Education: Theory and Real Practice

В данной статье описывается опыт реального проектирования студентами третьего курса направления Промышленный дизайн в ходе участия в конкурсе.An experience in working on a real project while taking part in a contest done by the third year industrial design students is described in this article

STYLIZATION AS A FACTOR IN INCREASING MOTIVATION IN SPORTS

Статья посвящена анализу графических средств в дизайне спортивной айдентики и навигационных систем с целью выявления характеристик, воздействующих на сознание спортсменов. Проведен сравнительный анализ приемов стилизации в дизайне, в спорте и других сферах. Сделан вывод о наиболее эффективных методах стилизации как факторах повышения мотивации в спорте.The article is dedicated to a research of graphic design tools in sport identity and navigation design in order to reveal characteristics that have an impact on athletes. Comparison analysis of stylisation in sport design and other fi elds have been done. The most signifi cant and effi cient methods of stylisation as key factors in motivation have been concluded

Perspectives on Enabling Education for Indigenous Students at Three Comprehensive Universities in Regional Australia

Daniels, CR ORCiD: 0000-0002-0672-0450Indigenous students, particularly those from regional and remote areas, are under-represented in both higher education and vocational education in Australia. Enabling programs seek to address this under-representation. They offer pathways to higher education, are important in lifting participation rates and potentially encourage mobility between the sectors. However, strategic development of enabling programs is based on little evidence about student or staff experiences. This chapter presents a qualitative research project underpinned by the strengths-based approach of conscientisation, exploring how Indigenous learning journeys via enabling programs can respect and grow cultural identity, while simultaneously developing study skills. The research considered interpretations of ‘success’ from the perspectives of students and teachers participating in enabling courses. The research found that enabling programs were an ‘important’ and ‘exciting journey’ for students that brought about transformation of the inner self through the building of ‘resilience’, ‘strength’, ‘confidence’, ‘self-esteem’, ‘self-worth’, ‘cultural understanding’ and ‘identity’. Success was experienced across multiple dimensions of students’ lived experience including ‘cultural identity’, ‘voice’, self-realisation, self-acceptance and ‘pride’. Staff suggested that enabling programs imparted an ‘underlying layer’ of skills. Recognition of Indigenous people as ‘yarners’ and ‘story tellers’, along with ways of incorporating ‘both-ways’ methodologies, need to be considered when developing the curriculum. This chapter reports on research which will be used to inform the development of a best-practice framework for Indigenous education enabling programs in Australia, particularly in regional and comprehensive education settings

Advancing the understanding of treponemal disease in the past and present

Syphilis was perceived to be a new disease in Europe in the late 15th century, igniting a debate about its origin that continues today in anthropological, historical, and medical circles. We move beyond this age-old debate using an interdisciplinary approach that tackles broader questions to advance the understanding of treponemal infection (syphilis, yaws, bejel, and pinta). How did the causative organism(s) and humans co-evolve? How did the related diseases caused by Treponema pallidum emerge in different parts of the world and affect people across both time and space? How are T. pallidum subspecies related to the treponeme causing pinta? The current state of scholarship in specific areas is reviewed with recommendations made to stimulate future work. Understanding treponemal biology, genetic relationships, epidemiology, and clinical manifestations is crucial for vaccine development today and for investigating the distribution of infection in both modern and past populations. Paleopathologists must improve diagnostic criteria and use a standard approach for recording skeletal lesions on archaeological human remains. Adequate contextualization of cultural and environmental conditions is necessary, including site dating and justification for any corrections made for marine or freshwater reservoir effects. Biogeochemical analyses may assess aquatic contributions to diet, physiological changes arising from treponemal disease and its treatments (e.g., mercury), or residential mobility of those affected. Shifting the focus from point of origin to investigating who is affected (e.g., by age/sex or socioeconomic status) and disease distribution (e.g., coastal/ inland, rural/urban) will advance our understanding of the treponemal disease and its impact on people through time

The doctoral studies paradox: Indigenous cultural paradigms versus Western-based research practices

This is an exploratory conceptual paper regarding the ontological and epistemological premises that are present in the enrollment of Indigenous peoples in doctoral programs at higher education institutions (HEIs). The paradoxical nature of navigating through distinct points-of-view about two distinct cultural perspectives, that of the doctorate representing a culminating recognition of a professional culture based on Western tradition and the norms and values of Indigenous cultures. There are personal risks involved in undergoing an education predicated on conflicting messages paradoxes represent from prior personal and collective experience and from institutional dicta and expectations. This paper looks at how an individual brings these elements together in a transformative manner that accepts or rejects governmental preference for enhanced participation by Indigenous peoples in doctoral education programs

Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty

This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in science focus on systematic biases. We broaden the lens to emphasize the idiosyncrasy of conscious and unconscious decisions that researchers make during data analysis. We coordinated 161 researchers in 73 research teams and observed their research decisions as they used the same data to independently test the same prominent social science hypothesis: that greater immigration reduces support for social policies among the public. In this typical case of social science research, research teams reported both widely diverging numerical findings and substantive conclusions despite identical start conditions. Researchers’ expertise, prior beliefs, and expectations barely predict the wide variation in research outcomes. More than 95% of the total variance in numerical results remains unexplained even after qualitative coding of all identifiable decisions in each team’s workflow. This reveals a universe of uncertainty that remains hidden when considering a single study in isolation. The idiosyncratic nature of how researchers’ results and conclusions varied is a previously underappreciated explanation for why many scientific hypotheses remain contested. These results call for greater epistemic humility and clarity in reporting scientific findings

Researching Indigenous Australian success in higher education: A case-study of an Australian university

The article presents a case study of the success of Indigenous Australians in higher education. The author identifies the issues and the gaps of knowledge in the area of minority student performance in higher education, the academic success of the Indigenous, and its contributing factors. She also investigates the average Indigenous enrolment and completion numbers and completion rates from Australian universities over the period of seven years, from 2004 to 2010

Innovation-by-numbers: an autoethnography of innovation as violence

© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article offers an account of a university exercise in ‘innovation’ to illustrate how innovation discourses and processes can be a vehicle for violence in organisations. Presented as two narratives of the same event told from different perspectives, our stories of a curriculum redesign workshop explore the ways innovation became a form of symbolic capital that prompted struggles of control and compliance among individual staff. Schemes of managerial dominance were then in turn individuated, while the assault of innovation became institutionalised and ultimately shielded from critical interrogation. In presenting these accounts, we seek to challenge the rising dominance of innovation as something vital to economic growth and social needs, highlighting instead how its romanticisation is highly problematic

Instruments of white supremacy: People of colour resisting white domination in higher education

This article extends the critical race literature in education by theorising the ways through which white power passes through the bodies of people of colour in higher education institutions. Using autoethnographic inquiry of our experiences as non-white academic and professional staff in two Australian universities, we examine the ways we became co-opted into reinforcing white privilege while subordinating or marginalising students of colour. Rather than complying with the white supremacist ideologies and practices of our institutions, we explore the potentials for resistance against the institutionalised racial order, recognising that writing and publishing our experiences is one approach to speaking out against white supremacy at our universities

Graphic design as a means of promoting sports on the example of the sports complex «Youth»

Диссертационная работа посвящена проблеме привлечения детей и подростков к занятиям спортом в школе олимпийского резерва, а также привлечению людей всех возрастов к активному образу жизни. Исследование включает анализ методов творческого мышления для их дальнейшего использования в проектной части работы. В диссертации рассмотрены различные существующие дизайнерские решения в сфере спорта и проведен анализ эффективности их воздействия на целевую аудиторию. Были подведены итоги и сделаны выводы о проделанном исследовании.The dissertation work is dedicated to the problem of attracting children and adolescents to go in for sports at the School of the Olympic reserve as well as attracting people of all ages to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The study includes an analysis of creative thinking methods for their further use in the practical design part of the work. Various existing design solutions in the field of sports are reviewed, the effectiveness of their impact on the target audience is analyzed. The results of the study were summed up and conclusions were drawn