{"id":9972,"date":"2020-08-19T22:12:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2020-08-19T22:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:14:45","slug":"sensing-bigger-possibilities-for-universities-education-transformation-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/sensing-bigger-possibilities-for-universities-education-transformation-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensing Bigger Possibilities for Universities. Education Transformation Interview."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u00a0During the pandemic Hilary Bradbury<\/a> was interviewed by Dr. Daniel Gortz who leads the Metamodern community. <\/a>He’s wanting to re-imagine education for a future world in which we can live more sustainably. Here\u2019s the YouTube link<\/a>. A synopsis is offered below.<\/p>\n

As Daniel is compiling a list of provocative ideas for the transformation of education to be used as input for a summit of global ministers of education meeting in 2021, he wondered:<\/p>\n

What can action researchers add to ideas for the transformation of education? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I am not sure action research ideas are<\/em> provocative. I do know that they are not mainstream (yet!) So we talk about extending education – opening the doors and windows of the Ivory tower (thanks Aliki Nicolaides for this formulation!) to the ‘real world,\u2019 and<\/em> also to our internal worlds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Transformation won\u2019t be easy.\u00a0 Our notion of education is still largely shaped by medieval academic practices, at the core of which is a reward system which enshrines analysis and theory making. It’s all supported by a system of fear (or so I argue!) Worse, this very system may be even contributing\u00a0 – or certainly not preventing – the suicide epidemic among our young people. Consider that a leading cause of adolescent death is suicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But’s be constructive, actionable. What will the creative experiments that transform education look like?\u00a0\u00a0At AR+ we believe – and practice – that new experiments include turning the camera around. Reflexivity and our own development is vital, and so too is a dialogic \/stakeholder orientation that makes rooms for the arts. We want educator to involve their own students, not just “teach” them; so too the teachers themselves, perhaps even the parents and the local mayors need to become involved in reimagining and implementing new experiments.<\/p>\n

Still, even if we add these new dimensions (not easy!) – the institution of education won\u2019t transform without having a cadre of people who themselves are agents of transformation<\/em>, AKA ARTIsts. They make credible connection between university worlds and the larger eco-social learning systems. It is through these systems that society is reimagined and re-created. AR+ lives in this “riparian zone” between university and real worlds. We’d like more of us to work together!<\/p>\n

A synopsis is offered not least because the “pandemic aesthetic” of the video is a bit scary \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a few minutes warm-up with sharing some background Daniel poses several big questions.<\/p>\n

A. Where is the education system today? What direction should it go?<\/strong><\/p>\n