EDLD 6890 – Summer II 2015 Reflective Journal Assignment Week 3

Week 3 Readings.

Theory or Model	Course Material	Application to Your Life
Schooling improves society, promote access, and preserve advantage.	Article by David Labaree.	The author presents schools as the primary way to accomplish Americans highest social ideals and address individual problems. A narrative about the system history is in this article, and I find it the most interesting part of the reading. The rest of the article questions the different processes, and I believe it too pessimistic and negative. I think educational changes take time and results are part of the constant changing process. The system is more about schooling that about educating the society.  Reformers from 19th century invented the public school system to preserve the republic without putting a damper on economic growth.The common school movement established the basic organizational structure and political rationale that maintained the US as a Protestant republican nation. In the 20th century, the progressive movement tried to find a way to manage the new corporate economy, growing inequality, angry labor relations, the rapid growth of cities, and European immigrants. A child-centered education that takes into account the needs and interest of the child were led by John Dewey. Administrative progressives developed the vocational education to address the needs of the new economy,  Segregation of blacks turned into a consumer issue of social mobility. Standardization of curriculum raised the level of achievement in students, and school choice movements started allowing individuals to attend any school. All these movement focused on school access and a common curriculum. Moreover, at the end I agree with the author that there’s a value in schooling but the social benefits are far behind. When I read this article all I could think about was about Eugenio Maria de Hostos.  Hostos was born in Puerto Rico but is considered the father of education in the Dominican Republic. Back to the 17th century his vision of pedagogy was student-centered and bases on scientific and rational methods of teaching including experiential learning and critical thinking.  Founder of the teacher school for men and with Dominican poet Salomé Ureña, he opened a normal school for women. He also supported the establishment of kindergartens and created evening schools for workers. There’s no reason I would like to compare this with the Dominican Republic education systems since schooling is starting to be addressed, and social problems. We are one of the poorest countries in the Caribbean where people live in poverty; we are dealing with children with malnutrition and children forced to work.  School is free and mandatory until age 14. 90% of literary but 10% of high school completion. We are happy, and positive of seeing the rise in the number of students that parents send to complete school and Labaree reflection at this moment is ages from where we are now.
Purpose, growth and limits to growth	Book Chapter from Higher Education In American From Derek Bok	This chapter explains how universities get involved in multiple goals that end defining the type of institution that they become.  Multiple aims have significant benefits that complement one another and allows institutional growth. Areas that balance include economic development and research, service learning and nonprofits organizations,  international collaboration and science department and so on. This different purpose increases the pressure to growth, and additional governance structures dived the faculty and administrative bodies.  This growth can be managed setting objective and measurable goals that attract outstanding scholars, build a sound reputation, strong leadership, develop innovative programs. The goal is to reform what matters more and venture into worthwhile activities led by the people you already have. This chapter reinforces my operational plan at UNIBE. My job as Academic Management Director helps the university achieve its objectives using the different resources already available.  I enjoyed reading the various management choices mainly attracting outstanding scholars to the university operational and development plan. This is in my to do list!
Social Justice	Article by Osei-Kofi, Shahjahan & Patton	This reading relates to a faculty group process of developing a Ph.D. concentration in social justice. They define social justice as ending oppression and domination at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. They pledge to end oppression by studying how to identify equitable policies and practices that challenge any oppression experienced by marginalized groups. The  international campaign against the Dominican Republic has been merciless and ruthless. After a successful National Regularization Plan undocumented foreigners opted for voluntary return, especially Haitian poor workers.  We have been questioned in our sovereignty and accused of human rights violations and social injustice toward undocumented Haitian immigrants. International agencies accused us of racism and mass deportations and Dominican anti-Haitian policies.  Be amnesty to keep in our territory each and every one of irregular foreigners social justice for all parts? The study of social justice in a concrete context, higher education of Haitian students in DR is something challenging for any academic program.
Higher Education and Public Good	Article by Marginson, Simon	Universities have universal knowledge of international network based on shared values.  In 2010, in the United Kingdom, the government decided to withdraw public subsidies for social and humanities sciences.  This article differentiates what is public in higher education and presents three concepts: ·         Public Goods. Universal knowledge and information. ·         The Public Good. Democratization and human development; equality. ·         The Public Sphere. Critic and renewal of the state. Different context, fields and political and social interest create tensions that will ideally convert the universities into a system for increasing value in the economy. Opposite ideas to this tensions can support intellectual ideas to provide status and ranking to these institutions. Other diversification of this tensions could lead to a global universality that network to build status. Politics influences in how universities approach social justice and compete between them from social peace. These aspects make universities compete for state-driven and market driven forgetting their basic social need. In the Dominican Republic, the state regulates the universities, but the market makes them perform as private companies. The idealistic of a public good is only present in the public sector.

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