scholarly journals Ecologizing Knowledge: Considerations to Rethink Life in the Ever-Changing World Triggered by the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Dra Eliana Maria do Sacramento Soares ◽  
Dra Andréia Morés
Keyword(s):  
Educational Practices ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Cognitive Ecology ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge ◽  
Taking Care ◽  
Changing World

We present a theoretical essay approaching the question: according to which paradigm will we reorganize ourselves as a human society facing the experience of the Pandemic? To ecologize knowledges by articulating and establishing relations among different theories and forms of knowledge, we offer clues and possibilities to create forms of acting in life, especially in education practices, taking this moment we are living in as a trigger for transformations. In this way, we suggest the method of complexity as a strategy to redimension our way of understanding what we are living and transforming our way of acting. We emphasize the need of overcoming the current objectivism and rationalism, and proposing the systemic vision that includes the reflective, active, strategist subject as co-creator of the reality in which he lives. In this way, we suggest that educational practices need to be configured as a cognitive ecology, the result of the articulation of various contexts, coexistence scenarios, where teachers and students act together, taking care of each other and co-creating learning contexts in the experience. This approach can give rise to a form of education founded on a dynamic based on cooperating and sharing in circularity, surpassing control and judgment and enhancing the empowerment of being.

scholarly journals Acafan identity, communities of practice, and vocational poaching

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Peter Garner
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Professional Role ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Pedagogical Design ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Fan Practices ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

In a conceptualization and critique of the implications motivating a set of teaching and learning sessions designed to introduce undergraduate students to the professional role of location scouts and managers, two main interventions are offered. First, discussion of acafan identities is advanced by considering how this subject position applies to teaching and learning contexts rather than individual research dispositions, with acafans transferring competencies developed through fan practices that appropriate industry-located forms of knowledge to inform pedagogical design. Second, the concept of vocational poaching is applied as an alternative of fannish appropriation that acafans can engage in when designing teaching and learning sessions. Vocational poaching involves individual acafans performing tactical raids on industrially located forms of knowledge via fan practices such as location visiting and using these to satisfy the requirements of neoliberal teaching policies.

scholarly journals The Effective Integration of Flipped Classroom in ELT Contexts: A Review of Recent Literature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Haghi
Keyword(s):  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Flipped Learning ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Teachers And Students

The emergence of new technological tools has affected and changed the realm of education to a great extent which has led many language practitioners to adopt gradual innovative steps in their teaching methods. Accordingly, flipped learning has been adopted and implemented in different contexts such as ELT. The purpose of this paper is to provide information regarding the definition of flipped learning, its recent literature, its advantages and disadvantages, and to focus on how to apply this approach in English language teaching and learning contexts. The review shows that this approach meets the principles of personalized learning, constructivism, and student-centered instruction which has brought many benefits for both teachers and students and clearly shows teachers’ and students’ roles have been significantly changed comparing with traditional methods of teaching and learning. The significance of this study lies in the fact that it has brought numerous insights and implications for ELT practitioners. The paper concludes with the recommendations in the literature on promoting flipped classroom environments in ELT teaching and learning contexts, which will help ELT teachers and practitioners who are thinking of implementing new technological tools in their teaching practices

Queer Studies in Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Ingrey
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Secondary Schooling ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
The Future ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Identity Category ◽  
And Gender

A survey of key contributors and theoretical tensions in the applications of queer studies in education is purposefully partial namely because of the impartiality embedded in the nature of ‘queer’, a verb whose action unsettles, dismantles and interrogates systems of normalization, beginning with heteronormativity and heterosexism. Queer theory emerged in the 1990s before influencing education, including both elementary and secondary schooling; however, queer is complex in that it involves the signifier or signified term: it is both the integration of queer content in curriculum as well as the practice of queering educational practices (i.e., curriculum, pedagogy and practice). The queering of pedagogy involves the queering of the educational subject, both teachers and students. In such a survey of queer in education, the ontological groundings for queer are important to consider given the paradoxical nature of queer to unpack and unsettle whilst maintaining its hold on an identity category in order to do its unsettling work. Indeed, the consequent recognition of the subjecthood of queer in educational contexts is a significant note in this attention to queer’s application in education. Queer also moves beyond not only an inclusion of queer content, but also exceeds queer sexualities to cohere and contrast with trans-infused approaches. Queer theory considers that the future of queer may well exceed beyond sexuality and gender altogether to become a practice of unsettling or critique more generally. Its continuity in education studies as well as its potentially impending expiration are concerns of scholars in the field.

Pollinators and Pollination

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Ollerton
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Personal Insight ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Changing World

A unique and personal insight into the ecology and evolution of pollinators, their relationships with flowers, and their conservation in a rapidly changing world. The pollination of flowers by insects, birds and other animals is a fundamentally important ecological function that supports both the natural world and human society. Without pollinators to facilitate the sexual reproduction of plants, the world would be a biologically poorer place in which to live, there would be an impact on food security, and human health would suffer. Written by one of the world’s leading pollination ecologists, this book provides an introduction to what pollinators are, how their interactions with flowers have evolved, and the fundamental ecology of these relationships. It explores the pollination of wild and agricultural plants in a variety of habitats and contexts, including urban, rural and agricultural environments. The author also provides practical advice on how individuals and organisations can study, and support, pollinators. As well as covering the natural history of pollinators and flowers, the author discusses their cultural importance, and the ways in which pollinator conservation has been portrayed from a political perspective. The book draws on field work experiences in South America, Africa, Australia, the Canary Islands and the UK. For over 30 years the author has spent his career researching how plants and pollinators evolve relationships, how these interactions function ecologically, their importance for society, and how we can conserve them in a rapidly changing world. This book offers a unique and personal insight into the science of pollinators and pollination, aimed at anyone who is interested in understanding these fascinating and crucial ecological interactions.

scholarly journals What Question? Enabling Dialogue Between Students and their Teachers

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-112
Author(s):  
Anna Katherine Wood ◽  
Paul Anderson ◽  
Hamish Macleod ◽  
Jessie Patterson ◽  
Chrstine Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
University Level ◽  
Initial Results

Conversations between academics and students play a central part in teaching and learning at university level and effective dialogues are key to academic success. An essential feature of these dialogues is the question which triggers the interaction. However, we note that students are often reluctant to ask questions and that teachers and students sometimes talk at cross-purposes. The aim of this project was to explore, through semi-structured interviews, what happens in dialogues between teachers and students in learning contexts. Our initial results give insights into the barriers to effective dialogue, the conditions that promote dialogues as well as the strategies that can be employed by teachers and students to encourage good dialogues.  

scholarly journals The Effective Integration of Flipped Classroom in ELT Contexts: A Review of Recent Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 120-132
Author(s):  
Maryam Haghi
Keyword(s):  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Flipped Learning ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Teachers And Students

The emergence of new technological tools has affected and changed the realm of education to a great extent which has led many language practitioners to adopt gradual innovative steps in their teaching methods. Accordingly, flipped learning has been adopted and implemented in different contexts such as ELT. The purpose of this paper is to provide information regarding the definition of flipped learning, its recent literature, its advantages and disadvantages, and to focus on how to apply this approach in English language teaching and learning contexts. The review shows that this approach meets the principles of personalized learning, constructivism, and student-centered instruction which has brought many benefits for both teachers and students and clearly shows teachers’ and students’ roles have been significantly changed comparing with traditional methods of teaching and learning. The significance of this study lies in the fact that it has brought numerous insights and implications for ELT practitioners. The paper concludes with the recommendations in the literature on promoting flipped classroom environments in ELT teaching and learning contexts, which will help ELT teachers and practitioners who are thinking of implementing new technological tools in their teaching practices.

The decline of Asian Studies in the West and the rise of knowledge production in Asia: An autoethnographic reflection on mobility, knowledge production, and academic discourses

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-290
Author(s):  
Liam C. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The West ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Academic Discourses ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge ◽  
Changing World

In recent years, the discipline of Asian Studies has struggled to adapt to a changing world and has seen a decline in student interest. A discourse about this issue has emerged that attributes this “crisis” in Asian Studies to various supposed faults in its forms of knowledge production, and that looks with hope to Asia for new forms of knowledge about the region. This paper takes issue with this discourse by employing an autoethnographic narrative to examine the ways in which mobility has affected the discipline of Asian Studies. It traces a path, followed by this author and many others, from an affective fascination with a foreign society to the professional production of knowledge. It then examines how this professional knowledge production has transformed under the influence of different forms of mobility (state-sponsored, private, and global digital), transformations that have led to the current “crisis” in Asian Studies.

scholarly journals GAME AS A TOOL OF MIDTERM CONTROL OF STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
pp. 913-921
Author(s):  
A. Y. MINNULLINA ◽  
A. V. KOPYTOVA
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Game Form ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Test Version ◽  
Testing Algorithm ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

The focus on active learning has become one of the significant components of the strategy for the restructuring of vocational education in higher educational institutions. Therefore, the main objective of the work is based on the analysis of testing as one of the effective methods of active learning. The authors developed an electronic test in the form of a game, which contributed to the assessment of students' knowledge in the discipline of "Marketing". The basis of the electronic test was the famous quiz. The article describes in detail the testing algorithm in the form of a game; it has revealed, during its testing, the advantages, and disadvantages, as well as the students' opinion on the testing of knowledge based on the game. It was established that the test version under test in a game form showed significant advantages in the course of testing in comparison with traditional forms of knowledge control in the medium term and found positive reviews both among teachers and students

L’enseignant et sa formation en ligne

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Shin-tae KANG
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Korean Language ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Language Courses

The health crisis facing the world in 2020 is impacting all strata of human society and challenging citizens and their institutions, including educational institutions. Educational institutions need to continue to connect teachers and students to ensure educational continuity. This unprecedented experiment in confined foreign language teaching began in March 2020 at Inalco, where we teach Korean language in the Korean Studies Department. From that date onwards, like all teachers at Inalco, we had to provide all our language courses online.

Initial Analysis for Creating a Generic Online Educational Game Shell

2010 ◽  
pp. 346-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Sauvé ◽  
Lise Renaud ◽  
Mathieu Gauvin
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Target Populations ◽  
Initial Analysis ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Teachers And Students

As the first of five chapters describing the development process for a generic educational game shell, this chapter discusses how the authors analyzed 40 computerized educational games to determine the main characteristics built into digital educational games. The analysis allowed comparison of game attributes with the pedagogic and technical needs of target populations (i.e., primary and secondary school teachers and students) and their learning contexts.

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