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Framing Education as a Public Good

Framing Education as a Public Good. Fernando Reimers. Three Contributions…. Ideas Matter to Public Education Ideas are Developed through Dialogue Value of Global Coallitions to Advance Public Education. Three Important Ideas…. professional and trade interests of educators are intertwined

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Framing Education as a Public Good

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  1. Framing Education as a Public Good Fernando Reimers

  2. Three Contributions… • Ideas Matter to Public Education • Ideas are Developed through Dialogue • Value of Global Coallitions to Advance Public Education

  3. Three Important Ideas… • professional and trade interests of educators are intertwined • collaborative government-union approaches to strengthening education are more productive • efforts to strengthen the teaching profession should be aligned with an ambitious vision of environmental sustainability, human rights, democracy and social justice

  4. A little history

  5. 1802, first public office to oversee education 1828 Ministry of public instruction

  6. US Illiteracy Rates (%) for 14 years and older

  7. Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  8. 1) public education was not built in a day, or even in a few years, it is a historical project that spanned multiple generations, 2) it was a project that was simultaneously about educational ideas about purpose, content and method, and a political project of mobilization of support, 3) the project has had detractors and different points in history, and most importantly, that the project is not over, it is up to us to define the course of this project over the next century.

  9. Seven Challenges to Public Education

  10. Ideology

  11. Economic Adjustment. Inequality

  12. USA Educational Attainment 25 years and over

  13. Rise Democratic Expectations

  14. Expanding Aspirations • From Access to Learning Outcomes • Expanding Definitions of Literacy • Expanding Expectations of Agency

  15. Expanding Aspirations Lorin Anderson 1990 Benjamin Bloom 1956

  16. Reading literacy: An individual’s capacity to: understand, use, reflect on and engage with written texts, in order to achieve one’s goals, to develop one’s knowledge and potential, and to participate in society.

  17. PISA Literacy Studies

  18. Mathematical literacy: An individual’s capacity to identify and understand the role that mathematics plays in the world, to make well-founded judgements and to use and engage with mathematics in ways that meet the needs of that individual’s life as a constructive, concerned and reflective citizen.

  19. Scientific literacy: An individual’s scientific knowledge and use of that knowledge to identify questions, to acquire new knowledge, to explain scientific phenomena, and to draw evidencebased conclusions about science-related issues, understanding of the characteristic features of science as a form of human knowledge and enquiry, awareness of how science and technology shape our material, intellectual, and cultural environments, and willingness to engage in science-related issues, and with the ideas of science, as a reflective citizen.

  20. Transformation of Work

  21. The best way to predict the future… is to create it. Peter Drucker. The best way to predict educate for the future… is to create educate to invent it.

  22. Innovation

  23. Demography

  24. 608,783,000 Children 5-9 years old

  25. 608,783,000 Children 5-9 years old

  26. 608,783,000 Children 5-9 years old

  27. As people are living longer they will need to develop new skills for a long life, including managing their health and learning to learn • And we will want and need to learn throughout life.

  28. Professional Substantive Conversation Curriculum, Pedagogy, Learning and Teaching

  29. Knowledge and Skills about the World and Globalization Global Competence Labor Force with High Levels of Educational Attainment Internationally Competitive Curriculum World Standards

  30. Economic Risks • Food price volatility • Oil price spikes • Major Fall in the US$ • Slowing Chinese economy (<6%) • Fiscal crises • Asset price collapse • Retrenchment from globalization (developed) • Retrenchment from globalization (emerging) • Burden of regulation • Underinvestment in Infrastructure

  31. Geopolitical Risks • International terrorism • Nuclear proliferation • Iran • North Korea • Afghanistan Instability • Transnational crime and corruption • Israel-Palestine • Iraq • Global governance gaps

  32. Environmental Risks • Extreme weather • Drought and Desertification • Water Scarcity • National Catastrophes (cyclone) • National Catastrophes (earthquakes) • National Catastrophes (island flooding) • National Catastrophes (coastal flooding) • Air pollution • Biodiversity loss

  33. Societal Risks • Pandemic • Infectious disease • Chronic Diseases • Liability Regimes • Migration

  34. Technological Risks • Critical information infrastructure breakdown • Nanoparticle toxicity • Data fraud/loss

  35. Imagine… A world of empowered global citizens

  36. Standing on the shoulders of giants…

  37. To help the young…

  38. Invent the Future

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