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我在阅读《未来能力教养》,英文是《becoming brilliant》的过程中,竟然产生了强烈的似曾相似感和共鸣。
作为企业里的人才发展专家,根据我在各个行业各个领域里的一手资料观察,在企业里获得成功的KSF(关键成功要素),以多种方式呈现,你可以说是潜力/软实力/可转移能力/胜任力模型等多种姿态浮现出来,就是人格冰山模型下方难以识别难以培养的部分,包括团队合作,学习和创新,批判思维和问题解决,沟通和自我驱动能力以及专业技能,我的发现和书中提到的儿童能力素质发展高度一致。书中的分级模式除了颗粒度比较粗(可以理解,因为前端产品和后端需求还是有一段时间的差异,精确度不需要很高),同时,书中再次印证我的观察,软实力和硬实力不可分割,而是相辅相成,相互促进和加强。
在以往的操作中,商业/企业对人才的需求前线和后端的学校人才培养是不沟通的,也就是断档。学校教育是自嗨,填鸭式和机械化教育(rote education)把人往没有灵魂眼神空洞的书呆子方向培养。而在企业中,我们需要的是多面手,特别是沟通合作在公司被高度赞赏的素质,在学校被完全低估(甚至打压)和忽视的能力。书中有个比喻很贴切,如果沉睡的Rip Van Winkle的醒过来,他也就只认识学校(唯一在几个世纪没有发生变化的事物),
我们如果把学校比喻成人才加工厂,比较合理的设置是后端和需求和前期的培养高度对齐和一致,但可惜的我们都知道高分低能并不能在企业里取得成功。学校和家庭没有培养的部分,放到企业里去培养是难上加难。所以我非常赞同把这部分能力培养部分前置,这才是真正赢在起跑线上的做法。
关于这几个素质的排列,我略有自己的看法(基于自己的经验和中国的国情),content包括10000小时积累的专业技能是所有的基础。但本书的作者显然不是这样看,在书中她讲到:
“The first, basic, most core is collaboration. Collaboration is everything from getting along with others to controlling your impulses so you can get along and not kick someone else off the swing. It's building a community and experiencing diversity and culture. Everything we do, in the classroom or at home, has to be built on that foundation.Communication comes next, because you can't communicate if you have no one to communicate with. This includes speaking, writing, reading and that all-but-lost art of listening.Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.And finally, confidence: You have to have the confidence to take safe risks.”
作者排列的顺序显然给了我很大的启发和震动,因为我的结构是从下到上逐步构建(金字塔),从知识技能入手建立自信和其他能力(外驱),而作者的结构是从内而外的洋葱圈,是从核心向外发散(内驱),因为有合作的需要,所以需要沟通和技能。我认为自信激发创新和批判性思维,而作者认为自信是后者的结果。 "I have good ideas, I can be creative, and I can show you that I have confidence."--与我而言,这个对比阅读的过程就是思辨的过程,不存在绝对答案。
看这本书其实就是提前看中国接下来10-20年的情况,所以洞见和前瞻性值得参考,中国一定会和发达国家对齐的就是,国家将会需要更加多元化的人才,而不仅仅是遵守流程和秩序工程师和医生,以后的职业会更加多元和有趣,因为经济的高度发达,精神需求(艺术,文学和审美的需求会更加强烈),企业家,艺术家,更多需要高级情感的工作(机器人无法取代)会如雨后春笋般冒出来。有一点,要分析接下来国家的发展方向,考虑到经济政治文化的影响因素。美国非常强调citizenship(公民责任感),而中国接下来不变的文化精髓仍将是和谐和儒家精神。这两者并不冲突,但是前者更看重个人成长,而后者强调集体。
the great jobs in Fortune 500 companies, now and in the future, are likely to go to people who have thinking skills that cannot be taught through memorization.”
“Robots can memorize the facts, but only children have the potential to socialize, be good citizens, think and create.”
知道了why,关于如何实践what(一边实践一边总结)就简单多了
Research suggests that play contributes to the development of children’s academic outcomes as well as essential skills including collaboration, communication, confidence, content, creative innovation and creative thinking --《Cambridge Papers》March 2019
书中原文摘录:
We may be born social but not necessarily with the self-control for collaboration • Level 1 –or silo syndrome-means that children are sitting by themselves, not speaking or working with others-no collaboration is encouraged. Level 1 breeds insular thinking, redundancy and sub-optimal decision-making. • Many classrooms continue to support side-by-side learning (desks in rows) with no talking, no collaboration. • Families must check to see if joint projects are encouraged or if children are always working alone. • Is there a block corner in the classroom? It provides an opportunity for significant collaboration. • The single biggest problem in communication is that we think it has taken place (Bernard Shaw). • Speaking and writing are becoming lost arts. • Content alone is not capable of achieving happy, healthy, thinking, caring, and social children who become collaborative, creative, competent, and responsible citizens of tomorrow. • We need deeper thinking-not shallow or surface learning. • Rote learning does not always allow children to apply their knowledge in new situations. • Teaching young children in a FORMAL way represents a “profound misunderstanding of how children learn” (Nancy Carlsson-Paige). • Learning Science has known for years how good learning happens. The 4 keys to learning that promote Level 3 and Level 4 thinking are: Active, Engaged, Meaningful, and Socially Interactive. • Encourage children to ask questions. • If a task can be designed for a robot or a computer, a human will no longer be necessary. Answers to questions in the future won’t come in a multiple choice format and typically will not have a single right answer. • Children need to risk and fail in order to acquire an adequate evaluation of their self-esteem. INFORMED RISKS! • Reducing Academic Pressure actually helps children succeed. • How you learn is just as important as what you learn
最后,如何让孩子收获丰富幸福的一生,而不只是学校到公司的生产线上的产品。que sara, sara, what will be will be.