Context, Authenticity and Learning in the Real World

Graham Attwell

the present education and training systems are unsustainable

72 million: The number of children of primary school age not in school in 2005

Rising demand for education

Source: Brandenburg, U., Carr, D., Donauer, S., Berthold, C. (2008) Analysing the Future Market – Target Countries for German HEIs, Working paper No. 107, CHE Centre for Higher Education Development, Gütersloh, Germany, p. 13.

Lifelong learning

Adult education is a permanent national necessity, an inseparable aspect of citizenship, and therefore should be both universal and lifelong. Adult Education Committee of the British Ministry of Reconstruction (1919)

Lifelong learning is now a mechanism for exclusion and control. ....it has created new and powerful inequalities.

Field (2000: ix-xii)

Peak oil

Peak Oil

The industrial schooling model is failing

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e-learning has replicated traditional education models

Photo:Stanford EdTech

Most e-learning is for those who already have access to education

More young people participate in learning than older people

Nearly twice as many participants in adult learning are from socio-economic category

AB compared to DE

Managers get the most

access to training

Participation in training in Wales

We have generally failed to develop and adopt innovative pedagogies

Yet these are not new issues

Ivan Illich

Universal education through schooling is not feasible.

educational webs ...heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring

Schools are not (as commonly perceived) a 'dependent variable' within society. They are the reproductive organ of a consumer society

"Education makes sense because women and men learn that through learning they can make and remake themselves, because women and men are able to take responsibility for themselves as beings capable of knowing — of knowing that they know and knowing that they don't"

“Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously students and teachers”

Friere

Knowledge has escaped from the academy

“We are being forced to reexamine what constitutes knowledge

and are moving from expert developed and sanctioned knowledge to collaborative

forms of knowledge construction”

Dave Cormier

“a rhizomatic model of learning in which a

community can construct a model of

education flexible enough for the way

knowledge develops and changes today by

producing a map of contextual

knowledge.”

Dave Cormier

for communication, for playing and for learning

Bricolage - (Levi Strauss)

creating, exploring and transversing boundary objects

social learning is constructed

from conversations

and participation within a CoP

From digital literacies to critical literaciesgiulia.forsythe

we are iterating towards open education

Open education

Open Educational Resources

Open and linked data

Open and Linked Data

shared knowledge in communities of practice

Massive Open Online Courses

Massive Open Online Courses

PLEs and PLNs

Rich immersive learning environments

learning embedded in every day life

learning takes place in multiple contexts

We have divergent discourses about learning

1. A discourse of imagination, play, exploration. sharing, multimedia

attainment targets, measuring

2. A discourse of targets, standards, testing and inspection

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