scholarly journals Moving Beyond Peer Review of Teaching: A Conceptual Framework for Collegial Faculty Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 003465432199072
Author(s):  
Rachelle Esterhazy ◽  
Thomas de Lange ◽  
Sofie Bastiansen ◽  
Anne Line Wittek
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Development ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sociocultural Perspectives ◽  
The World ◽  
Relational Factors ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Synthesis Approach

Over the past decades, peer review of teaching has become commonplace at many universities around the world. Though research on the topic is expanding, much of the literature is composed of qualitative studies that offer relevant empirical findings but often have limited foundations in theory. Using a framework synthesis approach, we synthesize the empirical findings of 48 qualitative articles on peer review of teaching into a comprehensive conceptual framework drawing on sociocultural perspectives of learning. We propose the term “collegial faculty development” (CFD) to encompass all practices that support faculty in developing their teaching quality by drawing on the expertise of their colleagues. Our framework conceptualizes the main elements of CFD and shows how different contextual, individual, and relational factors shape the way CFD unfolds. Based on these theoretical considerations, we discuss issues of intersubjectivity, materiality, and temporality as potential avenues for further research.

Presenting the Past: The Genre of Commentary in Theoretical Perspective

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis article provides a theoretical discussion of the genre of commentary writing. Rather than examining the role of commentary in a specific religion, it attempts to articulate a set of useful questions to begin the process of rethinking what this genre is and, in the process, help create a theoretical vocabulary and conceptual framework for an analysis of commentary from the history of religions. The article is divided into three parts. The first broadens the traditional concept of a "canon", ostensibly the raw data upon which the commentary imposes a taxonomy. The second argues that the human condition, what Heidegger calls the way in which we are thrown into the world, demands that we interpret it. Finally, it is suggested that commentary is fundamentally about location or space, thereby providing the classificatory schema that is necessary for contextualizing both past and present. The main goal of this article is to problematize the current discussion of commentary in a theoretical way.

scholarly journals Theoretical Considerations about the Possible Impact of Globalisation on Europe’s Economic Development

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasa Daugėlienė
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Inclusive Analysis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Derivatives Of ◽  
Economy Of Scope

AbstractScientific works (starting from 1873) of famous economists and political philosophers based on theoretical/philosophical considerations about the preconditions of changes on world economy of scope stipulate the inclusive analysis of factors which possibly influence the challenges of society and economy in the 21st century. It is very modern to claim that manifestation of globalisation is the origin of all changes. The European Commission states that about one-fifth of the increase in the economies of EU countries over the past 50 years depends on integration of the world economy, that is, globalisation. Taking this into account, the article presents theoretical considerations about the possible impact of globalisation on Europe’s economic development. Three scientific problems are raised: Does globalisation affect economic growth and how could this process be managed? Which are the derivatives of globalisation that influence positive changes in a country’s economy? Is it possible to eliminate or diminish the effect of the more negative aspects of globalisation? Among the research methods used in the article are theoretical comparative analysis of the scientific works, and analysis of legal documents as well as strategies and practical papers in this field. The article also presents three tasks: to systematise arguments presented in existing scientific works (theories) as well as in EU initiatives considering the phenomenon of globalisation, to highlight the tendencies in Europe’s economic development that are associated with globalisation, and to present recommendations for managing the influence of globalisation to the development of EU’s economy. The article presents systematised arguments of published scientific works (theories) as well as EU initiatives considering the phenomenon of globalisation. The impact, positive as well as negative, of globalisation on the development of economy is highlighted and the criteria for the manifestation of globalisation is systematised. This instrument could be used to assess the impact of globalisation on economic development

scholarly journals Interreligious Nursing: A conceptual framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-291
Author(s):  
Gülbu Tanriverdi
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Nursing Role ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Culture And Health ◽  
The Relationship

Religion, which is one of fundamental element that affects and changes culture. One of the most important functions of religions is to unite their members around a common belief. People who share the same belief look at the world from the same window and think that they see the same things through that window.  It is stated that, thanks to religious belief, people are relieved significantly by means of emotional comfort and calmness, coping with death anxiety and seeking wisdom in their illnesses.  In order for nurses to know how the individual's religious beliefs will affect their care; they are expected the relationship between religion, culture and health. Westbeerg proposed an innovative nursing role for faith communities in the mid-1980s, and interest in this area has grown exponentially over the past 25 years.In this review, it is proposed to develop the field by creating a conceptual framework for the field of "Interreligious Nursing", which is based on religion integrated care.   Özet Din, kültürü etkileyen, değiştiren ona süreklilik kazandıran temel unsurlarından birisidir. Dinlerin en önemli işlevlerinden birisi mensuplarını ortak bir inanç etrafında birleştirmeleridir. Aynı inancı paylaşan insanlar dünyaya aynı pencereden bakar ve o pencereden aynı şeyleri gördüklerini düşünürler.  Dini inanç sayesinde insanların duygusal bir rahatlık ve sakinlik yaşadıkları, ölüm kaygısıyla başaçıktıkları ve hatta geçirdikleri hastalıklarda bir hikmet olduğunu düşünerek rahatladıkları belirtilmektedir. Hemşirelerin, bireyin dini inançlarının bakım sürecini nasıl etkileyeceğini bilmek için; din, kültür ve sağlık ilişkisini bilmeleri beklenmektedir.  Westbeerg'in 1980'lerin ortasında iman (inanç) toplulukları için yenilikçi bir hemşirelik rolü önermiş ve son 25 yılda bu alana ilgi katlanarak artmıştır. Bu derlemede dinin entegre adildiği bakımı esas alan “Dinlerarası hemşirelik” alanına yönelik kavramsal çatı oluşturularak, alanın geliştirilmesi önerilmektedir.

scholarly journals Online Business English Examinations – Challenges and Solutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Hopârtean
Keyword(s):  
Practical Approach ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Business English ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Online Business ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

As the world has changed beyond recognition in the past few months, so have examinations. The present paper discusses strategies to adjust business English exams so as to fit the online environment in which they now need to take place. These changes represent a challenge not only for examiners and/ or teachers, but also for students, regardless of their age and background. After some theoretical considerations, we take a more practical approach by interviewing several teachers and students in order to gauge the main concerns on both sides and suggest solutions.

scholarly journals Performance analysis on telecommunication companies in malaysia with TOPSIS model

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 744
Author(s):  
Lam Weng Hoe ◽  
Lam Weng Siew ◽  
Liew Kah Fai
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
High Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Telecommunication Companies ◽  
Topsis Model

Emergence of telecommunication companies is springing up due to the high demand from the consumers. The invention of telecommunication has made the world more knowledgeable as information can be transmitted easily. Based on the past studies, telecommunication is not commonly investigated especially in financial management field. Thereore, this study aims to propose a conceptual framework to evaluate, compare and rank the financial performance of the listed telecommunication companies in Malaysia using TOPSIS model. Financial ratios are employed to examine the financial performance of the telecommunication companies. The data of this study consists of DIGI, MAXIS, AXIATA and TM which are listed telecommunication companies in Malaysia stock market. The results of this study show that DIGI achieves the first ranking, followed by MAXIS, AXIATA and TM within the study period of year 2011-2015. This study is significant because it helps to evaluate, compare and rank the financial performance of the listed telecommunication companies in Malaysia with the proposed conceptual framework based on TOPSIS model.

scholarly journals Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-113
Author(s):  
Samad Alavi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Persian Literature ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Course Syllabi ◽  
The World

For at least the past several decades, Persian literary scholarship has drawnits conceptual framework largely from the social sciences. Despite severalnoteworthy exceptions, a tendency to read Persian literature for its sociopoliticalcontent still guides the way scholars write about and teach the fieldtoday. Indeed, a brief survey of course syllabi with “Persian literature” in theirtitles would no doubt reveal that instructors (the present writer included) byand large introduce writers and their works based on non-literary socio-historicaldevelopments, either arranging texts chronologically by their years ofproduction or presenting them (still usually chronologically) as reflections ofthe historical events, social movements, and ideological currents that shapedthe societies from which those texts arose.Mehdi Khorrami’s Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction:Who Writes Iran? challenges this trend, arguing that we do a great disserviceto both individual texts and literary studies as a discipline when weconsider non-literary factors as the primary criteria by which to analyze andschematize literary works. Instead, while acknowledging the importance ofsocial, historical, and ideological contexts, in other words the world outsidethe text, Khorrami’s study of contemporary Persian fiction contends that wemust scrutinize the world inside the texts – their aesthetic, linguistic, and formaldevices and concepts – to develop a comprehensive view of literature’shistorical evolution.The work under review argues that modernist Persian fiction evolves froma counter-discursive to a non-discursive position vis-à-vis official discoursesin Iran, primarily under the Islamic Republic. The author’s conception of discursivityrelates directly to his understanding of the term modernist. The single ...

scholarly journals A Jounal for Canada...and the World

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B Kalina
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Medical Journals ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

The gathering and distribution of information has undergone enormous change over the past decade. The electronics revolution has made it possible to collect an ever-increasing amount of data and make it available to an ever-increasing audience at an ever-increasing speed. Publishing peer-review medical journals, of course, is part of this revolution and has undergone as great a change as any member of this group.

A basic introduction to image processing using NIH-Image as a model

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 392-393
Author(s):  
John Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Digital Instrument ◽  
Novice User ◽  
Nih Image ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Instrument Control

Advances in camera technology and digital instrument control have meant that in modern microscopy, the image that was, in the past, typically recorded on a piece of film is now recorded directly into a computer. The transfer of the analog image seen in the microscope to the digitized picture in the computer does not mean, however, that the problems associated with recording images, analyzing them, and preparing them for publication, have all miraculously been solved. The steps involved in the recording an image to film remain largely intact in the digital world. The image is recorded, prepared for measurement in some way, analyzed, and then prepared for presentation.Digital image acquisition schemes are largely the realm of the microscope manufacturers, however, there are also a multitude of “homemade” acquisition systems in microscope laboratories around the world. It is not the mission of this tutorial to deal with the various acquisition systems, but rather to introduce the novice user to rudimentary image processing and measurement.

On the Symbolism of Rain in A Farewell to Arms

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Tool ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Farewell To Arms

This paper critically analyzes the symbolic use of rain in A Farewell to Arms (1929). The researcher has applied the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis as a research tool for the analysis of the text. This hypothesis argues that the languages spoken by a person determine how one observes this world and that the peculiarities encoded in each language are all different from one another. It affirms that speakers of different languages reflect the world in pretty different ways. Hemingway’s symbolic use of rain in A Farewell to Arms (1929) is denotative, connotative, and ironical. The narrator and protagonist, Frederick Henry symbolically embodies his own perceptions about the world around him. He time and again talks about rain when something embarrassing is about to ensue like disease, injury, arrest, retreat, defeat, escape, and even death. Secondly, Hemingway has connotatively used rain as a cleansing agent for washing the past memories out of his mind. Finally, the author has ironically used rain as a symbol when Henry insists on his love with Catherine Barkley while the latter being afraid of the rain finds herself dead in it.

Profilometry. Using Corneo-scleral topography for scleral lens fitting

The Eye ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (128) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
Gregory DeNaeyer
Keyword(s):  
Ocular Surface ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Contact Lenses ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The world-wide use of scleral contact lenses has dramatically increased over the past 10 year and has changed the way that we manage patients with corneal irregularity. Successfully fitting them can be challenging especially for eyes that have significant asymmetries of the cornea or sclera. The future of scleral lens fitting is utilizing corneo-scleral topography to accurately measure the anterior ocular surface and then using software to design lenses that identically match the scleral surface and evenly vault the cornea. This process allows the practitioner to efficiently fit a customized scleral lens that successfully provides the patient with comfortable wear and improved vision.

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