Abstract
The world is experiencing a total global systemic failure in terms of seriously addressing failures to promote community, to protect civil rights and the environment. We have lost the ability to focus on issues that can be solved with intelligent debate, innovation and cooperation. The failure is sourced in our inability to argue and in our resistance to designing goals free of the marketplace focus that seems to drive all high power conversations on any of these topics. The capitalistic, politically charged, zero-sum focus on resolving world issues is failing us. The solution lies with educators. In this study, I consider how we need to concentrate on developing problem solving skills in our classrooms. We need to make our classrooms safe spaces in order to teach these skills. Our advantage is that we have access to a unique group of individuals who are focused on inventive possibilities. We guide our students in a critical point in their lives and thus we can be developing a human resource to combat the current free fall of modern society. Call it resilience if you will, and it can be trained, but it requires innovation and a certain amount of dedication to radically altering the way we teach and changing how we assess success on an institutional level as well.
Presenters
Kim IdolAdjunct, Liberal Arts/English, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Vectors of Society and Culture
KEYWORDS
Education, Student Assessment and Progress, Sociology, Multi-cultural, Politics
