culture and change

Task:
The various forces for change discussed during this subject have the potential to disrupt the status quo in both revolutionary and

evolutionary ways that may remake or reshape your professional practice. Further, our current assumptions about learning and education in

workplaces and society may require fundamental review and continue to be challenged by new advances that can barely be imagined today. This

final essay is your opportunity to demonstrate your capacity to act as a creative change architect in identifying the collective impact of

these major change forces for yourprofessional practice and your workplace context. You can build upon your learning from thegroup Assessment

1 or/and integrate other forces and issues for change that are particularly relevant for your professional practice or interesting for you to

research.

Re-imagine how learning in your workplace context could operate in about five years’ time.Discuss the assumptions, expectations, challenges

and implications of facilitating learning in significantly different ways and the interactions that could occur among different roles within

organisations or across organisations or across networks. Discuss what such changes might mean for practitioners like yourself who facilitate

learning (e.g. could your roles become extinct or abolished and if so, why; if not, why not?) and for leaders of organisations in using

learning to achieve enterprise/community success and outcomes.

Given the big picture and integrative nature of this final essay, you are encouraged to sketch and discuss your intended scope and

positioning of your paper with your lecturer in advance, so that you retain the necessary ‘big picture’ orientation, but can articulate a

series of arguments that are cohesively presented and include the major points you want to make.

Assessment criteria:
1    Shows an integrative and comprehensive understanding of the major forces for change that build upon the student’s first assessment.
2    Shows originality and creative insights in re-imagining the dimensions and parameters of the student’s workplace context. Able to

justify the assertions and claims with reference to workplace experience, research learning and change literature and persuasive logic.
3    Demonstrates a convincing example of understanding the impact of disruptive and incremental forces and what it might take to become a

change architect or to drive ‘big picture’ and macro change in workplaces and organisations.