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School climate turbulence – How might intercultural research and information communication technologies calm the storm?

13 Jun 2025, 12:15

1h

Stavanger Forum

Poster Other Room: Mastrafjorden B

Speaker

Roderick Sherlock (InfoNet Blaise Pascal, Inc. (INBP, Inc.))

Description

The UVDBase Project phase 4 is dedicated to furthering development of a documentation and communications human-centered supportive technical system identifying and neutralizing organizational, technical, personal, cultural, and ethical barriers hindering communication and effective resolution of school-based conflict problem outcomes.

Current focus is on development of socio-technical systems design solutions addressing school climate social discord – specifically, conflicts typically traceable to cultural differences. Solutions are proposed targeting improved student-body intergroup communication, expanded teacher education resources, and supportive parental engagement tools.

Consistent with the digital transformation of public and government services, the project will produce a referential resource directly addressing known researched gaps, and provide recommendations derived from an assembled participant expert subject matter consortium (SME’s) of existing and emerging evolving technological solutions. Currently, recommendations include: Collaborative student body virtual teamwork integration; Teachers’ knowledge formation: access to cloud-based digitized library resources including historical and disaggregated cultural datasets, online interactive dashboard and data visualization tools, and parental engagement: via connectivity to integrated application programming (API) linguistic communication tools and messaging guidance.

Recognizing the social scientific concern that “culture is a neglected aspect of conflict resolution.” and the social systems theorization that “each interaction is not only affected by the characteristics of individuals or the environmental context but also by the history of interactions.” (Gunkel et al, 2016), project phase four emphasizes the benefits of social-historical cultural intelligence – holistic real-life insights - matching practical social-technical solutions fostering greater understanding and prosocial collaboration across the full spectrum of the personal and systemic-structural educational framework.

Keywords

Prosocial socio-technical design solutions; Socio-technical Systems Innovation (SI); Antibullying documentation and communication;