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Thursday, February 24, 2011

The changing landscape of education

What does it mean to be a teacher and a learner in this rapidly changing world- the Club of Rome in it's influential book in the late 70's- No limits of learning mentioned that we are faced with a 'world problematique' referring to the almost perfect storm that we have created for ourselves: A converging mass of ecosystem, economic, and social system issues that are all in largely negative states and the seeming inability to respond to these issues through the many institutional systems we have set up. The analysis performed by the Club of Rome applies today just as it did more than 30 years ago.