WAYS OFSEEING− What we know and believe

frames what we see

− Ideology

THEFIRST WAY− Passing on accumulated

knowledge− Content and instruction− Assumes an ordered world− Plato

COMPLEXITYANDDISORDER

POPULATION

GLOBALISATION

KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

DIVERSITY, DIFFERENCE, FRAGMENTATION

SOCIAL RELATIONS

CLIIMATE

ECONOMIC CRISES

ROLE OF THE STATE

WAR

JOBS

MIGRATION

GEOPOLITICS

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

WHO WILL THRIVE?− Critical thinker− Self managed− Adaptable− Confident risk taker− Collaborator− Creative and innovative− Knowledge users− Lifelong learners

SECONDWAY− Creating and applying knowledge− Construction and competencies− Assumes a complex and

disordered world− Castells, Lyotard, Robinson

THECONTESTInstructionversusConstruction

A THIRDWAY− Personalised learning

(not individualised)− Students are active informed

participants in their own learning

− Learners contribute to decisions about why, how and what they learn

− Assumes order, complexity and disorder

CURRICULUM− Values− Competencies− Learning areas

PLUS− Effective teaching by professional

teachers− Evidence based− Formative assessment (some summative)− School organisation− Engagement with the community− Technology enabled− Leadership− Supportive services

FUTUREPROOFING− Preparing for a rapidly changing world− Flexible, creative, innovative people− Which way?

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