CENTRO EDUCACIONAL UNIFICADO, CONTRAPOSIÇÃO À PEDAGOGIA DE LATA

O trabalho, resultado de uma pesquisa qualitativa em educação, procurou refletir sobre o potencial contra-hegemônico do Centro Educacional Unificado (CEU) em relação aos princípios neoliberais em educação, também, denominados de "Pedagogia de Lata". Apresenta-se um estudo bibliográfico sobre a política neoliberal em educação, comparando-a às experiências vivenciadas pela Secretaria de Educação do município de São Paulo durante os anos 90. Analisa-se a proposta da Escola Cidadã, identificando seus princípios com os do projeto do CEU. Foram realizadas entrevistas abertas com protagonistas do projeto, objetivando a análise do processo instituinte. Constatou-se que o projeto, inicialmente contra-hegemônico, passou por um dialético processo instituinte, sendo depois descaracterizado pela gestão municipal paulistana iniciada em 2005.

CENTRO EDUCACIONAL UNIFICADO, CONTRAPOSIÇÃO À PEDAGOGIA DE LATA

O trabalho, resultado de uma pesquisa qualitativa em educação, procurou refletir sobre o potencial contra-hegemônico do Centro Educacional Unificado (CEU) em relação aos princípios neoliberais em educação, também, denominados de "Pedagogia de Lata". Apresenta-se um estudo bibliográfico sobre a política neoliberal em educação, comparando-a às experiências vivenciadas pela Secretaria de Educação do município de São Paulo durante os anos 90. Analisa-se a proposta da Escola Cidadã, identificando seus princípios com os do projeto do CEU. Foram realizadas entrevistas abertas com protagonistas do projeto, objetivando a análise do processo instituinte. Constatou-se que o projeto, inicialmente contra-hegemônico, passou por um dialético processo instituinte, sendo depois descaracterizado pela gestão municipal paulistana iniciada em 2005.

CENTRO EDUCACIONAL UNIFICADO, CONTRAPOSIÇÃO À PEDAGOGIA DE LATA

O trabalho, resultado de uma pesquisa qualitativa em educação, procurou refletir sobre o potencial contra-hegemônico do Centro Educacional Unificado (CEU) em relação aos princípios neoliberais em educação, também, denominados de "Pedagogia de Lata". Apresenta-se um estudo bibliográfico sobre a política neoliberal em educação, comparando-a às experiências vivenciadas pela Secretaria de Educação do município de São Paulo durante os anos 90. Analisa-se a proposta da Escola Cidadã, identificando seus princípios com os do projeto do CEU. Foram realizadas entrevistas abertas com protagonistas do projeto, objetivando a análise do processo instituinte. Constatou-se que o projeto, inicialmente contra-hegemônico, passou por um dialético processo instituinte, sendo depois descaracterizado pela gestão municipal paulistana iniciada em 2005.

Conceptualising the challenge of integrating digital technologies in pedagogy

The integration of digital technologies in pedagogy is positioned as an important change in education, but widespread innovative use of digital technologies is yet to be truly realised. The gap between the potential and the reality of digital technology integration is commonly attributed to a range of challenging extrinsic and intrinsic influences. Activity Theory (Engeström, 2009) is used to analyse challenges created by extrinsic influences (Nielsen, Miller, & Hoban, 2012); a complementary theory is needed to conceptualise intrinsic influences. System 1 and System 2 thinking theory (Kahneman, 2011) will be advanced as a conceptual framework for understanding conscious and unconscious aspects of teacher practice, particularly the interaction between innovation and teacher routine, attitudes and beliefs. Transformative Learning Theory (Mezirow, 2009) will be positioned to comprehend the nexus of extrinsic and intrinsic influences. This paper will propose how, when faced with extrinsic and intrinsic influences on innovative practice, educators can use these theories to conceptualise the challenge of integrating digital technologies in pedagogy.

Digital scholarship and pedagogy, the next step : cultural science.

There are two aspects to the problem of digital scholarship and pedagogy. One is to do with scholarship; the other with pedagogy. In scholarship, the association of knowledge with its printed form remains dominant. In pedagogy, the desire to abandon print for ‘new’ media is urgent, at least in some parts of the academy. Film and media studies are thus at the intersection of opposing forces – pulling the field ‘back’ to print and ‘forward’ to digital media. These tensions may be especially painful in a field whose own object of study is another form of communication, neither print nor digital but broadcast. Although print has been overtaken in the popular marketplace by audio-visual forms, this was never achieved in the domain of scholarship. Even when it is digitally distributed, the output of research is still a ‘paper.’ But meanwhile, in the realm of teaching, production- and practice-based pedagogy has become firmly established. Nevertheless a disjunction remains, between high-end scholarship in research universities and vocational training in teaching institutions; but neither is well equipped to deal with the digital challenge.

Technological barriers to learning : designing hybrid pedagogy to minimise cognitive load and maximise understanding

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) provide great promise for the future of education. In the Asia-Pacific region, many nations have started working towards the comprehensive development of infrastructure to enable the development of strong networked educational systems. In Queensland there have been significant initiatives in the past decade to support the integration of technology in classrooms and to set the conditions for the enhancement of teaching and learning with technology. One of the great challenges is to develop our classrooms to make the most of these technologies for the benefit of student learning. Recent research and theory into cognitive load, suggests that complex information environments may well impose a barrier on student learning. Further, it suggests that teachers have the capacity to mitigate against cognitive load through the way they prepare and support students engaging with complex information environments. This chapter compares student learning at different levels of cognitive load to show that learning is enhanced when integrating pedagogies are employed to mitigate against high-load information environments. This suggests that a mature policy framework for ICTs in education needs to consider carefully the development of professional capacities to effectively design and integrate technologies for learning.

Taking a 'reality' check : expanding pre-service teachers' views on pedagogy and diversity

The outcomes of a two-pronged 'real-world' learning project, which aimed to expand the views of pre-service teachers about learning, pedagogy and diversity, will be discussed in this paper. Seventy-two fourth-year and 22 first-year students, enrolled in a Bachelor of Education degree in Queensland, Australia, were engaged in community sites outside of university lectures, and separate from their practicum. Using Butin's conceptual framework for service learning, we show evidence that this approach can enable pre-service teachers to see new realities about the dilemmas and ambiguities of performing as learners and as teachers. We contend that when such 'real-world' experiences have different foci at different times in their four-year degree, pre-service teachers have more opportunities to develop sophisticated understandings of pedagogy in diverse contexts for diverse learners.

Australia : The Challenges of Poverty, Pedagogy, and Pathways

A discussion of 2008/2009 developments in Australian educational policy, with specific reference to the adoption of US and UK trends in accountability, testing and school reform.

Does pedagogy still rule?

Theories on teaching and learning for adult learners are constantly being reviewed and discussed in the higher educational environment. Theories are not static and appear to be in a constant developmental process. This paper discusses three of these theories: pedagogy, andragogy and heutagogy. It is argued that although educators engage in many of the principles of either student-centered (andragogy) and self-determined (heutagogy) learning, it is not possible to fully implement either theory. The two main limitations are the requirements of both internal and external stakeholders, such as accrediting bodies and requirements to assess all student learning. A reversion to teacher-centered learning (pedagogy) ensues. In summary, we engage in many action-oriented learning activities but revert to teacher-centered approaches in terms of content and assessment.

Trouble and autoethnography in assessment genre : a case for postnational design in online internationalized pedagogy

This chapter is interested in the difference between local places with implicit codes and more global spaces with explicit directions, through the case study of the design and conduct of assessment in an online internationalized MBA unit. Online learning is understood to offer new ways of belonging in 'postnational' communities less reliant on locality for their frames of reference. This study reports and analyses firstly a series of troubles which erupted over the international students' desire for more explication of the desired genre for their assessment task. Then it analyses the different, 'autoethnographic' genre structure that emerged when students started to acknowledge the diverse backgrounds within the class.The chapter then offers practical considerations for the design of online internationalized programs.

University-industry partnership for pedagogy : some principles for practice

Industries demand a closer alignment of university learning curriculum to real work tasks to better meet the needs of organizations and learners. Both, industries and learners prefer the learning challenges to be based on the exigencies of work to precisely reflect real work circumstances that overtly add to business outcomes. However, such alignment is often complicated and challenging for academics and workplace managers alike. It demands partnerships between universities and industries, similar to arrangements forged for the vocational education and training sector. Such partnerships should allow active participation by learners, academics, workplaces and university administrators to move beyond a teaching orientation to a demonstrably effective learning arrangement through work integrated learning. This paper draws on a case study that negotiated a partnership between a non-government organization and an Australian university to design and facilitate a boutique curriculum that met the needs of learners and their workplace. Data were collected from interviews with participants, a focus group of the interviewees, and feedback from university staff involved in the course delivery. The paper presents a set of principles for universities and industries for partnership to enhance the alignment of academic curriculum to meet organizational and individual learning needs through work integrated learning.