Educational Commons

Author : Alexander J. Means,Derek R. Ford,Graham B. Slater
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137586414

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Educational Commons in Theory and Practice by Alexander J. Means,Derek R. Ford,Graham B. Slater Pdf

In this volume, critical scholars and educational activists explore the intricate dynamics between the enclosure of global commons and radical visions of a common social future that breaks through the logics of privatization, ecological degradation, and dehumanizing social hierarchies in education. In its institutional and informal configurations alike, education has been identified as perhaps the key stake in this struggle. Insisting on the urgency of an education that breaks free of the bonds of enclosure, the essays included in this volume weave together bright threads of radical thought into a vivid tapestry illustrating a critical framework for enacting a global educational commons.

Author : Peter MacKinnon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781487518554

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University Commons Divided by Peter MacKinnon Pdf

In recent years, a number of controversies have emerged from inside Canadian universities. While some of these controversies reflect debates occurring at a broader societal level, others are unique to the culture of universities and the way in which they are governed. In University Commons Divided, Peter MacKinnon provides close readings of a range of recent incidents with a view to exploring new challenges within universities and the extent to which the idea of the university as ‘commons,’ a site for open and contentious disagreement, may be under threat. Among the incidents addressed in this book are the Jennifer Berdahl case in which a UBC professor alleged a violation of her academic freedom when she was phoned by the university's board chair to discuss her blog on which she speculated about the reasons for the university president's departure from office; the case of Root Gorelick, a Carleton University biologist and member of the university’s board of governors who refused to sign a code of conduct preventing public discussion of internal board discussions; the Facebook scandal at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Dentistry in which male students posted misogynistic comments about their female classmates. These and many other examples of turmoil in universities across the country are used to reach new insights on the state of freedom of expression and academic governance in the contemporary university. Accessibly written and perceptively argued, University Commons Divided is a timely and bold examination of the pressures seeking to transform the culture and governance of universities.

Author : Thomas H. P. Gould
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780810881099

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Creating the Academic Commons by Thomas H. P. Gould Pdf

Today's library is still at the heart of all university activities, helping students and faculty become better learners, teachers, and researchers. In recent years there has emerged the formalizing of one or more of these activities into an Academic Commons. These centers of information have been labeled variously but they all share a commonality: the empowerment of students and teachers. In Creating the Academic Commons: Guidelines for Learning, Teaching, and Research, Thomas Gould gives a detailed outline of the various roles and activities that take place in commons located within the administrative umbrella of the library. Gould provides a roadmap for libraries seeking to establish their own Academic Commons, complete with suggestions regarding physical structure and software/hardware options. And to ensure new ideas are examined, evaluated, and adopted broadly, Gould shows how the Millennial Librarian can be at the center of this evolutionary library. Including information regarding the latest technological advances, this book will be an invaluable guide for librarians.

Author : Judith Anne Sykes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440844218

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The Whole School Library Learning Commons by Judith Anne Sykes Pdf

Introduce your teachers, librarians, and administrators to the roles and responsibilities of educators in advocating a whole school library learning commons using this step-by-step guide for creating shared learning space in your school. It is no surprise that technology has shifted the way we educate—bearing on how, what, and where we learn. This guide lays the framework for helping turn your school library into a whole school library learning commons (WSLLC)—a space where traditional academics merge with the latest technologies to engage learners in a way never before realized. Author Judith Anne Sykes contends that since the WSLLC philosophy allows staff and students to co-create knowledge in a shared space, it is more effective than the traditional approach. Sykes addresses the differences between a school library and a WSLLC, provides reasons to champion its creation in your institution, and discusses how to use mentoring as a means to sustain its survival. The book explores the roles and responsibilities of educators in developing WSLLC goals and presents strategies for using typical assessment tools—including standardized tests, report cards, and anecdotal assessments—to help support its philosophy.

Author : Devin P. Singh,Randal Joy Thompson,Kathleen A. Curran
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839095269

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Reimagining Leadership on the Commons by Devin P. Singh,Randal Joy Thompson,Kathleen A. Curran Pdf

Reimagining Leadership on the Commons examines leadership approaches derived from an, open, whole systems perspective and a more collaborative paradigm that recognizes that rather than being individualist self-maximizers, people prefer to work together to share benefits and found a society based on equality and justice.

Author : Creative Commons
Publisher : ALA Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838919464

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Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians by Creative Commons Pdf

This book represents the first-ever print complement to the CC Certificate program, providing in-depth coverage of CC licenses, open practices, and the ethos of the Commons.

Author : Therese M. Quinn,John Ploof,Lisa J. Hochtritt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136976759

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Art and Social Justice Education by Therese M. Quinn,John Ploof,Lisa J. Hochtritt Pdf

Art and Social Justice Education offers inspiration and tools for educators to craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration projects. The images, descriptive texts, essays, and resources are grounded within a clear social justice framework and linked to ideas about culture as commons. Essays and a section written by and for teachers who have already incorporated contemporary artists and ideas into their curriculums help readers to imagine ways to use the content in their own settings. This book is enhanced by a Companion Website (www.routledge.com/cw/quinn) featuring artists and artworks, project examples, and dialogue threads for educators. Proposing that art can contribute in a wide range of ways to the work of envisioning and making a more just world, this imaginative, practical, and engaging sourcebook of contemporary artists’ works and education resources advances the field of arts education, locally, nationally, and internationally, by moving beyond models of discipline-based or expressive art education. It will be welcomed by all educators seeking to include the arts and social justice in their curricula.

Author : Andrew Harrison,Les Hutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134481972

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Design for the Changing Educational Landscape by Andrew Harrison,Les Hutton Pdf

The whole landscape of space use is undergoing a radical transformation. In the workplace a period of unprecedented change has created a mix of responses with one overriding outcome observable worldwide: the rise of distributed space. In the learning environment the social, political, economic and technological changes responsible for this shift have been further compounded by constantly developing theories of learning and teaching, and a wide acceptance of the importance of learning as the core of the community, resulting in the blending of all aspects of learning into one seamless experience. This book attempts to look at all the forces driving the provision and pedagogic performance of the many spaces, real and virtual, that now accommodate the experience of learning and provide pointers towards the creation and design of learning-centred communities. Part 1 looks at the entire learning universe as it now stands, tracks the way in which its constituent parts came to occupy their role, assesses how they have responded to a complex of drivers and gauges their success in dealing with renewed pressures to perform. It shows that what is required is innovation within the spaces and integration between them. Part 2 finds many examples of innovation in evidence across the world – in schools, the higher and further education campus and in business and cultural spaces – but an almost total absence of integration. Part 3 offers a model that redefines the learning landscape in terms of learning outcomes, mapping spatial requirements and activities into a detailed mechanism that will achieve the best outcome at the most appropriate scale. By encouraging stakeholders to creating an events-based rather than space-based identity, the book hopes to point the way to a fully-integrated learning landscape: a learning community.

Author : David V. Loertscher,Carol Koechlin,Sandi Zwaan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015082717854

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The New Learning Commons where Learners Win! by David V. Loertscher,Carol Koechlin,Sandi Zwaan Pdf

Examines the function and role of school libraries and computer labs. Considers how these resources are used differently than intended because they have been organization-based rather than client-based.

Author : Gianna Cappello
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031518379

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Educational Commons by Gianna Cappello Pdf

Author : Natalie Wexler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780735213562

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The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler Pdf

The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware. But The Knowledge Gap isn't just a story of what schools have gotten so wrong--it also follows innovative educators who are in the process of shedding their deeply ingrained habits, and describes the rewards that have come along: students who are not only excited to learn but are also acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary that will enable them to succeed. If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 0215063457

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House of Commons - Education Committee: School partnerships and Cooperation - HC 269 by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education Committee Pdf

The Government wants schools to take more responsibility for themselves and each other in delivering a true self-improving school system. It wants schools to look not to local authorities for expertise but to each other. We have no problem with that vision and think the wide range of models and structures already in place is a strength and proof of vitality. We support moves to give schools more freedom to innovate but we argue that the creation of a self-improving system needs a degree of coordination and strong incentives to encourage schools to look beyond their own school gate. Otherwise there is a danger that many schools will operate in isolation rather than in cooperation. Academy chains are generally performing well but raise particular questions and need specific solutions. We recommend that it should be made clear how academies can leave chains either with or without mutual consent. We also call for the Department for Education to monitor more effectively the extent to which convertor academies meet the expectation that they should support other schools. The report calls for, amongst other recommendations, that: Ofsted to be given the powers to inspect academy chains and for Government to formalise procedures for schools to leave academy chains by mutual consent, and to set out how an outstanding school can leave a chain against the wishes of the chain management

Author : Donald Robert Beagle,Donald Russell Bailey,Barbara Tierney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015067662703

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The Information Commons Handbook by Donald Robert Beagle,Donald Russell Bailey,Barbara Tierney Pdf

A pracitcal guide to the new model for library service delivery, the Information Commons, an umbrella concept describing the physical, virtual, and cultural environment for new learning communities of students, teachers, scholars, and researchers.

Author : Derek R. Ford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781666901016

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Communist Study by Derek R. Ford Pdf

In the second edition of this groundbreaking work, Derek R. Ford contends that radical politics needs educational theory, posing a series of educational questions pertinent to revolutionary movements: How can pedagogy bridge the gap between what is and what can be, while respecting the gap and its uncertainty and contingency? How can pedagogy accommodate ambiguity while remaining faithful to the communist project? In answering these questions, Ford develops a dynamic pedagogical constellation that radically opens up what education is and what it can mean for revolutionary struggle. In charting this constellation, Ford takes the reader on a journey that traverses disciplinary boundaries, innovatively reading theorists as diverse as Lenin, Agamben, Marx, Lyotard, Althusser, and Butler. Demonstrating how learning underpins capitalism and democracy, Ford articulates a theory of communist study as an alternative and oppositional logic that, perhaps paradoxically, demands the revolutionary reclamation of testing. Poetic, performative, and provocative, Communist Study is oriented toward what Ford calls “the sublime feeling of being-in-common,” which, as he insists, is always a commonness against.

Author : Kevin Tavin,Gila Kolb,Juuso Tervo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030737702

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Post-Digital, Post-Internet Art and Education by Kevin Tavin,Gila Kolb,Juuso Tervo Pdf

This open access edited volume provides theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives on art and education in a post-digital, post-internet era. Recently, these terms have been attached to artworks, artists, exhibitions, and educational practices that deal with the relationships between online and offline, digital and physical, and material and immaterial. By taking the current socio-technological conditions of the post-digital and the post-internet seriously, contributors challenge fixed narratives and field-specific ownership of these terms, as well as explore their potential and possible shortcomings when discussing art and education. Chapters also recognize historical forebears of digital art and education while critically assessing art, media, and other realms of engagement. This book encourages readers to explore what kind of educational futures might a post-digital, post-internet era engender.