International Forum for Education 2020

July 2, 2010John Hawkins

Deane Neubauer

Introducing IFE 2020

What will education--especially higher education look like by 2020? How will we get there? What can we do to prepare ourselves?

The world is changing more rapidly than higher education.

Goal: To provide a forum for existing and potential leaders in the Asia Pacific region to work collaboratively in shaping the future of higher education.

Critical Questions

What are the changed characteristics of the 21st Century facing our students as they enter adulthood and the workplace?

What are the implications of these fundamental changes for Education?

What are the challenges, requirements, and strategies to bring about and implement fundamental changes and approaches to higher education?

Critical Issues

Interdependence and Globalization

The Social, Economic and Education Divide

Sustainability of Life on our planet

Populations with particular ethnic, cultural or religious characteristics

The Increasing and pervasive impact of technology

The workplace of the 21st Century

Learning to live together

Developing leaders able to meet the challenges of transformative social, economic and cultural changes

IFE ActivitiesSenior Seminars

Three seminars to produce Changing EducationAnnual seminars: (2006) Tensions between higher education as a public good and as a market commodity; (2007) Quality and quality Issues; (2008) Access, equity and capacity in Chia-yi, Taiwan; (2009) Higher Education Quality in the Emergent Knowledge Society in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; (2010) Migration and Mobility in Asia Pacific Higher Education, in Tokyo, Japan.

Leadership Institutes: (2005) 23 participants from five countries--paradigms in education; (2007) 15 participants from 8 countries--public good/private commodity; (2008) 15 participants, 9 countries--quality issues in higher education; 2009 17 participants from 9 countries, emergent knowledge society issues; 2010 September, Bangkok participants from eight countries.

Publications: Books, special journal editionsRegional Meetings: 2008--Bali, November (in conjunction with EWC Alumni Meeting)

The Tool Kit

Concepts that have come to permeate the 2020 enterprise

Areas of Tension:ParadigmsGlobalizationQualityPublic Good / Private CommodityCapacityCross BorderLeadership

Conceptual Tools

Interdependence

Complexity

Emergence

Problems and Predicaments

Difference

Diversity and Variety

Equity and Equality