A New Perspective for School Management in the Digital Age

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Eren Kesim
Keyword(s):  
School Principals ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
School Management ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
First Century ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Restructuring Process ◽  
New Perspective

All nations throughout the world have been influenced by rapid developments and transformations in the twenty first century. Throughout this process of rapid change, in which newly developed technologies and globalization gained momentum, all social establishments are being restructured. The restructuring process may only be realized with the involvement of individuals raised and trained in accordance with the age we live in, thus the strategic importance of educational organizations has risen. For educational organizations to fulfill the expectations of the responsibilities assigned to them, they must be managed in accordance with the requirements of this era. School principals are laden with important responsibilities throughout this process. One of the foremost variables of the transformation process enabled by digital technologies in the digital age is the concept of digital culture. This concept must be analyzed regarding its repercussions in educational organizations. This study analyzes the digital culture which has emerged in the digital age regarding its repercussion in schools and school management from a conceptual perspective.

A New Perspective for School Management in the Digital Age

2017 ◽  
pp. 2247-2260
Author(s):  
Eren Kesim
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Change ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
School Management ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
First Century ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
Restructuring Process ◽  
New Perspective

All nations throughout the world have been influenced by rapid developments and transformations in the twenty first century. Throughout this process of rapid change, in which newly developed technologies and globalization gained momentum, all social establishments are being restructured. The restructuring process may only be realized with the involvement of individuals raised and trained in accordance with the age we live in, thus the strategic importance of educational organizations has risen. For educational organizations to fulfill the expectations of the responsibilities assigned to them, they must be managed in accordance with the requirements of this era. School principals are laden with important responsibilities throughout this process. One of the foremost variables of the transformation process enabled by digital technologies in the digital age is the concept of digital culture. This concept must be analyzed regarding its repercussions in educational organizations. This study analyzes the digital culture which has emerged in the digital age regarding its repercussion in schools and school management from a conceptual perspective.

scholarly journals Habilidades de liderazgo instruccional de directores y sus equipos de gestión de escuelas de la región del Biobío, Chile: fortalezas y desafíos

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 487-503
Author(s):  
Felipe Sepulveda ◽  
Carolina Aparicio Molina
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Leadership ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
School Management ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Learning Climate ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
School Learning ◽  
Definition Of

En esta investigación se describen las habilidades de liderazgo con un enfoque instruccional de directores, equipo de gestión y docentes de establecimientos educativos de la región del Biobío, Chile. Se encuestaron a 64 miembros del equipo de gestión y 424 docentes de 17 establecimientos educativos utilizando el instrumento PIMRS. El análisis de datos demostró que no existen diferencias significativas en la valoración de los encuestados en la implementación de las tres dimensiones establecidas en el PIMRS. Sin embargo, se determinó que los docentes presentan diferencias significativas con respecto a los miembros del equipo directivo en término de las tres dimensiones y diez funciones establecidas en el PIMRS. Al comparar la valoración de los equipos directivos y los docentes, las menores brechas se registran en las funciones asociadas a la definición de la misión de la escuela y las mayores brechas se encuentran en las funciones asociadas al fomento de un adecuado clima de aprendizaje escolar. La valoración de las actividades asociadas a la implementación de liderazgo instruccional de los directores y jefes UTP difiere en términos de los énfasis que se otorgan dependiendo de cada cargo. This research describes leadership skills from an instructional approach of school principals, management team and teachers of educational organizations from the Biobío region, Chile. A sample of 64 members of the school management team and 424 teachers were surveyed using the PIMRS instrument. The data analysis showed no significant differences in the assessment of the respondents in the implementation of the three dimensions established in the PIMRS. However, it was determined that teachers have significant differences with respect to the members of the management team in terms of the three dimensions and ten functions established in the PIMRS. When comparing the assessment of the management teams and the teachers, the smallest gaps are found in the functions associated with the definition of the school’s mission and the biggest gaps are found in the functions associated with the promotion of an adequate school learning climate. The evaluation of the activities associated with the implementation of instructional leadership of principals and pedagogical heads differs in terms of the emphasis that is granted depending on each position.

Assembling Archaeology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Cobb ◽  
Karina Croucher
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Perspective

This book provides a radical rethinking of the relationships between teaching, researching, digging, and practicing as an archaeologist in the twenty-first century. The issues addressed here are global and are applicable wherever archaeology is taught, practiced, and researched. In short, this book is applicable to everyone from academia to cultural resource management (CRM), from heritage professional to undergraduate student. At its heart, it addresses the undervaluation of teaching, demonstrating that this affects the fundamentals of contemporary archaeological practice, and is particularly connected to the lack of diversity in disciplinary demographics. It proposes a solution which is grounded in a theoretical rethinking of our teaching, training, and practice. Drawing upon the insights from archaeology’s current material turn, and particularly Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblages, this volume turns the discipline of archaeology into the subject of investigation, considering the relationships between teaching, practice, and research. It offers a new perspective which prompts a rethinking of our expectations and values with regard to teaching, training, and doing archaeology, and ultimately argues that we are all constantly becoming archaeologists.

The Platformization of Culture: Webtoon Platforms and Media Ecology in Korea and Beyond

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Heekyoung Cho
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
First Century ◽  
Serial Production ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Cultural Medium ◽  
Art Production ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article examines the webtoon (wept'un)—a term coined in Korea to refer to webcomics—which is arguably the most pervasive and powerful form of digital serial production in twenty-first-century Korea. Webtoons have developed by utilizing various potentials that the digital platform offers, such as open solicitation, (partial) free web/mobile distribution, profit from advertisement and page viewing, and transmedia production. As a new cultural medium, the webtoon is thus inseparable from its platform and organically tied to its distinctive platform ecology, which is different from the ecosystems that other (global) mega-platforms create. Engaging with the insights from recent studies of platforms and utilizing empirical media analysis, I argue that Korean webtoon platforms demonstrate the continuing and intensifying dependency of art on platforms—a process that I call “the platformization of culture”—and that this specific type of platformization is reinforced by what I call “the artist incubating system.” The case of webtoon platforms reveals a number of telling aspects of media ecosystems for art production in the digital age—aspects that are spreading and expanding to various fields of art.

Cultural Studies as Performative Research in a Digital Age

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-320
Author(s):  
Caroline Stockman ◽  
Fred Truyen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
General Domain ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Research Domain

This paper aims to explore the nature of digital culture research, and the fitting methodology. Although it is still felt to be a novelty, it is not so different from the more general domain of Cultural Studies. The aim of research for both domains is meaning, or the challenge to understand the dynamics of the encoding and decoding process. Both domains endorse a wide variety of subjects, although typically the concrete methodology of Cultural Studies still remains restricted to qualitative approaches. The question of quantitative data and their analysis is highlighted in digital culture, and we should consider both its opportunities and limitations for the research at hand. In our reflection, Cultural Studies research emerges as a performative enterprise, and this is one of its unique distinctions as a research domain.

The Younghusband-Waddell Collection and Its People: the Social Life of Tibetan Books Gathered in a Late-colonial Enterprise

Inner Asia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-171
Author(s):  
Hildegard Diemberger
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Cultural Biography ◽  
The Social ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractIn this paper I follow the social life of the Tibetan books belonging to the Younghusband-Waddell collection. I show how books as literary artefacts can transform from ritual objects into loot, into commodities and into academic treasures and how books can have agency over people, creating networks and shaping identities. Exploring connections between books and people, I look at colonial collecting, Orientalist scholarship and imperial visions from an unusual perspective in which the social life and cultural biography of people and things intertwine and mutually define each other. By following the trajectory of these literary artefacts, I show how their traces left in letters, minutes and acquisition documents give insight into the functioning of academic institutions and their relationship to imperial governing structures and individual aspirations. In particular, I outline the lives of a group of scholars who were involved with this collection in different capacities and whose deeds are unevenly known. This adds a new perspective to the study of this period, which has so far been largely focused on the deeds of key individuals and the political and military setting in which they operated. Finally, I show how the books of this collection have continued to exercise their attraction and moral pressure on twenty-first-century scholars, both Tibetan and international, linking them through digital technology and cyberspace.

scholarly journals Childhood in a digital age: creative challenges for educational futures

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Craft
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
First Century ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Digital Gaming ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Educational Futures

The early twenty-first century is characterised by rapid change. Commentators note how permeating digital technologies engage increasing numbers of children, young people and adults as consumers and also producers. In the shifting technological landscape, childhood and youth are changing. Connectivity around the clock, with a parallel existence in virtual space, is seamlessly integrated with actual lives. Young people are skilful collaborators, navigating digital gaming and social networking with ease, capably generating and manipulating content, experimenting virtually with versions of their 'social face'. They are implicit, inherent and immersed consumers. They are digital possibility thinkers posing 'what if?' questions and engaging in 'as if' activity. This paper seeks to theorise such possibility thinking in a digital, marketised age, using two competing discourses: young people as vulnerable and at risk; or alternatively as capable and potent. The former perspective imbues anxiety about the digital revolution; the latter embraces it as exciting and enabling. As education providers seek to re-imagine themselves, neither is sufficient. Local and global challenges urgently demand our creative potential and wisdom. Drawing from work with schools, the paper argues for co-creating with students their education futures through dialogue to nurture the 4 Ps: plurality, playfulness, participation and possibilities.

scholarly journals La formación del educador como factor de calidad de las organizaciones educativas// The formation of the educator as a quality factor of educational organizations.

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Carmen Cecilia Lago de Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Educational Quality ◽  
First Century ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Education Legislation ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Revisión Sistemática ◽  
Undergraduate Programs ◽  
Siglo Xx

En este trabajo se una reflexión a partir de la revisión sistemática de la legislación educativa en Colombia, del sistema de evaluación de los estándares de calidad educativa partiendo de que desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX e inicio del siglo XXI, Colombiaha realizado múltiples cambios y reformas en su sistema educativo en cuanto a legislación, políticas, currícula, estándares, procesos de evaluación, sin embargo no hasido posible mejorar en forma significativa los índices alcanzados tanto en las evaluaciones nacionales como son: pruebas saber, para la educación básica, pruebas saber para bachilleres y saber Pro para quienes finalizan los programas de pregrado.ABSTRACT:In this paper, a reflection from the systematic review of education legislation in Colombia, the evaluation system of educational quality standards assuming that since the second half of the twentieth century and early twenty-first century, Colombia has made many changes and reforms in the education system in terms of legislation, policies, curriculum, standards, assessment processes, however, has not been possible to significantly improve the rates achieved both national assessments such as: tests namely, basic education, find evidence for graduates and leavers know Pro for undergraduate programs.

scholarly journals Body Surrogates: Mannequins, Life-Size Dolls, and Avatars

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Francesco Spampinato
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
First Century ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Material Conditions

One of the tropes of these early years of the twenty-first century is that of the avatar, a virtual representation of a human being used for entertainment, educational, technical, or scientific purposes. The avatar is a product of digital culture, but its origins are coeval with those of the human being and its evolution is affected by material conditions and the level of technology currently achieved by a given society. The origin of the word “avatar” has a spiritual connotation: It was associated with Hinduism and used to describe a deity who took a terrestrial form. More generally, however, whether in terms of religion or computing, we could define the avatar as a surrogate, a body—real or virtual—that replaces another.

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