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Complexity and Childhood Education

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We are Beginning to Understand the Kind of Educational Leadership that Prepares Young Students for Success in Our Complex World. Forward-thinking leaders are advocating these educational approaches and roles that lead to creativity, learning, growth and innovation:

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Responsible Management Education: UN Principles

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What is the Purpose of Management Education? The purpose of management education is obviously to develop capable and responsible managers. But what does that mean?

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Ethical Leadership Development: 15 Important Elements

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By Linda Fisher Thornton Since moral growth is a lifelong pursuit, moral education needs to start early, and it needs to continue throughout our professional careers. This requires quite a bit more effort than just doing an "annual ethics training."

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The Future of Education: Ethical Literacy For Handling Global Complexity

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By Linda Fisher Thornton We are not preparing students for success in the world where they will have to live and work. Some of the ways we currently think about "teaching" need to be scrapped and replaced.

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Focus on Teaching Students How to Think (Not What To Think)

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This approach completely misses the point that the purpose of education is not to teach students what to think. By Linda Fisher Thornton Have you noticed that the current fray about what to teach about difficult subjects has been focused on teaching "one way or the other?" "Are Are you for it or against it? and "Which side are you on?"

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Digital Deception: Unethical Sleight of Hand

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Educate yourself and your teams about these methods of trickery and how to spot them: There are many new ways that bad actors are usual digital sleight of hand to trick us. And the list is growing. It will take a healthy dose of skepticism, critical observation and research skills to find out if what we see is as it appears.

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Responsibility and Respect (The 4th and 5th R’s)

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Ethical Thinking Trends ethical education ethical leadership leading ethically' Children Need to Learn Responsibility and Respect Two key principles (in addition to the 3 R''s) that children need to learn in order to to live a successful life are responsibility and respect.

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