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Delineating an Educational Policy Framework for the Developing Nations in Meeting the Emerging Global Challenges by year 2050 Upali Sedere

Scholarly Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, , language: English, comment: The philosophies, theories and practices need to be re-examined time to time to delineate a policy framework that suits contemporary world. The usual practice in education is to frame policy in today's context and not in a futuristic context. This practice has always made education to be outdated with the future demands. If the educators agree that the formal schooling is to prepare the current generation of children to lead their lives as effective, efficient, satisfied and dignified citizens in the emerging world ahead of them, then there is very little argument for any one to oppose the re-examination of the philosophies, theories and the practices of today to make education futuristic. The shaping of the future generation rests in the hands of the present adult population and not in the hands of the children because the young child has no say on what s/he has to study at school. In this context there is a larger responsibility in the hands of the adults to identify what kind of education serves better for their children to enable them to fitting better to their lifetime. , abstract: School based general education aught to be a future oriented subject. However, over the years, due to parental and grand-parental generations setting policies of education for the younger generation, education is always more past oriented than future oriented. This trend did not cause much of a problem when the change over time was moderate. As Alvin Toffler (1970) says we are in a turning point of human history. In the changing perspective in the world with speed of change, speed of inventions and speed of knowledge and speed of threat on living education got to change to prepare the next generation to face these new challenges. The climatic change, depletion of resources, growing energy crisis, threat of terrorism, rapid of growth of population and the changi