Around the World in 30 Days – June 2016
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous world, and for those of us passionate about the role of education, events this month were stern reminders of why our work is important. On June 12, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history took place in a gay night club in Orlando, Florida when American-born Omar Mateen, claiming his allegiance to ISIS, murdered 50 young people in...
The Global Search for Education: Remembering Jerome Bruner
“I have a kaleidoscope of memories of Jerry,” writes Howard Gardner, “sitting with a group of students and colleagues, raising questions in a broader way than most of us would, then asking us to connect the dots, and then offering his own connections, NOT in a way of closing the conversation, but rather encouraging us to stretch our minds, our emotions, our passions; as my colleague Steve Pinker reminded me, making...
Around the World in 30 Days – April 2016
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report In the profit-above-all-world of digitization and automation, ethics and the nature of professionalism seem to be in question and under attack from all sides. Will the new robots on the block provide the same expertise and multiple intelligences we expect from human experts? What can be done to preserve and strengthen the quality of our professions and what does this mean for learning that...
The Global Search for Education: In Search of Professional Ethicists – On Becoming a Consummate Professional – Part 3
“In speaking of the achievement of excellence as workers and citizens, we refer to the three E’s: Excellence, Engagement, and Ethics.” — Howard Gardner In the profit-above-all-world of digitization and automation, ethics and the nature of professionalism seem to be in question and under attack from all sides. Will the new robots on the block provide the same expertise and multiple intelligences we expect from...
The Global Search for Education: Planet Earth needs a new ‘Billionaires’ List
What if we defined Billionaires as entrepreneurs helping to solve earth’s most pressing challenges? What if we disrupted Forbes Magazine criteria for its annual Billionaire’s list? What if we defined Billionaires as entrepreneurs helping to solve earth’s most pressing challenges? Surely humanity, and the whole of planet earth, deserve a new type of Billionaire? As Dr. Howard Gardner points out, “the biggest...
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