A quick post to point to some reflections from two designers who joined the workshop we ran in November.
Jessica Charlesworth and Michael Burton showed some work around futures and obesity during the workshop and here are some of their reflections. They make for interesting reading, both for the comments Jessica and Michael make, but also for the articles and links they show.
Education is a future-building enterprise. One of the education system’s key roles is in preparing young people for the future world that they will inhabit and help shape when they leave formal education, whilst ensuring they are supported in making sense of the world in which they live now. But in building learners’ capacity to live and work in this future world, it is vital to be mindful of the social and technological changes that have implications for the sorts of jobs, communities and relationships that will develop in the near future. A child starting primary school this year will be leaving compulsory education in 2022. So if we are to prepare these learners for this world, how can we begin to understand what they are being prepared for?
‘Change for the sake of change’ is something often denied by progressive educationalists, innovators and enthusiasts for educational development. However, continuing practices without challenging their benefits, aims or value within new demands of education, not only hampers the development of new practices, but can actively negate the benefits of education.
