Environment

The social environment of the Queensland Academy for Creative Industries is one that promotes creative investigation and thought.

This creativity flourishes in a unique kind of social environment: one that is stable and secure enough to allow continuity of effort yet diverse and broad-minded enough to nourish creative investigation and thought.

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Academy beliefs - Developing the individual

For a young person to thrive in the 21^st century and to achieve well being, we believe that a young person needs to develop skill and capabilities to realise 10 interrelated educational outcomes.*

• Embracing a personal value system compatible to 21^st century realities. This paradigm, called "Planetism", will determine the nature of future markets, industries and ethics.
• Being a leader of self and others: shaping one's own life, career and well-being. Being a path maker rather than a path taker.
• Developing a successful career path which comprises job making rather than job taking. This involves passion, insight, foresight and hindsight.
• Being a life long, learning driven and just in time learner, adapting easily to change and seeing learning as an essential part of life.
• Being an enterprising innovative person who continuously develops one's own creativity and enterprise and respecting it in others.
• Becoming a successful 21^st century adult. This includes initiating successful interdependent relationships and participating in communities.
• Being aware, respectful, tolerant and supportive of intercultural and religious diversity. This includes understanding other cultures, including languages.
• Understanding that 21^st century economic success will be based on the core forms of human creativity: the arts and humanities, the social and natural sciences and the technologies.
• Comprehending that 21^st century success requires that individual rights be balanced with responsibilities to others, to the community, the environment, and the planet and future generations.
• Knowing the implications of, and the opportunities offered by, the creation of a 21^st century society that has sustainable development, consumption, production and lifestyles.

_{* Ellyard, P.Preparing the next Generation for 21^st Century Success. Melbourne. 11/09/2006}