‘As early years educators we’re preparing children for a future that’s increasingly unpredictable and planning a suitable curriculum is a big part of that,’ keynote speaker Dubiel, early education consultant and adviser, told delegates at Nursery World’s conference in central London yesterday [12 July].
Addressing professionals at ‘EYFS: Developing a curriculum for your children to thrive’ Dubiel said that there is a need to ‘future proof’ early childhood education in order to prepare a generation of citizens for an unpredictable and rapidly changing world.
He highlighted this with a quote from the late educationalist Sir Ken Robinson, ‘No other period in human history can match the present one in sheer scale, speed and global complexity of the changes and challenges we face... We are preparing children for jobs that don’t exist yet, using technologies that haven’t been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.’
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