Dear All,
Reading this thread, I have been looking out for someone to mention
something about education and the market place, but no-one has so far,
so here goes.
I have had very little recent experience in course accreditation
procedures, but I can recall one of the questions that used to come up:
what is the market for employment for students doing this course?
In itself this is a reasonable question in a context where people are
taking a course in order to gain employment. But it does mean reacting
conservatively, training people for an existing way of doing things.
By contrast, suppose as an educator and researcher you see the
possibility of reshaping, even reinventing, the way we work as
designers: training people for jobs that don't yet exist. What then?
It seems to me there is a tension between training people for both
yesterday's jobs and tomorrow's opportunities. I throw this into the
thread to point to the constraining institutional context in which
course development occurs.
It's all too easy to be critical of education and brave from the
outside, but from the inside
?
David
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