How to open up spaces to make education more meaningful? The concept of space can involve educational interactions, relationships, contents and other relevant aspects relating to this purpose. The book presents three perspectives to engage in opening up spaces. It empowers pupils, students, and teachers to develop as unique individuals, better relate to the communities and cultural traditions to which they belong, and to develop new visions, understandings, and ways of living.This volume is the result of the search of a number of educational professionals on how to open up spaces to make education more meaningful. The opened spaces involve educational interactions, relationships, contents and other relevant aspects relating to this purpose.
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Chapter eight entails an interpretation and summary of the outcomes of this volume. It describes fundamental insights that the authors distilled from the preceding chapters.
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Ik wil vandaag vooral ingaan op de vraag hoe gedrag als object van studie gedefinieerd kan worden en hoe daar onderzoek naar gedaan kan worden. Aan de orde komen achtereenvolgens de psychologische, pedagogische, epistemologische en professionele plaatsbepaling van het lectoraat, dat als opdracht heeft om praktijkgericht onderzoek uit te voeren naar gedrag in de educatieve praxis. Die opdracht zal ik verbinden met de noodzaak om onderzoek naar gedrag van leerlingen en leraren te verbinden met onderzoek met en door leerlingen en leraren (c.q. studenten).
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Ik wil vandaag vooral ingaan op de vraag hoe gedrag als object van studie gedefinieerd kan worden en hoe daar onderzoek naar gedaan kan worden. Aan de orde komen achtereenvolgens de psychologische, pedagogische, epistemologische en professionele plaatsbepaling van het lectoraat, dat als opdracht heeft om praktijkgericht onderzoek uit te voeren naar gedrag in de educatieve praxis. Die opdracht zal ik verbinden met de noodzaak om onderzoek naar gedrag van leerlingen en leraren te verbinden met onderzoek met en door leerlingen en leraren (c.q. studenten).
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In times of stability, it is relatively easy – or so it seems – to educate students for a ‘known’ future. My argument in this chapter is that we live in a time of multiple transitions (Rotmans, 2015), multiple crises (Capra & Luisi, 2014; Wahl, 2016; Sayer, 1994; Harvey, 2000; Jessop, 2012) and an unknown future. We are heading for an unknown future which, because of climate change, in its two extremes may either end in complete destruction or may be shaped by a shift towards a new sustainable balance: either a breakdown or a breakthrough (Wahl, 2016). Turbulent times tend to be fertile podia for a wide array of narratives that seek to make sense of the crisis, and which present imaginaries about the future. According to Jessop (2002), capitalism develops in a sequence of spatio-temporal fixes that each end in a crisis and then lead to competing narratives. This chapter claims that it is important for the educational community – and for society at large – to develop sufficient critical language awareness in order to be able to both critically analyse and evaluate existing narratives. In addition, it is important to be able to articulate our own narratives so as to be empowered to participate in this process of imagining and co-creating the future (Kress, 2000; Harvey, 2000).
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Wessels asks the question what kind of educational space we should open in response to complex questions and challenges that permeate our contemporary, shared world (e.g., related to climate change and multiculturalism).
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A research into classroom interaction (behaviour and communication) between teachers and pupils in the light of social justice. The research is based on the concern that educational praxis, defined as 'practice which implies a conscious awareness of the practitioners that their actions are morally committed, and oriented by tradition' are, under modern policy pressures in danger of being replaced by a form of practice which amounts simply to following rules.
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Reflecting on the link between religion and religious tradition(s) on the one hand and school and education on the other, and reflecting on the reasoning strategy to make sense of this link, people seem to tend strongly to think, argue and reflect in a deductive mode (this point is elaborated in par. 3). This part of the argument is followed by considering the religious claims people make concerning the impact of religion on the day-to-day educational practice, it is, empirically speaking. It is apparently wrong to take this deductive reasoning serious as a road to undisputable and unambiguous links between claims and practices (this point is elaborated in par. 4). Having identified deductive reasoning as wishful thinking or as a supposed but inadequate religious legitimatization of educational practices, which is demonstrated by the empirical educational praxis itself, the final part of the article deals with the question that arises again and anew, viz. how educational practices could be understood in their connection to religious beliefs (see par. 5). Here a paradigm-shift is needed.
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