scholarly journals Learning to survive: Wicked problem education for the Anthropocene age

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
William J. F. Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Global Citizens ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Knowledge Interests

This article addresses major lacunae in higher education from the standpoint of Anthropocenic survival. Wicked problems transcend national, cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Eco-survival, international migration, destabilized global markets, shifts in the balance of strategic power, population pressures, cultural imperialism, post-secular quests for meaning-in-life, ambivalence of bio-scientific progress, to name a selection, are global. The case is put that features of a postmodern orientation to the academic curriculum—transdisciplinarity, transnationalism, wicked problem engagement—are better equipped to meet the fuzzy knowledge interests of tomorrow’s world than traditional mono-disciplinary curricula. However, both subject-based and transdisciplinary approaches can coexist with profit in the education of tomorrow’s global citizens. A paradigm shift in how we educate for survival is proposed here.

Theatrology, the New Cultural Management School in Romania

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-273
Author(s):  
Ivona Tătar-Vîstraş
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Management School

Abstract We are witnessing a paradigm shift regarding the theatrologist’s position in the Romanian theatre environment. While, until recently, theatrology meant cultural journalism, this definition is no longer sufficient or attractive for secondary school graduates. Romania’s higher education offer has changed increasingly in the last years, in the attempt to keep up with the requirements of the labour market; the solution was provided by the area of cultural management. Every last faculty in this sector covers the new direction of study and research. This article seeks to investigate the existing educational offers, which should allow an understanding and a new complete image of the theatrologist in Romania; in our opinion, this image will have an increasing impact on the national theatre community, shaped, of course, by the new directions of study.

PARADIGM SHIFT IN HIGHER EDUCATION PEDAGOGIES ECOSYSTEM IN 4IR ERA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashok Chopra ◽  
Eman Zabalawi ◽  
Anita Rani Chopra
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Paradigm Shift

Psychological Readiness for Mobile Learning Among Maldivian Students at Higher Education Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-232
Author(s):  
Fathimath Mumthaz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Mode Of Delivery ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Distance Learners ◽  
Readiness To Adopt

Objective - Mobile learning had widely impacted higher education, providing technology enabled educational opportunities to the mobile-first learners of the millennium, anytime, anywhere. The adoption of mobile technology rapidly increased among higher education institutions of Maldives, changing the psychological perception of distance learners who were located in different atolls of the country. Methodology/Technique - This paper was developed to explore psychological readiness of institutional distance learning students to adopt mobile learning in Maldives. Using quantitative approach, the research was conducted among the distance learners from three key higher education institutions of Maldives. Contributing to the e- questionnaire, three hundred and forty-three (n=340) students expressed their psychological readiness to adopt mobile learning in Maldives. Data collected using mobile technology was analysed using the analysis summary retrieved from Google forms and SPSS. Finding - The analysis revealed that majority of the students of Maldives higher education institutions were acquainted and psychologically ready to adopt mobile learning as a convenient mode of delivery. Novelty - Thereby, it can be said that students were willing to welcome mobile learning enhanced by mobile technology and were psychologically ready to adopt the emerging shift in the paradigm. Type of Paper - Empirical. Keywords: Mobile learning, psychological readiness, paradigm shift, higher education institutions, Maldives JEL Classification: I21, I23

scholarly journals Foundation for transdisciplinary education at Cape Peninsula University of Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masilonyane Mokhele ◽  
Nicholas Pinfold
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Cape Peninsula ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
South African Higher Education

South Africa faces a multitude of social, economic and environmental challenges, which require well-considered planning efforts. However, the efficacy of the built environment professions to adequately plan for the current and future populations can to some extent be questioned. Factors that are arguably responsible for the failure of the professions to achieve the desired outcomes include the following: (1) the inability of professionals to comprehensively analyse community problems and (2) although the various professions might work on the same issues, they largely fail to transcend disciplinary boundaries. This state of affairs can in part be linked to the role of higher education, which is in a good position to equip future professionals with the skills required for the analysis of diverse societal problems. In spite of the importance of education and training, there is a paucity of literature that explore ways in which the South African higher education sector instils transdisciplinary thinking and, accordingly, imparts the requisite soft skills to students. Using the case study of Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, the aim of this article was to present efforts that are pursued towards instilling transdisciplinarity in students. The efforts revolve around community service-learning pedagogy, which grants students a platform to work in close collaboration with communities. In the process, students and community members develop an in-depth understanding of the community’s problems and how they could be collectively resolved.

scholarly journals WORK-BASED LEARNING IN THE CONTEXT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 42-48
Author(s):  
Edgars Grandans
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Study Programs

The aim of the work is to find out how work-based learning should be implemented in the training of future teachers. To achieve this goal, the literature was researched on work-based learning models, modern study environment, paradigm shift in education.A questionnaire was compiled to find out how work-based learning would be implemented at the Rezekne Academy of Technology, and students studying in one of the study programs were interviewed. Based on the theoretical findings and the findings obtained during the research, proposals for the introduction of work-based learning at the Rezekne Academy of Technology were proposed.

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