Future Minds Forum

Friday July 6th 2007

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

“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

The Board of the Central Ranges LLEN, in conjunction with the Hume and Loddon Mallee Regional Offices of Education and the Department of Education are please to present a forum with Professor Howard Gardner.

Future Minds Forum 2007

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