University Pedagogy: A New Culture is Emerging in Greek Higher Education

Kedraka, Katerina; Rotidi, Georgia

doi:10.5430/ijhe.v6n3p147

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“…In Greek higher education lecture remains the most common teaching tool and only recently initiatives have been taken, in order to enrich university teaching with modern, interactive methods, so courses are more interesting and attractive for students (Kedraka & Rotidi, 2017a), although experts on the field underline the importance of bringing in learning the critical thinking and the use of active teaching methodologies (Kokkos, 2016). The views of the students of DMBG showed that the technique of debates applied in the Bioethics course was fully and positively accepted.…”

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Debates in Teaching Bioethics

Kedraka

Kourkoutas

2018

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In this small scale study in higher education, a good educational practice on the teaching of Bioethics based on transformative learning and accomplished by debates is presented. The research was carried out in June 2016 at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece and it includes the assessment of the debating experience by the students participating in the course. The research followed the qualitative method and data was collected by free association through a single question posed to students, asking them to critically reflect on their debating experience. Content analysis was used for analyzing their responses. Debates seem to be a good practice for teaching Bioethics, since it leads to transformative learning for the future scientists, as it is highlighted by the students' views. They strongly state that they were highly interested and motivated by their participation in debates, an active teaching method that promotes the development of critical thinking, questioning, processing and presentation of scientific data, as well as the improvement of communication and cooperation skills. The most significant finding, though, was the critical reflection that young students reached regarding the subtle, difficult ethical issues of Biosciences.

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Debates in Teaching Bioethics

Kedraka

Kourkoutas

2018

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“…Although Higher Education or University Pedagogy emerged as a new field during the decade of 1960, in Greece this new field started to produce research results very recently following the establishment of the Greek University Pedagogy Network at 2016 (Gougoulakis et al, 2020;Kedraka and Rotidi, 2017). The main topics of this research include the role of academic teachers, the characteristics of students, emerging adulthood, and the development of critical thinking skills for the students of tertiary education (Raikou and Karalis, 2011;Raikou et al, 2017).…”

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Teaching in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Peripheral Greek Universities: Lessons Learned from Students’ Experiences and Opinions

Ράικου¹,

Kaltsidis²,

Kedraka³

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COVID-19 pandemic has affected many aspects of social and economic life, including the educational sector. While each level of education faces its unique challenges, for the Higher Education the pandemic may act as the catalyst triggering a learning revolution. In the current study, which took place in April-May 2020, in the middle of lockdown in Greece, students from two regional Universities in Greece who participated pointed out that the Covid-19 pandemic disturbed their studies, even though their institutions managed to turn very quickly and successfully to distance learning. Despite the fact they are both old enough to handle the online work and technologically savvy enough to navigate new, digital tools and methods, a lot of anxiety, doubts and concerns arose. The main finding is that Greek students found it difficult to handle the lack of the everyday campus life and interaction with their fellow students and teachers, a lesson learnt for faculty to add pedagogically interactive tools, experiences, and ideas to stimulate students’ learning engagement.

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“…The teaching method has an important role in the teaching and learning process (Kedraka & Rotidi, 2017;Takeuchi, Mori, Suzukamo, & Izumi, 2019). The teaching method is a way that contains standard procedures for carrying out educational activities, especially the activity of presenting the subject matter to students.…”

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The Relationship between Students, Attitudes toward Lecturer Teaching Methods and Learning Environment with Achievement Motivation (Descriptive Study of Management Students of STIE Dharma Agung)

Susilowati¹

2020

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This study aims to determine whether: (1) there is a relationship between students' attitudes toward teaching methods of lecturers with learning achievement motivation, (2) there is a relationship between students' learning environments and learning achievement motivation. The population of this research is the 2017 and 2018 students of Management Study Program STIE Dharma Agung. A sample of 165 students was taken incidentally. Data collection is carried out by a questionnaire containing a closed question questionnaire. Data analysis techniques is Spearman's rank correlation analysis. The decision used to accept or reject alternative hypotheses has a significance level of 5%. From the results of the analysis it can be concluded as follows: (1) there is no positive and significant relationship between students' attitudes toward teaching methods of lecturers and learning achievement motivation, which is based on the calculation of the calculated correlation coefficient values which show a correlation r of-0.134 or a probability number of 0.086 with a significance level of 5%. (2) there is no positive and significant relationship between the learning environment of students and learning achievement motivation, which is based on the calculated correlation coefficient which shows a correlation r of-0.140 or a probability number of 0.072 with a significance level of 5%.

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University Pedagogy: A New Culture is Emerging in Greek Higher Education

Cited by 22 publications

References 19 publications

Debates in Teaching Bioethics

Debates in Teaching Bioethics

Teaching in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Peripheral Greek Universities: Lessons Learned from Students’ Experiences and Opinions

The Relationship between Students, Attitudes toward Lecturer Teaching Methods and Learning Environment with Achievement Motivation (Descriptive Study of Management Students of STIE Dharma Agung)

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