How can you spearhead transformational change toward global education through interaction and engagement
REFLECTION—A DIFFERENT MINDSET
As you consider what you have learned in this course, in a two or three page paper, reflect on how your perspectives have changed. How have you grown? Identify three concepts, or topics, of this course that were significant for you.
Describe how these concepts have altered your perspectives or if these concepts can be applied into your day-to-day professional and personal life.
Describe how you will apply what you have learned in this course to your dissertation topic or to the selection of a dissertation topic if you have not yet selected a topic.
Support your statements with evidence from the Required Studies and your research. Cite and reference your sources in APA style
A DIFFERENT MIND-SET
This course has encouraged you to challenge yourself to think differently about the paradigms you hold regarding education. View RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms (The RSA, 2010) [Closed captioned] as you begin to reflect on your learning and discourse.
RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms (The RSA, 2010)
This week you will be asked to reflect on a vast amount of information and materials explored during the past seven weeks concerning education’s international challenge. How can you spearhead transformational change toward global education through interaction and engagement in your own school environment? How can educators become part of the change ask of leaders?
![A tree and other brush on dry a dry prairie with short grass. Mountains are in the distance. Robinson, D. (2017, January 6). Sunrise over Mt. Kilimanjaro, Amboseli National Park, Kenya, East Africa [Photo]. Creative Commons License. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/dianasch/32902257002/](https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/XGXPXHo6KMrKPxy104h8sBmgQ4U0ABL7hzlm99IOzgHNMuaOAPAFeshbxcx4WbUWAS6Ei9JFXW2tcPd6l9_1kfI_TJa48PCqxMKKXIFSzBQwnE1Ha5CAp9Rjt3iQ4AOqhqwk6SBMAbddo_yFTfCHQVzehyekDsJxQ-CmuOTdfnFR_1B_V3QG4yUjGTv2ilmK=s0-d-e1-ft#https://cupo.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-1420724-dt-content-rid-25550987_1/courses/20202022334-cup/resources/wk8_Africa.jpg)
(Robinson, 2017)
Jane Goodall worked as a scientist for over 45 years documenting and studying changes chimpanzees’ behavior, habitat (primatology), and other environmental issues in Africa. Her in-depth study methods revealed significant data on the species and its sustainability in the African continent. She believed that “our ability to reason and learn from shared experience will yet enable us to preserve a livable environment for ourselves and all our fellow creatures” (Academy of Achievement, 2017a, para. 16).
In a 2009 interview, Goodall observed,
There are so many problems facing conservation, whether it’s in the developed world or the developing world. And it’s very hard to know how this is all going to end. I think that we are up against the vested interests of big business. And when money starts speaking, it’s tough. We’re up against corrupt governments, and I don’t mean just in the developing world. But some of the worst corruption is in the developed world. We’re up against expanding human populations. We’re up against extreme poverty, which is in rural areas. One of the most damaging of all, of course, is of environmental destruction, because people are desperately trying to live and grow food and cut down more trees to grow more crops. And they get too many goats, and they get this terrible, terrible, terrible desertification. And then we’re up against the unsustainable lifestyles of most of us. We take far more than our fair share. So the only way that I can see that we can succeed, whether it’s conserving chimpanzees or anything else, is to have a different mindset. (Academy of Achievement, 2017b)
Can educators follow her example? Can they begin to study and delve into research to discover how to make real sustainable changes in the education systems? What strategies can be incorporated in order to infuse international education experiences into your own school environments? Commit to more in-depth study and engagement in order to assist students to grow and succeed in a global environment. Then, like Dr. Goodall, gain a “different mind-set” and use your own knowledge and abilities to influence leaders, stakeholders, and your students in order to make a lasting difference for your international community.
References
Academy of Achievement. (2017a, April 3). Jane Goodall biography: The woman who redefined man. Retrieved from http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jane-goodall/
Academy of Achievement. (2017b, April 3). Jane Goodall interview: The woman who redefined man. Retrieved from http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jane-goodall/#…
Robinson, D. (2017, January 6). Sunrise over Mt. Kilimanjaro, Amboseli National Park, Kenya, East Africa [Photo]. Creative Commons License. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/dianasch/32902257002…
The RSA. (2010, October 14). RSA Animate: Changing education paradigms [Video file].
WEEKLY OBJECTIVES
Through participation in the following activities, the candidate will:
Examine one’s own bias toward or against schooling in America.
Reflection– A Different Mind-Set
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