Quality and Knowledge Management: linking human and social capital

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Quality and Knowledge Management linking human
and social capital

• DVC/IPAA Conference
• Melbourne
• October 2004

Tom Schuller Centre for Educational Research and
Innovation OECD
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Some challenges

• 1. Getting the measures right
• 2. Using futures thinking
• 3. Agenda-setting as well as solution-seeking

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Directorate For Financial Fiscal and Enterprise
Affairs
Directorate for Employment Labour and Social
Affairs
Trade Directorate
Economics Department
Directorate for Education
COUNCIL
Directorate for Public Management and
Territorial Development
SECRETARIAT
Centre for Educational Research and
Innovation (CERI)
COMMITTEES
Statistics Directorate
Directorate for Food Agriculture and Fisheries
Environment Directorate
Directorate for Science Technology and Industry
Development Co-operation Directorate
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Tertiary-type A graduation rates, by duration of
programme (2002)Percentage of graduates to the
population at the typical age of graduation

Country mean
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Educational attainment of the adult population
(2002).Average NUMBER of years in formal
education (25-to 64 year-olds population)
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Population that has attained at least upper
secondary education (2002)Percentage, by age
group

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A Knowledge accumulation
B Access/utilisation
C Validity/critique
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The effects of learning
Individual
A
B
Personal change
Self-maintenance
Sustaining
Transforming
C
D
Community activism
Social fabric
Collective/community
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Some challenges

• 1. Getting the measuring right
• 2. Using futures thinking
• 3. Agenda-setting as well as solution-seeking
• 4. Building learning environments

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• It is hardly possible to over-rate the value
  .of placing human beings in contact with persons
  dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of
  thought and action unlike those with which they
  are familiarSuch communication has always been,
  and is peculiarly in the present age, one of the
  primary sources of progress.
• JS Mill Principles of Political Economy

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• www.oecd.org/edu/ceri
• Tom.schuller_at_oecd.org

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