Individual Educational Trajectories: from Educational Supermarket to Sensemaking to Blended Values

DOI

10.2991/essd-19.2019.63How to use a DOI?

Keywords

individualization, educational trajectories, filters, educational supermarket, sensemaking, blended values

Abstract

Bringing the idea of students` individual educational trajectories into focus, Russian universities employ an ‘educational supermarket’ model and take for granted that universities are capable of incorporating any novelty. This paper proves the opposite, i.e. universities use specific ‘filters’ to minimize external influence. New filters introduction is able to destabilize the system and make it sensitive to outside cues. This phase, with its sensemaking potential, is the most efficient for building educational trajectories. However, this phase is short, for universities tend to reduce volatility and complexity. They are ‘autopoietic’. Genuine individualization stems from a person`s understanding of value that he or she can create over the trajectory of their lives, which is above autopoietic frames of one university. This paper discusses a shift in focus – from individualization to blended value – with the central premise that value is itself a ‘blend’ of economic, environmental, social, political, and personal factors. This notion shifts the focus from a university as the center for a person`s individualization to a university as an equal stakeholder and actor that identifies and maximizes blended value.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Olga N. Kalachikova
AU  - Tatyana B. Sidorova
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - Individual Educational Trajectories:  from Educational Supermarket to Sensemaking to Blended Values
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education Science and Social Development (ESSD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 285
EP  - 289
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/essd-19.2019.63
DO  - 10.2991/essd-19.2019.63
ID  - Kalachikova2019/07
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