Public Education and the Discourse of Possibility Rethinking the New Conservative and Left Educational Theory

1985 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 13-15
Author(s):  
Henry Giroux
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Sexual Equality ◽  
National Debate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
School Curricula

The discourse of crisis has once again come into play in the field of education, and schools are once more the subject of an intense national debate. In the recent past, discussion has centered on whether schools can be the central institution for achieving racial and sexual equality; whether higher education in the traditional liberal arts curricula are still “relevant” to a changing labor market; whether the authoritarian classroom stifles the creativity of young children; or, conversely how permissiveness has resulted in a general lowering of educational achievement. All of these issues are still with us, but they have been subsumed under a much larger question: how to make the school curricula adequate to a changing economic, political and ideological environment?

scholarly journals Utrata złudzeń edukacji publicznej. Fatalne dziedzictwo, eskapizm elit, iskry nadziei

2018 ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Kwieciński
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Systemic Crises

The article raises the question of the causes of the public education crisis, both the crisis in recent past and that conditioned by several centuries of Poland’s past. The position of Adam Podgórecki on the subject of comprehensive analyses of Polish society is particularly important. It combines two positions. He believes that Polish systemic crises can be put down to the experiences of post-totalitarianism and Polish unique defects persisting for several centuries. The author of the article negatively assesses the possibility of overcoming the crisis of public education by academic elites, which are responsible for the collapse of universities and the crisis of higher education. Common beliefs about public education have turned out to be illusions. The author sees the hopes of improving the state of public education in resistance to the destruction of democracy and to the strong ideological and political pressure. Openness to Europe and the world, which Poles do not give away, inspires hope, too.

scholarly journals The lost chance of public education. Fatal heritage, escapism of the elites, sparks of hope

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Kwieciński
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Systemic Crises

SummaryThe article raises the question of the causes of the public education crisis, both the crisis in recent past and that conditioned by several centuries of Poland’s past. The position of Adam Podgórecki on the subject of comprehensive analyzes of Polish society is particularly important. It combines two positions. He believes that the causes of Polish systemic crises are the experiences of post-totalitarianism and specific Polish defects persisted for several centuries. The author of the article negatively assesses the possibility of overcoming the crisis of public education by academic elites, which are responsible for the collapse of universities and the crisis of higher education. Common beliefs about public education have turned out to be illusions. The author sees the hopes of improving the state of public education in resistance to the destruction of democracy and to the strong ideological and political pressure. Openness to Europe and the world, which Poles do not give away, also gives hope.

scholarly journals Overeducation and Mismatches at the Labour Market - Albania Case

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Migen Elmazaj
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
National Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Constant Increase ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Market Needs

There is a constant increase in the graduates supply in the labour market in Albania. It seems that the expansion is going on a basis that risks distorting the distribution of students not in line with labor market needs. These expansions have been predicated on the assumption that more education is good for individuals and for society as a whole, not only in terms of economic outcomes like wages or employment, but also for a wide range of social outcomes like improved health and higher well-being. However, along with expansion of the system has come a range of new questions that have emerged as consequence of being many more tertiary graduates. For example, has the increase in tertiary graduates resulted in an oversupply of workers with tertiary qualifications, and thus a decline in the ‘value of a degree?’ If overeducation is a temporary disequilibrium or a permanent feature of economy; if the subject of degree affects the likelihood of being overeducated etc. are raised. This paper represents a research, aiming a total covering of the labour market measuring the overeducation rate for the graduates in Albania and drawing some take aways. The main contribution of the paper consists in providing estimations of graduate overeducation rate in national level. Some guidelines for possible recommendations for policies makers, relevant government agencies, higher education institutions, parents and other stakeholders involved in higher education sector in Albania, are also provided.

scholarly journals Development of Creatively Active Students on the Way to Staff Formation of all Spheres of the Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (516) ◽  
pp. 145-150
Author(s):  
O. V. Didukh ◽  
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O. M. Chubka ◽  
A. M. Chushak-Holoborodko ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Education Development ◽  
National Education ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Creative Abilities

The article is aimed at researching, studying and substantiating the advantages and problems regarding the creativity of students in the process of obtaining professional education. In accordance with the aim of the research, the following tasks are set: to define the concept of «creativity», the prerequisites for the emergence of creative abilities; to characterize the conditions for stimulating the creative abilities of students; to identify obstacles and reasons for the lack of a creative component in the process of higher education; to build up an algorithm for the development of creative abilities in students; to outline the conditions for creating a favorable environment wherein the student’s creative inclinations will be manifested. The object of research is the processes of reforming higher education in the direction of compliance with modern European trends in education development; formation of an environment favorable for the development of creativity of student in the process of obtaining higher education through the algorithm of purposeful pedagogical activity. The subject of the study are theoretical and applied provisions on the formation of an environment favorable for the development of the student’s creativity in the process of obtaining higher education. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the formation of a single aggregate concept of creativity of students and in the formation of ways to overcome problems in the process of developing the creativity of students in obtaining professional education. The practical implementation of the research results will allow reforming higher education in the direction of forming a creatively active environment for teachers and students; will allow to bring the system of national education closer to the formation of such specialists in the labor market, which will be in high demand among domestic and foreign employers.

scholarly journals WHEN UNIVERSITY BECOMES THE ENEMY: HATE SPEECH ATTACKS ON FACEBOOK

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
VIVIANE DE MELO RESENDE ◽  
YARA MARTINELLI ◽  
ERNANI VIANA SARAIVA
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Visual Composition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
Traditional Communities

The extreme right hate speech propagated currently in Brazil addresses a broad social spectrum, from feminist movements to traditional communities. The academic community and higher education institutions are also targets, as they are identified as poles of democratic resistance. Specific hate speech towards academy in Brazil is the subject of this paper. The persecution of academic community and knowledge itself occurs through the discursive dispute especially on social networks, and thus in this analytical exercise, we looked up at Facebook’s largest bolsonarista’s group – the “Jair Bolsonaro Presidency Support Group”, which brings together 317,000 members. We analyzed the memetic discourse on the page, focusing memes that were published between April and June 2019, thematizing higher public education, and presenting a bimodal verb-visual composition. These criteria led to the collection of 115 memes analyzed with the support of a QDA package. Analysis reveals the disqualification of university institutions and their actors through ironies, negative associations including stereotypes, simplification of debate to the shallower. Students are often associated with nudity as immorality, professors of indoctrination and ridicule, protesters of ignorance, or bad character. Political debate is reduced to extreme left-right polarization, with the criminalization of the left.

scholarly journals An Idea of Higher Education Renewal

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-306
Author(s):  
Marija Liudvika Drazdauskiene
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The State ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Education Today ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Local Traditions

Beginning with the briefest reference to the state of higher education today, this paper overviews moral and philosophical concepts of and disposition to education in ancient Greece from the works of Plato and Aristotle, takes a summary view of the subjects taught, sums up the subject content of liberal arts and the principles of rhetoric. The author assumes that even if a dedicated return to the classical ideals may never happen in higher education today, a few concrete ideas might be helpful. With reference to concrete works of classical authors, a suggestion is made to stop never-ending reforms in universities, to recover the teaching of such subjects as style in language and literature programmes, to renew the subjects of history, philosophy and logic and to introduce memory-based learning while paying tribute to classical antiquity and regaining local traditions.

scholarly journals Public Education Policy and Youth Precariat

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 140-152
Author(s):  
Elena Maslyukova ◽  
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Artyom Maskaev ◽  
Mariya Pokusaenko ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Public Education Policy ◽  
State Educational

The study analyzes precarization in the context of state educational policy and university graduates' employment. The literature review was prepared by the PRISMA method (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses). The data of the three focus groups formed an empirical basis for identifying and analyzing institutional factors related to public education policy. The hypothesis that higher education programs do not meet the needs of the modern labor market has been confirmed, which leads to unstable employment of graduates. The reasons for unstable youth employment are related to the gap between the educational and economic policies: inflated expectations, lack of personal initiative, heterogeneity in the quality of higher education, the particularities of industries and professions, as well as the specificities of the Russian labor market. There are mechanisms to overcome negative effects and adapt to technological, institutional, and economic changes. These mechanisms include developing a state system for supporting young specialists, improving the institutions of information interaction between universities, businesses, and graduates, creating horizontal networks of graduates to promote their interests in the labor market.

Measuring Service Quality in The Context of Higher Education in Vietnam

2013 ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
Yen Nguyen Thi Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Measurement Scale ◽  
Education Service ◽  
The Subject

This paper focuses on the understanding of service quality in the context of Vietnamese universities. It proposes an approach for measuring the quality of the higher education service provided by universities in Vietnam. Firstly, an exploratory study was conducted. Then, the set of items which were generated became the subject of a questionnaire that was then administered to 675 students of a Vietnamese university to determine the dimensions of higher education service quality in this context. The obtained results permit us to appropriate a measurement scale which is slightly different from the SERVQUAL scale widely known as the standard for measuring service quality. The results also show that tangible elements, responsiveness and assurance seem to be three specific dimensions of the higher education service of Vietnamese universities.

The interaction of higher education system with the labor market: A study of the labor market in the regions of the Volga Federal District

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 456-480
Author(s):  
R.B. Galeeva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Education System ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Expert Survey ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One

Subject .This article discusses the need to bring into line with the future activities of specialists the content of their preparation, the formation of a system model of higher education, which takes into account today's and prospective requirements of the labor market. Objectives. The article aims to research the labor market in four regions of the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation: the Republic of Tatarstan, Mari El Republic, Chuvash Republic, and the Ulyanovsk oblast, as well as discuss problems and prospects of interaction of universities with enterprises and organizations of these regions. Methods. For the study, I used the methods of logical and statistical analyses, and in-depth expert survey. Results. The article analyzes the state of regional labor markets, presents the results of the expert survey of labor market representatives and heads of the regional education system, and it defines possible ways of harmonizing the interaction of universities with the labor market. Conclusions. The article notes that although the number of employed with higher education is growing, at the same time there is a shortage of highly qualified personnel in certain professions, on the one hand, and unskilled workers, on the other. Also, the article says that the universities do not prepare the necessary for the regions specialists in a number of professions or they provide a set of competencies different from the requirements of the labor market, so it is necessary to form and develop effective directions of cooperation between educational institutions and employers.

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