Point of Learning with Pete Hall. Leadership in teaching and learning.

007: Jane Gilbert on Educating for an Unknown Future

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Previously Chief Researcher at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Jane is a professor at AUT University's School of Education in Auckland where she teaches Educational Futures and runs the Edge Work - Educational Futures Network.

Jane is presenting with Danielle Myburgh on the future of schooling at the U-learn conference in Auckland this week, but today she shares some of her thinking around change and how to prepare students for a future we can’t imagine.   

Key Points:

  • How teaching has changed in the last few decades
  • What’s the point of school?
  • Should schools be responding to wider society, or leading the way?
  • How do we manage competition with fewer resources in the future?
  • Which comes first, social change or educational change?
  • Using complexity theory to better understand the Education system
  • Creating disruption to probe and prompt change
  • Creating conversations that make change
  • The politics of teachers and teaching 

    • Other resources and Links Mentioned:

    Complexity theory

    Jane’s AUT profile

    Jane on twitter

    Edge Work site

    Edge work on Twitter

    Idealog article with Jane, on teaching for a future we can’t imagine

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