Dr David Warner – The role of education in creating Australia’s future.

David Warner is the recently retired principal of Eltham College, and the author in 2006 of “Schooling for the Knowledge Era”.  He  has worked as a teacher and principal in both the private and independent school sectors, and as a researcher and labour market analyst in TAFE and higher education in Australia and internationally.

In his introduction to Schooling for the Knowledge Era, Professor Brian Caldwell laid out the challenge for education in Australia’s future:  “What must it take to demonstrate that schooling for the 21st century in a knowledge society must differ in important ways from schooling in the 19th and most of the 20th century in an industrial society?  These differences extend to pedagogy, curriculum, technology, facilities, organisational structure and connections between the school and the wider community.”  This calls for nothing less than a new ‘education imaginary’ which David will explore in his presentation