New Horizons in Education

Abstract

There is universal recognition that education is the key to the well being of society and of the individual in the years ahead. It is a knowledge society and it spans the globe. Paradoxically, the school may decline in importance with the stunning advances in technology, the emergence of other places of learning, and in some nations, a loss in public confidence in the institution of the school. On the other hand, the very opposite may occur if leaders at all levels, but especially in schools, understand the remarkable array of opportunities that are waiting to be seized. It could be a golden era for schools and school leaders. A critical task will be to connect each individual — each teacher and each leader — to the institution — the system of education and each of its schools — in a collaborative community commitment to the enterprise. More specifically the challenge is to connect the learning of the individual to the learning of the institution — individual learning to organisational learning — or, as the conference theme describes it, to move from teacher development to school development. The purpose of this paper is to provide a blueprint to guide the process for those who see the enterprise as the transformation of schools in the 21st century. It is proposed that school development is enhanced to the extent that the school is part of a network of institutions in the wider community.

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