Adrian Kitchen

learning for when?

learning for what purpose?

learning what?

learning where and how?

knowledge is ◦ pre-determined by a centralised authority, ◦ delivered in a linear format to mass audiences. 

the system is  standardised,  mass produced,  scheduled bureaucratic

assumes that teaching inevitably leads to learning

Access Programmes

National Certificate

Higher National Certificate

Higher National Diploma

Ordinary Degree

Unit A

Unit C

Unit B

Higher Unit A

Higher Unit B

textbooks, curricula, apprenticeships and our educational system itself arethe products of a mechanistic, insular, industrial past 

“we are funding 25,000 MAs for the next 5 years, and guaranteeing a training or learning place for all 16 – 19 yr olds” John Swinney (Scotland on Sunday 20/11/2011

dependence on formal schooling will leave students short of the know-how, critical skills, and confidence critical to succeeding in the world of work, with the changed citizenship demands of that world.

students spend only 25% of their time in school/college, but learn for much longer through support and extend learning (some with financial implications):

local community, family,

sports team membership, culture groups,

social clubs, organized religious groups,

arts programs, summer camps,

museums, nature reserves,

internet, social networking

through life

formal education cannot deliver what

students need for the

future

in nature, linear learning doesn’t exist. 

animals and children learn through random exposure and make sense of the world by identifying patterns and finding solutions 

learning is formed through networks of experience rather than linear

exposure

“a person does not have to be motivated to learn in fact, learning cannot be stopped. “

we live and are engaged in masses of systems

we can be limited by them or we can influence them

or we can change them

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control of the individual.

“Corporate” education “Entrepreneurial” education

http://www.slideshare.net/jaycross/future-of-education?from=share_email

through networksthrough experiencesthrough collaborationthrough enquirythrough activitythrough solutions finding through self managementany timeany place

we cant change it all at once ...so we take it in steps......

positives

• creates flexibility• offers bespokeness• enables APL• transnational (EQF) negative• remains “levelled”• restricted use

but that does mean we need to do things differently

....... and that’s not always as easy as it seems............

say the COLOUR not the word

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