Introducing IFE 2020
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Introducing IFE 2020. IFE Leadership Institute Feb. 21-March 7 2009. Introducing IFE 2020. What will education--especially higher education look like by 2020? How will we get there? What can we do to prepare ourselves? The world is changing more rapidly than higher education.
Introducing IFE 2020
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Introducing IFE 2020 • IFE Leadership Institute • Feb. 21-March 7 2009
Introducing IFE 2020 • What will education--especially higher education look like by 2020? How will we get there? What can we do to prepare ourselves? • The world is changing more rapidly than higher education. • Goal:To provide a forum for existing and potential leaders in the Asia Pacific region to work collaboratively in shaping the future of higher education.
Critical Questions • What are the changed characteristics of the 21st Century facing our students as they enter aulthood and the workplace? • What are the implications of these fundamental changes for Education? • What are the challenges, requirements, and strategies to bring about and implement fundamental changes and approaches to higher education?
Critical Issues • Interdependence and Globalization • The Social, Economic and Education Divide • Sustainability of Life on our planet • Populations with particular ethnic, cultural or religious characteristics • The Increasing and pervasive impact of technology • The workplace of the 21st Century • Learning to live together • Developing leaders able to meet the challenges of transformative social, economic and cultural changes
IFE Activities • Senior Seminars • Three seminars to produce Changing Education • Annual seminars: (2006) Tensions between higher education as a public good and as a market commodity; (2007) Quality and quality Issues; (2008) Access, equity and capacity. • Leadership Institutes: • (2005) 23 participants from five countries--paradigms in education; (2007) 15 participants from 8 countries--public good/private commodity; (2008) 15 participants, 9 countries--quality issues in higher education • Publications: Books, special journal editions • Regional Meetings: 2008--Bali, November (in conjunction with EWC Alumni Meeting)
The Tool Kit • Concepts that have come to permeate the 2020 enterprise • Areas of Tension: • Paradigms • Globalization • Quality • Public Good / Private Commodity • Capacity • Cross Border • Leadership
Conceptual Tools • Interdependence • Complexity • Emergence • Problems and Predicaments • Difference • Diversity and Variety • Equity and Equality