The Hawkwood Conversations
Date: October 2020 - May 2021
Location: Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking
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The participants of the Hawkwood Conversations were distinctive and unique — a diverse collection of thinkers focussed on a particular challenge and a common purpose. A mixture of educationalists, comprising students, teachers, principals, policy-makers, sustainability experts and activists, were joined by academics, thinkers and influencers from other sectors, and leaders from the world of business, finance and industry.
What we shared was our genuine concern for the crisis facing humanity and the eagerness to ensure that education adapts to meet the interconnected challenges of the age.
Three core questions sat at the heart of our conversations:
In what keyways are contemporary models of education fit for purpose? In what ways are they inadequate to the particular challenges of 21st Century living?
Given those inadequacies, how can educational leaders ‘re-wire’ their approach to curriculum, pedagogy and institutional infrastructure to address this simple yet fundamental question?
What are the principal methods for accelerating this process, drawing on what is already working, and creating institutional and cultural change at the highest level of educative structures (from a teacher-training to admissions processes and the real-world values of degree awards)?
The Conversations
Conversation 1 │ 24th November 2020│ 1.00 pm- 2.30 pm CET
Systems Thinking & Education for Sustainable Futures – the Why
Prompts: Keri Facer & Elspeth Donovan
Facilitator: Alison Wood (outcomes & mapping)
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Conversation 2 │ 3rd December 2020│ 3.00 pm- 4.30 pm CET
Leadership: Complexity and Interdependence
Prompt: Polly Courtice & Mike Johnston
Facilitator: Richard Calland
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Conversation 3 │ 21st January 2021│2.00 pm- 3.30 pm CET
Curriculum: Re-thinking the What of teaching and learning
Prompt: Christopher Newfield & Alex Catallo
Facilitator: Andrew Watson
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Conversation 4 │ 9th February 2021│ 3 pm- 4.30 pm CET
Educating in Climate Change (teachers, students, parents)
Prompts: Melanie Harwood & Zineb Mouyhi
Facilitator: Alexei Du Bois
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Conversation 5 │ 11th March 2021│ 3.30 pm- 5.00 CET
Pedagogy: Re-thinking the How and Where of school education
Prompt: Rob Paddock & Marwa Bkeirat
Facilitator: Chris Wright
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Conversation 6 │ 30th April 2021│ 2 pm- 3:30pm GMT
Perspectives from the ‘Colonies’
Prompt: Muthoni Kanyana & Paul Lalvani
Facilitator: Elspeth Donovan
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