scholarly journals The Reflexible Person

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-71
Author(s):  
Rolf Arnold ◽  
Michael Schön
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
System Development ◽  
System Change ◽  
The Self ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Constructivist Pedagogy ◽  
German Education ◽  
Effective Conditions

Referring to the European and especially the German education system, this article first identifies that both forms of governance in educational systems as well as pedagogical professionalization have fallen behind. We present new proposals for a substantive and evidence-based reinterpretation and reshaping of what education is and can be and how educational systems can be changed. In order to address these shortcomings, we follow suggestions of a systemic-constructivist pedagogy, and highlight concrete strategies and starting points of an awareness-based system change in the field of educational system development are pointed out. This attempt to not only rethink education, but also to shape it, is based on a critical analysis of the often stagnant internal educational reforms, and the concepts and routines that characterize these stagnant reforms. We hypothesize that, in order to break free from this stagnation, a continuous self-transforming subjectivity of the responsible actors is necessary. This explanatory framework is extended in this article to the figure of the ”reflexible person” (Arnold, 2019a), whose main characteristic is reflexibility, in the sense of being reflexive as well as flexible. The reflexible person possesses practiced and strengthened competencies for observation and reflection including of the self, as well as reinterpretation and transformation. These competences are substantiated and specified as prerequisites and effective conditions for an awareness-based system change in educational systems. In addition, possible ways of promoting and developing them are pointed out.

FEATURES OF CONTROL IN THE CONDITIONS OF DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serhii Kubitskyi ◽  
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Oleksandr Pastovenskyi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Education System ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Self ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
System Control ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Control Functions

The article examines the features of control in the development of education systems. It is concluded that in order to increase the efficiency of education management depending on the level of development of the education system, control in it should be implemented on the basis of differentiated participation in the control activities of public structures involved in the educational process. In a rigid education system, control is exercised by the management of the institution almost without the participation of public structures. In the system with delegated managerial powers, it is advisable to involve the self-governing bodies of the educational institution in the implementation of certain micro-functions of control in educational subsystems. In a «soft» education system, the self-governing bodies of an educational institution can be involved in the implementation of individual micro-functions of control in the education system or in the implementation of control functions in its subsystems as a whole. In the system with network interactions, it is expedient to transfer control functions to self-governing bodies of the institution both in the education system as a whole and in its subsystems; other public structures included in the educational process may be involved in the implementation of certain micro-functions of control in the subsystems of the educational system. In the synergetic education system, it is expedient to delegate control functions in the educational system and its subsystems to the self-governing bodies of the institution; public structures involved in the educational process may be involved in the implementation of individual micro-functions of control in the education system or in the implementation in its subsystems of control functions as a whole. That is, the article substantiates that depending on the level of development of the educational institution, it is advisable to control it on the basis of differentiated participation in control measures of concerned public structures, ensuring the implementation of differentiated participatory control in the system. At the same time, further research requires into the use of optimal methods of control, the choice of which may also largely depend on the level of development of the education system.

Moving Beyond Inclusion to Participation: Essential Elements

2019 ◽  
pp. 54-67
Author(s):  
Toby Long
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Meaningful Participation ◽  
Full Participation

This paper discusses the evolution of the early childhood education system from excluding children with disabilities to fully including them in a manner emphasizing full participation.  Evidence indicates meaningful participation in everyday activities is necessary for development to occur. The essential elements needed to bring about participation will be presented as well as specific evidence-based strategies used to promote inclusion and participation.

Where Are the History Books for Palestinian Children?

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Sayigh
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
The Self ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Culturally Relevant Education ◽  
Palestinian Children ◽  
The Right ◽  
Authentic Curriculum ◽  
History Books ◽  
Relevant Education

Colonialism deprives colonised peoples of the self-determined histories needed for continued struggle. Scattered since 1948 across diverse educational systems, Palestinians have been unable to control their education or construct an authentic curriculum. This paper covers varied schooling in the Palestinian diaspora. I set this state of ‘splitting through education’ as contradictory to international declarations of the right of colonised peoples to culturally relevant education. Such education would include histories that explain their situation, and depict past resistances. I argue for the production of histories of Palestine for Palestinian children, especially those in refugee camps as well as in Israel and Jerusalem, where curricula are controlled by the settler-coloniser. Black and Native Americans have dealt with exclusion from history in ways that offer models for Palestinians.

Rethinking the notion of the high-performing education system: A Daoist response

2021 ◽  
pp. 174549992098369
Author(s):  
Charlene Tan
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
System A ◽  
High Performers ◽  
Major Implication

This article challenges the dominant notion of the ‘high-performing education system’ and offers an alternative interpretation from a Daoist perspective. The paper highlights two salient characteristics of such a system: its ability to outperform other education systems in international large-scale assessments; and its status as a positive or negative ‘reference society’. It is contended that external standards are applied and imposed on educational systems across the globe, judging a system to be high- or low- performing, and consequently worthy of emulation or deserving of criticism. Three cardinal Daoist principles that are drawn from the Zhuangzi are expounded: a rejection of an external and oppressive dao (way); the emptying of one’s heart-mind; and an ethics of difference. A major implication is a celebration of a plurality of high performers and reference societies, each unique in its own dao but converging on mutual learning and appreciation.

A Process Approach to Educational Systems Design

1973 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-204
Author(s):  
Donald W. Meals
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Education System ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Process Approach ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Dynamic Quality ◽  
Technology Systems

An examination of the steps in systems design reveals it to be an iterative process. The complexity and dynamic quality of the educational environment require designers of educational technology systems to emphasize this process and at the same time take into account conditions within the education system and the community that provide essential data. Examples of attempts to cope with these features of the design processes are presented along with implications for changes in the approach to the design of educational technology systems.

Beyond Bias: Critical Analysis and Layered Reading of Mao-Era Sources

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 759-782
Author(s):  
Sigrid Schmalzer
Keyword(s):  
Gold Standard ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Source Material ◽  
The State ◽  
The Self ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Layered Approach ◽  
Flea Markets ◽  
Mao Era

Abstract Scholars of Mao-era history adopt a wide range of approaches to the selection and treatment of source material. Some scholars regard published sources as propaganda, and therefore as biased and unreliable. For many, archival sources are the gold standard; others question the reliability even of the archive and favor materials that escaped the filtering fingers of the state to be found in flea markets or garbage piles. Avoiding the false choice of either accepting sources as received wisdom or dismissing them as biased, the author argues that how scholars read their sources is more important than which they keep and which they throw away. She advocates for a layered approach that accounts for contexts of production and circulation, and further emphasizes the need to make this process of reading sources visible in our writing. A critical, layered reading of three unlikely sources demonstrates the myriad possibilities for analysis that combines the empirical, the discursive, and the self-reflexive.

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