scholarly journals In the Beginning was the Commons: Transformative Learning as Praxis for Regenerating the Cultural Commons

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Aftab Omer ◽  
Melissa Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Shared Meanings ◽  
The Core ◽  
State Education ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Cultural Commons ◽  
In The Beginning

Culture is the medium through which human capabilities are transmitted. In this respect, culture may be understood as a commons that is consequential to the future of other forms of commons. Regenerating the commons is inherently and intrinsically associated with democratizing and partnering. The commons of shared meanings that enable truth telling are exploitable by the market when education is dominated by the market. If educational institutions are at the behest of the market and the state, education can neither be a commons nor be in the service of the commons. We can frame this circumstance as an enclosure of learning. Transformative learning facilitates a shifting from the mindset of exploiting the commons to a mindset of regenerating the commons. In fact, the core transformation that occurs in transformative learning is the liberation of awareness from identity enclosure. Such a liberation prepares the ground for growing partnership capabilities from the intimate to the global, essential for preserving and regenerating the commons. An education that transforms seeks to re-sacralize and regenerate culture as a commons, which can then enable partnership-based care towards all other forms of commons.

scholarly journals Researcher–Planner Dialogue on Environmental Justice and Its Knowledges—A Means to Encourage Social Learning Towards Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aino Rekola ◽  
Riikka Paloniemi
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Modes Of Interaction ◽  
Sustainable Transition

Societies aiming for a sustainable future need more effective and legitimate planning and decision making practices, in which various actors together find pathways towards a sustainable transition. In this paper, we approach sustainability and environmental justice as epistemological (and ontological) challenges for land-use planning, and empirically analyse how action research could support planners’ social learning and planning towards fair and sustainable development. We analysed qualitatively the evolution of the researcher–planner dialogue while co-designing and developing better methods, means and practices to improve environmental justice in regional scale planning in Kymenlaakso Region, South-East Finland. We found that researcher-planner dialogue developed during cooperation. While in the beginning, social learning related to approaching environmental justice as a fair distribution of power evolved incrementally, later, when dialogue became more focused, communicative and reflective as an outcome of mutual frames and trust, learning occurred in a more transformative way. Such transformative learning concerned recognising youth as a silent group in the planning process and the means to involve their perceptions in planning. In order to support sustainability transformation in the future, we conclude that it is essential to create opportunities for such incremental and transformative social learning through innovative modes of interaction in various contexts.

Copyright and the Commons

2017 ◽  
pp. 106-126
Author(s):  
Erika Balsom
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Digital Reproduction ◽  
Cultural Commons ◽  
Made In ◽  
Do So

This chapter interrogates how artists’ moving image has grappled with the increased ridigification of copyright that has occurred over the last two decades. Many artists champion the freedom to reuse copyrighted materials, but fail to interrogate the particular circumstances that it make possible for them to do so without retribution, while simultaneously avoiding an engagement with the significant encroachments on fair use and the public domain that have been implemented as part of new copyright legislation that seeks to control the unruliness of digital reproduction. As a counterpoint to such positions, this chapter examines Ben White and Eileen Simpson’s Struggle in Jerash (2009), a work made by repurposing a public domain film of the same title made in 1957 in Jordan. Simpson and White contest the increasing privatization of visual culture, insisting on the wealth of the cultural commons precisely as it is under threat.

Mentoring in Graduate Education

2014 ◽  
pp. 101-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Hansman
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Graduate Education ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Program Design ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Higher Educational

The purpose of this chapter is to examine and analyze the concepts of power, critical reflection, and potential for transformative learning in graduate mentoring models and programs, exploring research and models that reflect these concepts in their program design and “curriculum” for mentoring. The chapter concludes with an analysis of two mentoring models/programs and suggestions for future research and practice in mentoring in higher educational institutions that may lead to transformative learning among mentors and participants in these programs.

Future Ready Universities

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-66
Author(s):  
Prema Ponnudurai ◽  
Logendra Stanley Ponniah
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Curriculum Content ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
The Core ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Curriculum Framework ◽  
Institutional Challenges

The sands of education are constantly shifting, and in order to stay significant, higher educational institutions (HEIs) need to reinvent themselves in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With high global unemployment rates of fresh graduates and internal institutional challenges, future conscious HEIs understand the importance of the need to redesigned curriculum, content, and assessments to prepare graduates for employment. Through a detailed evaluation of the newly developed Taylor's curriculum framework (TCF), this chapter will elaborate on the core purposes of this curriculum framework and the governing principles in redesigning a curriculum that focuses on the 21st century needs. By shifting the focus from teaching to learning and by redirecting the focus of assessment from knowledge base to skills base, HEI graduates will be equipped meet the needs of industry, the Fourth Industrial Age and beyond.

scholarly journals Engaging “Students as Partners” in Global Learning: Some Possibilities and Provocations

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Green
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Informal Curriculum ◽  
Authentic Engagement ◽  
Learning At Home ◽  
Partnership Approach

Many educational institutions aim to engage students in “global learning” at home and abroad through the process of “internationalization of the curriculum” (IoC). Yet research indicates that students experience and understand IoC in diverse, often unintended ways, and instances of students’ diverse perspectives informing IoC development are rare. Framed by the concept of “students as partners” (SaP), an Australian Learning and Teaching Fellowship brought together students and academics from diverse disciplinary, cultural, and national backgrounds to co-develop rich global learning experiences in the formal and informal curriculum. Surveys and narrative interviews showed that adopting a partnership approach enabled all participating staff and students to engage in global learning. Characteristically, those who engaged in critical transformative learning framed their partnerships in terms of reciprocity, recognized their cultural ignorance productively, and engaged in global learning as ontoepistemological explorations. Furthermore, this study demonstrates how the authentic engagement of SaP challenges naturalized institutional practices concerning access and equity, outcomes and process, and power and privilege. I frame these challenges as provocations; that is, as invitations to critically analyze and creatively respond to such historically entrenched practices through staff–student partnerships in global learning, “as if” they were already our way of life.

scholarly journals A Simple Auction Mechanism for the Optimal Allocation of the Commons

2008 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 496-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan-Pablo Montero
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Pollution Abatement ◽  
Dominant Strategy ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Uniform Price ◽  
Auction Mechanism ◽  
Sealed Bid ◽  
Regulated Firms ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Number Of Firms

Efficient regulation of the commons requires information about the regulated firms that is rarely available to regulators (e.g., cost of pollution abatement). This paper proposes a simple mechanism that implements the first-best for any number of firms: a uniform price, sealed-bid auction of an endogenous number of (transferable) licenses with a fraction of the auction revenues given back to firms. Paybacks, which rapidly decrease with the number of firms, are such that truth-telling is a dominant strategy regardless of whether firms behave non-cooperatively or collusively. The mechanism also provides firms with incentives to invest in socially optimal R&D. (JEL D44, L51, Q21)

Analysis of National Publications About Education On-line in the Nursing: study of literature review

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1087
Author(s):  
Alessandra Conceição Leite Funchal Camacho
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Content ◽  
On Line ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Review Study ◽  
Nurses And Midwives

Objective: to examine the publications in education on-line in nursing through references in major databases from 2005 to 2009. Methods: literature review study conducted in the databases from Virtual Health Library from 2009/19/02 to 2009/24/04. For analysis of the information was held to organize the content found on the year, type of publication and methodological approach, the core content/production of knowledge and recommendations of the authors. Results: in 20 selected references were reviewed and 12 in the database Scielo, 06 in the BDENF and 14 in the Lilacs. It is tonic in the discussions of the authors studied: the development of training courses for nurses and midwives as well as courses in graduate programs via education on-line. Furthermore, it is necessary that the educational institutions and implement health education on-line investments in technological capabilities and infrastructure for teachers and learners. Conclusion: we note an evolution of education on-line in nursing in Brazil in which the possibilities of teaching in virtual environment for learning is everlasting and take into account some constraints relevant to interactivity as the availability of training courses and disciplines in undergraduate courses. Descriptors: education; education on-line; nursing.

Development of higher education in the modern economy

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 81-88
Author(s):  
Наталья Новикова ◽  
Natalya Novikova ◽  
Ирина Мухоморова ◽  
Irina Mukhomorova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Technological Gap ◽  
State Education ◽  
The Government ◽  
Professional Fields

Modernization in Russia is objectively dictated by the tightening of global competition between countries and the need for structural optimization of the domestic economy. In today´s environment the results of the modernization of the Russian economy influence directly on the welfare of the country in the future, elimination of the technological gap, improving efficiency in all sectors of the economy and professional fields. The process of modernization is aimed at solving a minimum of three tasks: to ensure structural balance of the national economy; technological innovation; the formation of an innovative model of economic development. Formation of such a model of the economy implies an increase in the economy of knowledge-intensive and high-tech industries. With two possible and mutually exclusive approaches to the state economy modernization and technological development, autocratic and democratic, the latter is the most effective, since upgrading cannot be achieved without direct participation of business, civil society and individual citizens with a high level of competence of the government. Federal authorities at the same time play the role of a facilitator, providing legal, organizational and financial support, and as well as a system of processes. Economic modernization and technological development will require training of skilled human capital, which may be provided by the proper functioning of the system of education in Russia. Development of education should be coordinated with social and economic development, and activities of educational institutions should be integrated into innovation processes at the national and regional levels. High importance in solving these problems is given to the development of mechanisms of interaction of educational institutions with the business environment, general public and to changing the format of relations with the state education authorities.

Information Openness of Education As a Resource for Improving the Quality of the Conditions for Providing Educational Services

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 52-59
Author(s):  
Ольга Красношлыкова ◽  
Olga Krasnoshlykova ◽  
И. Шефер ◽  
I. Shefer ◽  
Алена Кузнецова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Integrated Monitoring ◽  
State Education ◽  
Independent Assessment

Based on data on the information openness of the education system and educational institutions of Kemerovo Region obtained by means of the integrated monitoring implemented in the region since 2008, as well as on the results of an independent assessment of education quality, the authors analyze the development of informatization processes in the context of ensuring the information openness of the region’s education and its results (on the example of general education institutions) in order to identify possible prospects and improve the activities in question. The eff orts of state, education authorities and regional organizations on informatization have resulted in achieving high values of the indicators of normative, material, HR, programme, and organizational support of information openness. However, the availability of information and services intended for the interaction of all the participants in the educational process presents a problem for a large number of organizations and indicates the failure to fulfi ll the functional tasks of ensuring openness and accessibility of information about an organization. The authors suppose that this makes it possible to determine the further prospects for implementing the regional educational policy in the fi eld of informatization, with an emphasis on eff ective practices of interaction between interested parties and satisfaction of their information needs.

scholarly journals PRINSIP-PRINSIP MANAJEMEN PENDIDIKAN DALAM HADIS

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hairul Hudaya
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Literacy Program ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Educational Management ◽  
Know How ◽  
Best Friends ◽  
In The Beginning

The Prophet Muhammad Saw has a great influence among his best friends. The influence was also felt in the field of management education. In management, there are four principles: planning, organizing, actuating and controlling. These four elements are then adopted in managing educational institutions which so called educational management. These four principles are also found in the prophetic spirit. In the beginning of the reign of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina, he launched a literacy program for the companions which was followed by the instructions to the particular person to learn certain science. The Prophet also established teaching and learning for all his followers. During the study, he often asked questions to know how far the companions mastery of the material being taught. What the Prophet did can be categorized as a principle of prophetic management based education.

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