Paradigm Ponderings
(Asynchronous Session - Online)
The "Great Mistake" Rethinking Education for the Hypercomplex Society: La Gran Equivocación. Replantear la Educación por la Sociedad Hipercompleja
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Piero Dominici
The anthropological transformation we are undergoing shows the urgency of rethinking teaching and training, underlining the substantial inadequacy of our schools and universities in dealing with hypercomplexity, with the global extension of all political, social, and cultural processes, and with their indeterminateness, interdependence, and interconnection. The idea that educational processes are questions of a purely technical and/or technological nature, solely a problem of skills and know-how, is the “great mistake” of the hypertechnological society, based on the illusion of being able to measure, simplify, and quantify everything, to eliminate error and unpredictability, to achieve total control and rationality. It is necessary to rethink education radically because the extraordinary scientific discoveries and the dynamics of the new technologies have completely overturned the complex interaction between biological and cultural evolution, doing away with the borders between the natural and the artificial, leading us not towards simplification, but in quite the opposite direction.
Which Cluster Do You Belong To? : The Influence of the COVID Pandemic on Georgian Language and Society View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Manana Rusieshvili, Rusudan Dolidze
Being part of the culture, language is closely connected with changes in society and therefore, reflects them. According to Teun A. van Dijk, people are affected by the news they read or watch, and at the same time, acquire and renew their knowledge of the world (van Dijk, 2013). This paper describes the changes the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown introduced into Georgian society and the Georgian language using the example of the relevant material from Georgian online newspapers. The relevance for the study material is analysed from the point of view of critical discourse analysis. (Fairclough, 2013). Fairclough suggests a socially-oriented, three-dimensional model for the study of the social-linguistic problems of critical discourse, which corresponds to the three interrelated levels of both the discourse and the act of communication. These are as follows: 1) The object of analysis (text, the specifics of its formal expression, which in this article will be studied by the descriptive method); 2) Issues of text interpretation that describe the relationships between text and interaction and rely on the interpretation of facts and 3) A sociocultural practice that involves explaining discourse specifics, social conditioning, and social effects made by certain facts. Based on CDA theory, 250 examples relating to the COVID pandemic were selected and analysed. The results of the analysis reveal the linguistic markers that describe the changes related to the COVID pandemic at the lexical, syntactic, semantic, and social levels.
The World “The Way We Saw It”: Transcultural Digital Humanities in Languages Education
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Katia G. Karadjova
Diversity has many dimensions. Race, gender, culture, ethnicity, economical status, sexual orientation, and accessibility are just a few of the extents when constructing identities. Trends in scholarship draw attention to the interconnectedness of identities, and the reality that individuals “have layered identities and can simultaneously experience oppression and privilege” (Dill, McLaughlin, & Nieves, 2007). At the same time student engagement in educationally effective practices is of upmost importance to student success. One of the successful practices lies in the intersection of humanities disciplines and digital technology and is known as Digital Humanities. The World “The way we saw it” instructionally related program runs each academic year and serves all courses across the curriculum of the World Languages & Cultures Departments of Humboldt State University and ArcataHighSchool. Includes: A digital gallery of original photographs by languages students. Students have the opportunity to view and be inspired by the photographs while using them in course assignments across the languages curriculum to produce writings in their target language of study. Then the photos, along with selected student writings in different languages, are published in e-books curated at the HSU Digital Commons. The students created an original digital content as part of their humanities assignments. The program boosted student engagement and facilitated intercultural communication. The World "The way we saw it" program not only serves as an innovative instructionally related program but it also fosters connection between university and high school, boosts community engagement and creates sense of belonging for our students.
Emotional Intelligence, Depression, Anxiety and Stress of Employees in the Covid-19 Pandemic View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Siti Sarawati Johar
This study focuses on the influence of emotional intelligence on the scale of depression, anxiety, and stress in the COVID-19 pandemic scenario. The specific purpose of this study was to test the effect of four emotional intelligence domains comprising the emotional intelligence of COVID-19 threat domain on the scale of depression, anxiety, and stress among civil servants in a statutory body in Malaysia. A total of 2268 respondents were selected for the category of academic and non-academic services. The first measurement tool used was a questionnaire survey that is built by researchers, and it has been through the validity process of instruments and construct, namely the Domain Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire of COVID-19 Challenge (DEIQue-CvdC). While the second questionnaire is a well-established questionnaire that is the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS21). In this study, regression analysis was used to determine the effect between the domains of emotional intelligence on the dependent variables. The findings show that there is a significant effect in all four domains of emotional intelligence on the scale of depression, anxiety, and stress.
