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Recently, Professor Walker joined me at the IBO’s curriculum and assessment centre here at Cardiff for a chat. We talked about a whole range of things, including his reflections on international education over the past 15 years, his work with the newly-opened United World College in Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina, and his plans for the future.
To listen to the podcast, please click here.
During our discussions, a number of references were made to Howard Gardner’s new book, Five Minds for the Future. The book will be released in January 2007, I believe, but recently Professor Gardner delivered a lecture on its key ideas at the Royal Society for Arts in London. You can listen to his speech here. Please note that you will need to scroll down to locate the media file and accompanying presentation slides.
The paper Professor Walker gave at the Nordic Schools conference in September 2005, and to which we refer at the beginning of the podcast, has recently been published in Educating the Global Citizen (Walker, 2006). Further information on this title is available here.
Regrettably, this will be the last entry to the blog. We hope, though, that you have enjoyed reading it as much as we have enjoyed creating it. Watch this space for teacher blogs on the OCC after its relaunch in 2007.
Warmest regards,
Lee Davis
Head of online professional learning
