Discovery

• Further resources

Overview

• Education is all about identifying the distinctive contribution you can make to different organizations and communities
• Learning happens in a range of state, private and third sector organizations, with learners able to move across all of these for different purposes
• Curriculum is closely tied to the needs of individual organizations, learners see knowledge as emerging from different sources and are encourage to reflect on this
• Assessment enables learners to reflect on and communicate their skills and knowledge and match them to the diverse values and needs of different groups
• Educators are concerned with enabling learners to build reputation and networks across a range of different communities

In this scenario...

The role of education is to help students to understand that there are diverse communities that they might work, learn and live within and to understand how they might make effective and valued contributions to these different settings. Learners are encouraged to become both self-aware and expert in participating in diverse communities, and to actively explore where they might want to learn and work.

Individuals have experience of learning in a range of different organizations (some private, some public, some third sector), and are encouraged to reflect upon how these different organizations shape the knowledge and the skills that are valued. The different curricula in these organizations are publicly available for comparison and learners are encouraged to combine different elements. Educators are clear that the knowledge they're sharing comes from a specific community and encourage learners to debate it, contribute to it, and develop new approaches.

Assessment is specifically focused upon understanding, discovering and reflecting upon personal attributes and talents, and in exploring how these might contribute to different organizations and communities. The assessment systems allow individuals to build personal profiles that include 'reputation' indicators from their collaborators, offering peer reviews and sophisticated data tracking of contributions to activities. Underpinning the assessment and learning systems is a sophisticated technological infrastructure which enables easy movement of individuals, information and assessment outcomes across organizations.

See what technology, identity, curriculum and motivation look like in this scenario

This scenario is based on the same world as Scenario 4: Diagnosis and shares its underpinning values. See www.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk for a description of their common world.

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