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Sir Ken Robinson – Changing Education Paradigms

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By shibleyrahman in Law, Meetings & News on June 23, 2011.

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award.

For more information on Sir Ken’s work visit: http://www.sirkenrobinson.com

Here’s an interesting quotation from this:

The real intelligence consisted in this capacity for certain type of deductive reasoning, and a knowledge of the Classics originally, what we’ve come to think of as academic ability. And this is deep in the gene pool of public education. There are really two types of people. Academic and non academic. Smart people and non smart people. And the consequence of that is that many brilliant people think they are not, because they’ve been judged against this particular view of the mind.

[Many thanks to @colmmu for reminding me about this video - which was first presented to me during a lectureship on leadership in my MBA a few weeks' ago]

colmmu

Sir Ken is essentially talking about Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, we tend to look at academic attainment as the pinnacle of human learning capability, a view I personally see as very slim and narrow. This is often why selection criteria for legal recruitment based on this academic attainment is flawed. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple…
legalawarenesssoc

I agree – over-reliance on the SHL Direct *type* tests and Watson Glaser Test can be a convenient way for legal recruitment teams to make very narrow minded decisions, when the evidence appraising their ability to assess a range of cognitive, social and emotional intelligence domains, and their predictive use in their suitability for corporate law, is actually not strong at all – unless you can cite the papers and reviews from the literature which 'prove' their efficacy above other methods. This is to the detriment of the profession. I look forward to what the aptitude tests in development reveal. As a person who did a PhD in cognitive neuropsychology myself at Cambridge, I am amazed how these tests above are applied in such an overwhelmingly unimaginative way.

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