Forward Thinking: Setting an Agenda for Collaboration

Abstract

Abstract This chapter supports a holistic and nuanced approach to understanding school learning environments, arguing that the provision of transformational, innovative learning spaces requires the synchronization of research, policy, practice, design and implementation elements. Acknowledging that our current approaches to education, both pedagogically and in physical form, developed from a very focused and successful response to industrial era demands, this chapter highlights the emerging global challenges society now faces and how the traditional education forms mostly fail to respond to the pace, scale and complexity of societal change. It recognizes t..