If there’s a more general acceptance that the story, or narrative, we’ve told ourselves about the purpose and value of education for the past 100+ years is now broken, there’s also an awareness that we don’t have a ready replacement for that story. Stories help us to place our lives and activities in context, and without a new story, we have a crisis of “meaning:” it’s not clear how to measure what is important or not, and how to move forward with some relative assurance that we are accomplishing things of worth and value. As the Internet revolution opens the door to dramatic changes in the power and organizational structures within (and between) societies and cultures, many of the other important stories we’ve relied on are breaking or broken as well, especially and including economics and politics. Finding a new story (or stories) for education becomes imperative because so many other aspects of our lives are dependent on our vision of how teaching and learning take place.
Steve Hargadon: The Divided Stories of Education Reform, Personal Cognitive Revolutions, and New Superheroes
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