learning a living by valerie hannon
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Presented at SIX event in Philadelphia, Social Innovation in the Marketplace: Getting our Young People back into JobsTRANSCRIPT
LEARNINGA LIVING
VALERIE HANNON
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RADICAL INNOVATIONIN EDUCATION FOR WORK
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• what is happening to the world of work?
• what is happening to workforcesand what do they need?
• how should learning be organised to meet these needs?
On every continent, innovators are rethinking how we organise learning for work in fast-changing conditions.
The work we do, and how we do it, is changing
• technology and globalisation
• environment
• economies in flux
• demography
The new world of work
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Who are the losers?
• Young people: 300m unemployed worldwide
• Low-skilled• Security and stability:
the phenomenon of ‘permatemps’• Rising graduate unemployment
economies in flux…
• learn rapidly to change their skill sets
• form ad-hoc teams (‘swarming’)
• be flexible, adapted to ‘anytime, anywhere’
• have ‘global competence’
In global knowledge economies, workers will…
An homogenised, ‘MacDonalds’ world?
the danger, the fear…
“it’s in our hands”
stark skills mismatches
The World at Work: Jobs, Pay and Skills
for 3.5 billion PeopleJune 2012 McKinsey
Global Institute
employers are unable to recruit workers with the right capabilities
2020
“We have good skills in entrepreneurship
(in Burkina Faso) because we have to. Life
is hard. School eliminates these skills. It
is our job (at 2iE) to help students come back to their talent, to
dust off those skills.”
Paul GiniesDirector General, 2iE, Burkina Faso
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SKILLS: ACQUIRING, MATCHING, UPDATING
Learning a Living: the three elements
CREATING POSSIBILITIE
S
GENERATING SOLUTIONS
skills are the new currency
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generating solutions
“We always treat problems as
a good thing here at Lumiar. Problems require solutions,
and it’s in finding the solutions that the learning
happens… We teach our students
that there’s no such thing as failure. We encourage them to think: Well, that
didn’t work. So why didn’t it work? Now let’s try again..”
Joanna GayottoHeadmistress, Lumiar school,
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The next frontier: creating possibilities
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“When young people are given real world
experience and their learning is grounded in
it, they change. By engaging the, and
respecting them, you will change them. They become transformed.”
Dennis Littky,Big Picture Learning
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“I have learned to take control of my life. I have learned not to stand and
watch. In contrast with our other lessons, we had the
responsibility. Nobody gave us any solutions. It has
changed me completely. I found that the more you do, the more you can do.
I don’t want to be an employee now.”
Lina, student, INJAZentrepreneurship program
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PRODUCTION
GENERATING SOLUTIONS
From the consumption of knowledge to the production of a better world
CONSUMPTION
CREATING POSSIBILITIES
SKILLS: AQUIRING, MATCHING AND UPDATING
LEARNER AGENCY
VALUESVALUESVALUES
“I am here because I want to contribute to Africa’s development”
“I want to be part of Africa’s future.”
“Europe is a machine that has broken down
– here I can really contribute to building
a new world.”
Students at 2iE Burkina Faso
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