Jan 3, 20193 min
Updated: Jan 28, 2020
I have made a list of 15 books in random order that have inspired and influenced me most in 2017 and 2018. I have no stakes in any of them. Pick one of them up and let it lead you to another. Synthesise your readings, share your ideas and develop a personal vision of the future of education at your institute.
Higher Education in 2040; A Global Perspective by Bert van der Zwaan
The Great Acceleration: How the World is getting Faster, Faster by Robert Colville
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future by Andrew McAfee
Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving In An Age of Accelerations by Thomas Friedman
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces that will shape our Future by Kevin Kelly
WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us by Tim O’Reilly
Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press) by Joseph E. Aoun
The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux by Cathy N. Davidson
Grit, The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
Homo Deus, A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century by Gideon Rachman
The Culture Map: Decoding how people think, lead and get things done across cultures, by Erin Meyer
The Global State-of-the-art in Engineering Education (MIT School of Engineering) by Ruth Graham
The Future of Universities Thoughtbook. 40 Perspectives on how engaged and entrepreneurial universities will drive growth and shape our knowledge-driven future until 2040 by Todd Davey, Arno Meerman (Ed) et al.
I have started 2019 reading the book “Little Soldiers – An American Boy, a Chinese School and the Global Race to Achieve” by Lenora Chu. It’s a funny and personal story of a parenting journey inside China’s school system that is designed to weed out and filter students. It is an extreme contrast with the Dutch egalitarian educational system with its emphasis on inclusiveness and individual desires and therefore makes me think about the up- and downsides of these very different educational systems.
Yesterday evening I reached chapter 4 “No Exceptions to the Rule”. Reading “Little Soldiers” makes the Dutch system suddenly feel impossibly soft…
Some weeks after publishing this blog I reached the end of the book. Maybe the hybrid of Western and Chinese education systems is a good convergence in for what a 21st century student should look like…
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