A world dominated by the legacies of colonialism, deindustrialisation, globalisation and climate change will require higher education to “rapidly pivot towards programmes of adult and community-based education oriented towards social learning and social innovation”, according to a professor of educational and social futures.
Keri Facer, of the University of Bristol, told the Centre for Global Higher Education conference that for many people “the apocalypse has already happened”, in the “forms of colonialism, deindustrialisation and globalisation”, while for others “the reality is beginning to sink in that we have a 50/50 chance of reaching 1.5 degrees [increase in global temperatures] in the next five years, with all its implications for our children’s and other people’s children’s lives”.
