Change and why we all see it differently - The Learner's Way - 14 views
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the rise of the ‘gig’ economy where freelance and short term contract work is common and training and retraining for new projects is the norm
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If the young people of today are to thrive beyond the walls of the classroom they will need to be able to cope with a world characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
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there are broad typologies which emerge along a continuum from those who actively seek to change to those who actively resist it.
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There are those who publicly embrace the change but in the privacy of the classroom continue as they have always done
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“A person’s sense of identity is partly determined by his or her values, which can mesh or clash with organizational values”
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Change is always complicated. A the least it involves people, personalities, cultures, beliefs, values, emotions and identity.
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If the young people of today are to thrive beyond the walls of the classroom they will need to be able to cope with a world characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The children of todays Kindergarten will enter the workplace in the fourth-decade of the 21st Century. We debate the merits of teaching 21st Century Skills and what they might be while teaching children who have lived their entire lives in that very century. The challenge is how will schools and individual teachers respond to this drive for urgent change.