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International Forum for Education 2020

International Forum for Education 2020. July 2, 2010 John Hawkins Deane Neubauer. 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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International Forum for Education 2020

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  1. International Forum for Education 2020 July 2, 2010 John Hawkins Deane Neubauer

  2. 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.

  3. Critical Questions • What are the changed characteristics of the 21st Century facing our students as they enter adulthood 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?

  4. 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

  5. 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 in Chia-yi, Taiwan; (2009) Higher Education Quality in the Emergent Knowledge Society in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; (2010) Migration and Mobility in Asia Pacific Higher Education, in Tokyo, Japan. • 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; 2009 17 participants from 9 countries, emergent knowledge society issues; 2010 September, Bangkok participants from eight countries. • Publications: Books, special journal editions • Regional Meetings: 2008--Bali, November (in conjunction with EWC Alumni Meeting)

  6. 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

  7. Conceptual Tools • Interdependence • Complexity • Emergence • Problems and Predicaments • Difference • Diversity and Variety • Equity and Equality

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