The term 'marveller' was coined in 'Art and Creativity in Reggio Emilia' (2010). In the book, the author Vea Vecchi explains that Loris Malaguzzi saw teachers as potential “professional marvellers” of children. How important it is to keep that innate spark of learning and creativity alive. Henceforth, here I chart my journey to become a professional marveller: a thinker, a researcher, a collaborator and co-constructor of what we call learning.

(Unfortunately, due to a change in my Gmail account some of the images have disappeared and are no longer visible- I might replace them... one day...)

Thursday, 4 August 2016

Can we future proof education?

For a truly wicked problem there are no answers, and it has taken me a good three decades to appreciate that this is not necessarily a bad thing.

It did make me drop out of Sociology 101 when the lecturer announced "society's problems can never be truly solved because society is forever changing." To the egocentric self of a teenager starting university altruistically thinking that therein lied all the answer to equip me to save the world, this was a slap in the face.

Fast track to 2016 and the conversation is squarely on how and what to teach students to prepare them for a future we cannot conceive.

The complexity of today's demands on education and teachers brought about by the digital age are easily illustrated by this headline.


The article explain that in 2018, yep, two years from now, "children from the age of five will be even more drilled on digital technology with the subject being added to the national school curriculum. 
The Ministry of Education announced on July 7 the subject will cover six themes, with the layout still to be finalised."

Well, I have only one question to that proposal:


Because Dewey also said:




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