10 Provocations for Future-Focused Education Policy

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The Learning Bridge with Richard Gerver

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Hosted by Richard Gerver, one of the world’s leading thinkers on human potential, leadership, and organisational transformation, The Learning Bridge brings you conversations with a series of truly remarkable individuals from a variety of fields and backgrounds. As a longtime educator who transitioned into a role as a leading international speaker and author, Richard has never stopped learning. He’s served as an advisor to elite sporting bodies, major corporations, and global leaders, and in each opportunity has sought to learn and grow. Through this series, you’ll learn, too. And you’ll hear an optimistic view from Richard and his guests: the future of the world, and for our children, can be brighter than we imagine. All it takes is the bridge to learning and opportunity.

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10 Provocations for Future-Focused Education Policy

The Learning Bridge with Richard Gerver

23 minutes

1 year ago

10 Provocations for Future-Focused Education Policy

At the conclusion of The Learning Bridge's first season, I’ve reflected on the many key learnings we’ve uncovered. More of the same is simply not enough if we wish to create a better system and a better future. We need a much tighter narrative link between education and the wider world. Further, it’s time to find the untapped human potential in all of us.

In this episode, I recap the conversations we’ve had over the past months and share my 10 provocations for the future.

The crucial questions to consider in future-focused education policy:

How do we remove education from the fragility of political control?
How do we broaden the voices that help define the future developments in education?
How can we move away from the restraints of trying to develop a new education system when the existing outcomes are always the focus?
Have we spent too long debating how our schools should be managed, rather than how they should be led?
How do we move away from the belief that schools improve by primarily focusing on industrial efficiency models?
Do we not need to learn far more from how young children learn and think? To devise systems that are more bottom up than top down?
Is it not time to move beyond the misinformed debate of “skills vs. knowledge?”
If it takes a village to raise a child–and I firmly believe it does–then how do we do it?
How do we recruit and train the right people to lead our education system?
What is the place of technology?

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