Adult education facing future challenges

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Adult education facing future challenges

• Leena Jokinen 7.10.2006

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Background

• Education manager in Finland Futures Research
  Centre
• Finland Futures Research Centre auxiliary unit in
  Turku School of Economics
• Research, education and development
• Socrates programs APEL, Promoting reflective
  independent learning in HE
• Nordic think tank in adult education

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Competence foresight
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Competence development
During the coming years...
Competence Development
During the next few years
Totally new core competencies
Foreseen core competencies
Foreseen core competencies
In the near future...
Preserved core competencies
Preserved core competencies
Present core competencies
Professional competencies onthe specific field
Changing professional competencies
New kind of professional competencies
Opportunistic perspective
Strategic perspective
Visionary perspective
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System Dynamics of Futures Thinking
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Trends and driving forces in adult education

• Individualism - custom made programs, flexibility
  of structures and syllabus
• Emotions and personal insights spirituality,
  teacher student relationship
• Experimental learning and experiences in learning
  holistic approach in teaching
• Genuinely open learning environments
  recognition of prior learning
• Complexity critical reflections and seek for
  novelty

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Future challenges

1. Cyber infrastructure E-learning
2. Demographic change type of learners staff
   demographics
3. Financing, market forces, globalization (research
   and education)
4. Demand for HE labor market and patterns of
   student demand
5. Lack of coherent LL models fragmented systems
6. Joining up learning and education
7. Creative knowledge economy disappearance of
   educational institutions de-schooling
   institutions as core social centers
   re-schooling
8. Personalizing education
9. Growing international inequality, migration
10. Social sustainability responsible practices,
    deep learning, learning networks

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Emerging issues - Weak signals

• Coaching, supervision, guidance taking over,
  informal peer support
• Supporting self reliance
• Listening and equal dialog with learners
• Social inclusion
• Deep quality learning process and new methods
  promoting it