Tatsiana Vadalazhskaja: Main challenge for the Flying University is self-organization
The main goal and the perspective of the Flying University is the development of the research projects and programs – cogitative, intellectual, debatable parts.
This was reported to the EuroBelarus Information Service by the curator of the Flying University Tatsiana Vadalazhskaja.
According to her, one year is a too short term to draw up some serious results for the university as a process and as a program. And the academic year in the university is measured form September to June. Nevertheless, 2012 was rich on events. It started from the organization and activity game in which the participants were involved in programming and management, and ended with the conference of the Flying University devoted to the intellectual situation in Belarus. And between these events there was an announcement of the latest program for the new academic year, and summer school, and public lections, and lots of courses, and even an excursion. On the whole, the year was informative.
- But if we start talking about some results and tendencies, then the main one is that the Flying University is in search, we try to become wider, try to find both new people and new forms of work, - said Tatsiana Vadalazhskaja.
According to her evaluation, movement in this direction is going on positively. The circle of lecturers and intellectuals involved in the affairs and events of the Flying University is broadening. Variety of formats is increasing. Not only courses and public lectures were tested, but also discussions, games and excursions. Student community is gradually developing.
Tatsiana Vadalazhskaja hasn’t indicated too negative moments in the life of the Flying University, but she noted that she wished that the development of the university was quicker and more intense: “But perhaps it is the common feature of people who have planned something and would like to implement that”.
Common external conditions were not very conductive to the development of the Flying University, highlighted the curator of the Flying University. Sometimes external conditions slow down some processes in the university, lock down possibilities for large public events, for open lectures, discussions and so on. “But these limitations allow us to find more interested and responsible people, external impediments help us to understand better what do we want and to move more accurately”, - specified Tatsiana Vadalazhskaja.
As a year in the university is measured form September to June, it is difficult for the curator to talk about plans on 2013. “We need to continue what appears and puts down roots in the university; to develop those ideas which are already invented. We urgently need broader development of the research projects and programs. Not the educational part, but rather a cogitative, intellectual, debatable one. It is one of the main perspectives”, - highlighted Tatsiana Vadalazhskaja.
As a challenge and common goal curator of the FU named the thing that Pavel Barkouski announced at the conference of the Flying University: how to maintain unity of the informal group of people united by common ideas and common guidelines, how to preserve movement on the whole without moving to the distinct organization or project . “I would say that the challenge consists in the question of community development and management, or self-management, self-government of this university community, to be more precise. So far it is the main challenge and the main problem”, - assumes Tatsiana Vadalazhskaja.
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