Education

Folkhögskolebesök på Arcada

11.11.2019 Education, Student Life

Den 8 november 2019 kom Västra Nylands folkhögskolas psykologilinje samt natur- och medicinlinje på studiebesök till Arcada och bekantade sig med olika utbildningar i vår högskola. Jag var med och presenterade socionomutbildningen tillsammans med Bettina Brantberg som är utbildningsansvarig för socionomlinjen. Under besöket diskuterade vi socionomernas kompetens och vad studierna innehåller. Vi började med att studerande fick berätta om egna tankar kring vad de tror att socionomutbildningen innebär. Sedan gick…

Sustainable – Discourse analysis of a fashion/fashionable term

06.11.2019 Education, Research

Nathalie Hyde-Clarke (PhD), Head of the Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Sustainable: Able to be maintained at a certain rate or level; conserving an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources; able to be upheld or defended (Oxford University Dictionary 2019). Since the publication of my last blog, ‘Stranded: a critical discourse analysis’, I have been asked by students in the Kultur och Media Methodology course…

Data och mänskliga rättigheter

26.10.2019 Education, Research

John Grönvall, lärare i medieteknik, Institutionen för kultur och medie, Arcada Idag är min iPhone det mest intima föremål jag äger. Telefonen innehåller mina anteckningar, min epost, bankinformation, positionsdata, sjukdomsinfo, diverse textmeddelanden, bilder och videon av familj och vänner. Jag har lagrat alla mina lösenord i ett virtuellt bankvalv som är krypterat så effektivt att ingen någonsin skall komma åt min personliga information. Mitt fingeravtryck låser upp valvet och ger…

Find open access publications: Ebooks, e-journals and theses freely accessible for you!

18.10.2019 Education, Events, Research

What is Open Access (OA)? Open access means that research results are made freely accessible in digital form, which promotes the dissemination of research results both within the scientific community and to the public at large. The reader can read free of charge, use, copy, print, and link the OA publications. Read more about Open access in the Libguide for OA. Arcada Library recommends: DOAB (Directory of Open Access…

Our new students are curious and motivated to learn!

10.10.2019 Education, Projects, Research, Student Life

During the first week of this semester, all new students (N=678) in our bachelor programmes were invited to participate in a survey called Me and My Knowledge. The students completed the web survey during scheduled sessions, and (most probably) due to this arrangement, we managed to collect 521 responses, out of which the major part is complete. Our sincerest thanks to all participating students! With 71 statements, the web survey…

Managing Eco anxiety: “Who owns your pain?”

30.09.2019 Education, Projects, Research

Tomas Träskman, Degree Programme Director: Cultural Management, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS. Since many of the students of Cultural Management write their thesis immersed in practice I often arrange supervision in the environment where they actually do that practice. At times it can be really inspiring. In connection to one such supervision, I had the opportunity to take part in “Creative Mornings” an event all around the…

The NURED Final Seminar – WELCOME!

30.09.2019 Cooperation, Education, Events, Projects

Dear readers! We are pleased to, finally, be able to announce that our project final seminar is drawing near! Held at Arcada UAS (Helsinki Finland) 14.11.2019 from 10.00-16.00 local time, there is an option of attending in person OR globally online. So, wherever you may be reading this, you have the possibility to join us! We have chosen to call our seminar “The home-care jigsaw: bridgning the pieces together in…

Stranded: a critical discourse analysis

27.09.2019 Education, Research

Nathalie Hyde-Clarke (PhD), Head of the Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Stranded: “left without the means to move from somewhere” (Oxford University Dictionary, 2019) On Wednesday, while introducing third year Methodology students to Critical Discourse Analysis, it quickly became apparent that the world social order is in shambles. Or at least that is how it is represented in the media – and given that is almost…

Conceptualising different amounts of student engagement and its evaluation within a course

27.09.2019 Education, Research

Jutta Törnqvist, Lecturer in Online Media, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS This text discusses student-centered learning and experiments with a new approach to meet the needs of a broader type of students with varying educational and socio-economic backgrounds. As they must complete 30 credits of elective extension studies as part of their degree, students find themselves in situations where they identify and enrol for interesting subjects in other…