Concepts and Implications for Deschooling

Abstract

Over the past five decades, we have worked variously in the hospitality, health, building, retail, disability care and education industries. Over the course of our project-driven careers, the forms of work in industries have changed, markedly so in most cases. Our current employers in the education industry expect new flexible patterns of work from us. Increasingly, we have been engaged in network-driven project-based l’earning in research, teaching and management. This work involves us in high levels of local/global mobility. We fly in and fly out of Australia to economic, geographic and linguistics spaces as diverse as Antofagasta (Chile), Hanoi (Vietnam), Iguassu (Brasil), Mumbai (India), Leshan, Ningbo and Xiamen (China), Nantai (Taiwan) and The Hague (the Netherlands).