Using the Seven Futures framework for improving educational quality

• Authors: John Sener
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

One of education's defining features is that it exists to a large extent in a constant state of tension between stasis and change. Education is an inherently conservative institution in many ways, for instance regarding its function of transmitting preserved societal knowledge and its legendary ability to resist rapid change. At the same time, educational institutions are one of society's main ways of creating change through a variety of means such as groundbreaking research, discoveries, and ideas. Higher educational institutions are highly complex institutions which fulfill a multitude of purposes: employment preparation, social 'rite of passage,' knowledge generation, entertainment, economic mainstay, business partner, global outreach agent, and social change agent to name a few. Higher education has become the main vehicle for individual economic change, particularly in the U.S. where a college degree has become practically the sole remaining path to a middle-class lifestyle, although many observers argue that this reality is fading due to the shrinking of the middle class and the sharp rise in student debt in the U.S. As the Education for All movement illustrates, the ideal of education as a universal right which is essential to participating in the world's new knowledge economy and having the „individual power to reflect, make choices, and steer for a better life” is a global phenomenon, even though it is not an evenly distributed one.

Keywords

EN

Seven Futures framework; educational quality; quality improvement; education; e-learning

• Publisher: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
• Journal: e-mentor
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 1 (53)
• Pages: 92-97

Contributors

author

John Sener

• Sener Knowledge LLC

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