A wicked problem: developing next-epoch people today
DR Grant Robertson TO DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS
We are truly living in extraordinary times. Amost all of what we know has been forged in the context of an Industrial economy. Yet, what we need to know will be generated in an increasingly knowledge-oriented economy, where industrial age concepts and knowledge are rapidly becoming incapable of adequately fulfilling the fast-changing requirements of current times. This poses a seriously 'wicked problem' for educators and the education system, grounded and built in the past and yet challenged to make a major contribution to developing not just next generation, but 'next-epoch' people.
Dr Grant Robertson of UGM will deliver a keynote address at the Eastern Adelaide Region Education Conference in March 2012. Grant will address topics including:
- implications of living and working during epochal change
- the rise of human capital and social capital
- the impact of intangibles that create value
- finding clarity on 'what is a knowledge worker'
- how we create knowledge, how we classify it and implications
- networks as a critical means of organising and creating/adding value
- complimenting dated rational-linear thinking with thinking about complexity and chaos theory
- the implications of the rapidly expanding understanding of brain science
- possible scenarios for education
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