Welcome to the EnT on disruption in education! This is the first time we’ve addressed this full-on, somehow! Please join us!

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These are the weeks where the sun is well and truly out!

We are well and truly into the torrents of spring, despite all the grimness of *ahem* certain GEOPOLITICAL GOINGS-ON (Editor: Easy now, fella).

I, myself, personally, and speaking only, solely, individually on my own behalf could stand somewhat LESS disruption across the board, generally! As much as the English teacher in me abhors using a negative statement to frame a point, it’s perfectly true to say: I wish things would stop bumping the fuck around so much, generally! Societal disruption is, effectively, the new norm! These are the headwinds we are navigating as a society!

This when the mental fortress Marcus writes of becomes paramount! You step into your calm place. You find your few simple doctrines. You find perfect calm. You return to the world. This is what Stoicism provides me, particularly through Marcus, but the other writers are all there too!

My experience is that kindness, care, mindfulness, respect for students’ lives as a whole all set the preconditions for successful learning. Ideally the class will be an island of calm, of sorts. The Stoics have a Greek word: εὐδαιμονία; Eudaimonia which I am always after and which I try as much as I can to encourage in others… in the Stoic sense, rather than the Greek colloquial, of perfect calm from being untroubled.

Untroubledness (new word alert!) is something I’ve come to greatly value over the years and weeks and hours and decades, particularly in middle age! As such, I would like to propose that wellness, self-care, looking out for yourselves and those around you proactively… can all be considered disruptive acts! Inasmuch as the current public spaces are designed in format and messaging to flatten and trivialize anything with a whiff of nuance or emotional resonance! I could go on! I have! I will! But not here, and not now!

Thanks as ever to Doug for being such a rad friend and collaborator! Thanks to you(s) for checking out this here EnT!

Some countries have governmental problems in allowing the import of transistors or radios for use by the populace.

Some characteristics and uses of radio identified in the review include:

In fact, radio has been shown to be as effective as “conventional methods.”

Grise Jr, P. J. (1974). Educational Radio: A Review of the Literature.

I’m not sure we always notice: sometimes when mainstreaming happens we don’t recognise it. When did e-learning become part of the fabric of education?

—Amber Thomas

van Mourik Broekman, P., Hall, G., Byfield, T., Hides, S., & Worthington, S. (2014). Open education: A study in disruption. Rowman & Littlefield.

Crisis requires society to renew itself, albeit in a disruptive way.

This sudden change has required universities to evolve toward online teaching in record time, implementing and adapting the technological resources available and involving professors and researchers who lack innate technological capacities for online teaching. The university system must be able to provide quality education in a scenario of digital transformation, disruptive technological innovation, and accelerated change in the educational framework.

García-Morales, V. J., Garrido-Moreno, A., & Martín-Rojas, R. (2021). The transformation of higher education after the COVID disruption: Emerging challenges in an online learning scenario. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 616059.

… wars disrupt the educational process making it harder for the

population in schooling age to achieve the desired level of education.

Ichino, A., & Winter-Ebmer, R. (2004). The long-run educational cost of World War II. Journal of Labor Economics, 22(1), 57-87.

The past century witnessed a dramatic expansion of mass education (Boli et al. 1985, Meyer et al. 1992a). Yet, the expansion of educational opportunities has not been accompanied by the corresponding expansion of equality of educational opportunities.

The reliance on exogenous, episodic periods of crisis or subsequent transformative adaptation does not leave much room for the agency in the discussion of change.

Toubeau, S. The Politics of Educational Reform in Great Britain (1945-2010). The process and implementation policy change and its consequence for educational inequality. MIROSLAV BEBLAVÝ AND MARCELA VESELKOVÁ, 116.

Radio Education

RAC Youth Education program

Educational Broadcasting

voicEd Radio

Disrupt

The AI disruption to education is just one in a long list of edtech impacts on education. How do you think we can weather this storm of change this time?

When that has been thwarted, you can not rebuild that lost trust.