Development...theories

= REVIEWING FOR DEVELOPMENT =

//by Roger Greenaway, Reviewing Skills Training//
//'Reviewing for Development' is also available as a 5 page easy-to-print [|pdf file].//


 * If your work is about personal development, social development, team development, leadership development, management development, or 'anything' development you should find some useful ideas and tips in this article about reviewing for development.**

Much advice about reviewing (or debriefing) assumes that the main purpose is to facilitate LEARNING. So what should you do differently when the emphasis is on facilitating DEVELOPMENT? []

[|Roger Greenaway] [|A View into the Future:] [|The Value of Other Ways of Learning and] [|Development] [|Futurologist Alvin Toffler wrote in his foreword to Rethinking the Future that] [|“the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,] [|but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn” (TOFFLER, 1997). So how] [|can we best prepare young people for a future that will require more learning] [|and change than ever before? It is clear that to prepare for life as a lifelong] [|learner students need more than study skills: they also need to be able to learn] [|from their experiences (pleasant and unpleasant) while growing and developing] [|along the way. Mainstream education has been slow to adapt to this growing] [|need to prepare students for a life of learning and change. This question] [|about how to prepare young people for an uncertain future is not a new question.] [|It was being asked over a century ago:] [|“With the advent of democracy and modern industrial conditions, it is impossible to foretell] [|definitely just what civilization will be twenty years from now. Hence it is impossible] [|to prepare the child for any precise set of conditions.” (DEWEY, 1897)] [|From outside the mainstream looking in, change seems slow.]