ELF 2010
The fourth annual Education Leaders Forum will be held at the Centre of Excellence, Waiariki Institute of Technology, Rotorua on 20 and 21 October 2010, commencing with a powhiri on the evening of 19 October at the Tangatarua Marae on campus.
ThemeCultivating
learning
Our dominant metaphors influence how we approach our critically important work as education leaders. Teaching is, at all levels, often a solitary pursuit for individual practitioners. Educators teach in a largely autonomous if not atomised environment. In order to be part of the mainstream, islands of practice need bridges and knowledge navigators to connect them to the mainland.
Ecology, as a systems thinking metaphor, deals with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms. A learning ecology is an environment that is consistent with how learners learn. It involves the active (re)creation of knowledge in an environment that fosters and supports the creation of overlapping learning communities which are constantly evolving, largely self-organising and which cross-pollinate with each other. Each learning community must learn to respond in its own way to the challenge of adapting and evolving in the light of local and national needs and imperatives. The appropriate metaphor is not engineering but cultivation, linked to better reticulated professional wellsprings which nurture the energy and creativity of education professionals and link to simple sustainable strategies for complex adaptive learning systems. Read more about the theme for ELF 2010. Key contributorsDr Jan Robertson - Academic ConsultantDr Angus Hikairo Macfarlane - Professor of Maori Research, University of Canterbury Hon Steve Maharey - Vice Chancellor of Massey University Eva-Maria Salikhova - 21st Century Teenager, Author Dr Cheryl Doig - Director, Think Beyond Trevor McIntyre - Principal, Christchurch Boys High School ELF 2010ELF 2010 is for people from across the education and training spectrum who are leaders or stakeholders because of their position, influence, or ideas, and who are interested in how different parts of the learning system can better collaborate and be more responsive to changing needs. News
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