Implications of the Knowledge Generation and Knowledge Economy for Curriculum and Pedagogy.
The impact of economics globally combined with the rapid spread of new information technology accelerate changes in our economy. Education and technology are now viewed as central to economic growth. The Knowledge Economy is the use of knowledge technologies to produce economic benefits in addition to job creation. This highlights the role of education in creating human capital and in the production of this new knowledge.
"Human Resources" or the up skilling and increasing competency of workers for production of scientific knowledge through research, have governments restructuring National Education systems, and redesigning business and university networks. The World Bank in its 1998 World Development Report quoted "For countries in the vanguard of the world economy, the balance between knowledge and recourses has shifted so far towards the former that knowledge has become perhaps the most important factor determining the standard of living..... Todays most technologically advanced economies are truly knowledge-based."
Over the last decade, Key National Reports have provided strategies and policies to establish a national information framework to facilitate and focus on the power of the information and communication technologies to benefit teaching and learning.
Australian Professional Standards For Teachers Realise commitments and goals set by the Melbourne Declaration
Melbourne Declaration Guided development for the Australian Curriculum
Australian Curriculum Is the foundation from which teachers are guided to teach and learn authentic lessons to develop the potential of all Australian children.
‘Schools are changing rapidly and expectations are rising. Students are being educated for a world that demands continuous learning, the creation of knowledge and adaptation of new circumstances. The community expects students to be technology competent’. [Learning in an Online World: Research Strategy 2003]