Close Encounters That Foster Change: What Alice Sheldon and PPE 2020 Can Tell Us about Educational Futures

Autor/in	Fowler, Shelli B.
Titel	Close Encounters That Foster Change: What Alice Sheldon and PPE 2020 Can Tell Us about Educational Futures
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 21 (2023) 5, S.565-575 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Fowler, Shelli B.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1177/14782103211052711
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Futures (of Society); Imagination; Higher Education; Diversity; Equal Education; Inclusion; Interdisciplinary Approach; Sustainability; Problem Solving; Culturally Relevant Education; Educational Policy; Educational Innovation; Educational Technology; Praxis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Future; Society; Zukunft; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Inklusion; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Nachhaltigkeit; Problemlösen; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Unterrichtsmedien
Abstract	In the preferable educational future imagined here, the year 2030 has seen massive conceptual and structural change throughout systems of education. In the higher educational landscape envisioned only 10 years in the future, institutions of higher education have moved beyond the goals of valuing diversity, equity, and inclusion and beyond recognizing the importance of interdisciplinary curricula focused on sustainable problem-solving. It has embraced those as central tenets as it evolved into the nimble, culturally responsive, and innovative site of learning it aspired to be since the late 20th century. Our institutions of higher education are now designed to educate the adaptive creatives that all professions and future professions require (Aoun, 2017). The catalyst for this transformative change is examined, though not in predictive ways meant to determine new educational policy. It draws from the pandemic, protests, and elections (PPE) that came to define 2020, and it explores a potentially powerful metaphor from a science fiction short story by Alice Sheldon to encourage a reframing of current education praxis. The focus here is on a brief, creative exploration of a future educational scenario that need not be that far out of our aspirational reach. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01