scholarly journals Educational Leadership in Times of Crisis

Risks ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Life On Earth

The chain of crises experienced during the first two decades of the 21st century has changed life on Earth and concluded in a list of incredibly difficult challenges. It has become obvious that our traditional ways of acting do not work anymore. We need to search for new ideas and approaches. We want to believe in the potential of education. It manifests itself in different ways in beliefs, declarations, and actions. The work of education systems and institutions is a huge investment of commitment, time, and money. Governments, experts, workers, and service users have high hopes and enormous resources to keep education functioning. Everyone involved in designing solutions and carrying out tasks must understand how to respond to the global context and the challenges that humanity must deal with in order to survive. The environment and problems of public health, diversity and inequalities, technologies and social media, and the crisis of democracy affect the social reality and the world of education today. To be able to respond, both to challenges and to expectations, the human approach to leadership has to be transformed. The main problem for reformers is to define leadership again, using new assumptions and new intellectual tools. The research question worth asking is: what kind of educational leadership is needed? In this article, I propose a paradigm shift in thinking about educational leadership and a departure from the dominant classical paradigm. I propose a new model of educational leadership and adequate activities.

The Dictatorship of Appearance or Simulation in Present-Day "Democracies" against the Background of the Market Ecocide of the Foundations of Human Life on Earth

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Subetto
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Environmental Disaster ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Point Of No Return ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Near Future

It is proved that the current era is characterized by many governments around the world as dictatorship of "appearance" or "simulation" of the most activities transforming politics, even the tragic events like local ecological catastrophes, local wars, "colour revolutions", the elections in a "theatre", "acting", on the background of market ecocide – really accelerating processes of the first phase of a Global Environmental Disaster, which, at the transition "point of no return" in the near future, may turn into a process of irreversible environmental destruction of all mankind. This dictatorship of "appearance" or simulation as a "curtain" market democracy, hiding the capitalism-led, process of dehumanization of man, is an indicator of the inadequacy of states and political "elites" imperative of survival of mankind, as the imperative out of the ecological impasse of history in market-capitalist format. There comes a reckoning for this departure into the " market-capitalist illusion of apparent prosperity. The societies of the world, including Rossiya, have faced a dilemma:either environmental destruction, or the Noosphere Breakthrough, which, in its essence, is a change in the social organization of social life and its reproduction – the transition from the dominance of capitalism and the market to the Noosphere Ecological Spiritual Socialism on the basis of scientific and educational society and the management of socionatural evolution.

Cosmopolitanism and Education: A View from the Ground

2010 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
The World ◽  
Background Context

Background/ Context In recent years, scholars the world over in both the social sciences and humanities have reanimated the ancient idea of cosmopolitanism. They discern in the idea ways in which people today can respond creatively to rapid social, political, cultural, and economic transformations. Scholars in this burgeoning field have examined issues involving cultural hybridity, global citizenship, environmental justice, economic redistribution, and more. In the article, I examine from a philosophical perspective how a cosmopolitan-minded education can assist people in cultivating thoughtful receptivity to the new and reflective loyalty to the known. Purpose/ Objective/ Research Question/ Focus of Study Philosophical work has begun on possible relations between cosmopolitanism and education. However, there are virtually no published studies that deploy a systematic cosmopolitan frame of analysis in conjunction with qualitative or quantitative research. This article seeks to encourage such research by elucidating a distinctive conception of cosmopolitanism rooted in one of its long-standing strands. This strand is characterized as cosmopolitanism on the ground, and it features what has been called “philosophy as the art of living” and “actually existing cosmopolitanism.” Research Design The article is a philosophical investigation that builds an argument using the techniques of conceptual analysis, comparison, contrast, analogy, metaphor, illustration, and exegesis of texts. Conclusions/ Recommendations The long-standing strand of cosmopolitanism on the ground generates several key elements of a philosophy of cosmopolitan-minded education. These elements are (1) a recognition of the importance of local socialization as making possible education itself, (2) the recognition that a cosmopolitan outlook triggers a critical rather than idolatrous or negligent attitude toward tradition and custom, (3) the recognition that curriculum across all subjects can be understood as a cosmopolitan inheritance, and (4) the recognition that many teachers constitute an already existing cosmopolitan community and can build on their shared purposes to enhance educational practice the world over.

Paradigm Shift for the Future

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-201
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Way

Through case studies of incidents around the world where the social media platforms have been used and abused for ulterior purposes, Chapter 6 highlights the lessons that can be learned. For good or for ill, the author elaborates on the way social media has been used as an arbiter to inflict various forms of political influence and how we may have become desensitized due to the popularity of the social media platforms themselves. A searching view is provided that there is now a propensity by foreign states to use social media to influence the user base of sovereign countries during key political events. This type of activity now justifies a paradigm shift in relation to our perception and utilization of computerized devices for the future.

scholarly journals Playing with data and its consequences

First Monday ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miren Gutiérrez ◽  
Stefania Milan
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Critical Data ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

The fundamental paradigm shift brought about by datafication alters how people participate as citizens on a daily basis. “Big data” has come to constitute a new terrain of engagement, which brings organized collective action, communicative practices and data infrastructure into a fruitful dialogue. While scholarship is progressively acknowledging the emergence of bottom-up data practices, to date no research has explored the influence of these practices on the activists themselves. Leveraging the disciplines of critical data and social movement studies, this paper explores “proactive data activism”, using, producing and/or appropriating data for social change, and examines its biographical, political, tactical and epistemological consequences. Approaching engagement with data as practice, this study focuses on the social contexts in which data are produced, consumed and circulated, and analyzes how tactics, skills and emotions of individuals evolve in interplay with data. Through content and co-occurrence analysis of semi-structured practitioner interviews (N=20), the article shows how the employment of data and data infrastructure in activism fundamentally transforms the way activists go about changing the world.

scholarly journals Other forms of leadership in education

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-25
Author(s):  
Georgina Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Education Today ◽  
The One ◽  
Ways Of Being

I observe a split in the field of education today between two academic sub-tribes: those who champion ‘practice’ and are suspicious of ‘theories’ on the one hand, and those who insist on ‘theory and philosophy’ on the other. But philosophical commitments are implicit in our use of language and all our ways of being and acting in the world. This recognition points towards other concepts and forms of educational leadership. Below, I explore if and how philosophy and writing lead to another kind of educational leadership.

scholarly journals Paradigm Shift and Diversity in Finance

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatima Sultana
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
World Knowledge ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
The World

This study provides an overview of the four paradigms from which the social theories are usually devised. More particularly, this study highlights the paradigm to which finance theories belong. The study discusses the four paradigms on the basis of their ontology, epistemology, axiology, and research methodology. Rather than creating new paradigm, it explains the role of paradigms, other than Positivist paradigm, in Finance. It concludes that positivist paradigm must adopt the tools of other paradigms to enhance its ability to contribute to the world knowledge.

Konsep Pendidikan Akhlak dalam Tafsir Al-Ibriz Bisri Mustofa Serta Relevansinya dengan Pendidikan Islam di Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Firman Sidiq ◽  
Rahman Mantu
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Orang Asli ◽  
Ecological Vision ◽  
Quality Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Education Today

Abstract: Moral education is the initial foundation for forming and creating a better and quality life. In addition, it can also develop human attitudes to become more perfect, so that they have a positive impact on life and are always open to good and closed from all forms of evil. Furthermore, with the values of moral education will certainly have a positive impact on various aspects and elements of life, moral education can be interpreted as a process of internalizing moral values into oneself. In order to be firmly planted in the mindset, speech, actions, and interactions with God, humans and nature. In addition, moral values can also form trancendental-spiritual vision, sociological vision and ecological vision. Thus, these values can be inherent in themselves so as to form a culture of behavior and character. Departing from the background of the thoughts described above, this article is directed at reviewing and constructing Bisri Mustofa's thinking with a focus on studies on the values of moral education contained in Bisri Mustofa's Tafsir al-Ibriz. The factors behind the author chose Bisri Mustofa's interpretation because he was an Indonesian native, so the interpretations made by him would certainly be very interactive with the social realities that exist on Indonesian soil, which would greatly help writers in their efforts to benefit the education world in Indonesia especially Islamic education, and will be able to answer various problems that exist in the world of education today. Abstrak: Pendidikan akhlak merupakan landasan awal untuk membentuk dan menciptakan kehidupan yang lebih baik dan berkualitas. Selain itu, dapat juga menumbuh kembangkan sikap manusia agar menjadi lebih sempurna, sehingga berdampak positif bagi kehidupan dan selalu terbuka bagi kebaikan dan tertutup dari segala bentuk keburukan. Lebih lanjut, dengan adanya nilai-nilai pendidikan akhlak tentunya akan berdampak positif juga pada berbagai aspek dan unsur kehidupan, pendidikan akhlak dapat diartikan sebagai proses internalisasi nilai-nilai akhlak ke dalam diri. Agar tertanam kuat dalam pola pikir, ucapan, perbuatan, serta interaksinya kepada Tuhan, manusia dan alam. Selain itu, nilai-nilai akhlak dapat pula membentuk visi trancendental-spiritual, visi sosiologis dan visi ekologis. Sehingga, nilai-nilai tersebut dapat melekat dalam diri sehingga membentuk budaya perilaku dan karakter. Berangkat dari latar pemikiran yang telah penulis uraikan di atas, maka artikel ini diarahkan untuk mengkaji dan mengkonstruk pemikiran Bisri Mustofa dengan fokus kajian pada nilai-nilai pendidikan akhlak yang terkandung dalam Tafsir al-Ibriz karya Bisri Mustofa. Adapun faktor yang melatar belakangi penulis memilih tafsir Bisri Mustofa karena ia merupakan orang asli Indonesia, sehingga tafsir yang dibuat olehnya tentu akan sangat interaktif dengan realitas sosial yang ada di bumi Indonesia, yang hal tersebut akan dapat sangat membantu penulis dalam upaya memberikan manfaat terhadap dunia pendidikan di Indonesia khususnya pendidikan Islam, serta akan dapat mampu menjawab berbagai problem yang ada dalam dunia pendidikan dewasa ini.

Arbitration Literature

2020 ◽  
pp. xliv-32
Author(s):  
Thomas Schultz ◽  
Niccolò Ridi
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Time Windows ◽  
Citation Network ◽  
International Arbitration ◽  
Informational Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the arbitration literature. Arbitration literature has a long history. So far, however, no attempt has been made to examine it and its evolution systematically and with a quantitative approach. The lack of investigation of this research question is, in and by itself, surprising. Clearly, the literature plays a strong role in shaping the thinking and making of international arbitration law. Moreover, literature—and scientific literature in particular—is a privileged conduit for the various actors in the social field of international arbitration. The chapter then looks at scientometrics. This field was first defined as ‘the quantitative methods of the research on the development of science as an informational process’. On the scientometrics market, the citation is the main currency. The rationale is that citation counts are positively associated with subsequent impact. Thus, arbitration literature can be measured in two ways. First, one determines which works are the most cited, in absolute terms and over time, for two different time windows. These are the works that likely have had the most impact on the knowledge in and about arbitration, where this knowledge is taken as a single, common whole. Second, one looks at what the co-citation network can reveal about the make-up of the world of arbitration literature.

scholarly journals Using Social Media to Attract Customers in Lebanon

2019 ◽  
pp. 1217-1229
Author(s):  
Seifedine Kadry ◽  
Fatima Khaled
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Purchasing Decision ◽  
Marketing Professional ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Social media nowadays have become part of our everyday life. People around the world spend most of their time on social media, (Face book, Instagram, Twitter, etc.), so this network becomes a way that affect people’s decisions especially their purchasing decision in the pre-purchasing stage. Thus, businesses are using the social media for marketing to let the customers in any place in the world knows about their brand and products without even visiting their shop. This media has enabled people from anywhere to access grocery stores and restrooms without any time constraint through electronic devices, such as computers, mobile phones, etc (Bernhardt et al., 2012; Enrico Di et al., 2018). Social media has been recognized as an informative venue in that it assists the relationship among customers by sharing their experiences, which can provide valuable information for others (Alalwan, 2018; Hajli and Bus Ethics, 2018; Sheth and Kim, 2018; Sujin and Myongjee, 2016). More than two-thirds of companies are using social media for marketing and service (Ma et al., 2015; Muhammad et al., 2018; Si Shi et al., 2019). As consumers increase their online activity today, the industries and businesses become to use it as a way of sharing information and opinion about their product. This way let marketing become easier, since it provides instant information for the consumer at any time from the entire world. Social media has emerged as a dominant digital communications channel and has significantly influenced the marketing communications environment. Not only does it allow interaction between customers and companies (FangPei Su et al., 2018; Gretzel and Fesenmaier, 2012; Gretzel and Dinhopl, 2013; Kristina et al., 2018; Muresan and Sinuraya, 2018; Rebecca et al., 2019) but also among customers (Xiang and Gretzel, 2010). It make the communication with other customers that used the product become easier, in this way they can know more about any product they want (Jiabao et al., 2019; Kumar and Pradhan, 2018) The aim of this research is to know whether social media can affect customer purchasing decision during the pre-purchase stage This research aims to answer the following research question: RQ1: Do social media influence customer purchasing decision. RQ2: Do people prefer advertising using social media. To explore these questions, a study will be done to see the influence of social media advertising on customers. The objective of this research is to help the marketing professional.

Editorial

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-391
Author(s):  
Martha Crago
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Cold Snap ◽  
Full Swing ◽  
Bare Minimum

It gives me great pleasure to introduce this Special Issue of Applied Psycholinguistics. One might say that it was very Canadian in its conception. The period between Christmas and New Years 2004 was particularly cold in Montreal and Toronto. It was during this very cold snap that Ellen Bialystok, Fred Genesee, and I decided to apply to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for special funding to host a conference on bilingualism. To make matters worse, one of our universities only heated its offices to the bare minimum during the holidays, and Ellen Bialystok's furnace broke down. With cold fingers, time running short, and the holiday period in full swing, we nevertheless managed to contact a dozen leading researchers from several countries who consented to become main speakers at the conference, Language Acquisition and Bilingualism: Consequences for a Multilingual Society, held in Toronto in May 2006 (a much warmer event). These researchers were joined by more than 300 people from 34 countries around the world, 119 of whom presented posters of their research (chosen from 250 submissions). The eager response of our research and practitioner communities for the conference and the compelling importance of the policy, educational, and program implications of bilingualism in a global context convinced me, as Editor of the Journal, that we should share the interest of the conference with you, the readers of Applied Psycholinguistics. This Special Issue contains articles by a number of the conference's speakers, and it was jointly edited by Ellen Bialystok and me with the help of Fred Genesee.

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