Equipos docentes innovadores


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El libro muestra cómo este nuevo modo de trabajar colaborativamente, es decir, trabajando con el profesorado, constituye un instrumento capaz de dar respuesta al compromiso de construir nuevo conocimiento, a las necesidades de los respectivos contextos en los que se desempeñan los docentes, así como a la elevación de los grupos sociales a quienes dirigen su acción. Este modo de trabajo colaborativo propone un cambio de paradigma en la formación del profesorado, en el que los docentes saben y construyen su propio cambio de una forma crítica y dialógica; desde la práctica, y en relación con sus compañeros. Al partir de la propia práctica, se trata de una formación contextualizada que, a la vez, busca tener incidencia social y compromiso con el entorno. La obra es fruto del trabajo consensuado, conjunto y coordinado entre los componentes de grupos de investigación de Universidades de Argentina, Brasil y España, con el apoyo de CEAL, a través de intercambios virtuales, durante el proceso de investigación en cada país. Los equipos docentes de los tres países desarrollaron una formación, concebida como proceso de construcción, en la que los profesores tienen un protagonismo activo, piensan y reflexionan sobre las necesidades reales surgidas de su propia práctica y se marcan como objetivo mejorarla, introduciendo para ello nuevos planteamientos y estrategias. El trabajo se ha realizado, desde un planteamiento inclusivo, teniendo en cuenta la pluralidad del profesorado que accede a la formación, ya que cada uno aporta formación previa y experiencias diferentes que suponen una gran riqueza y que, a la vez, exigen implementar diálogo, conocimiento y valoración mutua. Los tres países parten de una formación concebida como proceso en donde los profesores tienen un protagonismo activo al pensar y reflexionar sobre su propia práctica para mejorarla e introducir nuevos planteamientos y estrategias.




Equipos docentes innovadores


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Equipos docentes innovadores


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An Educational Calamity


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The Covid-19 pandemic caused major disruptions to education around the world. Since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, most students on the planet were affected by the interruption of in-person schooling. To mitigate the educational loss such interruption would cause, education authorities the world over created a variety of alternative mechanisms of education delivery. They did so quickly and with insufficient knowledge about what would work well, for which children, and for what aspects of the schooling experience.Having to create such alternative arrangements in short order was the ultimate adaptive leadership challenge, one for which no playbook existed, one for which solutions would have to be invented, rather than drawn from existing technical knowledge. The nature of the challenge differed across the world and regions, and it differed also within countries as a function of the differential public health and economic impact of the pandemic on communities, and of variations in institutional and financial resources available to redress such impact, including availability of digital infrastructure and previous knowledge and experience of teachers and students with digi-pedagogies and other resources to create alternative education delivery systems.Sustaining educational opportunities amidst these challenges created by the pandemic was an example of adaptive education response not to a unique unexpected challenge but to one in a larger class of problems, just one of the many adaptive conundrums facing communities and societies. Beyond the challenges resulting from the pandemic, other complications of that sort predating the pandemic included those resulting from poverty, inequality, social inclusion, governance, climate change, among others. In some ways, the pandemic served as an accelerant for some of those, augmenting their impact or underscoring the urgency of addressing them. Adaptive puzzles of this sort, including pandemics, are likely to continue to impact education systems in the foreseeable future. This makes it necessary to strengthen the capacity of education systems to respond to them.Reimagining education systems so they are resilient in the face of adaptive challenges is an opportunity to mobilize new talent and institutional resources. Partnerships between school systems and universities can contribute to those reimagined and more resilient systems, they can enhance the institutional capacity of education systems to devise solutions and to implement them. Such partnerships are also an opportunity for universities to be more deliberate in integrating their three core functions of research, teaching and outreach in service of addressing significant social challenges in a context in rapid flux.In this book we present the results of one approach to produce the integration between research, teaching and outreach just described, resulting from engaging graduate students in collaborations with school systems for the purpose of helping identify ways to sustain educational opportunity during the disruption caused by the pandemic. This activity engaged our students in research and analysis, contributing to their education, and it engaged them in service to society. The book examines what happened to educational opportunity during the Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, Belize, the municipality of Santa Ana in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Kenya, in the States of Sinaloa and Quintana Roo in Mexico, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, and in the United States in Richardson Independent School District in Texas. It offers an systematic analysis of policy options to sustain educational opportunity during the pandemic.







The Convergence of Distance and Conventional Education


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This volume of essays from leading British, North American and Australasian contributors looks at the issues of the convergence of distance and conventional education. The term 'convergence' refers to the breaking down of barriers between open and distance learning and conventional institutions, and the creation of more and more institutions working across a range of modes. Such convergence has been driven by a number of factors, including the new technologies for teaching and learning, the impact of lifelong learning policies, the entry of larger than ever numbers of adult part-time students into tertiary education, and the demands of both employers and individuals for professional and work-related education throughout their working lives. The fourteen chapters engage critically with a range of aspects of convergence, including: * how well is open and distance learning carried out by conventional institutions for which it may continue for a lengthy period to be seen as of secondary importance? * to what extent will open and distance learning be more effectively carried out by conventional institutions able to offer a variety of modes to a wide range of learners? * how well will the variety of learners be served by systems that are converging? * what are the managerial issues at institutional level where converging systems are being developed?