BELOW ARE COMMENTS ON OUR CLASS READING OF Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2022). Assumptions and Challenges of Open Scholarship. In R. Kimmons (Ed.), Becoming an Open Scholar.
Twice today I’ve been confronted with arguments for major changes to be made—and soon—in the ways we look at scholarship and systems in education. In the first instance, I clicked a headline on CNN.com that read “Teachers are leaving and few people want to join the field. Experts are sounding the alarm.”
The article suggests that the education profession is in crisis. Because of the pandemic, low wages, increased classroom demands, and high stress levels teachers are leaving their jobs in droves and the number of individuals applying for jobs in the education field are declining.
According to the article, “The problem, education leaders say, is not that a lack of people who could become teachers, but rather not enough people choosing it as a profession.” Also, a linked article quoted Carole Basile from Arizona State University, who said: “The one-teacher-to-one-classroom model must change….we need to re-design the profession, the workplace, and how we prepare people for both.”
So, there are calls for an overhaul to take place within the profession. And these calls for overhaul reminded me of what was stated in the Veletsianos and Kimmons article we had to read for class.
The Veletsianos and Kimmons article focused on and explored possible definitions of open scholarship with the idea that there needs to be a redesign of curriculum to prepare future scholars for “the changing nature of scholarship.” They concluded that “open scholarship has the potential to enhance scholarly endeavors, but it requires paradigmatic shifts in the ways that we think about education, knowledge, learning, teaching, and research.”
As I read the articles, I thought that both camps somehow need to work together on a solution, and not run in parallel to solve a problem bigger than both.
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