Guest: Debra Bateman
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Interview Date: Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Interviewed By: Rebecca Mijat in Melbourne, Australia.
Debra is Professor and Dean (Education) at Flinders University in Australia. She completed her Masters of Education (via Thesis) on the ‘case for futures education in Australian schools.’ Deb then completed her PhD looking at the interconnections between futures thinking, curriculum and human capacity.
Deb has published several articles in the Futures journal, and has received local and national awards for her contributions to student learning.
Deb talks about this as the perfect time to use futures thinking in all levels of education. She also discusses her personal reflections on the absence of sensate experience, a hug, human touch during the time of COVID-19, something so many of us have taken for granted until now. She also discusses the new language and identification that is arising and their impacts, from ‘essential’, to ‘global citizen’.
Foresight in a Time of Coronavirus Series
The COVID-19 pandemic is moving rapidly around the world. Extinguishing our expected futures and opening up the possibilities of different ones.
At FuturePod we have decided to speak to our previous guests, to ask them what this particular moment in time means to them, and more importantly, to us all.