Globalization of education policy

Lennart Spolander, Director of Studies

Ron Mahieu, Senior Lecturer

Large changes…

GLOBALISATION

TRENDS:Economic

Cultural/social

INDIVIDUALISATION”Human Capital”

”Social Capital”

Globalisation of education policy

Knowledge + competence:

Subject integration

Reality based

PBL

Metacognition (+processes and ”learning to learn”)

Learning by doing (Learning at the job)

Lifelong learning

Mentorship and leadership

Enterprise & Entrepreneurship

1989

2008

From governing to governance of education

Steering?

1970s - 1980s 1980s - 1990s 1990s - 2000s

Solving Unemployment Creating Employment Self-employment

Supply (employability) Demand (creating jobs) Supply + Demand

Collective Individual Personal + Collective (teams)

Reactive Active Proactive

Work-learning Enterprising Entrepreneurial

Teaching Learning Self directed + Cooperative and shared learning

Behaviouralism and cognitivism

Cognitivism and constructivism

Meta-cognitive and social constructivism

Teacher in centre Student in centre Student with others

Experiences Competence Social Competence

Human Capital (HC) Human resource development (HRD) + HC

HC, HRD, Social Capital and Networking

Acquisition of knowledge (consume)

Searching Knowledge (find)

Creating knowledge (produce)

Post-industrial society and Information society

Knowledge society and Service society

Learning society and Entrepreneurial society

Recurrent education and lifelong Learning

Lifelong Learning (LLL) LLL + Lifewide Learning

Social change Economic change Societal change