I’ve had a couple of work projects focused on the future of graduate education, mostly exploring the future of STEM PhD education last week. Education is not a field I have professional expertise; like most people, I have an experiential view of eduction. But coming from a family of educators and having several friends who are teachers and professors, I see a number of parallels between health and education. Both sectors share deep historical roots and traditions, powerful entrenched bureaucracies, rapidly escalating costs and increasing demands, and robust silos among nodes in the system (eg. early education, secondary education, college education, etc). But the shift to centering inclusion and belonging surprised me.
Issue #8: Education and Belonging
Issue #8: Education and Belonging
Issue #8: Education and Belonging
I’ve had a couple of work projects focused on the future of graduate education, mostly exploring the future of STEM PhD education last week. Education is not a field I have professional expertise; like most people, I have an experiential view of eduction. But coming from a family of educators and having several friends who are teachers and professors, I see a number of parallels between health and education. Both sectors share deep historical roots and traditions, powerful entrenched bureaucracies, rapidly escalating costs and increasing demands, and robust silos among nodes in the system (eg. early education, secondary education, college education, etc). But the shift to centering inclusion and belonging surprised me.