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The Professionalization of Learning: Has the Time Come for Change?

The Professionalization of Learning: Has the Time Come for Change?. Haji Zulkifly Baharom , PhD., Chartered FCIPD, FMIM Chair, HR Certification on National HR Standards @ Human Resource Development Fund, Malaysia. The Academic Revolution. Shortage of academic professionals

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The Professionalization of Learning: Has the Time Come for Change?

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  1. The Professionalization of Learning: Has the Time Come for Change? Haji ZulkiflyBaharom, PhD., Chartered FCIPD, FMIM Chair, HR Certification on National HR Standards @ Human Resource Development Fund, Malaysia

  2. The Academic Revolution • Shortage of academic professionals • University graduates do not think or behave like professionals • Display an interest and talent for theoretical training

  3. The Need for New Ways of Learning • New missions • New approaches • New types • New patterns • New leadership

  4. The Problems are Systemic • The traditional education model is more than 200 years • The system continues over 200 years ago … create another employee

  5. The Question Can you think of any other industry today with the potential to remain in business 200+ years in the future without adapting adequately to change?

  6. As the industrial revolution gathered steam … we needed • To capitalize on potential growth and development • An increasing number of minimally educated people who would voluntarily:

  7. Be in a certain place at a certain time every day, • Remain in that place for eight, ten or perhaps 12 or more hours a day each and every day,

  8. Perform rote and routine tasks (many of which were agonizingly repetitive), and • Perform these rote tasks day-in and day-out without questions.

  9. Industrialists at the time realized • That if the goal was to provide a steady stream of people ready and willing to perform routinely and habitually, then education was clearly the solution

  10. Professionalism versus Learning • Rebellion against “irrelevance” in the curriculum • Narrow professional assumptions

  11. The reality • We continue to crank out thousands of future employees each and every year. • This same education model remains in effect to this day. • No desire to see beyond 30-40+ years of ‘earning a pay-check’.

  12. Education for Creative Living • “If a farmer accustomed to working the ground with hoe and the spade spent his life working without thinking, he would never have thought about improving his tools.” • - TsunesaboroMakiguchi (1930)

  13. There’re other ways to reach a goal • We need not necessarily rely upon a single path to get us from points A and B – a single model for educating and preparing students of all ages for the future … for life.

  14. THE FOCUS • The education and training needs specific to men and women who are and would like: • To become self-employed, or • Who might want to become employers, or • Entrepreneurs

  15. Thank you I can be reached at: hajizul50@ymail.com; hajizul50@gmail.com

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