Kefalaki, Margarita and Diamantidaki, Fotini (Eds).
(2020)
Nurturing Collective Knowledge and Intelligence: Social phenomena and implications for practice.
[Whole issue].
Journal of Education Innovation and Communication
, 2
(1).
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Abstract
Nowadays more than ever, during the global health crisis we are currently striving to overcome, we need to learn to adapt, communicate and innovate. We are going through historical times and we learn that we should always strive to understand what influences social phenomena, their factors, constantly changing our everyday reality and us. Our current issue focuses on four different social phenomena that are in crisis, despite of COVID-19, and in need of our urgent attention; the environmental health issue, the European political landscape, the workplace burnout and the invasion of social media in our children’s everyday lives. Human beings in times of crisis tend to come together, socially construct and collectively produce knowledge (Halas, 2002). ‘An important component of the way humans perceive empirical reality is related to the principles they learn through education and other experiences’ (Prevodnik &Vehovar, 2020). Our individual realities therefore and our experiences, can contribute to a collective construction of knowledge and albeit intelligence. A Collective intelligence, that emerges from collaboration, exchange and collective efforts that can strongly contribute to the spread of knowledge from the individual to the collective’ (Wikipedia, 2020). It thus has a direct impact on ourselves and how our perception of the issues surrounding us, changes over time. Our current global reality of living through COVID-19, will inevitably act as a catalyst for change, albeit a positive one (Mujahid, 2020; Vipin, 2020; Nelson, 2020) on a variety of reoccurring social issues. Additionally, countries whilst sharing local knowledge, they learn to exchange, collaborate, react collectively and intelligently. Sharing allows knowledge to act then as a catalyst for change. Our issue hopes to share local knowledge on four different social phenomena with the view to co-construct a collective one and adapt it in our own different realities.
| Type: | Journal (full / special issue) |
|---|---|
| Title: | Nurturing Collective Knowledge and Intelligence: Social phenomena and implications for practice |
| Location: | Greece |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.34097/jeicom_2_1_june2020 |
| Publisher version: | https://coming.gr/jeicom-all/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. You can Share — Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). |
| Keywords: | social phenomena, discourse analysis, social media, work burnout |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10143891 |
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