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Rhodes Forum 2011
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Panel № 6 Educational
Education and Innovations - Grounds for Sustainble Social Development
Fundamental changes in the modern world clearly show, that education is the most important means of harmonization of contemporary inter-civilization development. At the present time the problems of education are closely related not only with the necessity of solving the problems of post-crisis economic development, employment of population, but also with current development of science and innovations, cultural and civilization values.
Today educational reforms practically in all countries of the world indicate the crisis of generally accepted educational models and necessity of searching for the way out of the existing situation.
MAIN SUBJECTS OF DISCUSSIONS:
Contemporary Models of University Education. Crisis of Humboldt model of education and searching for the models, combining education-research-innovations-investments.
Universities Ratings: Myths and Reality. Role and significance of the ratings: TIMES, Shanghai rating, RateOR and Moscow State University rating.
Internationalization of Universities. Internationalization of universities is a multidimensional, interdisciplinary, intercultural, research, innovative, and dynamic system, allowing adaptation to rapidly and continuously changing environments. Internationalization as the process of integrating international perspective and the system of universities and higher education institutions.
Moderators:
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Kirabaev Nur
Vice-rector, Peoples` Friendship University of Russia |
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Kamensky Helene Former Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar, Schloss Leopoldskron, Ph.D. (Austria) |
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Hashem Saleh Secretary General, Association of Arab Universities (Egypt) |
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Giscard d`Estaing Olivier Chairman INSEAD Foundation, former member of the French Parliament, MBA Harvard University (France) |
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Mironov Vladimir Dean, Department of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) |
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Alexeeva Tatiana Managing chair of political theory, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the MFA of Russia, (MGIMO) (Russia) |
Reports:
Family Strengths, Community Strengths, and Cultural Strengths: Identifying Common Ground in Our Efforts To Preserve The Structural Integrity of the Global Community
John DeFrain - Ph.D., Professor of Family Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)
Sylvia M. Asay - Ph.D., Associate Professor of Family Studies
University of Nebraska at Kearney (USA)
Abstract
Human beings, for a number of reasons, tend to focus on differences. This tendency can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, differences can be the spice of life and the object of fascinating discussions when we talk about the differences between men and women, youth and maturity, or the differences among cultures in regard to language, food preferences, politics, history, religion, education, and so forth.
On the other hand, when we take our differences too seriously and blow them out of proportion in relationship to our similarities – which are much more evident – we easily get ourselves into trouble. Trouble as spouses exaggerating the battle of the sexes, trouble as parents too eager to engage in attacks on their children for being so supposedly different, and as nations only too happy to exaggerate how our particular country differs (and, thus, is better) than other nations.
A Pedagogy for Troubled Times
Fred Dallmayr
University of Notre Dame (USA)
This is a happy occasion. It is with great pleasure that I introduce here the Russian edition of my book In Search of the Good Life: A Pedagogy for Troubled Times. The edition was commissioned by the “World Public Forum—Dialogue of Civilizations.” I thank the Forum and especially the translators and editors of my book. The work is meant as a contribution to education and also to the dialogue of civilizations, to the dawn of a new era in international politics—an era replacing the old “Cold War” between East and West with an international regime based on mutual recognition and respect. The Cold War was founded on hostility, on mutual deterrence, that is, the constant threat of mutual annihilation and destruction. The new regime, by contrast, seeks to promote amity, good will, and continued life—not death. A life among people devoted to amity, good will, and the pursuit of justice is called the “good life.” This is reflected in the title of my book.
Internationalizing a diploma : the example of the Foreign Applied Languages course of study
Gilbert Guillard - President of the AILEA ( Association Internationale des LEA),
(Sorbonne Nouvelle)
About thirty years ago, a few French university professors planned to create a new course of study, which they called Foreign Applied Languages.This occurred in response to the disturbing fact that an increasing number of students who attended the classical course of study in foreign languages, that is to say literature and lingustics, had more and more difficulties in finding a suitable employment, apart from becoming themselves teachers. This was due on one side to the ever rising total number of students, which made competition more fierce, and on the other side to the fact that modern enterprises no longer could be satisfied with recruiting employees who had no knowledge of enterprise life and structure, nor the faintest hint about economical matters. The times were over, when students who had promoted with a license in literature still could get a job in a bank, starting from the bottom, but nevertheless hired because they had a university degree and skilled labour was short. These professors created also this new diploma by first making the study of two foreigne languages, instead of only one, compulsory, and by adding to this the learning of basic notions in law, economy, management, marketing, communication and data processing.