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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Learning for an Unknown Future
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Barnett, Ronald – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
What is it to learn for an unknown future? It might be said that the future has always been unknown but this question surely takes on a new pedagogical challenge in the contemporary age. Generic skills may seem to offer the basis of just such a learning for an unknown future. Generic skills, by definition, are those that surely hold across…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Emerging Occupations, Epistemology, Basic Skills
Learning for an Unknown Future
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Barnett, Ronald – Higher Education Research and Development, 2004
What is it to learn for an unknown future? It might be said that the future has always been unknown but our opening question surely takes on a new pedagogical challenge if not urgency in the contemporary age. Indeed, it could be said that our opening question has never been generally acknowledged to be a significant motivating curricular and…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Global Approach, Learning, Higher Education