Half an Hour

What if the next model of education does not come from North America? Imagine it’s the year 2100 and the global centres of learning are Delhi, Beijing and Nairobi instead of Oxford, Cambridge and Berkeley. How might our understanding of learning be different? What would our model of education look like? The Western Culture Specifically It’s not really possible to point to a ‘global’ model of learning that is non-North American. But we can ask what is is about the Western culture that is distinct, and try to imagine an emergent model of education that does not reflect that distinctness. In popular media the story is that Western culture is individualist while the rest of the world views society collectively. This suggests some changes to the Western model of education, but education consists of more than just social models. It also reflects how we view the world, how we go about solving problems and learning new things, and what we see as important and what is incidental. Viewed this wa...