Published: 18 November 2017
Guests: Professor Dame Alison Peacock, Graham Brown-Martin
Further reading: Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly
The days of the job for life, gold watch and a long and comfortable retirement are long gone. Ironically, today’s Western curriculum, which has barely changed for a century, continues to prepare pupils for a standardized world.
How does a stagnating education system reinvent itself to equip students to solve new problems and prepare them for a workplace that doesn’t yet exist?
Ross Ashcroft is joined by the chief executive of the Chartered College of Teaching, Professor Dame Alison Peacock, and educator and writer Graham Brown-Martin.
As the Corona virus fundamentally reshapes economies and how we live, what should we be teaching children so they're equipped for a very different world?
Renegade Inc travelled to the Big Apple to discuss more about the sinister turn the US is taking with New York based writer and activist for peace and justice issues, Margaret Kimberley.