Duncan O'Leary
Duncan works on projects looking at public services, skills and work.
at 3:32pm
on Monday, 5th December 2005
So i've been doing some reading for our project on Organisational litercy. Having been handed Our of Our Minds by Ken Robinson (i wasn't handed it by Ken Robinson, he wrote it) i started there. He makes an interesting point: that we often dismiss ideas as being 'purely academic' when we think they're out of touch with reality, but yet we have always placed such cudos on academic study in the way in which we educate people.
It reminded me a bit of the point made by Charlie Leadbeater in Living on Thin Air that, increasingly, traditional accounting methods tell us less and less about a company's true worth. These methods focus on valuing physical collatoral such as land, buildings, machinery etc when, in fact the greatest assets of a company are often intangible - i.e. its people, it's working practices, its brand.
So is the curriculum and qualifications system doing the same thing for people? Evaluating things that bear less and less relation to the world of work, and how ready people are for it...?
So i've been doing some reading for our project on Organisational litercy. Having been handed Our of Our Minds by Ken Robinson (i wasn't handed it by Ken Robinson, he wrote it) i started there. He makes an interesting point: that we often dismiss ideas as being 'purely academic' when we think they're out of touch with reality, but yet we have always placed such cudos on academic study in the way in which we educate people.
It reminded me a bit of the point made by Charlie Leadbeater in Living on Thin Air that, increasingly, traditional accounting methods tell us less and less about a company's true worth. These methods focus on valuing physical collatoral such as land, buildings, machinery etc when, in fact the greatest assets of a company are often intangible - i.e. its people, it's working practices, its brand.
So is the curriculum and qualifications system doing the same thing for people? Evaluating things that bear less and less relation to the world of work, and how ready people are for it...?
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