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Prof. Dr. Michael Schratz School of Education University of Innsbruck

Leading towards the emerging future in a rapidly changing world

Vilnius, Lithuania, September 9-10 2013

“A system can only see what it can see.

It cannot see what it can’t see.

Nor can it see that it cannot see

that it can’t see.”

Niklas Luhman

(1927-1998)

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Schooling from the emerging future

SCHOOL

PAST FUTURE

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School as a place of reproduction

School as a place of transformation

today yesterday tomorrow

society

• qualification • socialisation • subjectification

Athens Syntagma Square, September 2012 Greek police fired teargas at hooded youths. (Photo: Reuters)

Madrid May 2013

Students protesting against government austerity measures.

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A Generation at Risk

International Labour Organization report : A Generation At Risk.

Europe‘s Youth

Youth unemployment in the EU

is as high as never before

Nevertheless

it unites young people in their believe in the

European project, which has been part of their life

since birth.

European by birth

Europe’s youth, due to high unemployment, often is called lost generation. But despite frustration and worries about the future, the young ones are the ones with the most positive attitude towards EU.

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Gallup study across 150 countries (socio-economic, spiritual and cultural diversity)

Most important for people was

to have a good job.

More important than

What is important

for people …

• peace

• freedom

• democracy

• a family

• god

• belongings

PROFIL, July 2013

“Approximately 65% of all students starting school this year will have jobs which do not even exist today.”

“Our understanding of schooling will have to change dramatically.

Learning and education will become a permanent process as challenges in the workforce are dramatically increasing.”

Sebastian Thrun, Udacity (online university) and former Google mastermind June 7, 2013, Nr. 129, p. 16

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The kind of things that are easy to test and teach are disappearing the fastest.

Skills have become the currency of 21st century economies

Skills change lives … … because skills have an increasing impact on labour market outcomes and social participation.

… and drive economies … … because failure to ensure a good skills match has both short-term consequence (skills shortages) and longer-term effects on economic growth and equality of opportuniies.

Andreas Schleicher (OECD)

Why can’t they* change?

John Hattie

* teachers, policy makers, teacher educators and oftentimes

parents

“This requires an openness … and a willingness to seek a better alternative to what the teacher is currently doing ...

Adopting any innovations means discontinuing the use of familiar learning.” (p. 252)

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„If we don‘t reach the points soon we‘ll be lost.“

Participation in social and

economic life

Achieving a life one values and has reasons to value

Amartya Sen

Ownership of one‘s life and life

conditions

Unemployment

causes unhappiness

Self efficacy

(commissioned by the UN, 2012)

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An agent is someone who acts and brings about change, whose

achievement can be evaluated in terms of his or her own values and objectives.

Amartya Sen

AGENCY

The ability of human beings to act and the acting itself realised by individuals.

Antony Giddens

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Athens Syntagma Square, September 2012 Greek police fired teargas at hooded youths. (Photo: Reuters)

Madrid May 2013

Students protesting against government austerity measures.

inequalities equity social capital

resilience civic co-creation plurality

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agency

Linking

agency

with

structure

structure

• creative

problem solving

• working within a paradigm

• working within the system

• getting „things“ and people into

motion, methods, techniques,

control

• the human being as support (aid)

• attitude of „doing“

Management

• discovering new possibilities

with the capacity to realize them

or make them realized

• creating a new paradigm

• working on the system

• enticing and empowering staff to

achieve top performances

• dignity for the human

being (trust)

• attitude

of

„serving“

Leadership

Relationship between Management and Leadership

(Hinterhuber 2002

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„I need the creativity of each and every musician, even if it differs from my own view. I have 80 or 100 musicians in front of me and each one of them has his or her own opinion. It is my job to channel this and give it the appropriate direction. It makes absolutely no sense to try and force or dictate it.”

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

„I need the creativity of each and every musician, even if it differs from my own view. I have 80 or 100 musicians in front of me and each one of them has his or her own opinion. It is my job to channel this and give it the appropriate direction. It makes absolutely no sense to try and force or dictate it.”

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

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„Conducting means letting things emerge ...."

Badische Zeitung (7 March, 2009)

David Afkham

stability

good practice

best practice

critical instability

creative intervention

process of renewal

development of next practice

DEVELOPMENT

change of pattern

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THEORY U

Leading from the Future as It Emerges

Develop both the person and the system

DOWNLOADING Patterns of the past

suspending

Seeing with fresh eyes

redirecting

Sensing from the field

letting go

Presencing Connecting to Source

letting-come

Crystallizing Vision and intention

enacting

Prototyping Co-create strategic

microcosmos

embodying

PERFORMING Achieve results

through practices, infrastructure

Open Mind

Open Heart

Open Will

What is my Self? What is my Work? Scharmer 2009

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Montage Publations/San Diego / CA

Leading from the emerging future

Patterns of the

past

Emerging future

Leading from the emerging future

What do we need for system-wide change in school

leadership?

Lessons from the

Leadership Academy

Austria

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Lesson 1

Work with the whole system

Lessons from the

Leadership Academy Austria

Lesson 2

Involve all types of schools and all levels of the system

(connect horizontal and vertical system levels)

Lessons from the

Leadership Academy Austria

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Lesson 3

Build networks

rather than a new building site

Lessons from the

Leadership Academy Austria

CONNECTING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, POLICY AND PRACTICE

IN HIGH-LEVEL NETWORK

• 14 Ministries of Education, • 10 Research Institutions, • 10 Academic Institutions, • 7 Associations and • 8 expert educational researchers • located in 22 EU member states.

• facilitate & stimulate high level cooperation

• researchers, educational policy makers, practitioner representatives, trade unions and employers’ organizations

global exchange

of policy ideas

• "the standards movement"

• "new public management"

• accountability in the education sector

Influencing development and implementation of

policies

improving school leadership

interplay between political culture and educational

policy

http://epnosl.iacm.forth.gr – http://www.schoolleadership.eu

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Ongoing activities

research on policy and practice in school leadership in Europe

national workshops on school leadership

webinars on school leadership

peer learning events on school leadership

national reports on key themes (e.g. equity)

national and European networks on school leadership

http://epnosl.iacm.forth.gr http://www.schoolleadership.eu

Collaborative Team Coaching

Lesson 6

Create professional learning communities (PLCs)

(theoreticians & practitioners)

Enhance professional

learning

Lessons from the

Leadership Academy Austria

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Lesson 7

Use energy (not time) as the currency

of high leadership competence

Lessons from the

Leadership Academy Austria

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“Leadership and learning

are indispensible to each other.” J.F.Kennedy

Lesson 8

Connect leadership with learning

Lessons from the

Leadership Academy Austria

“Learning is the most personal thing in the world. It is as unique as a face

or a fingerprint.

Even more individual than one’s love life.”

Heinz von Förster

(1999)

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Being mindful of learning The longest distance …?

How do we know

what

how students

learn ?

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What works?

“If the teacher’s lens can be changed

to seeing learning through the eyes of

students, this would be an excellent

beginning ....“

(p. 252)

„Today‘s Aerial Geography Lesson“ (New York Times No. 306-NT-520A-6)

Today‘s (virtual)

Geography Lesson (Innsbruck 2002))

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Prof. Dr. Michael Schratz School of Education University of Innsbruck

Leading towards the emerging future in a rapidly changing world

Vilnius, Lithuania, September 9-10 2013

THANK YOU