Jordan’s coming climate crisis will hit youth hard

Significance Young people, who will be most affected in their lifetimes, are disadvantaged by a lack of relevant education and information provision. They are also more preoccupied by immediate challenges of poverty and unemployment -- even though the country’s acute vulnerability means environmental challenges are already exacerbating these problems. Impacts Climate change will further undermine employment prospects, driving more young people to emigrate. Environmental deterioration will have most impact on the poorest, further worsening inequality. Water shortages will constitute an acute regional challenge, with spillover effects into and from neighbouring countries.

The Essence of Education in Disruptive COVID-19 Crisis: Capturing the Lived Experience of College Students in the Philippines

Asserting a responsive, appropriate, and relevant education has historically always been a problem for most learners from marginalized groups. This extant inequality has been magnified in the present novel crisis. Thus, drawing from the lived experience of college students belonging to the marginalized group of indigenous peoples, this research described the essence of education in the context of the current COVID-19 crisis. Following the phenomenological approach based upon the hermeneutic rule of Dahlberg et al. (2008), the researcher interviewed 10 Filipino college students who identify themselves as indigenous peoples. Four themes emerged: 1.) It surprised me: Education has a changed ecology; 2.) It overwhelmed me: Education is fraught with divides; 3.) It motivated me: Education is a driver of aspiration beyond crisis; and 4.) It taught me: Education has unintended positive outcomes. These themes form the structure of the essence of education amid the COVID-19 crisis from the perspectives of college students belonging to the group of indigenous peoples. This research underlines the practical significance of analyzing the state of the students amid a virulent crisis. Given the extant inequality and considering the anticipated educational recovery phase, measures should be planned towards the attainment of responsive, appropriate, and relevant education.

MENINGKATKAN KINERJA KEPALA MADRASAH DALAM MELAKSANAKAN SUPERVISI KELAS MELALUI SUPERVISI MANAJERIAL PENGAWAS PADA MADRASAH BINAAN MIS KECAMATAN PRINGAPUS KABUPATEN SEMARANG

Qualitative research that aims to describe the objectives of managerial supervision as a step in managing school administration that functions as a supporter of the implementation of learning, and aims to create relevant education. The purpose of this action research is to determine the extent of the influence of managerial supervision in improving the performance of principals in the target schools at MIS Kecamatan Pringapus Kabupaten Semarang for the academic year 2021-2022. In this action research was carried out in 2 cycles, from the results of the actions taken it was proven to be able to improve the performance of the principal by achieving the ideal standard. From 70,00% in Cycle I, it can increase to 91,25% in Cycle II. The results of this action research show that supervising supervisors through managerial supervision is effective in improving the performance of principals in the target schools at MIS Kecamatan Pringapus Kabupaten Semarang. ABSTRAKPenelitian kualitatif yang bertujuan mendeskripsikan sasaran supervisi manajerial sebagai langkah pengelolaan administrasi madrasah yang berfungsi sebagai pendukung terlaksananya pembelajaran, dan bertujuan agar terciptanya pendidikan yang relevan. Tujuan dari penelitian tindakan ini adalah untuk mengetahui sejauh mana pengaruh supervisi manajerial dalam meningkatkan kinerja kepala madrasah di madrasah binaan MIS Kecamatan Pringapus Kabupaten Semarang tahun pelajaran 2021-2022. Dalam penelitian tindakan ini dilakukan dalam 2 siklus, dari hasil tindakan yang dilakukan terbukti dapat meningkatkan kinerja kepala madrasah dengan mencapai standar ideal. Dari 70,00% pada Siklus l, dapat meningkat menjadi 91,25% pada siklus II, Hasil penelitian tindakan ini menunjukkan bahwa pembinaan pengawas melalui supervisi manajerial adalah efektif dapat meningkatkan kinerja kepala madrasah binaan di MIS Kecamatan Pringapus Kabupaten Semarang.

Middle School Teachers and Undergraduate Mentors Collaborating for Culturally Relevant STEM Education

This qualitative multiple case study explores the collaborations between three STEM middle school teachers and three STEM undergraduate mentors of color in an urban school district. Drawing on sociocultural theories and literature on culturally relevant education, we used a comparative thematic approach to explore how mentors contributed to culturally relevant opportunities in STEM curriculum and pedagogy. We found that the partners’ STEM identities, how the teacher positioned the mentor in the learners’ experience, and the teachers’ philosophy of the purpose of engineering influenced the contribution undergraduate mentors could make to rigorous and equitable engineering instruction.

Printed Modular Distance Learning in Philippine Public Elementary Schools in Time of COVID-19 Pandemic: Quality, Implementation, and Challenges

Coronavirus Disease 2019 forced educational sectors worldwide to implement various distance learning modalities. In the Philippines, printed modular distance learning modality was implemented to continue delivering quality and relevant education amid the pandemic. Thus, this study assessed the quality and implementation of PMDL in public elementary schools. Likewise, this study ranked the challenges encountered by the teachers in the quality and implementation of PMDL. Using descriptive and inferential analyses, the results revealed that both quality and implementation of PMDL were consistently excellent, indicating the adherence of the modality to the national standards set by the Department of Education. However, significantly lower quality of PMDL among small and medium schools and the encountered challenges of teachers on assessments, activities, outputs, parents' incapacity, inconsistent participation, and compliance established the need for instructional supervision.

Strategies of Supporting Progressed Learners for Quality Teaching and Learning in Vhembe District, Limpopo, South Africa

<p>Progressed learners differ from their counterparts. The difference is reflected in their assimilation, retention and abilities to reproduce what they are taught. Meanwhile, progressing learners due to policy is insufficient, certain support strategies are to be in place. Hence, the study investigated the strategies of supporting “qualified to be progressed” (QP) learners for quality learning and teaching. Mixed methods was employed for data collection. Random and purposive sampling techniques were used to select teachers and School Management Team (SMT) members respectively who formed the study sample. The study was conducted in 10 purposively selected secondary schools in the Vhembe education, Limpopo, South Africa. Questionnaires were used to collect data from 165 selected teachers who were the respondents for the quantitative part of the study. Meanwhile interviews were conducted for the 10 SMTs who formed the participants for the qualitative part of the study. Percentage was used to analyse the quantitative data, while the qualitative data were used for triangulation. The finding of the study showed amongst others that there are no specific support strategies put in place to assist progressed learners to catch up with their counterparts. The study recommends that schools and relevant education stakeholders put in place support strategies to assist progressed learners.</p>

DIGITAL ENGINES AT WORK: PROMOTING RESEARCH SKILLS IN STUDENTS

The paper focuses on the digital teaching and research practices which make an indispensable integral component of upscale education. The authors compare traditional approaches to education against the much demanded by the society, promising approaches which heavily rely on the digital engines. Most relevant –education-wise –features of centennials / millennials, also referred to as “digital natives”, are taken into account. The digital teaching practices and digital research practices that can be used in teaching are outlined; teaching and research potential of some digital engines is examined. Corpus-based experiment along with the analysis of search engine results, cultural-linguistic research through Google and Yandex searching, Tropes Zoom’s content analysis and some other methodological novelties that can be used in the classroom as well as facilitate and substantiate the research results are analysed.

Building a Liberal Arts Tradition in India

Postcolonial nations often struggle with the legacy of higher education systems built by and for the benefit of former colonizers. In India, several visionaries have endeavored to design new approaches to higher education that are suitable to India’s unique context while taking inspiration from the US liberal arts college model. Interest in the liberal arts has grown - in an interconnected world, where a broader scope of understanding is required to craft solutions to societal challenges, young Indians are seeking an alternative to the specialized university model that has dominated the Indian higher education landscape since colonial times. This paper explores the practice of the liberal arts in India through three questions: How does the liberal arts approach fit within the Indian context? How have Indian universities built their own liberal arts tradition? What tensions do these universities navigate? I collected data through a document analysis and interviews with founders, faculty, students, and alumni at three new liberal arts universities in India. While communicating the practical value of the liberal arts to a largely unfamiliar population, the universities built their own liberal arts tradition to help students appreciate, analyze, and develop a commitment to improving the Indian context. At the same time, universities faced numerous tensions: responding to pressures to produce highly employable graduates while remaining true to their institutional ideals, balancing wisdom from both the western liberal arts model and indigenous Indian traditions, and fostering greater inclusion while maintaining financial sustainability. The study’s findings contribute to the field of higher education in India and other postcolonial countries seeking to create new culturally relevant education traditions.

Water Infrastructure Asset Management Is Evolving

Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM) is the process by which decisions are made and resources allocated to ensure organisational or societal assets continue to deliver, as required. IAM is an evolving field. We discuss this evolution and present our perspectives on the future direction of IAM. IAM was born as a response to the poor state of maintenance of infrastructure, largely due to lack of resources, and emphasizes the need to prioritize maintenance and renewal using risk-based approaches. The demands on IAM have also continued to evolve as asset systems have become more complex, with multifunctionality, adaptative capacity and nature-based infrastructure, all issues that IAM must now consider. These challenges underpin the changing context of Water Infrastructure Asset Management (WIAM) and the opportunity for WIAM to harness new technical developments from other IAM domains. WIAM will need to continue to evolve, responding to these challenges and take advantage of these opportunities through research and application in collaboration with a relevant education and capacity development agenda.