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Centering Educational Resilience On Mission Through Research, Professional Development, And Collaborative Teaching, Anneris Coria-Navia Phd, Glynis M. Bradfield
Centering Educational Resilience On Mission Through Research, Professional Development, And Collaborative Teaching, Anneris Coria-Navia Phd, Glynis M. Bradfield
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External triggers such as the global pandemic have inevitably caused paradigm thinking shifts. These challenging times present opportunities to reimagine the possibilities of Seventh-day Adventist Education in the areas of research, professional development, crisis management, differentiating instruction, collaborative learning, and holistic student service in person and online. Supported by action research, this presentation reviews effective teaching frameworks and best practices that education in varied contexts can leverage to transform the challenges into opportunities for philosophical realignment spurring renewal of mission and improvement of practice. Through the study and reflection of our own educational experience through crisis, we present lessons learned …
Enriching Higher Education Training Through Values And Social Engagement, Gustavo Gregorutti
Enriching Higher Education Training Through Values And Social Engagement, Gustavo Gregorutti
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The present study starts describing the relevance of university mission statements and how they have been interacting with the social demands throughout the history of higher education. This way, the recent development of a knowledge economy has strongly impacted universities that look for ways to produce and commercialize ideas (second and third missions). The increasing accreditation agencies and regional and international rankings have helped to reinforce these processes. This trend has created a situation where isomorphic mechanisms are pressing universities to align themselves with models that do not always fit a wide spectrum of them. In addition, this chapter underlines …