Large Questions, Small Questions, and Leaky Ones Too

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Scott Kretchmar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Value Structures ◽  
Level I ◽  
Brighter Future

An examination of the kinds of questions we ask ourselves provides a window through which to interpret our history and imagine our future. I suggest that there are three kinds of questions—large ones, small ones, and leaky ones. Those that are identified as large and small map onto the value structures we have created for ourselves in higher education. I call these structures caste systems in which some subdisciplines are valued over others, and theoreticians stand above both practitioners and skill teachers. Leaky questions are those that cross boundaries because they cannot be effectively answered by those residing in any one area or at any one level. I argue that leaky questions generate humility, mutual respect, and incentives for collaboration. I trace my own attempts to address all three kinds of questions as a sport philosopher and conclude that our brighter future in kinesiology, including our attempts to address the harms created by the caste system, requires us to see that most of the questions we find interesting are, in fact, leaky in nature.

scholarly journals Potensi Radikalisme di Perguruan Tinggi (Studi Kasus di Politeknik Negeri Balikpapan)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Basri Basri ◽  
Nawang Retno Dwiningrum
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Technology Research ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Campus Organizations ◽  
College Leaders ◽  
University Leaders

Today the noble values of the Pancasila begin to fade because of the growth of fanatical attitudes towards certain groups, the emergence of various kinds of organizations with particular groups even in the name of Islam. Islam which teaches the values of glory such as; love of peace, love, mutual respect between one another religion, but religion is sometimes interpreted according to his will by certain groups as a foundation in launching his mission by approaching religious teachings by means of violence and coercion. Radicalism which was only directed at a less educated group of people, has now fallen to educated groups or students in universities. Some university leaders have indicated the involvement of students in radical understanding on campus. Because of concerns about the emergence of radical understanding in higher education institutions a few months ago the Minister of Technology Research and Higher Education Prof. Dr. Mohammad Nasir gathered college leaders to declare against radicalism the campus. The purpose of this study is to further examine the potential of radicalism among Balikpapan State Polytechnic students, the object of this study is students especially students of internal organizational activists on campus or students of campus external organizational activists data collection techniques using questionnaires and interviews then the data is processed. The results of this study indicate the existence of radicalism among students. From data obtained, radicalism among students is not formed from internal campus but formed through the activities of external organizations that are outside the campus.  The existence of student affiliations with external campus organizations forms students into radicals which then enter the campus.

scholarly journals The New Jim Crow in Higher Education: A Critical Race Analysis of Postsecondary Policy Related to Drug Felonies

JCSCORE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-59
Author(s):  
Kenyon Whitman ◽  
Stephen Exarhos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Racial Profiling ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Equity In Education ◽  
Drug Offenders ◽  
Higher Education Act ◽  
Education Act

In this paper, critical race theory and critical race praxis for educational research are used to frame an analysis of the 1998 Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA98) that limits access to financial aid for students who have been convicted of a drug felony. The authors explain how the HEA98 disenfranchises Black and Latinx college student populations. This policy is a form of institutional racism against the disproportionately large number of Black and Latinx individuals that have been convicted of drug-related crimes, which creates a caste system of college access and support. This policy analysis highlights data on incarcerated populations that link the policing of drug offenses to racial profiling and discrimination (e.g., “the War on Drugs” and the 1994 Crime Bill), questions the motivations for reducing access to education in drug offenders, reviews causes and inhibitors of recidivism in drug offenders to make the case for the promotion of education in recently-released offenders, and highlights empirical data that supports expanding access to these people. The authors conclude the paper with recommendations to progress toward racial educational equity. This paper is directed toward higher education scholars, practitioners, and policy makers who possess a strategic critical orientation towards racial equity in education.

Davids, Nuraan, and Yusef Waghid. Teaching, Friendship and Humanity. Springer Briefs in Citizenship Education for the 21st Century. Springer, 2020.

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Thiago Gehre Galvão
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Educational Aspirations ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
The World ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Communal Living ◽  
The Relationship

The newest book of Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid Teaching, Friendship and Humanity has been a landmark of philosophy and theory in the higher education debate, focusing on the relationship among love, education, and democracy practices. Inspired by their “love for education” (p. vii), the authors address teachers’ and students’ roles and responsibilities in making education a path to social change. The authors depart from a democratic educational citizenship framework that values “civic engagement, communal living, mutual respect, and equalisation of voice” (p. ix) in their analysis. They present an innovative pedagogic approach that makes sense of emotional experiences of nurturing loving educational encounters through openness to empathy, wondering and the ability for inner change. For the authors: “when teachers and students love the world on the basis of their educational aspirations, they commit themselves to embark on encounters that can bring about significant and valuable changes in the world” (p. ix).

scholarly journals Giftedness as Property: Troubling Whiteness, Wealth, and Gifted Education in the US

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Cumings Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Gifted Education ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Status ◽  
Level I ◽  
Social Caste ◽  
Whiteness As Property

The purposes of this article are to illumine the racist genealogy of gifted education policies and practices in the United States, to demonstrate how deficit discourses continue today, and to provide personal examples from the field of how educators can begin to question the status quo, resist taken-for-granted assumptions, and alternatively make substantive changes at the local level. I also aim to demonstrate how giftedness is an example of whiteness as property, or unearned white privilege, that, unintentionally or not, maintains a social caste system in schools.

scholarly journals Existing Framework of Inter-Religious Dialogue in Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-123
Author(s):  
Suraya Mohamed Yasin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Religious Dialogue

This paper attempts to examine the existing framework of inter-religious dialogue in Malaysia and its development from the very beginning. The goal of this study is to explore the framework of inter-religious dialogue in Malaysia, which promotes mutual respect and better understanding among the adherents of different religions in Malaysia. This research is very important. It presents the evolution of inter-religious dialogue in Malaysia’s multi-religious society. This study focuses on:(1) Factors behind the development of inter-religious dialogue in Malaysia; and(2) The role of selected governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as higher education institution in promoting peace and harmony through inter-religious dialoguein Malaysia. Descriptive and analytical methods are utilized in this paper. The findings will add new insights to the exiting literature on inter-religious dialogue.

scholarly journals Understanding networks of actors involved in refugee access to higher education in Canada, England and France

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-51
Author(s):  
Melody Viczko ◽  
Marie-Agnès Détourbe ◽  
Shannon McKechnie
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
National Context ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Brighter Future

In times of intense migrations, securing a brighter future through education has become a growing concern in many societies. In particular, access to higher education for refugees has been the object of multiple initiatives among governments, civil society and non-government organisations. However, only 3 per cent of refugees access higher education, and there is a need to better understand, support and develop successful access for refugees among policymakers, educators and researchers. This research takes an original comparative digital approach to identifying those networks in three countries: Canada, England and France. Our findings suggest that the nature of issues for refugee access to higher education is constructed differently in each national context, as the social relations between government, civil society, non-government agencies and higher education institutions are uniquely configured.

Ecological regional analysis applied to campus sustainability performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 974-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shana Weber ◽  
Julie Newman ◽  
Adam Hill
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
North American ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Regional Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
The North ◽  
Level I ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Sustainability performance in higher education is often evaluated at a generalized large scale. It remains unknown to what extent campus efforts address regional sustainability needs. This study begins to address this gap by evaluating trends in performance through the lens of regional environmental characteristics. Design/methodology/approach Four sustainability metrics across 300 North American institutions are analyzed between 2005 and 2014. The study applies two established regional frameworks to group and assess the institutions: Commission on Environmental Cooperation Ecoregions and WaterStat (water scarcity status). Standard t-tests were used to assess significant differences between the groupings of institutions as compared to the North American study population as a whole. Findings Results indicate that all institutions perform statistically uniformly for most variables when grouped at the broadest (Level I) ecoregional scale. One exception is the Marine West Coast Forest ecoregion where institutions outperformed the North American average for several variables. Only when institutions are grouped at a smaller scale of (Level III) ecoregions do the majority of significant performance patterns emerge. Research limitations/implications This paper demonstrates an ecoregions-based analytical approach to evaluating sustainability performance that contrasts with common evaluation methods in the implementation field. This research also identifies a gap in the literature explicitly linking ecological sub-regions with their associated environmental challenges and identifies next research steps in developing defensible regional targets for applied sustainability efforts. Practical implications The practical implications of this research include the following: substantive changes to methodologies for rating sustainability leadership and performance, a framework that incentivizes institutions to frame sustainability efforts in terms of collaborative or collective impact, a framework within which institutions can meaningfully prioritize efforts, and a potential shift toward regional impact metrics rather than those focused solely on campus-based or generalized targets. Originality/value The authors believe this to be the first effort to analyze North American higher education sustainability performance using regional frameworks.

scholarly journals Role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Higher Education of SC/ST

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 304-307
Author(s):  
S. Ramachandrappa ◽  
P. Ravi Kumar ◽  
G.C. Vinodh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Communication And Technology ◽  
Role Of Information

Globalization process has affected many aspects of human life. Education in general and higher education in particular is no exception to it. Globalization gathered momentum in higher education in the second half of 1990. Education as a service industry is a part of globalization process becoming commodity in the third world (TW) countries like India. Universities and higher education system in India and Asia have become the agents of both internationalization and globalization. Indian society which is historically characterized by high degree of social stratification and institutional in equally governed by caste system where a huge section of SC/STs population stand at the bottom of caste hierarchy and denied equal rights in education. The objective of this paper is to find out the role of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) in promoting higher education among SC/STs and also to find out whether SC/STs are able to transform themselves to fit into the current education system and are they able to place themselves in this new knowledge economy which is the result of globalization and Information communication and Technology development in India. The findings show that SC/STs still remain discriminated in education and there are major constraints for them in taking up higher education.Int. J. Soc. Sci. Manage. Vol-2, issue-4: 304-307

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