Graffiti as a site for cultural literacies in Zimbabwean urban high schools

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Mangeya
Keyword(s):  
Informal Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Student Perspective ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
A Site ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
Socially Situated ◽  
Formal School

It is widely believed that education is a socially situated cultural process. Generally, schools are regarded as the key educational institutions. However, education can be formal, non-formal and informal, based on media-driven communicative settings. These types coalesce within formal institutions of learning. This study focuses on the transmission of cultural knowledge in informal spaces such as the bathroom. It argues that graffiti is a medium that offers students a unique communicative dynamic enabling an open engagement with issues they would otherwise not do elsewhere. It facilitates the transmission of vital cultural knowledge/literacy whose length and breadth cannot be adequately exhausted by the formal school curriculum alone. Bathroom interactions, therefore, bring a different dynamic to cultural education in learning institutions. Sexuality, hygiene and decency, among others, are negotiated from a strictly student perspective. A trip to the bathroom therefore marks a crucial transition from formal to informal education, and back.

scholarly journals Current Practices and Future Pathways towards Competencies in Education for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 8733
Author(s):  
Gisela Cebrián ◽  
Mercè Junyent ◽  
Ingrid Mulà
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Group Model ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Competencies Development

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development reflects the urgency to embed the principles of education for sustainable development (ESD) into all levels of education. ESD, understood as an integral part of quality education and where all educational institutions, from preschool to higher education and in non-formal and informal education, can and should foster the development of sustainability competencies. This Special Issue entitled “Competencies in Education for Sustainable Development II” responds to this urgency and the papers presented deliver recent developments in the field of sustainability and ESD competencies. They focus on various perspectives: systematic literature reviews and conceptual contributions; curriculum developments and pedagogical approaches to explore competencies’ development, such as action research, serious games, augmented reality, multi-course project-based learning and group model building processes; testing and validation of assessment tools and processes for linking sustainability competencies to employability and quality assurance processes. The contributions show how the field of sustainability and ESD competencies has become a major focus in recent years and present emerging research developments. Further research efforts need to be put into operationalizing sustainability competencies and developing tools that help measure and assess students’ and educators’ competencies development.

“Hay que Cantar con Ternura”: Baladas Románticas as a Site for Translingual Youth Convivencia

2021 ◽  
pp. 238133772110246
Author(s):  
Cati V. de los Ríos ◽  
Yared Portillo
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Mexican Origin ◽  
Bilingual Students ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Schooling Experiences ◽  
K 12 ◽  
A Site

For many Mexican-origin bi/multilingual children, Mexican music education begins early in their home. Music is inextricably linked with the sociocultural context in which it is produced, consumed, and taught and the interrelationship between music, society, and culture. Using ethnographic methods, this article examines a small group of bilingual and emergent bilingual Mexican-origin students who regularly congregated in their English teacher’s classroom at lunchtime to recite and perform romance ballads, or what we refer to as baladas románticas, on a weekly basis. We use participant observation, plática-inspired interviews, focus groups, and video recordings to present ethnographic knowledge about how, for these young people, music was a way of being and a deliberate act to build community. Our findings describe the ways the bilingual students found themselves at the margins of their K–12 schooling experiences and, in turn, agentically fostered their own space for translingual expression and solace. This manifested in two primary ways: (a) how they collectively fostered their own form of convivencia (humanizing coexistence) anchored in their ancestral and cultural knowledge through their music-making and (b) how their music-making allowed them to release translingual and transmodal play and creativity that might have otherwise been suppressed at school. We end with a call for literacy researchers and educators to continue to recognize and honor students’ lived translingual experiences, identities, and musical gifts as resources for learning.

scholarly journals Reading Comprehension Strategies among EFL Learners in Higher Learning Institutions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arab World English Journal ◽  
Hamza Al-Jarrah ◽  
Nur Salina binti Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Reading Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Learning Institutions

A variety of reading strategies are required to comprehend reading materials. Without effective reading strategies, students mostly face reading comprehension difficulties. This study aims to investigate reading comprehension strategies among English foreign language (EFL) learners in higher learning institutions. The study employed qualitative method and 10 Arab students of Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) and Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) were interviewed. Inductive thematic approach was used to analyze data. The findings indicates that the most commonly used reading strategies among the EFL learners are logical knowledge (under linguistic schema), formal construction (under formal schema), cultural knowledge (under cultural schema), and prior knowledge and conceptual knowledge (under content schema). This study concludes that reading strategies help the EFL learners in understanding English reading materials. To improve reading strategies for EFL learners, there is a need for collective effort of English language teachers, curriculum designers, educationists, education policy makers, and the EFL learners themselves.

scholarly journals Innovation projects in the area of formal, non-formal and informal education for sustainable development

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-75
Author(s):  
Liudmila Sokolova ◽  
Dmitrii Sergeevich Ermakov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Positive Individual ◽  
Innovation Projects ◽  
Societal Changes

Education for sustainable development (ESD) has been one of the priority vectors in the activity of international organizations since 1990s. The UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for sustainable development has been awarded since 2015. This article is dedicated to the analysis of innovation projects in the area of formal, non-formal and informal education for sustainable development that have received this award over the period from 2015-= to 2019. The subject of this research is the content of projects and programs of the winner countries in the corresponding areas of ESD. The systemic approach demonstrates that the initiatives that equally affect social, economic and environmental aspects of ESD and lead to positive individual and societal changes become the winners. It is determined that the share of projects and programs in the area of formal and informal education is insignificant  (7 and 13%, respectively). Despite a considerable number for informal ESD (33%), most of the initiatives (47%) are of complex nature. The advanced experience of the award-winning countries complement the existing representations on the opportunities of studying the questions of sustainable development in the area of non-formal and informal education, as well as indicates the benefits of continuous ESD throughout life. For the implementation of ESD, the authors employ general institutional approach that reveals the strategy of activity of the educational institutions oriented towards sustainable development, which results in subsequent “ESD-transformation” of the traditional model of education.

Are Teachers Prepared to Educate in Citizenship?

2021 ◽  
pp. 437-459
Author(s):  
Francisco F. García-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
School Culture ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Fundamental Dimension

Education for active citizenship is a fundamental dimension of education, especially in the context of today's world. This is proclaimed by educational institutions and authorities, and has been incorporated into official curricula. But the reality of school is frequently incoherent with those statements. Indeed, the predominant school culture is a factor that conditions the activity of teachers as educators for citizenship. Research carried out in Andalusia (Spain) shows the difficulties teachers have in incorporating any education for citizenship into their subjects. Likewise, projects and initiatives coming from non-formal education are insufficiently exploited. These investigations also indicate that educational proposals organized around social and environmental problems facilitate the integration of education for citizenship into the school curriculum and the training of teachers as educators of citizens by getting them involved in these innovative experiences.

Getting Back to a “New Normal”

2022 ◽  
pp. 113-139
Author(s):  
Rosemary C. Reilly ◽  
Linda Kay
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
School Shootings ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Senior Administrators ◽  
New Normal ◽  
A Site

Violence in educational institutions compounds and accumulates in our collective memory, as school shootings have become a ubiquitous phenomenon. When a young man carrying three guns entered Dawson College in Montréal, the downtown core came to a standstill. As bullets sprayed and ricocheted, one young woman was killed, 19 others wounded, and a community of 10,000 students, teachers, and staff were traumatized. This research employed a qualitative methodology, interviewing 10 senior administrators and managers in-depth. Findings document the salient role grief leadership played in restoring balance and an educational focus in the wake of a shooting on campus and served to reshape the community into one of learning, resilience, and courage. It details specific actions taken by administrators, which promoted healing and re-established equilibrium at a site of grief, loss, and terror. Administrative responses proved essential in helping to re-establish thriving at Dawson College.

Key factors for developing a cross-cultural education program

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keeyung Yang ◽  
Sock H. Chung
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Cross Cultural Education

Purpose – As universities and colleges face an increasingly global environment, internationalization is viewed as a critical aspect of education, a fact that has significant academic and economic implications for higher educational institutions worldwide which need to be current with cultural education to adapt to change. Learning from other cultures is essential and valuable for students to connect with other cultures even as they enrich their own lives. Practical processes for developing successful cross-cultural education programs merit serious attention from higher educational institutions. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The case study explored in this paper demonstrates a practical application of internationalization of music education by examining the experience and outcomes from a cross-cultural program jointly developed by a US and a Korean university. The success of the case study under review hinged on three critical factors for developing a cross-cultural program between international academic partners: organizational commitment, teamwork, and pedagogical content. Findings – The findings support the assertion that the three key factors introduced in the framework can be applied to develop a cross-cultural program between international academic partners. Originality/value – This study proposes a practical framework for developing cross-cultural education programs among higher educational institutions.

Ethno-cultural Competence of Teachers in Environments with Multi-ethnic Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.S. Pavlova ◽  
L.Zh. Nazranova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnic Students

We analyzed the content and direction of professional work of teachers in ethnic and cultural education of children, and the need for ethno-cultural knowledge and skills of teachers in a modern, multicultural educational environment of Moscow and Nalchik. We studied ethno-cultural competence of teachers engaged in teaching activities in educational institutions in Moscow and Nalchik. The hypothesis of our work is that in the ethno-cultural competence of teachers in Moscow and Nalchik, there are qualitative and quantitative differences due to the specifics of the social context, in particular the characteristics of the multicultural environment of educational institutions and the living environment, availability of skills, knowledge and abilities in intercultural educators themselves. Our study involved 174 employees of educational institutions. Of these, 125 were teachers in Moscow and the Moscow region and 49 were teachers in Nalchik. We revealed a lack of knowledge and skills necessary for professional activity and communication with other cultures children and their parents in Moscow teachers.

scholarly journals Intensifikasi Program Pembinaan Sebagai Upaya Peningkatan Mutu Guru di Lembaga Kursus Al-Qur’an Masjid Al-Falah Surabaya

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-246
Author(s):  
Ahmad Junaidi
Keyword(s):  
High Intensity ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Students Success ◽  
Determining Factor

In the process of formal, non-formal and informal education, a teacher is a determining factor for his students success. Therefore, sufficient competence, skills in a variety of representative fields as well as quality-scientific specialization are essential capital that must be continuously improved in order to realize quality- education services for all students. So, all Educational Institutions including the Al-quran Course of Al-falah Mosque Institute are responsible for facilitating teachers developing to achieve their best quality by conducting intensive coaching as mandated by Government Regulation No. 19 of 2005. This research was conducted by using a descriptive qualitative approach, that the aim is knowing generally the quality of teachers, the variety and the realization of intensive coaching programmed twice every month with the conclusion that teachers coaching at the Alquran -Course Institute of Al-falah Mosque (LKF) is carried out continuously with high intensity and significant results.

scholarly journals Financial Problems Met by Schools in the Onslaught of COVID 19: Implications to Fiscal Management of Learning Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaituna Khamidullina ◽  
Joel Alanya-Beltran ◽  
Kannapat Kankaew ◽  
Harsandaldeep Kaur ◽  
Alfe M. Solina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Fiscal Management ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
School Finances ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
Financial Issues

The covid-19 infection has reduced educational institutions' economic aspects and made it possible for the researchers to assess the financial issues associated with funding and efficiency of operations among schools in South East Asian universities. In the realm of education, economic concerns are not the central role of the holder, but actors who properly define educational achievement to conduct all training establishments and activities. The essential components are lifelong training and dedication, competency, managerial skills, and instructors in all educational facilities. The study employed descriptive qualitative and literature review to secondary sources. The primary findings were that, because of the COVID 19 issue, school finances are often challenging to manage on a macro and micro level. Consequently, schools are forced to seek the most efficient allocation of money in the COVID 19 era. This study presents implications for the Fiscal Management of Learning Institutions.

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