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Twelve months ago today, the Board of the Central Ranges Local Learning and Employment Network was honoured to host Professor Howard Gardner, the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Prof. Gardner has said.. We live in a time of vast changes that include accelerating globalization, mounting quantities of information, the growing hegemony of science and technology and the clash of civilizations. Those changes call for new ways of thinking in school, business and the professions.
Professor Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the future... the Five Minds for the Future:
- the disciplinary mind
- the synthesizing mind
- the creating mind
- the respectful mind
- the ethical mind
Armed with these well-honed capacities, a person will be equipped to deal with what is expected in the future - as well as what cannot be anticipated. Without these “minds” individuals will be at the mercy of forces they can’t understand - overwhelmed by information, unable to succeed in the workplace and incapable of making judicious decisions about personal and professional matters.
Howard Gardner
Professor Gardner was the guest of the Board of the Central Ranges Local Learning and Employment Network for two days during July of 2007. He contributed to both an open public forum attended by almost 400 people on Friday July 6th as well as contributing to a private luncheon on Saturday July 7th, hosted by our network for the benefit of local community and educational leaders across the Hume and Loddon Mallee regions in Victoria.
The "conversations" podcast series are produced for the benefit of our members by the Central Ranges Local Learning and Employment Network, in Victoria, Australia.
This podcast remains the file that has been downloaded from our site a record number of times, with over 1000 downalods in one day.
For the benefit of members and subscriber across our network and across the world, we have reproduced the full replay of the public presentation made by Professor Howard Gardner at the Future Minds Forum, held in the Melbourne Convention Centre in July 2007.
To gain access to the podcast, follow the link to our "conversations" web page.
http://www.centralrangesllen.org.au/conversations
“One of the most influential psychologists of his generation”
-The Economist
“By most accounts, Howard Gardner is the most influential living theorist in the education world today”
- NEA Today
Posted by Bill Coppinger on 10 July 2008; 10:13:30 PM
from the PodCasts dept.
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