Thank you so much for sharing your useful thoughts: Dr. Omolayo M. Ikumapayi, Prof. Hein Retter, Prof.P. K. Farayibi, Dr. Beth Ann Fiedler. Your comments are noted and well appreciated.
What we can do to promote high quality teaching and research start from having experts in the chosen fields, having modern equipment to carry out research, and technological know how to operate them and most importantly having good and qualified teachers and Lecturers to impact on the researchers and students. The government must be ready to fund educational and research institutions for them to achieve high quality teaching and research. Not only that, there must be good management of equipment and allotted fund.
This can be achieved through rigorous selection procedures of candidates. Only there will not be many left who have Excellence status. If that is desirable, I do not think so.
Having gotten a clear focus of mission, vision and core values, setting up of standard library with relevant textbooks and online materials, internet access, standard classrooms with conducive environment and adequate research facilities
Focus on teaching students to think critically but with compassion and tolerance. The nature of education has suffered in recent years with educators teaching students how to take a test to 'measure' how teachers are improving their instruction. But the reality is that this method has been short-sighted and leaves students unable to think for themselves, susceptible to bad influences, and unlikely candidates for employment.
Thank you so much for sharing your useful thoughts: Dr. Omolayo M. Ikumapayi, Prof. Hein Retter, Prof.P. K. Farayibi, Dr. Beth Ann Fiedler. Your comments are noted and well appreciated.
One of the structures that can help high-quality teaching and research are the good libraries, because they could provide books and access to documents from each field of research and develop interest in reading.
Getting the right students into the system to learn and conduct quality research.
I agree with all previous replies to this crucial question. Since teaching and research change, along with the social context, it is necessary to have flexible decision making and structures that examine the interaction between education and society.
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I think sharing with the related experts and receiving more feedbacks to apply in the related culture and communities regardless any race.
Becoming more international can help. The following recent paper on strategies for globalizing research in the educational sciences might be of interest as it relates to building and developing structures that promote high-quality teaching and research:
Conference Paper Strategies for globalizing research in the educational sciences
Maximizing interest and curiosity in fields of natural sciences and social studies by implementing courses in the educational model that intrinsically incorporates both values. Teach how to garden, and by extension, what a plant is, what soil is, what an animal is, what the sun is, etc., teach how to build, and by extension, what wood is, what metal is, what geometry is, and teach how to socialize, and by extension, what humanity is, what an argument/debate is, what economy is, what basic (behavioral and developmental) psychology is, etc.
Academic models have things backwards because they make specialists. We teach kids things from the ground up, not telling them what the "up" actually even is. As a result we have generations of people who graduate high school with the math to develop entire systems (i.e., cars, buildings, textiles) without ever knowing because from their perspective they're just glad they passed calculus, or don't intuitively understand the applications of algebra. We need students to understand what fields of study are the foundational aspects to various degrees of life, both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation seem to come after realizing a sense of belonging and control.
Stop teaching kids fields of study "because they have to"/"because the school district decided on this curriculum". Start teaching them group projects, and derive lessons from the nature of those projects.
I plan on founding my own income-based private school in the hopefully near future.
For example, you can promote modern teaching techniques and effective methods of conducting research on the Research Gate portal as well as on other scientific internet platforms.
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Structures required for effective teaching and researching are quintessentially important ; however, they should be built on a well-thought philosophy of education. As Amit Ray astutely states, “Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.” As such, the consideration of educational philosophy is a prerequisite to the development of teaching and researching structures because it opens up the mind to the vast world of possibilities and potentials.
I used to work with slides and OH projectors, that's more humane than a Power Point demonstration.
Students should enjoy challenging teaching and research, most students are only interested in taking a good final exam.
Thank you for the information Diego Hernandez. @Prof. Keith Jones, the conference paper is very useful. Thanks.
Through development of structure of research and teaching which is related to daily life, health etc. Also by developing the interests in easy use of science and anything related to our society which can minimise the societal problems form superstitious belief,religion, cast and gender we can promote more interesting teaching and research.
I am an evaluator/researcher working for a small, nonprofit organization. One great need I have is access to a digital research library and IRB system without the cost breaking the budget. I would like to see an subscription system with a sliding cost scale depending on the number of researchers in the organization and whether or not the organization is for profit or nonprofit.
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