*The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux*, by Cathy Davidson

ADE Bulletin ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 158 (0) ◽  
pp. 103-105
Keyword(s):  
The University ◽  
New Education

scholarly journals Developing Communities of Praxis: Bridging the theory practice divide in teacher education

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael James Anderson ◽  
Kelly Freebody
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teach For America ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
The University ◽  
New Education

Teacher education in universities is under pressure. In many new education policies there is a renewed focus on teacher quality, and therefore quality initial teacher education. In some countries this renewed focus has led to a resurgence of “alternative approaches” to teacher education such as Teach for America / Australia. One of the most persistent complaints about pre-service teacher education is that educational theory presented in these programs does not relate sufficiently to the real work of teachers. In an attempt to overcome these real or perceived divides, tertiary drama educators at the University of Sydney constructed a professional experience program based on both the community of practice model (Lave and Wenger, 1991) and Frierean notions of praxis (1972). The community of praxis approach emphasises the importance of integrating theory and practice to support the development of beginning teachers. This article outlines the development, implementation, and evaluation of this approach, including the reasoning behind its foundation and the theoretical and practical significance of such an approach for teacher-educators.

scholarly journals El proceso de Bolonia y la admisión a la universidad. La realidad del sistema universitario español en perspectiva comparada

2018 ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
David Revesado Carballares
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Education Law ◽  
University System ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Educational Law ◽  
Access System ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
New Education

The Spanish educational system has been witnessing a profound transformation over the last few years, with numerous changes that affect different areas of our system, among them, one of the most talked about, is the one that concerns the university environment, and to be more concrete, to its access, which, through the Ley Orgánica de Mejora de la Calidad Educativa promulgated in December last 2013, will perform a transformation in the access model. The article begins by approaching in a historical perspective the transition to the Spanish university, over the last decades, to analyze in detail the proposal that brings the new educational law. The main objective that we intend to get is none other than to show the reality of our current access system, valuing, in turn, the need for a change, as reflected in the new education law. The consolidation of this proposal will be accompanied by the incorporation of various selective strategies, which will allow the Spanish university system to achieve higher quality standards

Does Merit Have a Future?

PMLA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
pp. 678-685
Author(s):  
John Marx ◽  
Mark Garrett Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Technology ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Profit Motive ◽  
Letter Grades ◽  
Learner Centered ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
The University ◽  
Elected Representatives ◽  
New Education

Cathy N. davidson'S the new education: how to revolutionize the university to prepare students for a world in flux challenges us to address nonacademics, and to update our teaching, by focusing on the big picture. She calls on us to rise above departmental politics and the tribalism of disciplinary debates. Instead of engaging in those familiar struggles, we should be talking with our neighbors and our elected representatives about the advantages of eliminating letter grades; the virtues of pedagogies that are learner-centered, collaborative, and project-based; the perils of specialization; the damage that departments do by stifling change; the promise of educational technology if divorced from the profit motive; the myth that STEM degrees lead directly to career success; and, of course, the need for public reinvestment in higher education. Each of these talking points draws energy from Davidson's contention that digital media have rendered industrial models of education obsolete.

scholarly journals A formative evaluation of a web-based tutorial

Curationis ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
SM Meyer
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Nursing Science ◽  
National Qualifications Framework ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The University ◽  
New Education ◽  
And Training

Lecturers of the Department of Nursing Science of the University of Pretoria (UP) were requested to participate in an informal evaluation of a software program. The software evaluated were developed as a tutorial by the author of this article. The content of the tutorial concerns the current issues of the new education and training dispensation in South Africa, and specifically how to compile unit standards to meet the requirements of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). The purpose of the evaluation was to assess the quality of the software. Participants were provided with a questionnaire, as well as criteria for the evaluation of software as presented in literature and information on the Web. The feedback has been useful and suggestions made by the participants have been used to improve and add to the product.

scholarly journals New Education Policy 2020 of India: A Theoretical Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-306
Author(s):  
Dr. Hemlata Verma ◽  
Adarsh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education Policy ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
The University ◽  
New Education

Education has a key and decisive role in this scenario of contingencies. The National Education Policy 2020 has therefore been transformed into the framework of this reform, which could help to build a new education system in the country, in addition to strengthening those economic and social indicators. That still needs to be improved. NEP 2020 provides for quality higher education through multidisciplinary universities and autonomous colleges. We have critically examined the policy in this paper and proposed changes to ensure a seamless continuum with its predecessor in addition to its predecessor, boosting its importance. The current paper describes the analysis of the requirements for NEP 2020 provisions and management practices at the university level. Recommendations are made for the design and implementation of NEPs at national and HEIs (Higher Education levels).

Education for the Future

PMLA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
pp. 700-706
Author(s):  
Karen Thornber
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
University President ◽  
Children And Young Adults ◽  
The University ◽  
New Education ◽  
Radical Transformation

Cathy N. Davidson's the new education: how to revolutionize the university to prepare students for a world in flux joins a rapidly growing genre that calls on society and its leaders to revolutionize education at all levels to prepare children and young adults for a fast-changing world. his genre includes the former Harvard University president Derek Bok's The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges (2017) and the Northeastern University president Joseph E. Aoun's Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2017). But whereas Bok focuses on why so little has changed in education despite the pressing need for radical transformation and Aoun introduces the new discipline of “humanics” as a means for higher education to prepare students for an era when professions are rapidly disappearing, Davidson highlights the widening gap between a rapidly changing society and an educational system that has not kept pace. Davidson supports her theoretical arguments with case studies of programs from institutions that are paving the way for a new education.

scholarly journals “They Paint Sedition on the Walls”: Towards a University of “Immigrants”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debaditya Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
State Terror ◽  
Arts Curriculum ◽  
Fascist Regime ◽  
The University ◽  
New Education ◽  
Ruling Party ◽  
Idea Of The University

Abstract While publicly funded institutions in India have provoked the punitive ire of the ruling Hindu Right and systematically invited acts of state terror, a new education policy drafted by the same ruling party advocates a wholesale return to a “liberal arts” curriculum. The essay attempts to demonstrate how the “liberal” has become the cultural logic of a communal-fascist regime, insofar as the regime is harnessing universities to its project of redefining citizenship as exclusionary, with a special rejection of the citizenship claims of Muslims. In this context, how might we rally our forces behind a hijacked “idea” of the university—and what are the possible futures of such a political maneuver? This essay suggests how a practice of imaginative labor at the university might be leveled not toward citizenship, but toward lessons in immigrancy. It will also address how a mass online transition—prompted by policy in the name of a pandemic—reconfigures rights of entry to this imaginative labor.

scholarly journals University as a Champion of Sustainable Development: Objectives, Approaches and Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 176-187
Author(s):  
E. A. Loktionova ◽  
D. I. Khlebovich
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Administrative Functions ◽  
Development Objectives ◽  
The University ◽  
Global Agenda ◽  
New Education ◽  
Russian Universities

The article reviews the objectives connected with present day university functioning within the frames of the UN global agenda, i.e. to ensure sustainable development. The academic community is interested mainly in finding the answer to the question about new approaches to conducting education, research and administrative functions of the university. University is considered as an influential institution, which promotes innovation and train future specialists to make responsible decisions. Values and goals of sustainable development affect universities, thus the aim of the article is to show in what way university can pursue ideology of system changes through realization of its education mission. The UN initiative ‘Responsible Managerial Education’ (RME) is seen as an approach to promoting sustainable development in universities and to designing new education programs. It is pointed out that by realizing principles of responsible managerial education in master course universities can develop practices contributing to goal attainment in the field of sustainable development. As a driver for RME realization the Englishlanguage master course program ‘Sustainable Management' was advanced, which relies on orientation to goals of sustainable development and principles of responsible managerial education. The authors put forward a concept of the program for Russian universities that includes methodological approaches to its construction, rough curriculum and expected outcomes. It is shown that system efforts aimed at attaining goals of sustainable management through responsible managerial education shall be continued by using the proposed solutions and searching for new ones. The authors identify spheres of university functioning that require serious reforms. Conclusions are drawn about new discourses in the field higher education connected with comprehending the involvement of universities in initiatives of sustainable development.

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