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Shift in focus, not in content
Last month, I briefly traced the evolution of the outcomes-based education (OBE) movement over the past 35 years: from its focus on "expanding the conditions of success" in…
Learning, living and leading: The basics
In my two previous columns, I looked at the basics of education. What is basic about education, and what is basic to accomplishing it? The answers, I said, revolve around the…
Inside OBE – It’s about life-roles
Roy Killen of Australia and William Spady have created a tool – the Curriculum Design Matrix – that directly helps educators organise their curriculum thinking around any set of…
Inside OBE – Future-focused education
In Part 1 of this article, published in the December issue of <i>theTeacher</i>, I described how Roy Killen of Australia and I applied the powerful OBE concept of "Outcomes of…