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Our education system, including schools, bears a critical responsibility in creating enabling conditions and opportunities so that staff from diverse backgrounds enter teaching, allowing students to be exposed to varying and rich experiences and to prepare them well for the future. This chapter will examine some of the requisite skills and attributes that will be required of our students, and on some of the implicitly associated qualities demanded of our teachers. An argument for including career change teachers as part of a diverse and qualified teacher workforce are then discussed. The chapter concludes with how schools, teachers and leadership can act as agents of change in providing real and purposeful education to citizens of the global future.
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Varadharajan, M., Buchanan, J. (2021). Future Work Landscape. In: Career Change Teachers. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6038-2_3
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