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Sven A. Miller

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National -... - 4 views

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  • Since the 1980s, the main driver of Finnish education policy has been the idea that every child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic location. Education has been seen first and foremost not as a way to produce star performers, but as an instrument to even out social inequality.
  • Yet Sahlberg doesn't think that questions of size or homogeneity should give Americans reason to dismiss the Finnish example. Finland is a relatively homogeneous country -- as of 2010, just 4.6 percent of Finnish residents had been born in another country, compared with 12.7 percent in the United States. But the number of foreign-born residents in Finland doubled during the decade leading up to 2010, and the country didn't lose its edge in education. Immigrants tended to concentrate in certain areas, causing some schools to become much more mixed than others, yet there has not been much change in the remarkable lack of variation between Finnish schools in the PISA surveys across the same period.
  • Sven A. Miller on 03 Jan 12
     
    Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
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  • Luciele Milani on 09 Jan 12
     
    Sven, Equity is a nobel goal, in any sense. In my country politicians also say that but never provide the resources to accomplish such a goal in education. They compete on who is increasing the own bank account faster but money for education is never availeble. The salaries of the teachers and professors are very low and despite the good will of certain people involved in education we are far from obtaining equality. And I particularly think countries like the USA like it and would like to keep it this way. If the young population of Brazil were well educated we would take over the USA power. We have resources, we have industry and we have a huge population willing to work, and many wanting to change the world for a better, more cultivated, more respectuos and less consumist and selfish one. Equity in education in Brazil would change the whole world....for better!
  • asimpson321 on 03 Feb 12
     
    I think we cannot just look at the education system alone to consider if it is successful. The overall environment and peoples' effort in making equality works in their country are also important. If education system is just a mean to an end to achieve high score in PISA, it is not so difficult to do so. However, what exactly is the function of an education system in society is important.
  • Bonnie Chung on 06 Feb 12
     
    I admire Finland's intensive teacher-training and union collaboration. I think it is one of the important keys to the educational success. Of course, equity for students is very important. But, it is not enough to make the success. I would like to share a link which shows what Finland's Minister of Education says about their excellent teacher-training and union collaboration. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justin-snider/keys-to-finnish-education_b_836802.html
jean-marie nau

Education for Sustainable Development, ESD, Sustainability Design and Online Courses - ... - 1 views

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  • jean-marie nau on 20 Jan 11
     
    "Gaia Education promotes a holistic approach to education for sustainable development by developing curricula for sustainable community design. While drawing upon best practices within ecovillages worldwide, Gaia Education works in partnership with universities, ecovillages, government and non-government agencies and the United Nations. "
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  • jean-marie nau on 20 Jan 11
     
    another boundary crossing project, systemically organised, combining various elements worldwide.
  • Bereti Dóra on 21 Jan 11
     
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis I suggest you J-M to read the critics part, where we can see a "nice" example of tension between religion and science (just to connect to some previous topic) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology this is also very interesting to read when it comes to the principles of sustainable development
  • jean-marie nau on 21 Jan 11
     
    thank you for the link to deep ecology, "a contemporary ecological philosophy that claims to recognize the inherent worth of other beings aside from their utility. The philosophy emphasizes the interdependent nature of human and non-human life as well as the importance of the ecosystem and natural processes. It provides a foundation for the environmental, ecology and green movements and has fostered a new system of environmental ethics."
jean-marie nau

CGIE | Center for Global Integrated Education - 0 views

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  • jean-marie nau on 20 Dec 10
     
    "We promote, develop, supply and support educational programs, studies, products and services that could introduce and address a new system of integrated education in collaboration with individuals and organizations who are dedicated to providing a comprehensive education to children worldwide."
jean-marie nau

Learning by doing: Preparation of Bahá'í nonformal tutors - Closson - 2012 - ... - 0 views

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  • jean-marie nau on 18 Mar 12
     
    This chapter describes the development of a Bahá'í international adult education program designed so that community service is both process and outcome. Particular emphasis is on the preparation of adult tutors.
Bereti Dóra

Aspects of Boundary Crossing in Education Summaries and Sources of Selected Literature - 2 views

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  • Bereti Dóra on 02 Nov 10
     
    click on the first [Doc] file on page somehow i cannot have a direct link to the document, but u might find some further interesting readings on the page though
  • Charles MAX on 26 Nov 10
     
    the doc is for downloading only. On the other hand, please share a link to a precise page. Publishing a google search page does not point to a particular reference leaving this decision to everyone who will vist the link.
jean-marie nau

International Society for Science and Religion - 4 views

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  • jean-marie nau on 09 Dec 10
     
    Phillip Clayton, California-based philosopher and theologian: "What we are hoping for is a cross-fertilization between two of the greatest forces of the human spirit - science and religion."
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  • Cecile Dupire on 10 Jan 11
     
    Thank you Jean-Marie for sharing this website. It is very interesting to see that more and more science and religion are "buriing the hatchet" even if we are far away to have a peaceful discussion between the two. Often, I have seen religious people (and I might say extremists) rejecting sciences as a whole (for example the war between creationism and evolution). But often I have seen and heard scientists rejecting religion 'en bloc' sans essayer de comprendre quel est le rôle de la religion dans nos vies. Trying to link science and religion is in my opinion crossing the boundaries. Being educated in a non-religious family and having often meet people who rejected religion, I try nowadays, and thanks to you, to be more open minded to this and try to understand the interest that people could have in religion, as well as the role and impact it has on the world. Because even if sciences is nowaways the "norm" in answering questions such as the birth of universe or how Moise managed to "walk on water", I believe that scientists should keep their eyes and ears open to it... faith might be getting stronger than truth...!
  • Lucas Eaton on 18 Jan 11
     
    yeah thanks for this one Jean-Marie. While I don't consider myself particularly religious, I was more or less raised in a church. I was always taught by my mother especially that there should not be any conflict between science and religion. Religion is interestingly one of the most fundamentally human characteristics and is found in virtually every society, so it shouldn't always be viewed as archaic or in contrast to modern discoveries. (ok...there is one, the Piraha people in Brazil who have no creation stories, but that's a whole different subject). Although , I do think that science has its place in our education system and I do believe religion should be separate. I am very against (was it Kansas??) that decided that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in schools. Then where do you stop? What becomes scientific fact in school anymore?
  • Bereti Dóra on 19 Jan 11
     
    This presentation was my contribution to the Telecollaboration course, but the topic matches perfectly. So for those of you who were not participating in the course and haven't seen it yet: http://voicethread.com/share/972645/ Please feel free to comment on it!
  • jean-marie nau on 19 Jan 11
     
    thank you guys. May I briefly comment on what Lucas said that science has its place and that religion should be separate. I would go as far as to say that religion needs to be looked at with a scientific mind and that today there can be no more room for superstition when our vision should be world-embracing. May I suggest as a basis an evolvinc conceptual framework for social action.(you can find it here: http://jmnau.wordpress.com/) What people do in private is different from what should be taught to every child the world over!
  • Cecile Dupire on 27 Jan 11
     
    just wanted to clear my last thought, because it might be confusing... what I wanted to say is that, what I have heard is happening in the USA, sciences has become to 'complicated' to understand for some people, whereas religion (extremism) talk to them with easier words and concepts. that is why many people of the US society is now 'turning their back to science'. However, scientists don't even realize what is happening and call crazy everyone who does not believe is scientific truth. What i wanted to say is that scientists should open their eyes instead of being stubborn and neglect religion as a whole.
  • anola brace on 30 Jan 11
     
    It´s always very interesting for me to see all the discussions about religion. Actually, it´s the first time in my life that I listening so many discussions about religion´s issues. Coming from country that is very open and tolerant toward religion and grown up in environment when we celebrate all the religion ritual without problem. ( We have 4 religion in Albania + different sects). What is happening now in all the world about religion conflicts, starts to influence a little bit, but hope to not change in Albania. Anyway that´s another issue. I wanted to say that is very interesting to have these different approaches toward the religion and also to discover this aspect of fanaticism that I never thought before. That´s I think the religion and science need to be open toward each other to minimize the fanaticism or the superiority feeling (sometime that that exist in both side, as the result of believe they own the truth ) both have.
  • evgenia gouvedari on 04 Mar 11
     
    The exploration of the relation between science and religion is indeed a "crossing-boundary" case par excellence. We have moved from modernity where the two were totally incompatible, through postmodernity where there was questioning of every absolute truth in both. What comes to my mind as a possible meeting point of dialogue between the two is the transmodernity paradigm that professor Ateljeviç presented to us: crossing boundaries between fields of research that favour a realtional consciousness of biosphere politics, love ethics and transcendence of old dichotomies. Indeed I feel that crossing the boundaries of old dichotomies in general is very challenging and Jean-Marie's posting provides a good stimulus for reflection towards this direction.
asimpson321

Office communications through social networking - 2 views

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  • asimpson321 on 04 Dec 11
     
    It is interesting to see how social networking has transformed the communication in office setting.
anonymous

Boundary-Crossing Competence: Theoretical Considerations and Educational De... - 0 views

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    This article provides a conceptual account and empirical analyses of the development of boundary-crossing competence-the ability to function competently in multiple contexts-using representative cases from two after-school programs with immigrant and low-socioeconomic status students. Our findings suggest that organizational designs that create networks of related communities of practice can provide opportunities for nondominant students to develop boundary-crossing competences through participation in expanded, horizontal-rather than hierarchal-systems of what Moll and colleagues have called "networked expertise." These new directions in understanding competence have important implications for improving learning designs for nondominant students.
  • anonymous on 28 Nov 10
     
    Make sure you're logged in Bibnet.lu.
jean-marie nau

LazosLearning Association - Constructing a Conceptual Framework for Social Action - 1 views

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  • jean-marie nau on 20 Dec 10
     
    "Constructing a Conceptual Framework for Social Action explores a framework within which an individual concerned with the transformation of society acts and reflects on action. "
  • jean-marie nau on 20 Dec 10
     
    relevant to the course: transforming universities within and without
Miriam Martinez

Embodied Child. Computer Interaction. Why embodiment matters - 1 views

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  • Miriam Martinez on 16 Jan 11
     
    The author present the interaction of children with media tools. Understanding the concept of "Embodiment means how the nature of a living entity's cognition is shaped by the form of its physical manifestation in the world" As we saw the theory is basis in the believe that the nature of the human mind is largely determined by the form of the human body. Then, Dividing the cognition then in Spatial, Physical and finally Metaphorical. Moreover the Embodied Child were analysed by the interaction with the computer, categorizing in Input design, interface design and interaction design.
jean-marie nau

Creating and Crossing Boundaries: How Scientists View the Relationship between Religion... - 1 views

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  • jean-marie nau on 19 Jan 11
     
    "Here we present findings from the "Religion among Academic Scientists" study, a survey (N=1,646) and initial in-depth interviews (N=150) with natural and social scientists at twenty-one elite US research universities. We examine the attitudes academic scientists at these universities have about the perceived conflict between religion and science and their personal cultural construction of the boundaries between science and religion. Using survey data, results show that field-specific differences, being in the natural or social sciences, are not significant predictors of adopting the conflict paradigm, refuting previous research. Attention to in-depth interviews reveals three mechanisms of boundary-crossing, where boundaries between religion and science are transgressed: institutional pull, boundary pioneering, and environmental push. These results contribute key mechanisms of boundary change and boundary crossing between the specific knowledge domains of science and religion to the growing sociology of culture literature on boundaries."
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  • jean-marie nau on 19 Jan 11
     
    what do you think?
  • Bereti Dóra on 19 Jan 11
     
    Werner Heisenberg. Der Teil und das Ganze: Gespräche im Umkreis der Atomphysik. (Piper, 2001) This book is written by one of the foundator and leading scientist of quantum mechanics and physics and is a very light-speaking, anecdoting story telling about Heisenberg's life, education, personal life and development. When he mentiones his awakening interest in physicsm he talks a lot about Platon and it is very interesting to read about his attitude towards religion and the principal questions of religion. It is also him we attribute the famous sentence: The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.
  • jean-marie nau on 19 Jan 11
     
    merci Dora, let us look at religion & science as two sources of knowledge. In my case, I would be most familiar with the Bahai Faith (www.bahai.org) and I do believe that this Faith has a new contribution in the task of transforming society.
Sven A. Miller

News: Wikipedia Aims Higher - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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  • Beyond grades, the fact that students are producing work that will be scrutinized by the public, not just a professor, heightens the incentive to do good work, several professors noted. Several reported that their students sent links to their entries to their parents — something they never did with papers.
  • “time-suck,”
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      Sven A. Miller on 12 Jul 11
       
      This is an acute problem - also within the MA!!!
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  • all these metacognitive process that we have such a hard time teaching
  • — and in this case actually defend yourself
  • It is going take time for … students who are less tech-savvy to be able to move on
  • sacrifice parts of his syllabus and devote about two full class periods to teaching students the technical ins and outs of writing and editing in Wikipedia and communicating with other editors
  • Sven A. Miller on 12 Jul 11
     
    Two dozen universities now have courses where students are working on Wikipedia as part of their formal coursework. Many of those campuses have "Wikipedia ambassadors" tasked with helping professors weave writing and editing Wikipedia entries into the syllabus. Even Ferriero's office at the National Archives and Records Administration now employs a "Wikipedian in residence" in charge of fostering relationships with galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
  • asimpson321 on 03 Feb 12
     
    Interesting! If it is a good piece of work,it doesn't matter whether it is judged by one professor/public. It does matter what students learn during the process and how they can improve their work further.
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