What would you say as the most important paradigm shift in pedagogy as we are preparing to move into the second decade of the twenty-first century? Would it be the ubiquitous application of technology in learning? Would it be the application of new insights coming from the field of neurosciences? Or a wider acceptance of constructivist philosophy and psychology in education? Or perhaps a universal adoption of problem-based learning approaches? Or something else, that is going to be the defining characteristic of the new pedagogy? I feel it is collaboration that will qualify as the candidate for this distinction.
Collaboration will be the way of life and work in every sphere of human activity. At the work- place, family, education and even politics. The only exception perhaps will be religion, which may remain as the last bastion of hierarchy and domination for a few more decades.
