Higher Education Training Research Articles

Educating sanitation professionals: moving from STEM to specialist training in higher education in Malawi

Educating sanitation professionals: moving from STEM to specialist training in higher education in Malawi

The Arts Alumni Have Spoken: The Impact of Training in Higher Education on Entrepreneurial Careers

Studies of alumni from arts-focused degree programs in American higher education have revealed the need for arts entrepreneurship training for self-reliant careers, resulting in the creation of at least 168 programs and course offerings for students in a range of arts disciplines. Using factor analysis of datasets from the 2015–2017 administrations of the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, a multi-institution online alumni survey, this paper divides the skills most relevant to arts entrepreneurship training into four latent categories: critical thinking, leadership, business management, and artistic specialty. A logistic regression revealed statistically significant associations between the latent variables with alumni’s propensity for freelancing and new venture creation. We also identified that race interacts with both student loan amount and family social and cultural capital. Arts-focused higher education programs should consider how they can offer training in these skill groups and complementary opportunities for financially challenged college students and those with fewer familial connections to the arts without creating additional barriers to careers in the arts.

Interprofessional Education and Integration with Primary Care: A Systematic Review

Interprofessionalism encompasses teamwork, knowledge construction, open dialogue, and respect among the peculiarities related to professional practice. This study consists of a systematic review, structured by the P.V.O. is does Primary Health Care (V - variable), favor the development of interprofessionalism (O - outcomes), during the training of higher education health students (P - population). We used searches of the PubMed (United States National Library of Medicine Service) and SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) databases with descriptors from the DeCS (Descriptors in Health Sciences) and MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) platforms. The Medical Education Research Study Quality Instrument (MERSQI) was used to assess risk of bias and quality. After reading and analyzing the 15 selected articles, three categories emerged: "The dimensions of interprofessionalism in the strengthening of Primary Health Care"; "Interprofessionalism and the teaching-learning process in health"; "Perspectives for interprofessional training in higher education: challenges in implementation and possible solutions". Primary Health Care favors the development of interprofessionalism in many countries, especially in Brazil. However, it is up to the academic staff to use this strategy to advance interprofessional competencies in health education. It is indicated that more didactic-pedagogical resources on interprofessional education be developed and implemented, in such a way that Primary Care is the focal point for the development of interprofessionalism.

Encontros entre a formação acadêmica e a prática profissional na Atenção Primária à Saúde

It is expected that future health professionals have a consolidated training in a generalist view with human, ethical, critical, and reflective principles. The present study aimed to understand how an interprofessional team recognizes, in its professionals’ academic training areas, the teaching-learning process learned about the Brazilian Public Health System. The qualitative method was used, with semi-structured individual interviews and focus groups. The results found that Primary Health Care is an area with low interest for professional performance and inconsistent academic curricula for professional training. This study invites us to reflect on the fact that higher education training should be substantially closer to the bases of the health system in force in the country, given the need to train future health professionals able to assist the singularities of the health-disease process in the community

The problem of pre-medical care skills training in higher education

The article focuses on the pre-medical training of applicants for non-medical higher education. The organizational and legal principles of training and first aid are analyzed. The need to involve a wide range of people without medical education in the provision of pre-medical care was emphasized and substantiated. For this purpose, appropriate training should be organized. In particular, authors recommended to resume the studying of the discipline "Fundamentals of pre-medical care" in different educational institutions or to include the pre-medical care skills training to the course «Life safety» with an increase in academic hours. Additionally, it was emphasized that when teaching the course "Fundamentals of pre-medical care", it is necessary today to take into account the peculiarities of its provision in the war zone. The article highlights a list of basic skills of pre-medical care that must be acquired by higher education students, regardless of their profession. Training sessions are an effective form of education for knowledge acquisition and the formation of practical pre-medical care skills.

KNOWLEDGE AND DIFFICULTIES OF NURSES IN MECHANICAL VENTILATION IN A TRAUMA UNIT IN A TERTIARY CENTER IN PERNAMBUCO

Objective: To analyze the knowledge and difficulties in the assistance provided by trauma emergency nurses to patients on mechanical ventilation (MV) in a tertiary hospital located in RecifePE. Method: This is a cross-sectional study with a complementary quantitative and qualitative approach that was conducted in the Trauma Emergency Unit of the Hospital da Restauração, RecifePE. Data were collected in June 2021 using a questionnaire that assessed 4 domains of mechanical ventilation knowledge, these being: initial setting of the invasive ventilator and conventional ventilatory modes, monitoring the patient on ventilatory support, nursing care in patients on invasive ventilatory support, and sedation and analgesia during mechanical ventilation. The difficulties were measured by means of open questions at the end of the questionnaire. Inclusion criteria were: being a nurse assistant in the Trauma Emergency Department. Nurses working in administrative positions, on vacation or on leave during the data collection period were excluded. The research was approved by the Research Ethics Committee through opinion #4.704.572 and all participants previously signed the Informed Consent Form (TCLE). Results: Thirty nurses were analyzed, 80% were women, 43.5% were married and 67% were between 31 and 42 years old. As for the time of training in higher education, 40% revealed having up to 10 years of graduation, without other graduation in 87% of respondents and reported not having a technical course in nursing in 83%. Nursing care to patients on invasive ventilatory support, especially with regard to handling, as well as cleaning and conservation of equipment was deficient among the interviewees. Sedation and analgesia during mechanical ventilation were deficient when the use of neuromuscular blockade for deep sedation and adequate monitoring of the level of consciousness were mentioned. Among the difficulties when assisting the patient under mechanical ventilation, one can include the correct management of the ventilator, as well as the adjustment of its parameters adequate for each patient, ventilator assembly, interpreting the parameters, as well as the existence of high demand, lack of material to maintainadequate sedation of the patient, and prevention of ventilator-related accidents. As a facility, care actions such as assisting the intubation procedure, decubitus monitoring, sedation installation, basic parameters maintenance and endotracheal suctioning were mentioned. Conclusions: The authors suggest that continued education and specific training actions should be implemented to improve the assistance of nurses who assist MV patients in emergency units.

Responding to the Popular Demand: Itinerary for the Socio-Political Learning of Situated Agroecologies in Chile

Agroecology has proven to be successful in responding to the demands and needs of a collective due to the relevance of its approach and proposals, which are built collaboratively between all the actors under a specific context that focuses on the actions developed. This is facilitated when spaces of horizontal interaction are generated through dialogues between different perspectives and experiences. In this perspective, agroecological training in higher education, i.e., university level, requires structural changes that go beyond the incorporation of technical content. Based on a critical documentary analysis of the records generated in the implementation of teaching innovation projects, the learning itinerary in agroecology is presented, consisting of four certifications based on transformational learning and supported by active methodologies. The potentialities, including marketing potential, of the proposed learning itinerary relate to curricular design, the articulation of the itinerary, the suitability of the learning methodologies used, the performance of the teachers, and the participation of the students. It is concluded that the implementation of flexible itineraries allows for addressing the transformation processes necessary for an agroecological transition in which we see a convergence of students’ skills, the learning objectives, and the requirements of the various actors with which they interact.

СИСТЕМНО-ДІЯЛЬНІСНИЙ ПІДХІД ДО ФОРМУВАННЯ ДОСЛІДНИЦЬКОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ МАЙБУТНІХ ПЕРЕКЛАДАЧІВ ЗАСОБАМИ ПРОЄКТНОГО НАВЧАННЯ

The article reveals the essence of the system-activity approach to the formation of research competence of future translators by means of project-based learning and identifies its features in the process of their professional training in higher education. The content of the concept of “research competence” is analyzed and it is established that the basis of research competence is the ability to identify the problem in time, formulate a hypothesis, select and analyze the necessary information for research, select the necessary research and data processing methods. The ability to analyse the intermediate results of the study, to discuss the possibility of interpreting the results of the study, to use the results of the study in practice is required. It is noted that the methodological basis for the formation of research competence of future translators by means of project-based learning at higher education institutions is a modern approach to scientific knowledge. This is a system-activity approach. The system-activity approach in the research is considered as a methodological direction of management of socio-pedagogical systems, which involves the presence of interconnected and interdependent activities in the pedagogical process (teaching, education, management, development, learning, etc.). In the course of theoretical analysis, the main ideas of the system-activity approach in the context of formation of research competence of future translators are revealed. Emphasis is placed on the fact that training in the context of the system-activity approach should be organized in such a way as to purposefully form the research competence of future translators. It is established that the use of project-learning technologies allows to bring educational activities as close as possible to the conditions of professional research. The experience of implementation of the systemactivity approach in the formation of research competence of future translators at Alfred Nobel University is revealed. The formation of research competence of future specialists took place in three stages: the formation of skills in working with literature, which is a necessary skill when working on educational or scientific research; implementation of educational and research projects (in the first year – writing essays, in the second and third years – writing term papers and implementation of other projects of educational and research direction); extracurricular work of students (participation of future translators in student conferences, implementation of research projects of various kinds in such disciplines as “Comparative Lexicology of English and Ukrainian”, “Translation Practice”, “Self-Management”, “Linguistics of Second Foreign Languages”).

ТЕОРЕТИЧНЕ ОБҐРУНТУВАННЯ МОДЕЛІ ФОРМУВАННЯ СОЦІАЛЬНО-РЕАБІЛІТАЦІЙНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ В МАЙБУТНІХ СОЦІАЛЬНИХ ПРАЦІВНИКІВ

The system of vocational education is at the stage of modernization, and the formation of professional competence of future professionals is a fully unrealized reserve the actualization of which will improve the quality of higher education training of future social workers. The purpose of the study was to develop a model of formation of future social workers’ social rehabilitation competence; the model’s in question integration into practice is designed to ensure the improvement of professional development of social workers in educational activities. The article analyzes the scientific literature on professional training of future social workers and uses a modeling method to design a model that, in our opinion, will ensure the consistent development of value, content, cognitive and procedural components of future social workers’ social rehabilitation competence. It is proved that the formation of social rehabilitation competence is provided by approaching the real conditions of professional activity during the internship period. The presented model of formation of social rehabilitation competence of future social workers allows to approach the process of their professional training holistically, and its implementation will successfully form the social rehabilitation competence of future social workers, which is a necessary component of training.

THE SYSTEM OF COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING IN TEACHING MATHEMATICS COURSES TO STUDENTS OF ECONOMIC SPECIALIZATION

One of the successfully developing innovations in the educational process is distance learning, that is a qualitatively new and progressive type of students` knowledge acquisition by using modern information and communication educational technologies without been physically present at a school of higher education. The aim of research is to identify the relationship between the success and quality of professional and vocational training of future specialists in Economics within the distance learning, that depends on effective teaching methods and organization of this process. Such theoretical research methods as analysis of the literature in Pedagogics and Professional training in Higher Education in order to justify the need of using the latest modern information and communication technologies in the process of distance learning, generalization of the results of national and foreign researches on this issue; and some empirical methods, such as pedagogical observations, conversations with professors and students of higher education on the use of computer mathematical systems: Mathematica, Maple, MatLab, MathCAD in the study of Mathematics courses were applied in the research. We determined that the significant efficiency of the distance teaching is due to the use of computer mathematical systems that simplify and automate calculations, thus opening up great opportunities for direct economic analysis, solving economic problems, helping to deepen professional knowledge and skills of students of economic specializations. It is concluded that the solution of the problem of qualitative increase of the level of math and professional training of future economists in general depends on the successful development and functioning of the methodological component of teaching Mathematics courses to students of higher education schools.

Actual problems of staffing the construction and investment complex of the Russian Federation

The tendencies of personnel training for the construction and investment complex of the country over a long period of time are considered. The correlation between the development of the construction industry and the scale of training in higher education has been revealed. The main trends in the development of the complex and some reasons for the decline in the training of personnel for the industry are identified. The importance of multifaceted interaction between the system of professional education of builders and the construction and investment complex is shown. The key to solving the problem of providing personnel with higher education for the construction and investment complex, which lies in the sphere of integrating this cluster of training specialists with the construction industry and reforming both the industry and higher education, is outlined.

Research on the Reform of Higher Education Training Mode under the Background of Big Data and Internet of Things

With the rapid development of information processing, storage, and transmission technologies, the demand for talents from all walks of life in the society has increased, which has put forward higher requirements for the diversity of Chinese higher education. In China’s higher education, undergraduate education is in a fundamental position. China’s undergraduate education has undergone several reforms in talent training, but there are still many problems in the innovative talent training model. With the gradual improvement of the Internet of Things infrastructure, various applications characterized by big data are deeply embedded in people’s daily life. In the era of big data, the amount of data is larger and the structure is more complex. It penetrates into all fields of human life and shows unprecedented vitality and vigor. Especially in the field of higher education, the era of big data provides more information resources for education and learning and also brings new opportunities for the cultivation of applied talents in local undergraduate colleges and universities. This paper deeply studies the training mode of applied talents in local undergraduate colleges and universities under the background of big data and the Internet of Things. Based on the data analysis results of big data application technicians and industry talents, professional ability-course structure data, this paper completes the design of the corresponding talent training mode analysis system. Under the application of the system designed in this paper, it is possible to realize the analysis of the differences in the knowledge structure requirements of talents in various positions and the needs of talents’ ability, as well as the optimization and reform of the talent training curriculum system. The design of this paper can play an important guiding role in talent training in the environment of big data and Internet of Things.

The Potential and Limitations of the Wadden Sea in University, School, and Out-Of-School Contexts From the Perspective of Biology Education

This study explores the potential and the limitations of the UNESCO World Heritage Wadden Sea in terms of its relevance for teacher training in higher education and for teaching in schools and as an out-of-school place of learning. Interviews with experts from these three areas were conducted. The analysis was performed through qualitative content analysis. Within this framework, various factors were identified that should be considered in further biology didactics studies. The findings indicate that out-of-school learning receives too little emphasis in teacher education and that the Wadden Sea offers opportunities to address this deficit. In addition, clear limits were set for school lessons on this ecosystem in contrast to practical explorations of the Wadden Sea. Nevertheless, incorporating Wadden Sea content in the classroom makes sense since diverse topics can be vividly explored. Out-of-school learning at the Wadden Sea was found to have an immense potential in education for sustainable development and in environmental education. One obstacle is the students’ reported disgust towards the Wadden Sea. Based on the results, conclusions are drawn for all three areas considered in this study, providing concrete implications for related studies with a focus on biological education on the Wadden Sea.

Faces of informed research:

This paper presents the Faces of Informed Research, an information literacy (IL) framework that aims to enhance researchers’ capacity to participate productively in collaborative interdisciplinary partnerships. Universities and funding bodies increasingly require collaborative approaches to research initiatives. Beneficial for advancing shared research interests, collaboration often requires overcoming significant variation in disciplinary approaches, including how researchers use information to conduct research, to transition unfamiliar researchers into working relationships. A conceptual development process was undertaken to expand on the Seven Faces of Informed Learning to further adapt the framework to collaborative and interdisciplinary research contexts. Embodying critical components of working together, Informed Research especially supports researchers’ collective enablement and enactment of different experiences of using information. Drawing from the pedagogic model Informed Learning Design, an ‘informing narrative' illustrates how the recognition of variations in information experience may be used to enrich researchers’ collaborative capacity. Future investigation will focus on the role of Informed Research in relationship to 1) research training in higher education, 2) group collaboration ‘efficacy,’ 3) research, research management and research collaboration leadership, and 4) the importance of information experiences for successful research, collaboration, and writing.

Keeping Relaxed Performance Vital

Relaxed Performance (RP) has emerged as an arts-based praxis implemented across sectors in response to disability and other justice-seeking communities’ desire to access the arts. Across Turtle Island (North America), RP is becoming the “gold standard” for accessible performance arts, as sector norms evolve to demand accessibility and inclusion, prompting a desire for RP training in higher education. The upswell of interest raises concerns that RP is at risk of becoming an increasingly sought-after pedagogical commodity whose vitality could be co-opted in the interests of standardization and universality. Taking up RP as a justice-driven arts intervention, the article argues for maintaining RP’s vitality in the face of access standardization. Drawing on RPs at three universities, the article describes the affective potential of non-standardized and crip theory-informed RP now and in the future.

Assessment of the digital activity of universities: Russian educational platform of the «Yuryat»

The problem of the modern system of higher education in Russia and the world is the search for an adequate and high-quality digital model for enhancing professional training in higher education using the remote access system. The pandemic has exacerbated and hastened finding an answer. Russian universities have found an answer in the use of digital educational platforms. One of the most widespread and adequate to the needs of higher education was the «Yuryat» platform. The goal is to assess digital educational activity in Russian universities from 10/26/2020 to 10/25/2021. The research is based on the primary data of «Yuryat.Statistics» and published empirical data. Statistical and quantitative methods were used to study the problem., in particular, the integral index of digital educational activity (IDEA) was used in general form, calculated as an additive convolution of its constituent sub-indices. In turn, each sub-index Ii allows quantitatively characterize different types of digital activity when using the resource, they were calculated using the formula for linear scaling of Pi values. The main result of the study was based on the indicators developed by the authors on the state of digitalization of higher education in Russia from 10/25/2020 to 10/26/2021. conclusion about the lack of digital educational activity of universities according to the data of «Yuryat.Statistics». The average IDEA value = 0.082 means that the average digital activity is 8.2% of the maximum level equal to 1. The country is characterized by low student activity in the use of tests and media resources (ISKK and IUEM sub-index), as well as in the creation of digital courses (IPDC sub-index) on average across Russian universities The study carried out in this work on 318 universities in Russia made it possible to conclude that there is high interuniversity differentiation in terms of the level of development of digital transformation of the educational process, both in terms of individual characteristics and on a territorial basis. The results of the study proved that the main centers of digital transformation of higher education are Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. It is obvious that the system of professional training in the country in the university sphere is faced with the question of strengthening work on the formation of technologies and platforms for remote access.

FORMATION OF ECOLOGICAL CULTURE OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION

The article is devoted to the characteristics of the peculiarities of the formation of ecological culture of future professionals in the educational process of higher education. To achieve this goal, general scientific methods were used: analysis, synthesis, comparison, concretization, generalization, and content analysis. The problem of the formation of ecological culture of future specialists as a constructive response of university education to the challenges of the modern era is actualized. Based on the analysis of theoretical works of domestic scientists, the main approaches to defining the concept of “ecological culture” and “formation of ecological culture” are characterized; concluded that there is a lack of interdisciplinary research on the peculiarities of the formation of the environmental culture of future professionals. The need for active formation and intensive development of the ecological culture of future specialists during their studies in higher education institutions is emphasized. The positive practice includes the pervasiveness of the formation of environmental culture both within the compulsory and elective disciplines and extracurricular activities of higher education institutions. Emphasis is placed on the possibilities of elective disciplines for the development and formation of values in the formation of environmental culture in applicants for higher education and research and teaching staff of higher education institutions. The need to introduce the educational component “Human Ecology” in the training of higher education in various fields of knowledge and specialties is substantiated. A list of themes of cross-cutting environmental interdisciplinary projects for applicants of the first (bachelor’s) and second (master’s) levels of higher education has been developed and proposed. The expediency of holding binary lectures for the development of the ecological culture of higher education seekers is substantiated. Possibilities of non-formal education for the development of the ecological culture of future specialists are analyzed.
 Keywords: ecological culture; human ecology; educational process; environmental interdisciplinary project; applicants for higher education; vocational training; binary lecture; culture.

Building a mental toolbox: Relationships between strategy choice and sight-singing performance in higher education.

Sight-singing is an inescapable component of music training in higher education and is often challenging for students. However, some strategies could help students perform. Yet, the extent to which students can use strategies to improve their sight-singing performance remains unclear. This article asks two questions to fill this gap: (1) Which strategies do students use when sight-singing? (2) Does the application of some types of strategy predict performance? We recruited 56 postsecondary music students and asked them about their musical backgrounds. They then sight-sang a short melody while we recorded their eye movements. After that, we conducted semi-structured retrospective interviews, using eye-movement videos and attention distribution heatmaps to help participants remember the strategies they used. We analyzed the interview transcripts to identify the strategies students used and regrouped them into categories. We extracted seven categories and discovered that using body movements predicted rhythm scores, that using musical knowledge predicted pitch and combined scores, and that relying on automatic skills predicted all dimensions of sight-singing performance. We recommend that aural skills instructors teach strategies explicitly and help students develop robust musical knowledge, as they are required to build strong automatic skills.

Sustainable Quality Education and Training in Higher Education: Analyzing Antecedents of Sustainable Quality Education in Module II Degree Programme in Kenya

Outcome target 3 of Sustainable Development Goal 4 focuses on reducing barriers to skills development, Technical and Vocational Education, and Training starting from secondary level, tertiary, and university education. It also focuses on providing lifelong learning opportunities for youth and adults. Universities in Kenya have been at the forefront of improving access to higher education for all. One programme through which Universities have actualized their desire for accessible education is Module II, popularly known as the parallel programme. Through this programme many individuals who achieved the minimum requirement for university admission have had an opportunity to access higher education even though they had hitherto not been considered. However, the quality of education offered under this module has remained a matter of concern. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze probable antecedents of sustainable quality education in the Module II programme. The study adopted the quasi-experimental research design anchored in the positivist research paradigm. The study targeted lecturers drawn from public universities and campuses located in Uasin Gishu County. Questionnaires were used to collect data from a sample of 258 lecturers handling diverse disciplines and who were randomly selected. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze data. The study revealed that admissions policy, quality culture, curriculum development, and teaching evaluation were significant antecedents to sustainable quality education in Module II. The originality in the study is that Module II can and does support the realization of SDG4 outcome target 3 concerning access to university education. Educational stakeholders should rethink implementing this module alongside these critical antecedents to empower individuals.

The "Antiracist" Mental Health Threat That No One Talks About

Despite an explosion of diversity, equity, and inclusion training in higher education, the “antiracist pedagogy” that conveys these ideas to undergraduates amounts to little more than a program of coercive thought reform that deploys psychological weapons against students.