Climate Change Inaction and Post-Reality

Philosophies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Philip J. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Applied Problem ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Institutions ◽  
Fundamental Cause ◽  
The Mind

Blame for climate change inaction is rarely directed at a fundamental cause, the excessive complexity of society. It has given rise to post-truth, which has been largely reduced to unflattering stereotypes of the public, and post-trust, by which the public see their national institutions as increasingly distant and ineffectual. The two comprise post-reality, by which confidence in the truth is weakened by distance from its source, a pervasive remoteness leads to a lack of accountability and indifference, and much scholarship and institutional practice is similarly prejudiced. A gross lack of proportion goes unnoticed in discourse that is innumerate, the more readily accepted by those (including many of those in public life) with a higher education that closes the mind to technical matters and thus to the seriousness of climate change. Regarding climate change inaction as an applied problem suggests a renewed emphasis on authentic public education and on activism outside the traditional ambit of scholarship.

scholarly journals Statistical analysis of the structure and dynamics of material and human resources in public education over the past two academic years in Bacau

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia Harja
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Education ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
Material Basis

The public university education in Bacau, represented by “Vasile Alecsandri” University from Bacau has developed over the past two years not only in terms of student numbers, but as human and material resources available to them. After the number of students per teacher, public higher education from Bacau is situated on the second place after Iasi, the number of teachers representing 1% of the country. The structure by scientific degrees of teachers has improved in the last year, reaching over 36% professors and lecturers and 144 PhDs. Over 55% of the teachers are younger than 40 years. The material basis has improved both quantitatively and qualitatively by putting into use a new building, bringing an additional 27 classrooms and 11 seminar rooms and providing the conditions of modern higher education.

The Changing Mission and Nature of Partnerships in Public Universities

2013 ◽  
pp. 726-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Robin Russo ◽  
Kristin Brittain
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public University ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Mission ◽  
New Business ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The University

Reasons for public education are many; however, to crystalize and synthesize this, quite simply, public education is for the public good. The goal, or mission, of public education is to offer truth and enlightenment for students, including adult learners. Public education in the United States has undergone many changes over the course of the last 200 years, and now public education is under scrutiny and is facing a continual lack of funding from the states. It is due to these issues that public higher education is encouraging participatory corporate partnerships, or neo-partnerships, that will fund the university, but may expect a return on investment for private shareholders, or an expectation that curriculum will be contrived and controlled by the neo-partnerships. A theoretical framework of an academic mission and a business mission is explained, the impact of privatization within the K-12 model on public higher education, the comparison of traditional and neo-partnerships, the shift in public higher education towards privatization, a discussion of university boards, and the business model as the new frame for a public university. A public university will inevitably have to choose between a traditional academic mission that has served the nation for quite some time and the new business mission, which may have negative implications for students, academic freedom, tenure, and faculty-developed curriculum.

scholarly journals Reflecting on Basic Art Education in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Implications for Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Raúl Wenceslao Capistrán-Gracia
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Public Education System ◽  
The Public

The basic art education in Aguascalientes, Mexico, faces a significant number of challenges that must be overcome and problems that must be addressed. Among other challenges, the public education system must train a high number of teachers who lack professional qualifications. The system also has to promote the training of its whole teaching staff and satisfy the demand for sufficient pedagogical materials. Thus, the author proposes that higher education must actively get involved with basic education by implementing remedial programs for unqualified teachers. It also must propose continuous education programs to foster a better preparation of the teaching staff and develop research projects that generate knowledge to promote more comprehensive and better-quality art education. The contributions made to the improvement of art education will impact on more sensitive, creative and harmonious human beings. 

Public Sector Marketing in Poland

2017 ◽  
pp. 214-237
Author(s):  
Robert Seliga
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Comprehensive Model ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Marketing

Marketing is increasingly interdisciplinary area of high-scale diversity. Noticeable is the implement and adapt the tools and the concept of marketing in the different sectors of the economy such as the private sector, non-governmental sector or the public sector. Marketing is a concept in the area of management science and it plays a special role in the area of public management. For selected areas of public life such as: health services and higher education, it will be possible to use more sophisticated tools than in the case of administrative operations. The aim of the chapter is to create a comprehensive model of interdependence and cooperation of various marketing concepts in the public sector in Poland. The empirical part of the article was based on quantitative research conducted in 2015 – 2016.

Religion, Spirituality, and College Faculty

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Lindholm
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
College Faculty ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
Life Of The Mind ◽  
The Mind

To sustain campus communities where the life of the mind and the life of the heart are mutually celebrated and supported, we must reconsider habitual perspectives and practices. Within higher education, the spiritual and religious inclinations of faculty have implications for how faculty make meaning of their work as well as for how they engage with colleagues and students. This chapter summarizes what we know about the spiritual/religious connections in faculty members’ lives. It examines how faculty members conceptualize and experience the spiritual dimension of their lives, how they perceive the intersections between spirituality and higher education, and what implications their inclinations have for undergraduate education and for faculty life within academic workplaces. It also addresses why this dimension of their lives is important to consider within the context of academic workplaces and undergraduate education. Associated implications for research and institutional practice are also discussed.

scholarly journals Most Americans Want to Learn More about Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (6) ◽  
pp. 1103-1107 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Perkins ◽  
Ed Maibach ◽  
Ned Gardiner ◽  
Joe Witte ◽  
Bud Ward ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Educational Models ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Meteorological Society

Abstract As American Meteorological Society (AMS) members who study Americans’ understanding of climate change and who are engaged in programs to educate Americans about climate change, we want our AMS colleagues to realize their key role in public education. In this article we make the case that 1) AMS members are well positioned to play important leadership roles in educational outreach on climate change, 2) the public wants to learn more about climate change, 3) there is a need for more effective public engagement efforts, and 4) we have successful outreach and educational models that we can start using today.

scholarly journals Utrata złudzeń edukacji publicznej. Fatalne dziedzictwo, eskapizm elit, iskry nadziei

2018 ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Kwieciński
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Systemic Crises

The article raises the question of the causes of the public education crisis, both the crisis in recent past and that conditioned by several centuries of Poland’s past. The position of Adam Podgórecki on the subject of comprehensive analyses of Polish society is particularly important. It combines two positions. He believes that Polish systemic crises can be put down to the experiences of post-totalitarianism and Polish unique defects persisting for several centuries. The author of the article negatively assesses the possibility of overcoming the crisis of public education by academic elites, which are responsible for the collapse of universities and the crisis of higher education. Common beliefs about public education have turned out to be illusions. The author sees the hopes of improving the state of public education in resistance to the destruction of democracy and to the strong ideological and political pressure. Openness to Europe and the world, which Poles do not give away, inspires hope, too.

scholarly journals Not only students, but also not enough: the waves of protest in the higher education in Italy

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-73
Author(s):  
Gianni Piazza
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Temporary Workers ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Neoliberal Reform ◽  
Administrative Employees ◽  
The University

Abstract In time of economic crisis, since the 2008 credit crunch, many Western and European countries entered in the “age of austerity” characterized by the imposition of unprecedented large cuts in welfare state provision. Even the public education institutions have been affected by government policies characterized by budget cuts, neoliberal private-oriented reforms and increase in tuition fees for students. In reaction to this, in the following years, various global waves of protests have arisen in many countries all over the world. Differently from the past, not only students have promoted these mobilizations, although they are majority, but also the education systems workforce: from professors/teachers to permanent and precarious researchers, from temporary workers to technical- administrative employees. Although these mobilizations have had specific characteristics related to the national contexts, they have shared common aspects as the defence of public education and the refusal of the commercialization/marketization and privatization process. In this paper I focus on the mobilizations in the higher education system occurred in Italy. The most important waves of protests were in 2008-2010 against the budget cuts and the university neoliberal reform promoted by the former centre-right Education Minister Gelmini. If in the 2008, students and precarious workers mainly promoted the Anomalous Wave movement, so called for its unpredictability, in the 2010, beyond the students, the open-ended researchers were the main protagonists. Notwithstanding the mass participation and the sympathy of part of the public opinion, the reform and the cuts were approved and then, the mobilizations decreased and seemed to be completely finished. I argue that these mobilizations were unsuccessful not only because of the fragmentation of student organizations and because of the low salience of higher education in Italian public opinion, but also because protesters were not supported by most university staff and hindered by the academic authorities (deans and rectors).

scholarly journals The lost chance of public education. Fatal heritage, escapism of the elites, sparks of hope

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Kwieciński
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Systemic Crises

SummaryThe article raises the question of the causes of the public education crisis, both the crisis in recent past and that conditioned by several centuries of Poland’s past. The position of Adam Podgórecki on the subject of comprehensive analyzes of Polish society is particularly important. It combines two positions. He believes that the causes of Polish systemic crises are the experiences of post-totalitarianism and specific Polish defects persisted for several centuries. The author of the article negatively assesses the possibility of overcoming the crisis of public education by academic elites, which are responsible for the collapse of universities and the crisis of higher education. Common beliefs about public education have turned out to be illusions. The author sees the hopes of improving the state of public education in resistance to the destruction of democracy and to the strong ideological and political pressure. Openness to Europe and the world, which Poles do not give away, also gives hope.

Avaliação do Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência (PIBID): estudo de caso na Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

2017 ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Adriana Castro Araújo ◽  
Wagner Bandeira Andriola ◽  
Maria do Socorro De Sousa Rodrigues ◽  
Afrânio De Araújo Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Educational Assessment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Email Address ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

RESUMO O Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência (PIBID) objetiva incentivar a formação de docentes para a educação básica pública, contribuindo para a valorização do magistério. A presente pesquisa visa avaliar a repercussão do referido programa na qualificação e formação de professores para a educação básica da rede pública, a partir da opinião de alunos do PIBID da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC). Para tanto, três objetivos foram delineados: analisar as repercussões do PIBID na qualificação docente; identificar a influência que o programa exerceu na escolha profissional do egresso; e identificar a percepção do egresso sobre a escola pública durante a experiência como bolsista. Enviou-se questionário para o endereço eletrônico de 584 egressos do PIBID, obtendo-se retorno de 14,4% (n = 84). A partir dos resultados, concluiu-se que o PIBID contribui consideravelmente para a qualificação da formação docente, além de despertar e reforçar o interesse pela docência. Palavras-chave: Ensino Superior, Avaliação Educacional, Formação de Professores. Evaluation of Institutional Program in Initiation in Teaching Scholarship (PIBID): a case study at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC)ABSTRACT The Institutional Program in Initiation in Teaching Scholarship (PIBID) aims to encourage the training of teachers for basic public education, contributing to the enhancement the magisterium. The present study aims, in view of PIBID graduates of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), evaluate the impact of the program in the qualification and training of teachers for basic education. For this, three objectives were pursued: analyze the PIBID implications for the teaching qualification; analyze the influence that the program has had on professional egress choice; and analyze the perception of graduates of the public school during the scholarship experience. A questionnaire was sent to the email address of 584 PIBID graduates obtaining a return of 14.4% (n = 84). From the data analysis, it was concluded that the PIBID contributes significantly to the qualification of teacher education and arouses or reinforces the interest in teaching in public basic education. Key words: Higher Education, Educational Assessment, Teacher Training.   

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