scholarly journals Creating a Complete Learning Community

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne McMahan ◽  
Tiffany Talbert
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Progressive Education ◽  
Learning Culture ◽  
Learning Center ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future

More than one hundred years ago, John Dewey espoused an aligned belief that classrooms should be a model of the family, a complete community where students would be nurtured and grow through the learning culture. His profound belief in democracy and progressive education focused his pedagogical philosophy around creating civically engaged citizens. This ideal is one that is critically needed in 2020—the year where racial and social justice and a global pandemic have unearthed and tested individual and systemic rights and responsibilities, requiring civically engaged citizens to move us through this unprecedented time. This article is an article of stories to encourage and anchor the reader in the mission and vision of two purpose-filled organizations (Tribes Learning Community and Peace Learning Center) that have taken Dewey’s beliefs and philosophy in a civically engaged, democratic classroom to the level of restorative action to build safe and courageous learning communities of trust and care for our students and the future of our world beyond the year 2020.

scholarly journals The “Educational Laboratory”: American Educators Visit Soviet Schools, 1925–1929

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Lindsay Rudderham
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Educational Reform ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Progressive Education ◽  
Education Movement ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Progressive Education Movement

Progressive educators who travelled to the Soviet Union in the 1920s were often enthusiastic about the schools they visited, despite the fact that early Soviet educational reform had been chaotic and largely unsuccessful. The accounts of five such visitors, John Dewey, Scott Nearing, Lucy L.W. Wilson, Carleton Washburne, and George S. Counts are examined here. They show that this discrepancy between perception and reality was not the result of naivety or even self-censorship. Rather, I argue that the progressive education movement’s utopian outlook was a key factor in these educators’ reception of Soviet schools, enabling them to recognize serious shortcomings, while maintaining they were among the most important schools in the world. In their orientation to the future, they viewed Soviet schools as a laboratory, whose findings could advance the cause of the broader progressive education movement. 

scholarly journals Modes of Identification Within a Language Learner-Led Community of Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-327
Author(s):  
Daniel Hooper ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Learning Center ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Bidirectional Relationship ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Practical Implications

Although the importance of communities for social learning within self-access centers has been recognized over the last decade, there has yet been little research exploring student-managed communities in a self-access learning center (SALC). This short pilot study investigates the ways in which members identify with the community of practice (Wenger, 1998) of a student-led learning community within a university SALC. Five members of the Learning Community (LC), an English conversation community, were interviewed three times over the course of one semester about their language learning histories and their experiences in the LC. This data was analyzed inductively and subsequently categorized according to Wenger’s (2010) modes of identification – engagement, imagination, and alignment. The findings of the study indicated that members’ identification with the practice of the LC was connected to a desire for an accessible learning environment, attaining membership in an international imagined community of English users, and the ability to negotiate sociocultural norms for their own purposes. This study highlights a bidirectional relationship between the “baggage” that members bring with them and the everyday practice developed over the course of the LC’s two-year history. Additionally, the insights gained from this exploration of the LC CoP have practical implications for SALC staff aiming to cultivate and support student-led learning communities.

Aloha ‘Āina: Homelessness, Learning Communities, and Social Justice

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christy Mello
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Land Restoration ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Subsistence Strategies ◽  
Political Sovereignty ◽  
University Of Hawai'i ◽  
The University

Members, living in Hawaii's largest houseless community, are depending on traditional subsistence strategies for sustaining their village, Pu‘uhonua ‘O Wai‘anae. Leaders have established partnerships in order to build their capacity in establishing a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, obtaining funding, meeting the basic needs of community members, and establishing sovereignty for preventing police removal. I serve as one such partner. The following describes our relationship as well as the ways in which I bridge activism with teaching. I detail how I and others, at the University of Hawai‘i West O‘ahu, involve learning community students in an overall movement for social justice throughout Hawai'i that addresses homelessness, land restoration, and both food and political sovereignty.

scholarly journals CULTIVATING VOLUNTARY ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITIES IN BLENDED ENVIRONMENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Heckman ◽  
Hala Annabi
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Future Study ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Online Learning Community ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Online Learning Communities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Future

In this paper we argue for the possibility of using asynchronous technology to create a continuous, voluntary learning community in face-to-face courses. We discuss the theoretical concepts and values that are the foundation of such a community, describe some of the activities that take place there, and present principles of cultivation that we believe will help instructors nurture such communities in their own classes. The examples we present suggest that the emergence of a voluntary online learning community is possible in any course. Nevertheless, more research is necessary to better understand the nature of such learning communities, and we present a research agenda for the future study of this phenomenon.

scholarly journals Challenges and possibilities for creating genuinely intercultural higher education learning communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-51
Author(s):  
Katri Jokikokko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Intercultural Learning ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
Higher Education Policies

This article synthesises and analyses the existing research and literature that has discussed the challenges and possibilities of providing intercultural learning environments for diverse students in the context of higher education.  A genuinely intercultural learning community provides equitable learning possibilities for all, is characterised by social justice, and allows all participants to feel a strong sense of belonging. Based on this review, the main challenges in creating equitable learning communities in higher education relate to institutional barriers, such as institutional racism and discrimination, monolingual higher education policies, and neoliberal educational agendas that contradict the principles of social justice. Interpersonal challenges (such as lack of intercultural competence) also exist, as do challenges related to acknowledging intercultural perspectives in curricula and pedagogy. The conditions that the existing literature suggests will create genuinely intercultural learning communities include rethinking the strategies, policies, and curricula of higher education institutions; supporting students’ and staff’s intercultural competences; and developing pedagogical approaches for acknowledging social justice and diverse learners. Based on the literature reviewed for this article, it is obvious that there are no easy tricks that can ‘fix’ the situation and create genuinely intercultural learning communities, but intercultural approaches and aspects ...... 

Justice et utopie chez Thomas More

Moreana ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (Number 193- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 54-73
Author(s):  
Nicolas Tenaillon
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Divine Providence ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
The Future

As a renowned jurist first and then as a top politician, Thomas More has never given up researching about a judicial system where all the fields of justice would be harmonized around a comprehensive logic. From criminal law to divine providence, Utopia, despite its eccentricities, proposes a coherent model of Christian-inspired collective living, based on a concern for social justice, something that was terribly neglected during the early 16th century English monarchy. Not only did History prove many of More’s intuitions right, but above all, it gave legitimacy to the utopian genre in its task of imagining the future progress of human justice and of contributing to its coming.

Zakat as a Measure of Social Justice in Islamic Finance : An Accountant’s Overview

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pranam Dhar
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
Additional Amount ◽  
Important Form

Zakat is an important form of religiously mandated charity under Islam. It is the third pillar of Islam. The giving of Zakat is important for Muslims, as this leads to purification of their wealth from all sins. This paper examines the role of Zakat as an instrument of social justice and poverty eradication in society. Each Muslim calculates his or her own Zakat individually. Generally, this involves the payment each year of two and a half percent of one's capital, after the needs of the family have been met. One can donate additional amount as an act of voluntary charity but Zakat is fundamental to every Muslim. Zakat is the Islamic contribution to social justice: those who have to give charity share the benefit of their prosperity to those who have fallen short. This is the Islamic approach to remove greed and envy and to purify one's soul based on good intentions. This is the institution of Zakat in Islam. The institution of Zakat serves to eradicate poverty in the community and uphold the light of Islam. Allah says “whatever is paid as Zakat for the sake of Allah shall be rewarded in manifolds”.

The Disruption Of Family In Manju Kapur’s Custody

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 880-885
Author(s):  
K.P. Bhavatharini ◽  
Ms Dr. Anita Albert
Keyword(s):  
Marital Relationship ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
Law System ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
Take Back ◽  
The Family ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Aspects

Manju Kapur exposes the disparity and how modernity plays a major role in our society and also the hollowness modern life through her novel Custody. The present paper deals with the key aspects of custody, like extra marital affair, exploration of children and the law system of India. Manju Kapur has published five novels and all her novels dealt with postmodern era, which became sensational in the literary world. She talks about the life of people in Metropolitan cities and how it changes the attitude of theirs and makes them to be victims of modernity through her novel Custody. She manages to disclose the atmosphere which revolves around the family and how it destroys their peace. Here the author portrays how her female protagonist goes to an extent to fulfill her need even breaking her marital relationship with her husband and lack of concern with her children. She portrays the unimaginable incident of broken marriage and illustrates how it causes their children to yearning for their custody from their parents. The children are mentally affected because of the conflict between their egoistic parents to take back their custody only to win the battle not having the real concern over the future of their children. The author manages to create an excellent atmosphere that reveals the various disasters roaming around the family. The future of the children is also hazard. This novel proves that Manju Kapur is a great curator of the modern Indian family.

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