Based Learning (PBL) in order to understand the interrelationship between teaching, research and extension. As a case study we opted for an architectural and urban project, called Boulevard Immigration which is being developed by students and teachers in the Model Office of Architecture and Urbanism at the University Anhembi Morumbi in partnership with Immigration Museum in São Paulo. The importance of this theme is to promote a debate on the relationship between theory and practice in the development of education in Architecture and Urbanism courses, stimulating critical, creative, collaborative and reflective student formation. As investigative procedure method was chosen a bibliographic exploratory research on the Project-Based Learning as a teaching tool that encourages the development of reflection, collaboration and responsibility with social manners and democratic behavior. As final considerations it is clear that the application of PBL provides the students and teachers a set of tools that stimulates the relationship between theory and practice in teaching and learning.RESUMOO artigo visa demonstrar a relação entre teoria e prática projetual no curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Uni-versidade Anhembi Morumbi- São Paulo- Brasil, a partir da aplicação da Teoria do Aprendizado Orientado ao Projeto (AOP) visando compreender a inter-relação entre ensino, pesquisa e extensão. Como estudo de caso optou-se por um projeto arquitetônico/urbanístico, denominado de Boulevard Imigração que está sendo desenvolvido por alunos e auxiliados por professores no Escritório Modelo de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Anhembi Morumbi em parceria com técnicos do Museu da Imigração, em São Paulo. A importância deste tema é de promover um debate sobre a relação entre teoria e prática no desenvolvimento do ensino nos cursos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, estimulando a formação crítica, criativa, colaborativa e reflexiva do estudante. Como método de procedimento investigativo optou-se por uma pesquisa exploratória bibliográfica sobre o Aprendizado Orientado ao Projeto como um instrumento de ensino que estimula o desenvolvimento da reflexão, da colaboração e da responsabilidade com modos sociais e democráticos de comportamento. Como considerações finais percebe-se que a aplicação da Teoria AOP fornece à discente e docentes um conjunto de ferramentas que estimula a relação entre teoria e prática no ensino e aprendizagem. Contato principal: [email protected]

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