The ELA Classroom in the Context of Contemporary Schooling

2018 ◽  
pp. 124-155
Author(s):  
Arthur T. Costigan
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Schooling

Attending to data: Exploring the use of attendance data within the datafied school

2021 ◽  
pp. 003452372098420
Author(s):  
Neil Selwyn ◽  
Luci Pangrazio ◽  
Bronwyn Cumbo
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
School Staff ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Student Attendance ◽  
Contemporary Schooling

Contemporary schooling is seen to be altering significantly in light of a combined ‘digitisation’ and ‘datafication’ of key processes. This paper examines the nature and conditions of the datafied school by exploring how a relatively prosaic and longstanding school metric (student attendance data) is being produced and used in digital form. Drawing on empirical data taken from in-depth qualitative studies in three contrasting Australian secondary schools, the paper considers ‘anticipatory’, ‘analytical’ and ‘administrative’ aspects of how digitally-mediated attendance data is produced, used and imagined by school staff. Our findings foreground a number of constraints, compromises and inconsistencies that are usually glossed-over in enthusiasms for ‘data-driven’ education. It is argued that these findings highlight the messy realities of schools’ current relationships with digital data, and the broader logics of school datafications.

Mapping Curricular Assemblages

2019 ◽  
Vol 121 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Paul William Eaton ◽  
Petra Munro Hendry
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Educative Process ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Relational Capacities ◽  
Background Context ◽  
Contemporary Schooling

Background/Context This article advances scholarship from curriculum theorists, educational philosophers, and educational researchers unpacking the dehumanizing aspects of education. Focus of Study The article maps the role of the tree as a measuring and organizing apparatus of curriculum and unpacks possibilities for utilizing rhizomes as a way to create movement in conceptualizing curriculum. Research Design In this article, we utilize Jackson and Mazzei's concept of thinking with theory. We bring into conversation Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical concepts of assemblage, arborescence, rhizomatics, and deterritorializing and Karen Barad's concepts of entanglement and intra-action. Conclusions The article proposes envisioning the tree and the rhizome as mutually constituted in contemporary curriculum discourses but asserts the continuing dominance of the tree as limiting the relational capacities of curriculum. Thinking curriculum arborescently dehumanizes contemporary schooling and education by reducing students, teachers, classrooms, and schools to data points. Rhizomatic thinking opens space for a relational, ethical, and ontological educative process of being∼becoming.

scholarly journals Iqbal and Modern Islamic Educationists, Part 1: The Perceived Aims and Objectives of Education - A Comparative Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Abid Ali ◽  
Suhailah Hussien
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Educational Philosophy ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic School ◽  
Educational Thought ◽  
Islamic Schools ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Frame Work ◽  
Contemporary Schooling ◽  
Thematic Data

Iqbal views the schooling as well as the Madrassah systems devoid of developing a dynamic Muslim required for the renaissance of Ummah. With this realization, many Islamic educationists in Pakistan have established. Islamic schools in Pakistan. The question is whether their models are dynamic enough to create such Muslims? This research probes into the perceptions and practices of ten Islamic school educationists in Pakistan. It also probes and clearly elaborates Iqbal’s educational directives, and finally does a comparative analysis of Iqbal’s directives with the Islamic educationists’ perceptions and practices. Exploring Iqbal’s educational thought includes qualitatively drawing hermeneutical interpretationsfrom Iqbal’s two Persian anthologies of Asrar i khudi (Secrets of the Self), and Ramooz i bikhudi (Mysteries of Selflessness). Thematic data analysis was used to draw the aims and objectives for education from Iqbal’s said works. It was discovered that though the Islamic educationists carried some visions of education from Islamic perspective, they were largely following contemporary secular frame work of education in attempting to achieve these objectives. The contemporary schooling framework has been severely critiqued by Iqbal and is deplored by many educationists in the west as well for its ineptness to confirm with child’s learning psychology. This project was undertaken as my doctoral research and is presented in two parts. The first part elaborates the aims and objectives as conceived by these Islamic educationists, and as derived from Iqbal’s educational philosophy. The second part of this paper will elaborate the practices of these educationists with Iqbal’s educational directives.

Violence and the moral order in contemporary schooling

2014 ◽  
pp. 81-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance Ellwood ◽  
Bronwyn Davies
Keyword(s):  
Moral Order ◽  
Contemporary Schooling

Relations, Aliveness, Love: Curriculum in the Spirit of the Earth

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodi Latremouille ◽  
Lesley Tait ◽  
David W. Jardine
Keyword(s):  
Face To Face ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human World ◽  
Trusting Relationships ◽  
Ecological Thought ◽  
Contemporary Schooling

Images and practices of relations, aliveness, and love provide a way to reconcile knowledge and its schooled pursuit with the wisdom required in our current, ecologically desperate times. This desperation is rooted, in part, in threads of the efficiency movement that were inherited by education in the early 1900s and left schools with a curriculum legacy that has become exhausted and counterproductive. This inheritance can be countered with ideas from the traditions of hermeneutics and ecological thought. But they are also countered with life-affirming and life-sustaining Cree ideas: wahkohtowin, wicihitowin, and sakihitowin. Practicing these ideas can help align work inside and outside schools with the characteristic spirit (ethos) of our earthly being, and can provide the grounds for a pointed critique of, and alternative to, the regnant regimes of contemporary schooling. wahkohtowin means, briefly put, “all things are related/all things are our relations” and wicihitowin refers to “the life-giving energy that is generated when people face each other as relatives and build trusting relationships by connecting with others in respectful ways.” sakihitowin means “love.” Reimagining curriculum as constituted by living fields of relations while also considering not only the energeia, the “aliveness” that is generated in the face-to-face care of and learning the ways of such living fields, but also the deep affection that is both needed for and produced by such reimagining, increases the prospects of our ecological future and the future of the more-than-human world.

Whose Spirituality? Which Rationality? A Narrational Locus for Learning

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doug Blomberg
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Contemporary Schooling

SCHOOLS SHOULD LEAD students in learning to fulfil their many vocations in life. To do this, they must ask, what learning is of most value? The criteria employed to select this rather than that educational experience will reflect the answer given. But what is learned is inextricably linked with how it is learned. Though there are many differing forces at work in shaping contemporary schooling, one perennial factor is a primary commitment to autonomous reason focusing on relatively self-contained subject matters. I believe this is no mere “academic” concern but one of deep spiritual significance. After further contextualising this remark, I will examine prominent theories of moral development, a prime site for understanding our culture's conception of values and value acquisition. I will then propose that an alternative, relational rationality (“narrationality”) will enable schools better to reflect the interdependence of all creatures that Scripture proclaims and students to realise multidimensional value.1

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