Youth Participation: Education in the Future Youth Participation: Education in the Future Bangkok May 1998 Bangkok May 1998
Aspects of the future Youth Participation: Education in the Future
What educators should realize Aspects of the future Youth Participation: Education in the Future
What educators should realize Aspects of the future What students should realize Youth Participation: Education in the Future
What educators should realize Aspects of the future What students should realize Youth Participation: Education in the Future Aspects of the future: -21st Cent. -nature of change -education beyond schooling
Reflections on the Future n n Crossing threshold to the 21st Century n n Futureworld: the positive and the negative n n The qualitative nature of change: “The future isn’t what it used to be.” n n Impact on outdated educational systems n n Beyond schooling: lifelong learning in a learning society
What educators should realize Aspects of the future What students should realize Youth Participation: Education in the Future Aspects of the future: -21st Cent. -nature of change -education beyond schooling
What educators should realize: Changes in - - content - process - learner Borderless learning Aspects of the future: -21st Cent. -nature of change -education beyond schooling Youth Participation: Education in the Future What students should realize
What Educators Should Realize n n The content of learning will change. n n The process of learning will change. n n The learner will change, has already changed. n n Knowledge knows no boundaries: - Students abroad - UNESCO’s Associated Schools Program
Students Abroad: Developing and Industrialized Countries
What Educators Should Realize n n The content of learning will change. n n The process of learning will change. n n The learner will change, has already changed. n n Knowledge knows no boundaries: - Students abroad - UNESCO’s Associated Schools Program
What educators should realize: Changes in - - content - process - learner Borderless learning Aspects of the future: -21st Cent. -nature of change -education beyond schooling Youth Participation: Education in the Future What students should realize
What educators should realize: Changes in - - content - process - learner Borderless learning Aspects of the future: -21st Cent. -nature of change -education beyond schooling What students should realize: -self learning -maintaining balances -”four pillars” -responsibility for EFA Youth Participation: Education in the Future
What Students Should Realize n n Learning to learn: “You are your own best teacher.” n n Maintaining the key balances in education
n Balancing the tensions in a global society--- - observations from the Delors Commission Maintaining the Balances
n Balancing the tensions in a global society: -individual development vs. social cohesion Maintaining the Balances
n Balancing the tensions in a global society: -individual development vs. social cohesion -internationalism vs. community identities Maintaining the Balances
n Balancing the tensions in a global society: -individual development vs. social cohesion -internationalism vs. community identities -industrialized modernity vs. local cultures Maintaining the Balances
n Balancing the tensions in a global society: -individual development vs. social cohesion -internationalism vs. community identities -industrialized modernity vs. local cultures -long-term (reason) vs. short-term (emotion) Maintaining the Balances
n Balancing the tensions in a global society: -individual development vs. social cohesion -internationalism vs. community identities -industrialized modernity vs. local cultures -long-term (reason) vs. short-term (emotion) -material values vs. moral values -marketplace competition vs. social equity -knowledge explosion vs. human absorption Maintaining the Balances
What Students Should Realize n n Learning to learn: “You are your own best teacher.” n n Maintaining the key balances in education
What Students Should Realize n n Learning to learn: “You are your own best teacher.” n n Maintaining the key balances in education n n A holistic education: the “four pillars”
n n Education for employment? for good citizenship? for social mobility? n n Education as Empowerment n n Delors’ Four Pillars: - learning to know - learning to do - learning to be - learning to live together A Holistic Education
What Students Should Realize n n Learning to learn: “You are your own best teacher.” n n Maintaining the key balances in education n n A holistic education: the “four pillars”
What Students Should Realize n n Learning to learn: “You are your own best teacher.” n n Maintaining the key balances in education n n A holistic education: the “four pillars” n n Assuming responsibility for Education for All
Enrollment in higher education in Asia and the Pacific Region Southern Asia Eastern Asia Former USSR South eastern Asia Oceania
What educators should realize Aspects of the future What students should realize Youth Participation: Education in the Future
Youth Participation: Education in the Future Youth Participation: Education in the Future Bangkok May 1998 Bangkok May 1998