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The Alternative Project

The Alternative Project is a project that wants to raised our awareness about the education inequalities in our society that can cause society disfunction. And there are here to create justice in education so we can make a societal transformation. So, the reason I choose this topic is because I want to make people more aware and notice the good message that The Alternative Project has.

Reference/Annotated Bibliography Choosing Reason

Education Reforms: Lessons from History by Thomas C Hunt (2005) : Education reforms have consistently been plagued by the reformers’ lack of knowledge and appreciation of the history of education. Because in this article he say "Only when we see history as a ceaseless, uninterrupted flow that influences the present and are willing to learn from it will we avoid being victimized by the latest “silver bullet.”" which I agree. Because in my opinion we have to see the history of something to understand what we need to change, and how to improve things that we need to improve.

Mobilising different conversations about global justice in education: toward alternative futures in uncertain times by S Andreotti, et al (2018) : The problem reside in the generalization of all kind of possibilities, including cognitive, ecological, and economic possibilities. This article mainly talks about four different point of view that are presented as the challenge of mobilizing development and global education in socially complex and politically uncertain times.

GLOBAL INEQUALITIES AND HIGHER EDUCATION : whose interests are you serving? by Elaine Unterhalter (2010) : The economic and financial crisis has a number of components in each of which the question of inequalities in higher education is implicated in particular ways. I pick this because they discuss about exploration of higher education and the contribution of the knowledge economy to widening global inequality.

Higher education and social justice by Andy Furlong (2009) : Social justice relates to the principle that every effort should be made to ensure that individuals and groups all enjoy fair access to rewards. It also can be about providing equal opportunities to access an unequal reward structure. In this books, all of the aspects about things that can affect access, funding and pathway to higher education.

The Alternatives Project : That current social, economic, political, and educational arrangements reproduce relations of power that engineer profound inequities and will ultimately threaten life on the planet . They are one of the organizations that raise awareness of injustice in education, and support a lot of other education and social justice awareness society.

First Draft Article

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The Alternatives Project (TAP)

This is a page about The Alternatives Project

The Alternatives Project (TAP) is an international and geographically diverse network of progressive academics, union members, civil society activists, and social movement participants concerned with building a global collective critical voice oriented towards education and societal transformation. TAP envisions and works towards a radical rethinking of education and society globally. See these ideas for a radical re-envisioning of education and society as necessary directions to counter and overcome the severe crises the planet is facing.

Background

The Alternatives Project was initiated in August 2019 by a group of 20 progressive academics, union leaders, and other civil society activists who are frustrated by decades of neoliberal education reform and the complete abandonment of education as the basis for just and democratic societies. TAP's initial impetus came from a series of conversations that began at the Association for Comparative and International Education's conference in San Francisco in 2019 and continued beyond. As a nascent special interest group, we founded the series “21st Century Socialism and Education: Global Alternatives to Patriarchy, Racial Capitalism and climate change” with 19 workshops and about 80 presentations for the annual Miami convention in March 2020. Unfortunately, the pandemic started and the in-person conference was canceled and replaced instead. is a small virtual conference held. While planning for this conference was underway, a small group came together to consider doing something much larger and more permanent. From that meeting, build and add to the original team.

Given the many failures of international development efforts and neoliberal education reform, the acknowledgment that demanding more funding for education and returning to normal business operations is not enough. Current education policies take our economic, social and political systems for granted, and therefore can hardly lead us to a fairer and wiser world. Within the pandemic, the reform story is a narrow business-led, doing nothing to reconstruct an education that helps to effectively tackle the highly realistic economic, social, political and climate crises facing today. Is dominated by the solution-oriented thinking of. Education needed to be rethought and restructured in radically new ways in order to survive in a sustainable and humane way on this planet.

They believe it is important to capture this unique historical moment and engage in ongoing struggles and efforts in different parts of the world working to rethink and radically reshape public education as a starting point for deeper social change and to find ways to amplify this change. In short, planning a radical rethinking of education and building advocacy campaigns that put social justice and sustainable ecosystems and climate justice at the heart of the radical restructuring of education, economic and political systems. The sense of urgent need to seek alternatives, find inspiration and learn from the myriad transformational practices developed to overcome structural inequalities and discrimination based on race, gender, income, geographic location, disability, migration and sexual identity, among other things. And together finding a way to strengthen them.

Education Transformation

Every day, it seems, we wake up to the news of a different global crisis; stagnant wages and precarious jobs, declining public services, volatile markets, growing refugee numbers, famine, racist and sexist violence, and daily rates of anxiety and depression increasingly, climate change-related disasters and the prospect of nuclear war reemerge. The usual educational response to these challenges is more knowledgeable, better strategies, and more persuasive to effectively persuade more people to change their beliefs and thus their behavior. It means that we need to develop and disseminate an argument. These assumptions are based on the imagination of the modern / colonial era, which presupposes a single story of human evolution, the seamless progress, development, and human evolution that humanity divides between those who advance history and those who lag behind increase (Andreotti, et al, 2018). Only when we view the story of as a continuous, unbroken stream of influencing the present and willing to learn from it can we avoid falling victim to the "silver bullet" latest from (Hunt, 2005).

Climate Justice

The need to have a public education systems that teach human ecology and stewardship values that will facilitate this transformation both now and in the future. Climate justice acknowledge the rights and demand of the climate vulnerable poor, request that the materials for intercept climate change (climate finance) are objectively distributed, and encourage participation in decision making by prone groups, as well as women and youth (Anderson., S. 2013).

Societal Transformation

Education systems need to reorient towards addressing the inequalities and injustices in their societies, fostering racial, gender, and disability justice, and models of inclusion that will teach how to work collectively and drive the transformation of education and society. If there is a structure and within that structure there is only injustice and inequality then having opportunities within that structure will not create a just environment and society. For example, equality of opportunity, suggests that people should be able to have an equal chance of achieving social position through merit (Annette., C, 2017) . Social justice is not only about equality;  it is also about getting the same chances to access uneven reward structure (Andy., F, 2009).

Reference

• Education Reforms: Lessons from History by Thomas C Hunt (2005)
• Mobilising different conversations about global justice in education: toward alternative futures in uncertain times by S Andreotti, et al (2018)
• GLOBAL INEQUALITIES AND HIGHER EDUCATION : whose interests are you serving? by Elaine Unterhalter (2010)
• Higher education and social justice by Andy Furlong (2009)
• The Alternatives Project

Peer Assessment

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Peer review:

The article is very clear and well structured making it very easy to understand. You could add some references into the background section just to add some reliability to what you are saying. The climate justice section could be developed a bit more as well as the societal transformation section. If you put more references in it would help back up your points and the evidence you have collected.

Response To Peer Review

Thank you for the review. I will address some of the review and my plan to fix or add on the article based on the review.

1.Summary and references on the background. I notice the lack of summary in my background. So my plan to added it is to finish all of the article first and then take the important point of all the article heading and sub-heading, and make it a summary that are cohesive, informative, and covers all the topics that will be discussed in the article.

2.Developing and describe the sub-heading. I will add more information on the sub-heading section after doing some more research, so that there is no wrong information conveyed. And also I will add a few words or sentences to bridge the gap in between part so as to create a smooth and cohesive reading flow.

3.Adding image. In the draft article, I didn’t add images, because I’m still considering which images that can add more information to the audience. But I will add an images in this article.

4.Typo and specific country references. My plan to fix this is to remove the typo part. And for the references issue, because this topic is a global issue, and not a specific country issue, so most of the references I used are a global references. But there are some references that based on specific country, for that I will add the name of the country being discussed in the sentences, if there is a sentence that I will paraphrase.

The Alternatives Project (TAP)

This is a page about The Alternatives Project

The Alternatives Project (TAP) is an international and geographically diverse network of progressive academics, union members, civil society activists, and social movement participants concerned with building a global collective critical voice oriented towards education and societal transformation. TAP envisions and works towards a radical rethinking of education and society globally. See these ideas for a radical re-envisioning of education and society as necessary directions to counter and overcome the severe crises the planet is facing. There are three topics which are mainly discussed and championed by The Alternatives Project. The first topic is Educational Transformation, which basically discusses our efforts to improve and enhance educational performance in order to overcome various problems in society by using better strategies and knowledge. the second is Climate Justice, this topic is used to discuss how to create a sustainable environment so that it can solve problems in various parts of the world related to weather and the environment. And finally, there is Societal Justice, which discusses the application of the solutions obtained in the previous two topics so that justice and equality can be created

Background

The Alternatives Project was initiated in August 2019 by a group of 20 progressive academics, union leaders, and other civil society activists who are frustrated by decades of neoliberal education reform and the complete abandonment of education as the basis for just and democratic societies. TAP's initial impetus came from a series of conversations that began at the Association for Comparative and International Education's conference in San Francisco in 2019 and continued beyond. As a nascent special interest group, we founded the series “21st Century Socialism and Education: Global Alternatives to Patriarchy, Racial Capitalism and climate change” with 19 workshops and about 80 presentations for the annual Miami convention in March 2020. Unfortunately, the pandemic started and the in-person conference was canceled and replaced instead with holding a small virtual conference. While planning for this conference was underway, a small group came together to consider doing something much larger and more permanent. From that meeting, build and add to the original team.

Given the many failures of international development efforts and neoliberal education reform, the acknowledgment that demanding more funding for education and returning to normal business operations is not enough. Current education policies take our economic, social and political systems for granted, and therefore can hardly lead us to a fairer and wiser world. Within the pandemic, the reform story is a narrow business-led, doing nothing to reconstruct an education that helps to effectively tackle the highly realistic economic, social, political and climate crises facing today. Is dominated by the solution-oriented thinking of. Education needed to be rethought and restructured in radically new ways in order to survive in a sustainable and humane way on this planet.

They believe it is important to capture this unique historical moment and engage in ongoing struggles and efforts in different parts of the world working to rethink and radically reshape public education as a starting point for deeper social change and to find ways to amplify this change. In short, planning a radical rethinking of education and building advocacy campaigns that put social justice and sustainable ecosystems and climate justice at the heart of the radical restructuring of education, economic and political systems. The sense of urgent need to seek alternatives, find inspiration and learn from the myriad transformational practices developed to overcome structural inequalities and discrimination based on race, gender, income, geographic location, disability, migration and sexual identity, among other things. And together finding a way to strengthen them.

Education Transformation

One form of Educational Transformation is the ease of finding education

Every day, it seems, we wake up to the news of a different global crisis; stagnant wages and precarious jobs, declining public services, volatile markets, growing refugee numbers, famine, racist and sexist violence, and daily rates of anxiety and depression increasingly, climate change-related disasters and the prospect of nuclear war reemerge. The usual educational response to these challenges is more knowledgeable, better strategies, and more persuasive to effectively persuade more people to change their beliefs and thus their behavior. It means that we need to develop and disseminate an argument. These assumptions are based on the imagination of the modern / colonial era, which presupposes a single story of human evolution, the seamless progress, development, and human evolution that humanity divides between those who advance history and those who lag behind increase. Only when we view the story of as a continuous, unbroken stream of influencing the present and willing to learn from it can we avoid falling victim to the "silver bullet" latest from.

Climate Justice

The following is a picture of an example of an effort to raise awareness about climate change

Climate justice, both local and international, demands recognition and challenges regarding the subsistence relationship between the community and the environment that supports them. The need to have a public education systems that teach human ecology and stewardship values that will facilitate this transformation both now and in the future. Because basically climate justice is intended so that we can live a sustainable life as well as to combat some of the difficulties felt by many people in various parts of the world such as food sovereignty. Climate justice acknowledge the rights and demand of the climate vulnerable poor, request that the materials for intercept climate change (climate finance) are objectively distributed, and encourage participation in decision making by prone groups, as well as women and youth.

Societal Transformation

Societal Transformation includes equality as one of the ways, not only equality in gaining social status but equality in self-expression

Education systems need to reorient towards addressing the inequalities and injustices in their societies, fostering racial, gender, and disability justice, and models of inclusion that will teach how to work collectively and drive the transformation of education and society. If there is a structure and within that structure there is only injustice and inequality then having opportunities within that structure will not create a just environment and society. For example, equality of opportunity, suggests that people should be able to have an equal chance of achieving social position through merit. Social justice is not only about equality;  it is also about getting the same chances to access uneven reward structure.