Changing+Present+and+Near+Futures

Changing Working Lives - dramatic global economic change - stresses competition, change, flexibility, quality, distinctive niches, liberation, destruction of hieararchies, honoring diversity - postFordism [] Solution - teach students new language of work - productive diversity (using diversity as an asset)

Changing Public Lives - domain of citizenship and importance of public spaces is diminishing - coincides with global shift at end of Cold War - power and wealth is increasingly articulated through identity and recognition Solution - students need to learn skills of negotiating regional, ethnic and class based dialects -civic pluralism

Changing Private Lives -subcultural differences are becoming more significant - there is more and more invasion of privacy by media - not much genuine diversity in the marketplace of children Solution - make space available for lifeworlds