In the last 60,000 y humans have expanded across the globe and now occupy a wider range than any other terrestrial species. Our ability to successfully adapt to such a diverse range of habitats is ...often explained in terms of our cognitive ability. Humans have relatively bigger brains and more computing power than other animals, and this allows us to figure out how to live in a wide range of environments. Here we argue that humans may be smarter than other creatures, but none of us is nearly smart enough to acquire all of the information necessary to survive in any single habitat. In even the simplest foraging societies, people depend on a vast array of tools, detailed bodies of local knowledge, and complex social arrangements and often do not understand why these tools, beliefs, and behaviors are adaptive. We owe our success to our uniquely developed ability to learn from others. This capacity enables humans to gradually accumulate information across generations and develop well-adapted tools, beliefs, and practices that are too complex for any single individual to invent during their lifetime.
The COVID-19 Pandemic has pushed the crisis to become part of the human condition. Improving coping capacities is crucial to sustaining a group's societal function. In the Philippines, generic ...policies that support educators were enacted by the government. However, programs that provide support to cultural educators as a distinct group are yet to be introduced. This study involved 200 Filipino cultural educators. Utilizing a cross-sectional methodology, it revealed that being female and identifying as female were negatively and positively associated with coping, respectively. Whether on a regular or contract basis, employment in cultural occupations was found to have a significant positive association with coping. Adequacy of financial support also mattered to cultural workers but receiving support at the town level negatively affected coping. These findings suggest considering personal and contextual factors to improve the coping capacity of cultural workers
This paper presents the development of the Archipelago Cultural Insight Education Application, an Android-based platform designed to enhance the learning of Nusantara’s rich cultural heritage. ...Utilizing Extreme Programming (XP), an agile software development methodology, the application was developed to accommodate the dynamic requirements of educational content and interface design. The XP approach facilitated rapid iterations and continuous feedback, ensuring the application remained aligned with educational goals and user needs. The application features a user-friendly interface with dedicated sections for Traditional Houses, Local Attractions, Regional Foods, Folk Songs, and other cultural elements. Each section provides comprehensive data and detailed descriptions that aim to educate and engage users. The design prioritizes intuitive navigation and ease of content management, which is critical for the educational effectiveness and sustainability of the app. Moreover, the integration of multisensory learning elements, such as auditory content in the Folk Songs section, enhances the educational experience by providing a more immersive understanding of the cultural context. The application's development process and its features illustrate the benefits of applying agile methodologies in educational technology, highlighting how they can be used to produce a robust, engaging, and informative educational platform. This study contributes to the field by demonstrating the practical application of agile principles in the design and implementation of educational technology that effectively bridges cultural education and digital innovation.
Cultural Learning Redux Tomasello, Michael
Child development,
May/June 2016, Letnik:
87, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
M. Tomasello, A. Kruger, and H. Ratner (1993) proposed a theory of cultural learning comprising imitative learning, instructed learning, and collaborative learning. Empirical and theoretical advances ...in the past 20 years suggest modifications to the theory; for example, children do not just imitate but overimitate in order to identify and affiliate with others in their cultural group, children learn from pedagogy not just episodic facts but the generic structure of their cultural worlds, and children collaboratively co-construct with those in their culture normative rules for doing things. In all, human children do not just culturally learn useful instrumental activities and information, they conform to the normative expectations of the cultural group and even contribute themselves to the creation of such normative expectations.
This paper explores the motivations and meanings of international student mobility. Central to the discussion are the results of a large questionnaire survey and associated in-depth interviews with ...UK students enrolled in universities in six countries from around the world. The results suggest, first, that several different dimensions of social and cultural capital are accrued through study abroad. It is argued that the search for 'world class' education has taken on new significance. Second, the paper argues that analysis of student mobility should not be confined to a framework that separates study abroad from the wider life-course aspirations of students. It is argued that these insights go beyond existing theorisations of international student mobility to incorporate recognition of diverse approaches to difference within cultures of mobility, including class reproduction of distinction, broader notions of distinction within the life-plans of individual students, and how 'reputations' associated with educational destinations are structured by individuals, institutions and states in a global higher education system that produces differentially mediated geographies of international student mobility.
Um Theaterspiel an Schulen oder innerhalb sonstiger sozialer und theaterpädagogischer Handlungsfelder zu unterrichten, bedarf es einer grundlegenden Fachdidaktik und fundierter Handlungsansätze.
Tom ...Klimant diskutiert ästhetisch-kulturelle Bildungsvorstellungen und Fragen der Partizipation und Inklusion sowie zeitgemäßer Subjektivierungsvorstellungen. Als Kernfeld bildender Potenziale des Theaterspiels modelliert er erstmals ästhetische Erlebensprozesse der Spielenden. Dies und zahlreiche theaterpraktische Beispiele erlauben eine konkrete Orientierung für Theaterlehrende und -studierende.
The globalisation of science, industry and commerce has resulted in the internationalisation of education. In this context, ‘a global citizen’, representing the Humboldtian educational model, has to ...have universal cognitive skills and cultural competences formed by an international/global education. However, Malaysia’s unique situation, as seen in the case of Penang Island, shows a multicultural education that effectively adapted to the global market. Most of the schools were transformed to national schools after Malaya’s independence from the United Kingdom, yet some retained their international nature. This article shows how national schools in Penang Island preserved their culture after independence, resulting in cultural pluralism (multiculturalism) in the educational system and, at the same time, maintained their global value for Economy 4.0. This multicultural and industry-oriented approach contrasts with the Humboldtian universalistic model, and yet contributes to the growth of science and a global economy. In this regard, it is argued that for the sustainable development of science, technology and society in Penang, the ‘epistemological pluralism’ with cross-disciplinary thinking in diverse cultural contexts should be promoted in educational and global policies.
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