Educating for Public Happiness and Global Peace: Contributions from a Portuguese UNESCO Chair towards the Sustainable Development Goals

Marujo, Helena Águeda; Casais, Mafalda

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“…We may give some examples, such as that AI can improve student performance and engagement (0.860); AI will enable the personalisation of the learning process by identifying the best way to teach materials (audio, video, e-book), which will significantly contribute to the quality of teaching (0.775); AI could help me search for materials and content for my lectures more easily (0.718); AI can help me make fewer mistakes (0.713); and AI can enable the teacher to have a better insight into student performance (0.712). Other factors with medium importance are that AI can help keep students in the learning process by identifying students at risk (0.652); AI can analyse students' incorrect answers and suggest which teaching units require additional instruction (0.520); and AI will provide an early warning system for students' risky behaviours (0.513) [75,[78][79][80].…”

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Artificial Intelligence Potential in Higher Education Institutions Enhanced Learning Environment in Romania and Serbia

Bucea-Manea-Ţoniş

Kuleto²,

Gudei

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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In their struggle to offer a sustainable educational system and transversal competencies for market requests, significant transformations characterise the higher education system in Serbia and Romania. According to EU policy, these transformations are related to educational reforms and the introduction of new technology and methodologies in teaching and learning. They are expected to answer to the PISA requirements and to increase the DESI (Digital Economy and Society Index). They are also likely to mitigate the inequity of HEIs (higher education institutions), empowered by a structured, goal-oriented strategy towards agile management in HEIs that is also appropriate for new market demands. Our study is based on an exploratory survey applied to 139 Romanian and Serbian teachers from the Information Technology School—ITS, Belgrade, and Spiru Haret University, Romania. The survey let them provide their knowledge of AI or their perceptions of the difficulties and opportunities of these technologies in HEIs. Our study discovered how difficulties and opportunities associated with AI impact HEIs. This study aims to see how AI might assist higher education in Romania and Serbia. We also considered how they might be integrated with the educational system, and if instructors would utilise them. Developing creative and transversal skills is required to anticipate future breakthroughs and technological possibilitiesThe new methods of education focuses on ethics, values, problem-solving, and daily activities. Students’ learning material, how they might achieve critical abilities, and their educational changes must be addressed in the future. In this environment, colleges must create new digital skills in IA, machine learning, IoT, 5G, the cloud, big data, blockchain, data analysis, using MS Office and other applications, MOOCs, simulation applications, VR/AR, and gamification. They must also develop cross-disciplinary skills and a long-term mindset.

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Artificial Intelligence Potential in Higher Education Institutions Enhanced Learning Environment in Romania and Serbia

Bucea-Manea-Ţoniş

Kuleto²,

Gudei

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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“…Therefore, this paper aims to explore and elucidate the intricate interplay between these three interconnected factors – mental health, peace and public happiness – and set out the context in which experiences of mental distress and well-being emerge as the result of social and structural systemic factors and human rights issues (OHCHR/WHO, 2008; Marujo and Casais, 2021; Marujo and Neto, 2017). The paper calls for increased attention to research and practice that addresses and promotes ongoing engagement and dialogue about mental health as both a personal and a social experience – a multi-being understanding.…”

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The nexus between peace and mental well-being: contributions for public happiness

Marujo

2023

MHSI

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Purpose This underscores individual and social implications for how mental disorders and mental well-being are constructed, conceived of and treated. Further, this paper aims to examine positive psychology’s role in supporting the advancement of a broader systemic and contextual approach to mental health. With that aim, this paper connects data on mental health and well-being with peace studies to describe the systems of value and social ecologies underpinning mental disorders, using public happiness/Felicitas Publica as a possible framework to enhance public mental health while intervening at the local level (Bruni and Zamagni, 2007; Marujo and Neto, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2021; Marujo et al., 2019). Design/methodology/approach Theoretical foundations and data on positive peace and mental well-being are described with the intention to propose a systemic, contextual, relational, communitarian, economic and sociopolitical perspective of well-being that goes beyond individual bodies and/or brains and, instead, views mental disorder and mental health as social currency (Beck, 2020). Findings The interventions using dialogic, conversational and community approaches are a possible path to promote peace, mental health and public happiness. Research limitations/implications Examining the interplay between the fields of positive psychology, mental health and cultures of peace, this work contributes to the broadening of research and subsequent intervention topics through transdisciplinary approaches while reinforcing the role of systemic and social determinants and complementing the prevalent medical model and intraindividual perspective of mental health and well-being. Practical implications Adopting positive psychology to address mental health through public happiness concepts and interventions opens opportunities to respond to the ebb and flow of social challenges and life-giving opportunities. Therefore, the paper intends to articulate actor-related, relational, structural and cultural dimensions while moving away from discrete technocratic and individual models and pays attention to the way their implementations are aligned with both individual and social needs. Social implications The work offers an inclusive, equalitarian, politically sensitive approach to positive mental health and positive psychology, bringing forward a structural transformation and human rights-based approach perspective while rethinking the type of social and political solutions to mental health issues. Originality/value Creating a critically constructive debate vis-à-vis the fluidity and complexity of the social world, the paper examines mental health and positive psychology simultaneously from a “hardware” (institutions, infrastructures, services, systems, etc.) and a “software” (i.e. individuals and community/societal relations).

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“…These areas often are education, science, culture, human rights, and sustainable development (United Nations, 2015). The chairs are promoted in academic institutions and research centers worldwide to create programs and activities for quality education, human resource development, interdisciplinary research, and the dissemination of knowledge in which interdisciplinary experts and academicians collaborate to address global challenges and exchange ideas, and share knowledge (Marujo & Casais, 2021). improving critical, scientific, systemic, and innovative thinking skills (Romero-Rodríguez et al, 2022;Suárez-Brito et al, 2022).…”

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Communicating educational innovation projects in Latin America mediated by the scaling of complex thinking: Contribution of the UNESCO-ICDE Chair in Mexico

George-Reyes,

López-Caudana,

Gómez-Rodríguez

2024

ONLINE J COMMUN MEDIA TECHNOL

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair in the open educational movement for Latin America aims to promote scientific, technological, entrepreneurial, and innovative development. In Mexico, face-to-face bootcamps occur every two years, where prototypes of high-value solutions for education are developed using design and active learning methodologies, with the aim of scaling complex thinking and sustainable development. In the 2023 edition, 94 academicians from 12 countries participated (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the Dominican Republic, and the United Kingdom). Experts from Tecnológico de Monterrey, the Open University, the University of Leeds, and Siemens Stiftung supervised the process. This article presents the prototyped proposals and the results of applying the Play2Train4C methodology, enabling participants to develop educational innovation projects under the paradigm of complex thinking. The results indicate that (1) the participants managed to prototype ten proposals validated by experts and (2) their perceptions of their systemic, critical, scientific, and innovative thinking (sub-competencies of complex thinking) improved by the end of the bootcamp. The conclusion was that the UNESCO Chair boosted solution-building skills for the complex problems arising in Latin America and enabled key agents in education to improve their complex thinking skills for quality education, as promulgated by sustainable development goal 4.

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Educating for Public Happiness and Global Peace: Contributions from a Portuguese UNESCO Chair towards the Sustainable Development Goals

Cited by 14 publications

References 46 publications

Artificial Intelligence Potential in Higher Education Institutions Enhanced Learning Environment in Romania and Serbia

Artificial Intelligence Potential in Higher Education Institutions Enhanced Learning Environment in Romania and Serbia

The nexus between peace and mental well-being: contributions for public happiness

Communicating educational innovation projects in Latin America mediated by the scaling of complex thinking: Contribution of the UNESCO-ICDE Chair in Mexico

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