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APPENDIX C

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
FOR THE INFORMATION AGE
BASED ON THE WRITINGS OF FUTURISTS AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

  

Cognitive (knowing, reasoning, thinking)
  • abstract thinking
  • aware of competitive pressures, cultural shifts
  • creativity
  • global thinking
  • imagination
  • implicit cultural understandings about time, dress, courtesy, money, causality, etc.
  • informational skills (critical thinking, processing information)
  • intelligence
  • knowledge
  • well educated and technically trained (post high school education)
  • wisdom
  • worldly

Attitudinal (dispositions, feelings, values)

  • autonomous
  • benevolence
  • compassion
  • courage
  • courtesy
  • honesty
  • integrity
  • optimism
  • responsibility
  • self-efficacy
  • trustworthiness
  • truthfulness
Volitional (connecting thoughts and feelings to action)
  • adapt to change
  • alert to new ideas and fashions, customer preferences, economic and political changes
  • ambitious
  • goal-setting
  • go-getter
  • plan strategically
  • self-determination
  • willingness to constantly upgrade skills

Behavioral (action and doing)

  • can both think and do
  • communication skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking)
  • get and stay married
  • good character
  • self-regulation
  • social skills
  • time management

 

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