Challenging Formalization in Education and Beyond addresses the effects of today’s attempts to organize knowledge, processes, and performance in education, particularly in its ever-growing digital environments. As on-site, blended, and fully online learning become deeply interdependent, secondary and higher education managers and instructors who seek to integrate, apply, and teach within these formats using standardized rules, assessments, algorithms, and accountability structures may be doing unintended harm to their students. Focusing on students’ performance, health, cognition, behavior, and learning outcomes, this book analyses how current trends, methods, and policies in formalization can be challenged and corrected to ensure high-quality education. Scholars, educators, administrators, and designers of traditional, asynchronous, precision, automated, and micro-learning formats will come away with new insights and pragmatic solutions for engaging students in more active, participatory, and creative activities.
Author(s): Peter Serdyukov
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 209
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Epigraphs
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Formalization in education
Formal or formalized?
Online learning explosion
Further prospects for online learning
Learning from errors
How best to use technology?
What is the role of technology in education?
Human factor
Our challenges and tasks
Part 1: Formalization as a social phenomenon
Chapter 1: Current state of education
Transformation of education
Purpose of education
Teach how to learn
Online vs. traditional learning
Technology as a catalyst of formalization
Technology: why and what for?
Quality as a criterion
Chapter 2: Origins of formalization
What is formalization?
Order
Why to formalize and what does it lead to?
Authority and power
Too much formalization
Examples of highly formalized education systems
Causes and effects of formalization
What are the effects of formalization on humans?
Transhumanism
Progressive vs. regressive
Balance
Chapter 3: Formalization in education
An overview
Formalization elements
Formalization in higher educational institutions
Formalization in school
Standardization as formalization
Educational standards
Standardized testing
Formalization in online learning
Grade and degree as formalized outcomes
The value of grade and degree
Formalization and educational quality
Chapter 4: Formalization features
Aspects of formalization
Form and content
Formalization is…
Types of formalization
Levels of formalization
Formalization dimensions
Formalizing knowledge for OL
Not all formalization is bad
Formalization beyond education
Constructivism and conveyor
Health system example
The language of electronic communication
Globalization as formalization
Chapter 5: Other formalistic issues
Acceleration of learning
New educational terminology
About learning again
Social character of learning
Chapter 6: Social and pedagogic issues of formalization
Schooling and upbringing
Separation of upbringing from T&L
Learning as work
Learning vs. work
Gamification
Learning as overcoming
The impact of societal culture
The role of culture in education
Current societal features
Education’s impact on society
Part 2: Formalization in online learning
Chapter 7: Online learning formalization and learners
Why are students drawn to formal online learning?
Online teaching and learning
Students in an online class
Online learners’ issues
Anonymity, cheating, and bullying
Chapter 8: Formalization and teachers
Online teachers’ role
Online teachers’ performance
What do online students expect of their teachers?
Chapter 9: Online learning formalization
Asynchronous learning
Synchronous learning
Hybrid learning
Precision and automated learning
Microlearning
Part 3: Effects of the formalization and their overcoming
Chapter 10: Real and potential effects of formalized learning
Five reasons for concern
How do online students usually learn?
Community
Formalization effects
Formalization vs. freedom
Why formalize?
Evolution of the formalization
Chapter 11: The role of technology in formalization
Digital technology and people
Health hazards
Norms and routines
Hypotheses for digitalization and formalization of education
Chapter 12: Possible solutions
Challenges and goals
Augmented and virtual reality
Sandwich model
Informal approaches to T&L
The role of goal setting and planning in combating formalization
Balancing between formal and informal learning
Informal assessment
Learning via immersion into real life
Epedagogy
What we already know
Educating about formalization
Professional development
Systemic view
Chapter 13: Conclusion
References
Index
