Challenging Formalization in Education and Beyond

Problems and Solutions for Traditional and Online Learning

Peter Serdyukov

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781032264875
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000737301
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Epigraphs
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1 Formalization as a social phenomenon
• Part 2 Formalization in online learning
• Part 3 Effects of the formalization and their overcoming
• References
• Index