Text Mining Assessment of Sustainability Learning Topics at Higher Education in Japan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Y.F. Urushima ◽  
Naoko Tokuchi ◽  
Shoichiro Hara
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Sustainability Learning

scholarly journals Reflecting on Partnerships of Sustainability Learning: Enacting a Lewin–Deleuze–Guattari Rhizome

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9776
Author(s):  
Tanja Tillmanns ◽  
Alfredo Salomão Filho
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Student Teacher ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
Change Agency ◽  
Sustainability Learning ◽  
To Come ◽  
Partnership Approach

This paper works towards the enactment of a Lewin–Deleuze–Guattari rhizome. We assemble Deleuze and Guattari’s principles of the rhizome, Lewin’s idea of re-education, and reflections on the performance of one of the authors in the lecture hall, bringing into being what could be a rhizomatic partnership approach to sustainability learning in a higher education setting. The reflections are based on experiences delivering a sustainability module within a business education context, mainly for international students in Germany. The purpose of this paper is to illuminate possibilities of student–teacher partnership assemblages, aiming to motivate sustainability change agency on “people-yet-to-come”: those who are open to enacting difference, or multifaceted, heterogeneous, and often partial transformations addressing the current plethora of contemporary crises.

What the willow teaches: Sustainability learning as craft

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Scott Cato
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainability Education ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Shared Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Sustainability Learning ◽  
Basket Weaving ◽  
Sustainability In Higher Education ◽  
University Level

Whilst the importance of mainstreaming sustainability in higher education curricula is now widely acknowledged, the challenge for educators at university level is to develop and maintain authority and confidence in an area dominated by limited knowledge and uncertainty. This article suggests that the most empowering and authentic response is to adopt an approach of shared learning, but with the pedagogue demonstrating expertise and inspiration. I suggest that this is an approach to learning and teaching more familiar in areas of craft learning, characterised by apprenticeship and learning-by-doing. The article relies heavily on the work of Richard Sennett in providing a sociological account of craft learning, which is then applied to the field of sustainability. I explore how his three modes of instruction – 'sympathetic illustration', 'narrative' and 'metaphor' – are being used in the field of sustainability education, and draw parallels from the craft of basket weaving in particular, to show how these approaches might be developed. I conclude by suggesting that sustainability education is best undertaken within a community and in place, rather than abstractly and in the classroom.

scholarly journals EXPLORING AND UNDERSTANDING THE SPREAD OF MOOCS IN AN EMERING ECONOMY : A TEXT MINING ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 58-65
Author(s):  
El Moussaouiti Imane ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
New Method ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Massive Open Online Course ◽  
The World

The Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC is a new method of distance learning especially in the universities, a number of them use this method to contain the different obstacle of leaning in higher education in order to improve the teaching quality among a large number of students. This paper will explore this new method of a distance learning in the word and its impact on an emergent economy as Morocco. The purpuse of this paper is to give a clear picture of the MOOC in the world and in moroccan universities as an emergent economy, by analysing a text mining of the use of MOOC and their classification.

Empowerment for sustainability in higher education through the EYE learning tool

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina C. Tassone ◽  
Giel Dik ◽  
Thekla Anna van Lingen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Actual Process ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Instrumental Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Sustainability Learning ◽  
Key Aspects

Purpose While empowerment for sustainability is considered a major objective within sustainability-oriented educational programs and policies, little is known about the actual process of empowering students for sustainability through higher education. This study aims to explore this field, by introducing the EYE (Educating Yourself in Empowerment) for Sustainability learning tool and by analyzing the effects of its application within a higher education context, including a reflection about key aspects contributing to students’ empowerment for sustainability. Design/methodology/approach The effects of the EYE tool are analyzed by means of questionnaires. Through a qualitative codification process and quantitative analysis, the authors have reflected on the effects of the EYE tool and on the empowerment process as perceived by the students exposed to the EYE at Wageningen University. Findings Results suggest that the EYE is a comprehensive and adaptive tool, conducive to empowerment for sustainability. Adopting, only partly, an instrumental approach to education and, largely, an emancipatory one appears to be a possible and successful combination. A key aspect contributing to students’ empowerment for sustainability is the development and execution of a real-life project of own choice. Learning about the diverse worldviews underlying the search for sustainability appears to be an eye opener for the students. Empowerment does not seem to require long-term training. Rather, it emerges and is experienced by university students within a few weeks. Originality/value This paper introduces a novel tool and discusses insights deriving from the application of this tool. The value of the paper lies in its potential to support educators in reflecting upon and designing their educational strategy for empowering students for sustainability.

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