1. significant changes in capability, understanding, knowledge, practices, attitudes or values by individuals, groups, organisations or society
2. children starting school now will retire in 2070. nobody has a clue, what the world will look like in five years’ time - yet we’re meant to be educating them for beyond 2016, into 2070.
Frank Coffield never hide (sources of) information, ideas, insights, inspiration, innovation so credit others; collaborate with other; co-create knowledge; comment when you take exception to what others say/write/do/enable/enact/post; connect the pieces in order to learn; and continue to act to “solve” wicked problems - whether lovely or pernicious
these Welsh rocks - roots, layers building upon layers, terroir nurturing diverse flora/fauna, persistent and changed, establishing use and inviting new use - only endure because people continue to understand that continuity coupled with change are (1) to be expected and (2) requires resilience, dexterity, curiosity and competent fluency with a life in the moment that looks to the future.
we don’t live in a world of sameness. we do live in a world where we’ve inherited biases and turmoils and fossilised practices regarding (inter)cultural perceptions, practices, definitions, boundaries, barriers, exceptionalism and entitlement - as well as celebrations, ways of thinking and ways of being. and we have to make of this a positive future. students need skills for living hte worlds that will be with an understanding of emotion and intellect as these were crafted and expressed, rejected and remade in the worlds before their particular moments.
