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Education in the Years to Come: What We Can Learn from Alternative Education
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Farrell, Joseph P. |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | We are all too familiar with how education and national development have evolved over the past several decades, growing into large and small national systems of formal education, linked in a variety of ways with national planning goals and sustained by systemic bureaucracies. The evolution of this paradigm has been discussed in some detail by John Hawkins in Chapter Five. We are also familiar with the shortcomings of this system, especially in the more globalized environment in which we now find ourselves. What might elements of a new education look like in 2020, and where can we look now to catch a glimpse of these elements? I will commence this venture in thinking about 2020 and beyond with an old, probably apocryphal, proverb: “Prediction is always very difficult, especially with respect to the future.” Had we been engaging in this exercise some 20 to 25 years ago, probably none of us would have predicted the collapse of the 'Eastern Bloc' or the 'Soviet Empire' with all of its subsequent effects on how the world is ordered, and the reverberating effects that has had on formal and non-formal education programs and possibilities throughout the world. Nor would we have predicted the imminent arrival of the internet and the ways in which this has affected our ways of working, means of communicating, and ways of accessing information. We have very few ways of knowing to any degree of certainty what further 'surprises' are in store for us over the next twenty or more years. But there is one prediction that I will venture to offer with some certainty: in 2020 or 2030, or whenever, whatever those surprises may be, most schools, whether early primary level or university level, will |
| Starting Page | 199 |
| Ending Page | 224 |
| Page Count | 26 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4020-6583-5_9 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://page-one.springer.com/pdf/preview/10.1007/978-1-4020-6583-5_9 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6583-5_9 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
