Category Archives: Future learning

The Pedagogy of Creativity: Understanding higher order capability development in design and arts education

In conclusion, this paper argues that facilitating creativity in learners can most readily be achieved when teachers are creatively self-aware and learners are knowingly engaged in a proactive manner with investigating ‘potentialities’ via the production of future-oriented modes of learning. … Continue reading

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Futures Thinking Teachers Pack – To encourage Students to Critically Examine the Future

Education is about the future. Educators aim to prepare young people for the future and to support them to fully participate in all aspects of civic, cultural, social, intellectual and economic life. It is therefore important for young people to … Continue reading

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A Green Knowledge Society – An ICT Policy Agenda to 2015 for Europe’s future Knowledge Society

In essence the report addresses the question of how we can further the development of a European knowledge society in practical terms. Te report opens with a vision of the social and economic advantages to the EU of a balanced … Continue reading

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Future Learning – The boundaries between Informal and Formal Work

Within academia a rather romantic notion of informal work can sometimes be observed: that, for example, it provides sites of resistance to capitalism or an alternative to the market economy. While for some this is true, the paper here considers … Continue reading

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Future Learning – Integrating Personal Learning and Working Environments

Instead of the present massification of education, learners are encouraged and supported in developing personal learning pathways. Formal education and informal learning become ever more separate. Learners develop their own e-Portfolio. As the education system becomes fragmented, learners increasingly turn … Continue reading

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Future Learning – In search of Leadership

This paper tries to do two things: • Firstly, explore what we know about what leadership is and how that view has shifted over time • And secondly to understand how management and leadership contribute to organisational performance It might … Continue reading

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Future Learning – The growing importance of Generic Skills

Although it is generally recognised that modern economies require the use of continually greater skills, the notion of skill is often translated to mean education. Thus, a more educated workforce is being sought by all governments in the advanced industrialised … Continue reading

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Future Learning – Connecting Workplace Learning and Vocational Education and Training to Lifelong Learning

The recognition that workplaces are learning environments has become widespread in both research and policy circles, but workplace learning is often absent from debates about lifelong learning. Similarly, vocational education and training (VET) is also referred to as a separate … Continue reading

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Mapping Major Changes to Education and Training in 2025

The emerging map of future changes to education and training can be divided into a set of 12 thematic clusters, ranging from technological changes over globalisation to changing pedagogical concepts. Anticipated changes that rate particularly high in importance according to … Continue reading

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Future Learning – Integrating the internet into Women’s lives

This paper explores how the internet is taken up and used by women in the everyday; how it enters their lives, and how it is integrated into other projects and areas of life. Internet use is treated as an activity … Continue reading

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