THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND CURRENT TRENDS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AS A FIELD OF STUDY IN NIGERIA by Toye Manuwa

“…It examines how political science emerged and evolved as a distinct academic discipline in Nigeria after its independence from British colonial rule. …”
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The Right to Write the History: Disputes over the History of Medicine in France – 20th-21st Centuries by Corinne Doria

“…This article reflects on the history of medicine as an academic discipline. It analyzes in particular the debates that took place in France between the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. …”
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Forskningens engagemang. Ett teologiskt perspektiv på vetenskap, intresse och nytta by Mattias Martinson

“…In order to suggest a different way of being academically responsible in society, I draw on Friedrich Schleiermacher’s understanding of theology as a so called positive, or practical, academic discipline. …”
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Formation of skills for conducting sociological research in future teachers by А. А. Solovov, N. V. Sukhankina

“…The introduction of the academic discipline “Sociological Research” into the professional training program for future teachers will help raise the level of sociological culture as a component of professional pedagogical culture.…”
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Sociology in Communist Romania: An Institutional and Biographical Overview by Bosomitu Ștefan

“…Suppressed on ideological grounds, banned as academic discipline, and dismantled as scientific infrastructure in the first postwar years, sociology was re-institutionalized in communist Romania during the 1960s, largely on political grounds. …”
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Yanagita Kunio and the Culture Film: Discovering Everydayness and Creating/Imagining a National Community, 1935–1945 by Jinshi Fujii

“…In wartime Japan, folklore studies (<i>minzokugaku</i>) as an academic discipline emerged at the same time as the rise of the culture film (<i>bunka eiga</i>). …”
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Imperfect and Transrational Interpretations of Peace(s) by Wolfgang Dietrich

“…The focus of the essay is the epistemological development of peace studies as an academic discipline from its structuralist and post-structuralist roots in the 20th century to its interpretations in the 21st century. …”
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Electronical educational and methodological complexes as a means of forming the professional competence of future doctors when studying disciplines from natural sciences by Liliya Batyuk

“…The article presents the results of research into the forms and methods of effective implementation of electronical educational and methodical complexes on the Moodle platform among students which are studying at the Kharkiv National Medical University on the example of the academic discipline Medical and Biological Physics. The advantages and disadvantages of using electronic educational and methodological complexes in higher educational institutions are discussed. …”
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Gemeentebou: 'n Reformatoriese bediening by Malan Nel

“…There is, however, often a disturbing discrepancy between the so-called defined and empirical subjects when it comes to any given local church. The academic discipline as well as the ministry of building up the local church has everything to do with helping the local church to become what it is supposed to be. …”
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Health, physical education and physical development of students in historically and personally developing paradigm by Belykh S.I.

“…The prospects for the use of personal-oriented campaign in the reform of university academic discipline Physical Education.…”
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Å lytte til historiens sus by Anne Eriksen

“…Modern societies are characterized by the academic discipline of history assuming a dominant position in this chorus, but other voices also exist: popular traditions, personal memories etc. …”
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A measure of total research impact independent of time and discipline. by Alberto Pepe, Michael J Kurtz

“…Authorship and citation practices evolve with time and differ by academic discipline. As such, indicators of research productivity based on citation records are naturally subject to historical and disciplinary effects. …”
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The integration of rhetoric into existing school subjects by Jonas Bakken

“…However, it is not unproblematic to take an academic discipline out of its historical context and integrate it into another culture, another time period and, not least, another school system. …”
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The value of mental states self-assessment diagnostics of the agrarian university junior students by Zaitseva Sophia Alekseevna, Malakhova Olga Nikolayevna, Russkikh Irina Tairovna

“…The problem solution lies in the use of game technologies in the educational process that take into account the profile of the university, the direction of training, the academic discipline, as well as the socio-demographic characteristics of students.…”
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The Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (2012) by Missy Molloy, Anthony Coman

“…This episode encapsulates the atmosphere of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies 2012 Boston conference, which unfolded over the course of five full days in late March. For any academic discipline, disorientation generates vitality, and whether it comes in the form of the shrill pitch and flashing lights of a false alarm, the sharp stab of a question from an established scholar, or the probing engagement of fellow panellists, the SCMS annual meeting is a destabilising force that draws strength from its members’ diverse interests, and typically sends its participants home feeling exhausted, yet invigorated.…”
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Academic Assets, Life-Cycle, and Entrepreneurship: A Longitudinal Study of Estonian Academic Workers by Maksim Mõttus, Oliver Lukason

“…The logistic regression results indicated the varying importance of different academic assets at different academic career stages, while divergence also exists with respect to academic discipline. The results enable postulating several theoretical propositions, accompanied by practical implications for technology transfer at universities.…”
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More than Math: On the Affective Domain in Developmental Mathematics by G. Michael Guy, Jonathan Cornick, Ian Beckford

“…Longer term persistence models indicated ATMI Value of Mathematics and Engage Academic Discipline were positive predictors of success.…”
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A Brief Introduction to Tibetan Heroic Epic ‘Gesar’ Studies in China (1931-2016) by D. Bamao

“…From the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, Chinese scholars approved the ‘Gesar’ as an academic discipline in the study of the oral literature of the peoples of China. …”
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Building a Food Studies Program: On-the-Ground Reflections from Syracuse University by Evan Weissman, Leigh Gantner, Lutchmie Narine

“…We reflect on key issues that we struggle with and believe have resonance with and implications in the development of food studies as an academic discipline at other institutions. We briefly outline the emergence of food studies as a distinct area of scholarship, discuss both the opportunities and tensions food studies creates with established disciplines, provide background on the history of food studies at SU, discuss the process of curriculum development, explore the struggles to balance a liberal arts education with professional training, and conclude with some tentative lessons learned thus far in the process.…”
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Social media research: We are publishing more but with weak influence. by Samer Elhajjar, Laurent Yacoub

“…The purpose of this paper is to address the chasm between academic research on social media as an expanding academic discipline and at the same time a growing marketing function. …”
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