Volume 2 Issue 4

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Volume 2
JULY 2018
Issue 4

HEITOR GURGULINO DE SOUZA

Introductory Remarks by the President of WAAS

Each one of us today has more information accessible on our cell phones than was available to all of humanity in earlier times. Yet, our education system still largely follows the model introduced at the University of Bologna in 1088, at a time when all knowledge was in the possession of a very small number of scholars, transfer of information could only be done through oral lectures, and books were hand-written and so rare that they were kept chained to library shelves ...

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Lead Articles

Papers presented at the Rome Conference, 2017

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION

Heitor Gurgulino de Souza

Introductory Remarks by the President of WAAS

Each one of us today has more information accessible on our cell phones than was available to all of humanity in earlier times...

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Edgar Morin

Contextual, Relational, Human-Centered Knowledge

Our education gives us knowledge, mostly scientific knowledge, but it does not supplement it with a...

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Garry Jacobs & Alberto Zucconi

Introductory Report on the 2nd International Conference on Future Education

Half a century before the Information and Communications Technology was to bring...

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Peter Senge

Education to meet Societal Needs

Our world is full of interdependent and interconnected networks, and we need to understand the system better to avoid negative outcomes...

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SECTION 2: UNIVERSITIES REFLECTING THE CURRENT STATE OF THE SYSTEM

Juan Cayón Peña

The European University in Crisis: A Vision From Spain

Education, from the Latin ‘educatio’, as defined by The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, is the action and effect of educating, as embodied by the definition “instruction by means of teaching action”. We have devoted our life to education...

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Jüri Engelbrecht

The Knowledge of Complexity should be a part of Contemporary Education

In order to be prepared to face the challenges of the global world, contemporary education should include the knowledge about the complexity of the world...

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SECTION 3: THE NEED FOR A NEW PARADIGM

J. Martin Ramirez & Tina Lindhard

Some Reflections on the Future of Education

Far from offering a tentative structured theory or solution regarding the urgently needed reforms concerning education ...

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Federico Mayor Zaragoza

Future Education: A New Paradigm

“Education for all throughout life”: This was the main conclusion of the First World Conference on Education organized by UNESCO in Jomtien, March 1990...

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Emil Constantinescu

Higher Education and the New Society of Third Millennium

Almost half a century ago, the band Pink Floyd had an explosive success with their song “We Don’t Need No Education”...

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Marco Vitiello

The Challenges for Future Education: A Global Perspective

Today we are living in a globalized world where interconnections between human beings...

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SECTION 4: WHERE TO BEGIN? CHANGE NEEDED AT THE PRIMARY LEVEL

George Halvorson & Robert J. Berg

Start Early, End Strong

The international norm of fostering education for those aged six through university is completely out of date. The start is too late and the finish is too early. It is time to combine three things: what neuroscience tells us about the development of the brain; our knowledge ...

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Marion Voillot

Young Children, Digital Technology and the School of Tomorrow

Our society is being digitised, which means that digital technology transforms every aspect of the society...

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Davor Bernardić

The Impact of Exogenous Urban Factors on Absenteeism and Dropout Rates

In the last decade, observation of the negative influence of various factors on the education system...

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SECTION 5: MIND, THINKING AND CREATIVITY

Vani Senthil

Insights on Creativity

Everyone will acknowledge the importance of creative thinking skills, but only few truly understand the process of creative thinking...

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SECTION 6: TRANSDISCIPLINARITY: BREAKING THE SILOS

Marcel Van De Voorde

Universities: Enhancing the Education, Research and Innovation Base

The social, scientific and technologic conditions for the development of ideas, of knowledge and of solutions to problems have changed dramatically...

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Rodolfo A. Fiorini

Transdisciplinary Education for Deep Learning, Creativity and Innovation

Today American universities offer more than 1000 specialized disciplines and subdisciplines, and their European counterparts ...

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SECTION 7: TOOLS/CATALYSTS IN THE TRANSFORMATION PROCESS

Ullica Segerstrale

The Teacher as Catalyst: Skills Development & Self-discovery in Group Contexts

Recent reports note that college does not prepare its graduates for the jobs of the future...

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Janani Ramanathan

Online and Hybrid Learning

“This has caught all of us by surprise,” said David Stavens, co-founder of the educational organization Udacity...

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Momir Đurović

Higher Education and Small Countries

The world at large is essentially a world of small states, and in Europe, nearly two-thirds of the countries could be classified as ‘small’. Science, technology, education and innovation (STEI) are crucial drivers for an increase in national ...

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Winston P. Nagan & Megan E. Weeren

The Future of Higher Education: The Role of Basic Values

Education, and particularly higher education, imparts to the participants in education fundamental thinking skills that with extended immersion in educational ...

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Raoul Weiler

Lifelong Learning: A Necessity in the Knowledge Society

In a knowledge based society, Lifelong Learning is an imperative necessity for the labor force...

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Makhanya-nontsikelelo Lynette Buyisiwe

Teaching Assistants (TAs) as Secondary Facilitators in an Academic Support Unit in a South African University

Student learning and development is the central purpose of higher education. It is common practice that higher education institutions...

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SECTION 8: THE RESULT – PEACE, BETTER GOVERNANCE AND NEW ECONOMICS

Siro Polo Padolecchia

Education, Democracy and Peace

We live in an Era of globalization, fuelled by rapid innovation and liberalization of habits. Our system of global governance is, however, rather primitive as much as education is...

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Yehuda Kahane

Education: An Essential Tool for Reaching the UN SDGs by 2030

The last few decades we have experienced tremendous changes, as we rapidly move from a traditional capitalistic economy to a new economy...

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SECTION 9: AGILE LEADERSHIP AND DECISION MAKING – THE ROAD AHEAD

Tatjana Mitrovic

Change Leadership: Leading by Empowering and Innovation

According to Machiavelli, “there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success...

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Zbigniew Bochniarz

Sustainable Business as the Base for Sustainable Entrepreneurs: Some Theoretical and Practical Reflections

Threats to the sustainability of the Earth’s ecosystem are increasing. It is urgent that we prepare a cadre of entrepreneurs who...

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Grażyna Leśniak-Łebkowska

Agile Management Education for the Future: The Role of Social Capital & Trust

Forecasting the future trends in any area becomes more and more frustrating in view of the accelerating...

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Papers presented at the Primrose Conference, Pondicherry, 2018

SECTION 10: ROLE OF EDUCATION

Ashok Natarajan

Education is a Civilising Experience

The field of education has not kept pace with human progress. The current education system sticks to rote memorization, especially in India...

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Vani Senthil

Beauty of Mathematics and Overcoming the Agony of Maths Education

Visuals are the fundamental means to understand patterns, relationships and structure. The capacity for abstraction and generalisation of ideas is easily gained by visual learning. Mathematics must be...

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Vidya Rangan

Essence of Educational Inspiration

Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, personality and the physical ability of an individual...

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Malathi Iyer

Student Leadership Skill: A Sustainability Paradigm to Harness the Demographic Dividend in India*

The need of the hour is a progressive model in education for all learners in India. India has reached the stage to reap demographic dividend...

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