Worldviews and Values in Higher Education

Worldviews and Values in Higher Education
Author: Madasu Bhaskara Rao
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2024-03-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1802628975

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Providing a much-needed global perspective-based analysis of the issue of educational values, this volume examines how higher education cultures are embedded within and heavily influenced by national cultures, norms, and structures through the lenses of Teaching, Learning, Curricula, and Assessment.

Differing Worldviews in Higher Education

Differing Worldviews in Higher Education
Author: D. Four Arrows
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2011-07-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9460913520

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Two noted professors on opposite sides of the cultural wars come together and engage in "cooperative argumentation." One, a "Jewish, atheist libertarian" and the other a "mixed blood American Indian" bring to the table two radically different worldviews to bear on the role of colleges and universities in studying social and ecological justice. The result is an entertaining and enlightening journey that reveals surprising connections and previously misunderstood rationales that may be at the root of a world too polarized to function sanely.

Worldview in Christian Higher Education

Worldview in Christian Higher Education
Author: Reid Belcher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN:

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This thesis explores the nature of worldview in one institution of Christian Higher Education (CHE) and the role of narrative in articulating, promoting and or understanding worldview. Currently, even though the term worldview has been highly apparent in branding and mission statements in Institutions of CHE, little research has been undertaken into the ways in which a worldview operates at different levels of an institution over time, how it is sustained or changed, and how a worldview speaks to or for members of an institutional community over time. It is implied in the branding of Christian educational institutions that 'worldviews' embody a particular stance, and exhibit a way of being 'particular' in the world. But what drives this worldview? And how is it experienced by students and professors? In what ways do the worldviews of the professors and students who make up an institution of Christian Higher Education mediate its institutional worldview? In responding to these key questions, this research seeks to provide a nuanced and critical perspective on the highly contested term, worldview, at a time when there is great interest across the world in spiritual values in education (see e.g., Cooling, 2010; Palmer, 2010; Wong & Canagarajah, 2004). The study takes the view that critically engaging with narratives inhering in one particular institution at one point in time and over time is crucial for understanding worldview as it is experienced by professors and students in the institution, and it can provide valuable insights into the social, academic, educational and institutional identities of this institution. Central to my inquiry is a reflexive, institutional ethnographic study (Smith, 2005, 2006) into one institution of Christian Higher Education, exploring narratives of 32 participants over a 35 year time span. This research adds to the broader research on Christian Institutions of Higher Education in North America with a focus on worldview. Dialogic inquiry (Wells, 1999) assists in exploring the need for narrative as a component of worldview awareness. Overall, this leads to a multifaceted exploration involving language, relationships, culture, community and institutional identity. This approach contrasts sharply with so-called scientific paradigms of eVidence-based research that are prepared to overlook nuances of language and cultural specificity in order to present quantitative certainty and what is problematically claimed as 'clarity' (cf. MacLure, 2005). The study emphasises the significance of understanding an institution's systemworld and lifeworld in light of that institution's mission or mission statement. It investigates the role of disequilibrium (Wolterstorff, 1987, 2002) -such as between a mission statement and a student or professor's experience of life in that institution -as perhaps an indicator of a problematic institutional worldview but also potentially a significant contributor to institutional growth. In representing examples of disequilibrium and dialogic encounters between text and experience in one institution of Christian Higher Education, I propose a framework by which to identify and understand the nature of an embodied institutional worldview. The research draws attention to the function and role of narrative in engaging with worldviews. Indeed, narrative (including my own autobiographical narrative) is a crucial methodological tool in examining and understanding worldview as a concept and worldview in this institution. The research suggests that this provides a valuable medium through which institutions of CHE can better reflect on, understand and promote their worldview in ways that can still appreciate diverse intellectual positions within that institution and not compromise robust academic debate.

Making Sense of Worldview Diversity at Public Universities

Making Sense of Worldview Diversity at Public Universities
Author: Beth Ashley Staples
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2019
Genre: Cultural pluralism
ISBN:

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This study advances our understanding of how students are making sense of their encounters across worldview differences related to religion, spirituality, faith, and values at public higher education institutions. Critical sensemaking (CSM) was used as a conceptual framework to understand the in-the-moment process of individual sensemaking and how individual and organizational sensemaking is influenced by the formative, structural, and discursive contexts of higher education (Helms Mills, Thurlow, & Mills, 2010). The study employed content analysis methodology (Mayring, 2000) and a two-tiered structural and concept coding analysis strategy (Saldaña, 2011) to explore secondary focus group data from five public institutions from a qualitative case study dataset created through the longitudinal, mixed-methods Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey (IDEALS) project. The key findings of this study are: 1) students use sensemaking as an opportunity to shed old ways of being and knowing; 2) student sensemaking is highly social and students often make sense of their encounters with worldview diversity through the lens of perceived social norms; and, 3) students perceive the university as sensegiving about worldview through funding allocations, space reservation priorities, staff member availability, and in comparison with other social identity work. These results are relevant to research because they extend the use of CSM to college students as actors, focus groups as data, and diversity as a topic for examination. They also show that two properties of CSM, social and extracted cues, are particularly important to student sensemakers and highlight the relevance of formative, structural, and discursive contexts of higher education influence sensemaking about worldview diversity. Additionally, these results provide guidance for practitioners and faculty who want to help students engage with and across worldviews, indicate that institutions of higher education should more specifically communicate how they support worldview development and difference, and confirm that worldview is a relevant part of student identity at public institutions. Taken together, the knowledge gained through this study about the student sensemaking process can be used to maximize student development related to worldview diversity.

The Integration of Faith and Learning

The Integration of Faith and Learning
Author: Robert A. Harris
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2004-04-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725241498

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The Integration of Faith and Learning: A Worldview Approach'provides students with the philosophical context and practical tools necessary for making the connections between Christian knowledge and the knowledge they will acquire during their undergraduate and graduate years in higher education. This book focuses on helping students understand how worldviews influence the interpretation of data and even what is judged to be knowledge itself. The worldviews of philosophical naturalism, postmodernism, and Christianity are compared and analyzed. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on helping students develop the practical skills needed to evaluate knowledge claims and to integrate all knowledge into a unified whole through the touchstone of Christian truth.

Values of the University in a Time of Uncertainty

Values of the University in a Time of Uncertainty
Author: Paul Gibbs
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2019-06-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030159701

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This deliberately wide-ranging book addresses issues related to trust, compassion, well-being, grace, dignity and integrity. It explores these within the context of higher education, giving existential and empirical accounts of how these moral duties can be expressed within the academy and why they ought to be. The chapters range from values used in the marketing and management of institutions to their realisation in therapeutic and teacher training spaces. The book opens with a specific introduction which positions the work and outlines the context of duties and obligations at play. This is followed by two distinct but related sections including chapters on theoretical issues, organisational practices and personal praxis. The first part is more abstract and theoretical, the second locates the values discussed within the practices of the university. In doing so the book encompasses a wide range of issues from multi-disciplinary and geo-political regions. The authors are a mixture of world-leading authorities on values in higher education and earlier career researchers, who are nonetheless equally passionate contributors. This mix gives the book vibrancy and offers insight which appeals to both an academic and managerial readership.

Sacred and Secular Tensions in Higher Education

Sacred and Secular Tensions in Higher Education
Author: Michael D. Waggoner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136846107

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Sacred and secular worldviews have long held a place in U.S. higher education, although non-religious perspectives have usually been privileged in the modern era. This book illustrates the importance of cultivating multiple worldviews.

Teaching Across Cultural Strengths

Teaching Across Cultural Strengths
Author: Alicia Fedelina Chávez
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000980537

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Co-published with Promoting learning among college students is an elusive challenge, and all the more so when faculty and students come from differing cultures. This comprehensive guide addresses the continuing gaps in our knowledge about the role of culture in learning; and offers an empirically-based framework and model, together with practical strategies, to assist faculty in transforming college teaching for all their students through an understanding of and teaching to their strengths.Recognizing that each student learns in culturally influenced ways, and that each instructor’s teaching is equally influenced by her or his background and experiences, the authors offer an approach by which teachers can progressively learn about culture while they transform their teaching through reflection and the application of new practices that enrich student learning.The key premise of the book is that deepening student learning and increasing retention and graduation rates requires teaching from a strengths based perspective that recognizes the cultural assets that students bring to higher education, and to their own learning. Derived through research and practice, the authors present their Model of Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching and Learning that highlights eight continua towards achieving the transformation of teaching, and developing more culturally balanced and inclusive practices, over time. They present techniques – illustrated by numerous examples and narratives – for building on cultural strengths in teaching; offer tips and strategies for teaching through cultural dilemmas; and provide culturally reflective exercises. This guide is intended for all faculty, faculty developers or administrators in higher education concerned with equitable outcomes in higher education and with ensuring that all student cultural groups learn and graduate at the same rates.

Curriculum

Curriculum
Author: Wesley Null
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2011-03-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 144220916X

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Curriculum: From Theory to Practice introduces readers to curriculum theory and how it relates to classroom practice. Wesley Null provides a unique organization of the curriculum field into five traditions: systematic, existential, radical, pragmatic, and deliberative. He discusses the philosophical foundations of curriculum as well as historical and contemporary figures who have shaped each curriculum tradition. Additionally, after a chapter on each of the five perspectives, Null presents case studies that describe realistic and specific curriculum problems that commonly arise within elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and universities. Scholars and practitioners alike are given opportunities to practice resolving curriculum problems through deliberation. Each case study focuses on a critical issue such as the implementation of state curriculum standards, the attempt to reform core curriculum within universities, and the complex practice of curriculum making.

The Diversity Of Worldviews Among Young Adults

The Diversity Of Worldviews Among Young Adults
Author: Peter Nynäs
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2022-06-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3030946916

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This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in higher education from various cultural regions, religious traditions, linguistic groups, and political systems. This will help readers better understand a generation that will soon rise to power and influence. The analysis focuses on 12 countries. These include Canada, China, Finland, Ghana, India, Israel, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA. It employs a mixed-methods approach, invested in the study of an individual's views and values using state-of-the-art methodology, including the innovative Faith Q-sort. This instrument is new to the field and developed for assessing the entanglement of subjective views and personal beliefs. The study also incorporates a comprehensive values survey as well as other survey tools that look into people's social capital, media use, social values alignment, and subjective well-being. Each chapter is co-authored by an international team of scholars with research interest in the particular topic. The rationale for this principle is the need to engage individuals from different cultural backgrounds, scholarly disciplines, and methodological and substantive competences. In the end, this innovative approach presents an informed, empirically grounded analysis of the values and worldviews of the future generation. It sheds an important light on how changes in the religious landscape are intertwined with broad and diffuse processes of socio-economic and global cultural change.