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Educating for the 21st Century Citizen |
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At the Queensland Academy for Creative Industries we seek to create an educational environment most likely to guarantee student success in the future. This will be nurtured by learning which is higher level and designed to produce the most effective and equitable learning outcomes.
For a young person to thrive in the 21st century and to achieve wellbeing, we believe that a young person needs to develop skills and capabilities to realise 10 interrelated educational outcomes *.
- Embracing a personal value system compatible to 21st 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 wellbeing. Being a pathmaker rather than a pathtaker.
- Developing a successful career path which comprises job making rather than job taking. This involves passion, insight, foresight and hindsight.
- Being a lifelong, 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 respects it in others.
- Becoming a successful 21st 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 21st 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 21st 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 21st century society which is sustainably prosperous, with sustainable development, consumption, production and lifestyles.
* Ellyard, P. Preparing the next Generation for 21 st Century Success. Melbourne. 11/9//2006
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November 2009 |
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Bright Sparks
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World renowned indigenous artist William Barton was our feature artist in residence at our orientation event Visage del Mundo, held at spingbrook. William, who has an international reputation as a didgeridoo performer worked with our students to develop a vocal and rhythmic ensemble that embraced the concepts of the Earth Charter. |
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