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Curricula and the evolving knowledge commons - Coggle Diagram
Curricula and the evolving knowledge commons
3. The enabling role of higher education
University research for open knowledge commons
The dissemination of knowledges should be inclusive and diverse by recognizing the multiple forms of knowledge and using more languages.
Universities should advocate for open and free access to knowledge
Technical and vocational higher education and knowledge commons
Post-secondary technical and vocational institutions should also be seen as venues for applied research
Higher education to support diverse approaches to knowledge
Higher education helps expose students to new ideas
Intercultural and epistemic diversity is still not valued; indigenous knowledges and modes of knowledge generation are overlooked and are often seen as objects instead of forms of research.
Partnerships between institutions and local communities should be more valued.
A wider variety of institutions and more flexible educational structures are needed.
4. Principles for dialogues and actions
Curricula should enhance learners' abilities to access and contribute to the knowledge commons through questioning assumptions, promoting critical thinking and adding each individual’s share of knowledge to the common heritage.
Humanity’ place in the world should be fundamentally reoriented in the midst of environmental degradation.
Scientific, digital and humanistic inquiries must be promoted in order to counter misinformation.
Human rights education is necessary to the transformation of the world and the fight against inequality and discrimination.
2. Participation in the knowledge commons
Drawing on the humanities
We need to reframe and update our partial and skewed knowledge of this field for the ever-changing future.
The study of human society, culture and history can improve our understanding of the world, demolish misunderstanding and prejudices, and envisage and use the future effectively (future literacy).
Scientific inquiry and understanding
The desire to understand the physical universe reflects human capacity to learn, and the nature of scientific inquiry is the emanation of the human spirit. The fruits of scientific knowledge lie in every part of our material lives.
At times, science seems to be positioned above ethical questions, so curricula should regard the methods, findings and ethics of science as interconnected.
Curricula must foster a strong and reflexive scientific literacy in order to recognize misinformation and fake news and avoid their dire consequences.
Accurate scientific knowledge is necessary for human well-being, especially in curricula where messages and concepts exert great influence on developing minds. Scientific accuracy, along with method, empiricism, rigor and ethics must be promoted, especially in marginalized nations.
Skills for a digital world
The teaching of technology does not only include technical know-how and functional skills, but should also encompass “critical digital literacy" - the ability to analyze the political features of technology and manipulate them to achieve particular outcomes.
Education should not merely follow the flow of technology, but also play a role in determining its directions.
Building imagination, judgment and possibility through arts education
Arts can strengthen complex skills, enhance understanding, lay bare truths that are sometimes too subtle and obscured and allow for different perspectives and interpretations of the world.
Curricula should promote arts education to provide other means to understand the world, engage in cultural critique, take political action and cultivate critical engagement and appreciation with cultural heritages.
Education for human rights, active citizenship, and democratic participation
Human rights education can create an entry point to a moral universe committed to the recognition and thriving of all.
It also supports sustainable and just economic, social and political movement as human rights violations are tackled and disagreements are solved not through violence but diplomacy and negotiation.
By teaching people to reflect on and analyze their work within a common human rights framework, education builds capacity for sustained civic, social and political action.
Education should then nurture critical, long-term thinking, dialogue, deliberation, monitoring injustice, confronting and solving power struggles, discrimination, racism and inequality, especially gender inequality.
Curricular priorities for educational futures
To support inclusion, gender equality, the dismantling of injustices, and the broad struggle against inequalities needed to reimagine our futures together.
Curricula for a damaged planet
Curricula must enable re-learning how we are interconnected with a living, damaged planet.
The capacity to live in harmony – taking no more or less than is needed for mutual existence and well-being – can be learned through education.
We cannot learn to care for the living planet
without also learning to care for one another.
Caring-about, caring-for, care-giving and care-receiving must be included in curricula that enable us to reimagine our interdependent futures together.
Integrating knowing and feeling
Curricula need to treat students as complete human beings who bring curiosity
and thirst for learning into educational settings.
Neuroscience shows that knowing and feeling play
out, not in individual isolation, but in direct, extended relationships with others.
The best approaches to social and emotional learning in curricula encompass social, emotional, cognitive, and ethical domains of students’ identities.
Learning to empathize, to cooperate, to address prejudice and bias and to navigate conflict are valuable in every society
Premise: every learner can enjoy a healthy and active lifestyle, and that developing empathetic and respectful relationships through shared activity, can contribute to learning to interact together throughout life.
A holistic educational approach to human sexuality that is age appropriate and culturally attuned recognizes the importance of social and emotional literacy, promotes discussions of respect and consent, builds understanding of the physical and emotional processes during physical maturity, and promotes respectful relationships and equality.
Broadening literacies and creating plurilingual futures
The future of literacy must go beyond reading and writing to reinforce the capacities of understanding and expression in all their forms – orally, textually, and through a widening diversity of
media, including storytelling and the arts
Literacy is directly connected to possibilities for future learning and social participation
Linguistic diversity is a key feature of humanity’s shared knowledge commons.
Enriching numeracy
Numeracy belongs to all peoples and culturally responsive numeracy curricula can build
meaningful social and emotional bridges to formal education
Numeracy is no less vital to futures of education, as people are increasingly called upon to apply
their mathematical knowledge and skills to a wide range of situations.
1. Context
In a new social contract for education, curricula should grow out of
the wealth of common knowledge
and
embrace ecological, intercultural and interdisciplinary learning
that helps students access and
produce
knowledge while building their capacity to
critique and apply
it
The approach when redesigning the education system:
What should be learned, and what should be unlearned?