scholarly journals Confronting the ‘Crisis of Significance’ in 21st Century School Libraries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Doiron ◽  
Marlene Asselin
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
School Experiences ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
21St Century Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
21St Century Learners

The demands of life in the 21st century have evolved dramatically, giving rise to the need for a complex set of interrelated and interdependent skills in order to cope with this complexity and to achieve success in life. Unfortunately, there is a widening gap between the world experienced and created by youth outside of school and their in-school experiences leading to what Michael Wesch has called a “crisis of significance” (2009) facing teachers and schools today. Many would suggest school libraries today are also struggling to find their place and regain their significance in the learning lives of students. How should schools and school libraries respond to this „crisis‟ and change the learning landscape to better match 21st century realities? This paper explores these issues and clarifies the characteristics of 21st century learners and learning, and provides ideas for re-visioning schoollibraries to meet the expectations for 21st century learning.

scholarly journals Contemporary online Indonesian folk literature for 21st century learners

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Dwi Indra Aprilliandari
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Instructional Media ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
The World ◽  
Folk Literature ◽  
Traditional Mode ◽  
21St Century Learners

This research intends to acknowledge the advantages of contemporary online Indonesian folk literature for 21st century learners. The 21st century is a technology era where information can be spread faster and an internet connection is the most important thing to share all the information around the world. It is qualitative research which are aimed at revealing the use of Indonesian folk literature for Indonesian learners which learn English as a foreign language. There is still a lack of research about Indonesian folk literature for 21st century learners; therefore, this research is significant to be conducted. The finding of this research can be described as follows: First, contemporary online Indonesian folk literature is as an instructional media that combine the positive sides of traditional mode such as define, extract and deliver the moral values contain in literary works with technology use to keep, improve and engage the students’ interest to learn English but reminds to keep their culture roots. Second, technology improves the learners to combine the traditional and modern ways of learning. Third, 21st century skills help the learners to be able to compete in this era.

scholarly journals Impelementasi Pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Kristen di Abad 21

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Tjandra
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
21St Century Learning ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Learning ◽  
The Times ◽  
High Level ◽  
High Level Thinking

The era of globalization is inevitable, willing or unwilling to be ready or not ready for everyone to face globalization. The era of globalization can be said as an era of openness, an era of technology that is close to people's lives and even inherent in everyday life. Globalization colors and influences all aspects of life without exception the realm of education experiences or is affected by the effects of the times, globalization and technological sophistication. Education makes it possible to use all the advances of the times to produce an educational goal that shapes the complete human to face his day. 21st century learning provides a prominent change in the world of education, where learning is no longer focused on the results achieved, but on the learning process itself. Forming the competencies of students who have high-level thinking skills, are creative, communicative, and collaborative. This discussion will provide an understanding of 21st century learning implemented in Christian Religious Education subjects. Christian religious learning is expected to follow the development of 21st century learning so that in conveying learning content can prepare students to welcome the 21st century. Thus the curriculum in Indonesia is developed, and the 2013 curriculum is used now as part of responding to the challenges of the 21st century. Abstrak Era globalisasi tidak dapat dihindari, mau atau tidak mau siap atau tidak siap setiap orang menghadapi globalisasi. Era globalisasi dapat dikatakan sebagai era keterbukaan, era teknologi yang dekat dengan kehidupan masyarakat bahkan melekat dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Globalisasi mewarnai dan mempengaruhi segala aspek kehidupan tanpa terkecuali ranah pendidikan mengalami atau tekena efek dari kemajuan zaman, globalisasi dan kecanggihan teknologi. Pendidikan memungkinkan meng-gunakan segala kemajuan zaman untuk menghasilkan sebuah tujuan pendidikan yang membentuk manusia secara lengkap untuk menghadapi zamannya. Pembelajaran abad 21 memberikan sebuah perubahan yang menonjol dalam dunia pendidikan, dimana pembelajaran bukan lagi dipusatkan kepada hasil yang dicapai, namun kepada proses pembelajaran itu sendiri. Membentuk kompetensi peserta didik yang memiliki keterampilan berpikir tingkat tinggi, kreatif, komunikatif, dan kolaborasi. Pada pembahasan kali ini akan memberikan pemahaman tentang pembelajaran abad 21 yang diimplementasikan dalam mata pelajaran Pendidikan Agama Kristen. Pembelajaran Agama Kristen diharapkan mengikuti perkembangan pembelajaran abad 21 sehingga dalam menyampaikan konten pembelajaran dapat mempersiapkan peserta didik menyongsong abad 21. Dengan demikian Kurikulum di Indonesia dikembangkan, dan Kurikulum 2013 yang digunakan sekarang sebagai bagian dalam menjawab tantangan zaman abad 21.

scholarly journals Guided Inquiry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Collier Kuhlthau
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Guided Inquiry ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Dynamic Learning ◽  
21St Century Learners ◽  
World School

Global interconnectedness enabled by information technology calls for new skills, knowledge and ways of learning to prepare students for living and working in the 21st century. Guided Inquiry equips students with abilities and competencies to address the challenges of an uncertain, changing world. School librarians are vital partners in creating schools that enable students to learn through vast resources and multiple communication channels. School libraries are dynamic learning centres in information age schools with school librarians as primary agents for designing schools for 21st century learners.

Psychology from Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic Perspectives

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad A-L.H. Abou-Hatab
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

This paper presents the case of psychology from a perspective not widely recognized by the West, namely, the Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic perspective. It discusses the introduction and development of psychology in this part of the world. Whenever such efforts are evaluated, six problems become apparent: (1) the one-way interaction with Western psychology; (2) the intellectual dependency; (3) the remote relationship with national heritage; (4) its irrelevance to cultural and social realities; (5) the inhibition of creativity; and (6) the loss of professional identity. Nevertheless, some major achievements are emphasized, and a four-facet look into the 21st century is proposed.

Dancing Across the World Wide Web: Advocacy in the 21st Century

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair Williams Cronin ◽  
Ty Tedmon-Jones ◽  
Lora Wilson Mau
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
21St Century ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The World

Globalization and interconfessional communications

2001 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Serhii Viktorovych Svystunov
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The World ◽  
Target Set ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Rapid Appearance

In the 21st century, the world became a sign of globalization: global conflicts, global disasters, global economy, global Internet, etc. The Polish researcher Casimir Zhigulsky defines globalization as a kind of process, that is, the target set of characteristic changes that develop over time and occur in the modern world. These changes in general are reduced to mutual rapprochement, reduction of distances, the rapid appearance of a large number of different connections, contacts, exchanges, and to increase the dependence of society in almost all spheres of his life from what is happening in other, often very remote regions of the world.

Desecularization as Phenomenon at the Turn of 21st Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Sergey V.  Lebedev ◽  
Galina N.  Lebedeva
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Islamic Revolution ◽  
Islamic Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Rational Alternative ◽  
Role Of Religion

In the article the authors note that since the 1970s, with the rise of the Islamic movement and the Islamic revolution in Iran, philosophers and political scientists started to talk about religious renaissance in many regions of the world. In addition, the point at issue is the growing role of religion in society, including European countries that have long ago gone through the process of secularization. The reasons for this phenomenon, regardless of its name, are diverse, but understandable: secular ideologies of the last century failed to explain the existing social problems and give them a rational alternative.

A Compact Embodiment of Pluralities and Denial of Origins: Atwood’s The Year of The Flood

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Rana Sağıroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Why Questions ◽  
Near Future

Margaret Atwood, one of the most spectacular authors of postmodern movement, achieved to unite debatable and in demand critical points of 21st century such as science fiction, postmodernism and ecocriticism in the novel The Year of The Flood written in 2009. The novel could be regarded as an ecocritical manifesto and a dystopic mirror against today’s degenerated world, tending to a superficial base to keep the already order in use, by moving away from the fundamental solution of all humanity: nature. Although Atwood does not want her works to be called science fiction, it is obvious that science fiction plays an introductory role and gives the novel a ground explaining all ‘why’ questions of the novel. However, Atwood is not unjust while claiming that her works are not science fiction because of the inevitable rapid change of 21st century world becoming addicted to technology, especially Internet. It is easily observed by the reader that what she fictionalises throughout the novel is quite close to possibility, and the world may witness in the near future what she creates in the novel as science fiction. Additionally, postmodernism serves to the novel as the answerer of ‘how’ questions: How the world embraces pluralities, how heterogeneous social order is needed, and how impossible to run the world by dichotomies of patriarchal social order anymore. And lastly, ecocriticism gives the answers of ‘why’ questions of the novel: Why humanity is in chaos, why humanity has organized the world according to its own needs as if there were no living creatures apart from humanity. Therefore, The Year of The Flood meets the reader as a compact embodiment of science fiction, postmodernism and ecocriticism not only with its theme, but also with its narrative techniques.

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