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I am particularly interested in the relationship among
three things: technology, education, and the workforce. I arrived at
this point after a fairly unusual background that includes working on
high-tech military projects as an 18-year-old, obtaining a doctorate
in sociology with a strong emphasis in cultural anthropology, and
pursuing a long-standing interest in futures studies.
One of the projects I have been involved with is StoryTech, a
controlled imagination process I invented while studying the Shinto
religion. The technique, which has proved to be an effective tool for
teaching, research and consulting, involves story telling using
alterable variables. A cross-college project I am involved with is the
development of a new graduate certificate in innovation studies. The
certificate, one of the first of its kind in the nation, will help the
University prepare “innovation workers.” Somewhat related is my work
in the area of “distributed competence,” which involves preparing for
an experiential education future in which students will have the
capacity to instantaneously perform new functions with the help of
continuous software downloads. I believe the coming shift away from
the language of education to the language of innovation will
revolutionize human capital development, in the sense that different
skills will be needed to function effectively as a student, teacher or
administrator. Finally, a project that represents the other side of
the coin is my research into “self innovation.” How does one deal
proactively with a fast-moving, continuously innovating environment?
I enjoy working with both undergraduates and graduates within a
seminar format. I am delighted to teach two core doctoral courses on
knowledge systems and complex adaptive systems in EdPA’s
comparative and international development graduate program. I am
working with Dr. John Moravec on the development of LeapFrog
Institutes, an international collaborative to help children, youth,
and families transition to the 21st Century knowledge and idea
economy. With Dr. Moravec and Dr. Cristobal Cobo, FLACSO-Mexico, I
am working on the development of 1) collaborative co-seminars on
knowledge production and applications; and 2) the futures of South
American and North American youth. With Moravec and Cobo, I am
helping to develop a new Education Futures Laboratorio,
collaboratively developed between FLACSO and Minnesota. Moravec and
I are beginning work on applications of LeapFrog Institutes within
China, including the development of co-seminars on knowledge and
youth futures. Selected publications
Harkins, A. M., Kubik, G., and Moravec. J.
(2007). Timesynch: Organizing virtual pasts, presents, and futures
into actionable relationships. [Submitted for review.]
Harkins, A., Moravec, J. and Kubik, G. (2006).
Facilitating 21st century education: Leapfrogging culture and time
through simulational learning. /Global Leapfrog Education,/ Vol. 1,
No. 1.
http://www.leapfroginstitute.org/journal
Harkins, A., & Kubik, G. (2006). StoryTech: A
personalized guidebook to the 21st century.
http://www.educationfutures.com/storytech ISBN 0-9787434-0-7
Harkins, A. and Kubik, G. (2006). Leapfrogging
toward the "singularity:" Innovative knowledge production on
market-driven campuses. On The Horizon, Vol. 14 No. 3, 2006,
pp. 99-107.
Harkins, A, Vitaskova, A., and Mollberg, L.B.
(2005). "Strategies for innovation in tertiary education: Producing
mode III knowledge & personal capital." Theory of Science,
XIV/XXVII, 1/2005, 69-88.
Harkins, A.(2003). Re-missioning higher education
for knowledge and innovation: Supporting the leadership roles of all
individuals. Theory of Science, XII (XXV) 3, 45-58.
Harkins, A. (Spring 2003). In Their Dreams:
Paradigm Alternatives and the Marketing of Responsive Educational
Services. On The Horizon, 11, 1. Harkins, A.
(Winter 2003). The Futures of Career And Technical Education in a
Continuous Innovation Society. Journal of Vocational Education
Research, 27(1).
Harkins, A., & Kubik, G. (January 2003). Overcoming the Innovation
Divide: Learning for Continuous Innovation, On The Horizon, 10, 1.
Harkins, A., & Kubik, G. (November 2002). After Competency:
Performance Base Innovation, On The Horizon, 9, 6.
Harkins, A., & Kubik, G. (2002). Legacy-Based Thinking II: Resisting
New Tools and Competencies, On The Horizon, 9, 5.
Harkins, A., & Kubik, G. (2002). The Costs of Legacy-Based Thinking:
Retro-Preparation for the Industrial Age, On The Horizon, 9, 4.
Harkins, A. (1998). Global academies as strategic self-organizing
think tanks. Josef A. Mestenhauser and Brenda J. Ellingboe (eds.).
Reforming the higher education curriculum: Internationalizing the
campus. Phoenix: Oryx Press.
Harkins, A. M. & Emmett, J. D. (1997). StoryTech: Exploring the use of
a narrative technique for training career counselors. Counselor
Education and Supervision, 37(1), 60-73. A more complete list of
publications follows.
Academic degrees
- Ph.D., 1968, University of Kansas, sociology, anthropology
- M.A., 1962, University of Massachusetts, sociology
- B.A., 1959, University of Kansas, Sociology, abnormal psychology minor
Current
teaching responsibilities
- Knowledge Formats and Applications
- Systems Thinking for Educators (seminar)
- Scenario Planning for Educators and Administrators
- Undergraduate Leadership Minor: 'Cap’ Seminar
- Freshman Seminar: Higher Education, Continuous Innovation, and You
- Strategic Leadership in Future Societies
- Introduction to Innovation Studies
- Alternative Futures for the American Society
- Innovation Capital in Formal Organizations
Current research interests
- Defining relationships among information-, knowledge-, and
innovation-based learning
- Development of knowledge and innovation based learning
organization formats for higher education
- Development of cell- and network-supported learning formats for
knowledge-based personal and organizational leadership
- Development of the "personal culture" and “personal capital”
constructs for the formation of innovative microcultures within and
across institutions and organizations
- Development of “virtual selves” construct for learning
organization self-evolution
- Continuing development of guided story-telling as a method for
diagnosis, vision, leadership and culture design in complex
organizations
Recent
research
- Futures of public universities in knowledge and innovation societies
Recent
publications and presentations
- Harkins, A. M. (accepted for December 2007 presentation).
Higher education in the knowledge and innovation economy:
Evolving toward leapfrog campuses. Paper presented at "La Universidad en México en el Año
2030: Imaginando Futuros Conference," Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico.
- Harkins, A. M., & Moravec, J. W. (2007, November 10).
Constructing a 21st century education paradigm. Lecture
presented at Saturday Scholars, University of Minnesota.
- Harkins, A. M. (2007, October 31). La experiencia
norteamericana del seminario internacional: Evolving a
Co-Seminar on Knowledge for Innovation. The North American
experience in an international seminar: “From
Information to Innovative Knowledge”. Presentation at "FLACSO 50th Anniversary Conference, Quito, Ecuador. [Presentation made by Dr. John Moravec in my absence due to
illness.]
- Harkins, A. M., Moravec, J. W., & Kubik, G. (2007, July 31).
Youth futures: Projecting the roles of disruptive
technologies, anticipatory knowledge, and continuous
innovation. Paper and workshop presented at "World Future
Society annual conference," Minneapolis, MN.
- Harkins, A. M. (2007, July 29). The potential roles of PCC
in advantaging the futures of children and youth.
Presentation and workshop presented at the Pacific Circle
Consortium annual conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Harkins, A. M., & Moravec, J. W. (2007, May 31). Designing
education for sustainable innovation: Anticipating the
singularity. Invited paper presented at the Journal of
Teacher Education and Training Conference, University of
Debrecen, Hungary.
- Harkins, A. M. (2007, April 19). Creating a global role for
teacher leadership:
Children and youth in leapfrog collaboratives. Invited
keynote paper presented at International Conference on
Teacher Education, Anqing Teachers College, Anhui, China.
- Harkins, A. M. (2007, March 12). Toward a new expression of
study abroad: co-developing synchronous/asynchronous
knowledge seminars between FLACO-Mexico and the University
of Minnesota. Invited presentation at Facultad
Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales [Latin American Faculty
of Social Sciences], Mexico City, Mexico.
- Harkins, A. M., & Moravec, J. W. (2007, February 27). CEHD
futures: Curricular horizons in the Leapfrog University.
Poster session presentation at the "2007 Research Day,"
College of Education and Human Development, University of
Minnesota.
- Harkins, A. M., & Moravec, J. W. (2007, January 25).
Leapfrogging to the future. Invited poster session
presentation at the 2007 Quality Fair, University of
Minnesota.
- Harkins, A. M., & Moravec, J. W. (2006, October 16). Freshman
student knowledge production and its innovative potentials.
Paper presented at the "Focusing on the First-Year
Conference," University of Minnesota.
- Harkins, A. M., & Moravec, J. W. (2006, July 13).
Facilitating transformative education: Redesigning time and
culture in simulational curricula. Paper presented at the
"Pacific Circle Consortium 30th Annual Conference," Mexico
City, Mexico.
- Harkins, A. M., & Moravec, J. W. (2006, May 31). Meaningful
knowledge production by 21st century youth. Paper presented
at the "Second International Conference on Youth and
Education for the 21st Century," Texas A&M University,
Corpus Christi.
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2005 presentation on the support of creativity, innovation, and
Mode III knowledge, Pacific Circle Conference, Sydney, Australia.
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2005 presentation on the production of eight strategically
important categories of college graduates, Hong Kong Institute of
Education.
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2004 presentation on the future of knowledge modes I-VI, Pacific
Circle Conference, Hong Kong Institute of Education.
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2004 presentation on the production of Mode III knowledge in
several futures of tertiary education, IEEE, Paris. With A. Vysoka
and L. Mollberg.
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The futures of career and technical education in a continuous
innovation society.” Journal of Vocational Education Research. 27,
1 (pp. 1-30) 2003
Recent series of articles in On The Horizon - The Strategic
Planning Resource for Education Professionals:
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In their dreams: paradigm alternatives and the marketing of
responsive educational services (11,1, 17-20) 2003
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Personal capital and virtual selves: Learning to manage the five
“divides,” (10, 3, 22-27) 2002 (with Brenda Fiala)
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Prospective education for an innovation economy (10, 1, 17-22)
2002 (with John Tomsyck and George Kubik)
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Legacy-based thinking II: Resisting new tools and competencies
(9, 5, 6-9) 2001 (with George Kubik)
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The costs of legacy-based thinking: Retro-preparing for the
industrial age (9, 4, 8-10) 2001 (with George Kubik)
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School administrators’ responses to wireless handheld
applications (9, 3, 6-9) 2001 (with George Kubik)
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Assessing distributed competence software and performance base
learning (9, 2, 9-11) 2001 (with George Kubik)
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Closing the paradigm gap separating worker and student support
(9, 1, 10-12) 2001 (with George Kubik)
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The future of distributed competence: Constructing a
post-education paradigm (8, 6, 11-14) 2000 (with George Kubik)
Recent submissions
2005 book to be submitted late June: StoryTech: Guidelines for
Personalizing the 21st Century. With George H. Kubik
Recent presentations
2003 Pacific Rim conference on the future of education in societies
“stage jumping” from agriculture, industry or information to knowledge
and innovation
2003 presentation on the future of public universities in knowledge
and innovation societies (Prague, Czech Republic)
2003 presentation on the future roles of the individual in
knowledge and innovation societies (Kiev, Ukraine)
2003 keynote to Health Philanthropy Association national executives
on the future of philanthropy in a continuous innovation society
2002 Presentations (7) on the future of economy, society and
education (innovation societies) at U.S. Embassy, NGO conference, and
five universities (Kiev and other Ukrainian locations, Oct.-Nov. 2002)
2002 presentation at conference on the future of economy, society,
and education, Kiev, Ukraine
2001 keynote to annual meeting of the American Association for
Health Policy: “The Future of the Knowledge Base Patient”
2001 keynote to annual meeting of the American Association of Law
Librarians: “New Roles for Legal Knowledge Workers”
2001 Chair and participant in two sessions of the annual meetings
of the World Future Society: “Characteristics of Two Innovation
Societies” and “Managing the Knowledge Base School”
2001 & 2000 presentations on DC, PBL, and PBI at UNESCO conference
on the future of technology-supported education, Bangkok
Current projects
Participation in the development of a new comparative and
international development education Ph.D. specialization—international
youth leadership. Two trips to the School of Cultural and Innovation
Studies, East London University, have been made in support of this
work.
Roles of public universities in the development of personal
culture and personal capital in knowledge and innovation societies
Award
Teaching Excellence Award, College of Continuing Education, 2000
Updated November 2007
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