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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
Cecile Dupire

Common issues, different approaches: strategies for community-academic partnership deve... - 0 views

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  • Cecile Dupire on 29 Nov 10
     
    Because of the multiple issues caused by the American health-care system, researchers have though to find a solution to help the communities in need (such as for example old persons or homeless people or families): a community-academic partnership. Two nursing schools would work for one year with a non-profit social association in order to provide health care to those in need as well as a good practice for the future nurses. But how to manage in an efficient manner for everyone a community-academic partnership? Researchers and members involved have faced many boundaries during the implementation and the existence of this partnership.
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Boundary-Crossing Competence: Theoretical Considerations and Educational De... - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 28 Nov 10
     
    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.
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    Make sure you're logged in Bibnet.lu.
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.
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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