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Introducing IFE 2020. IFE Leadership Institute Feb. 21-March 7 2009. Introducing IFE 2020. What will education--especially higher education look like by 2020? How will we get there? What can we do to prepare ourselves? The world is changing more rapidly than higher education.
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Introducing IFE 2020 • IFE Leadership Institute • Feb. 21-March 7 2009
Introducing IFE 2020 • What will education--especially higher education look like by 2020? How will we get there? What can we do to prepare ourselves? • The world is changing more rapidly than higher education. • Goal:To provide a forum for existing and potential leaders in the Asia Pacific region to work collaboratively in shaping the future of higher education.
Critical Questions • What are the changed characteristics of the 21st Century facing our students as they enter aulthood and the workplace? • What are the implications of these fundamental changes for Education? • What are the challenges, requirements, and strategies to bring about and implement fundamental changes and approaches to higher education?
Critical Issues • Interdependence and Globalization • The Social, Economic and Education Divide • Sustainability of Life on our planet • Populations with particular ethnic, cultural or religious characteristics • The Increasing and pervasive impact of technology • The workplace of the 21st Century • Learning to live together • Developing leaders able to meet the challenges of transformative social, economic and cultural changes
IFE Activities • Senior Seminars • Three seminars to produce Changing Education • Annual seminars: (2006) Tensions between higher education as a public good and as a market commodity; (2007) Quality and quality Issues; (2008) Access, equity and capacity. • Leadership Institutes: • (2005) 23 participants from five countries--paradigms in education; (2007) 15 participants from 8 countries--public good/private commodity; (2008) 15 participants, 9 countries--quality issues in higher education • Publications: Books, special journal editions • Regional Meetings: 2008--Bali, November (in conjunction with EWC Alumni Meeting)
The Tool Kit • Concepts that have come to permeate the 2020 enterprise • Areas of Tension: • Paradigms • Globalization • Quality • Public Good / Private Commodity • Capacity • Cross Border • Leadership
Conceptual Tools • Interdependence • Complexity • Emergence • Problems and Predicaments • Difference • Diversity and Variety • Equity and Equality