Vocational futures
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?
