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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 in two
military services, 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. I am involved in a cross-college
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, non-formal education
future in which students have the capacity to
instantaneously perform new functions with the help of
continuous software downloads to portable devices. I believe
the coming shift away from the language of education to the
language non-formal education and innovation will
revolutionize human capital development, in the sense that
different skills will be needed to function effectively as a
student, teacher or administrator. I have been assisting in
the development of a new graduate program, global youth
policy and leadership. I have been fortunate to co-develop
Leapfrog Institutes, an EdPA and CEHD program to help
promote pilot projects and policy development focused on
non-formal education, innovation, and the use of advanced
handheld learning devices. Finally, I am continuously
working to develop improved approaches to self innovation:
How does one deal proactively with a fast-moving,
continuously innovating environment? To this end, I have
produced several simulation techniques for use in concert
with StoryTech: DramaTech, TimeSynch, and EthnoTech.
I enjoy working with both undergraduates
and graduates within a seminar format. I am delighted to
teach courses on knowledge systems, cultural models and
simulations, and innovative systems thinking in EdPA’s
comparative and international development graduate program.
I work with Dr. John Moravec on the further development of
the LeapFrog Institutes, an international collaborative to
help children, youth, and families transition to 21st
century knowledge and innovation economies. 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 also helping to develop a new initiatives under the
label, Leapfrog Laboratory, collaboratively developed
between FLACSO and Minnesota. Moravec and I are beginning
work on applications of Leapfrog Institutes within the US,
China, and Pakistan, including the development of
co-seminars on knowledge and youth futures.
Current research interests
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Defining relationships among
information-, knowledge-, and innovation-based learning
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Development of knowledge and
innovation based learning organization formats for
higher education
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Development of cell- and
network-supported learning formats for knowledge-based
personal and organizational leadership
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Development of the "personal culture"
and “personal capital” constructs in the formation of
innovative microcultures within and across institutions
and organizations
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Development of “virtual selves”
construct for conducting self-evolution
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Continuing development of guided
story-telling as a method for diagnosis, vision,
leadership and culture design in complex organizations
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Developing several new simulation
techniques to complement the StoryTech process
Academic degrees
- Ph.D., 1968, University of Kansas, sociology,
anthropology
Organizing framework: Cultural ecology, change and
design; Native American studies
- M.A., 1963, University of Massachusetts, sociology
Organizing framework: Socialist and capitalist challenge
and reward systems
- B.A., 1959, University of Kansas, Sociology,
sociology and abnormal psychology
Organizing framework: Human systems ecologies and
cultures
Courses
- Knowledge Formats and Applications in International
Contexts
- Innovative Systems Thinking for Educators (seminar)
- The Futures of Youth in Global Perspective
- Cultural Models, Simulations and Games
- Scenario Planning for Educators and Administrators
- Introduction to Innovation Studies
- New Futures for the American Society
- New Futures: Minnesota as an Innovation State
Academic experience (University of Minnesota, Twin
Cities)
- Associate professor, comparative and international
development education
- Faculty director, Leapfrog Institutes
- Faculty director, graduate certificate in innovation
studies
- Faculty member, master of liberal studies program
- Adjunct faculty member, Department of Sociology
Service and related activities
Committees and editorships:
- Co-chair, Horizon Forum, University of Minnesota,
2006 – present.
- Co-editor, special issue of Futures Research
Quarterly on Leapfrog principles and practices, 2008
- Former media futurist for National Public Radio,
Minnesota Public Radio, WCCO Radio, Minnesota Public
Television, and two commercial TV stations
- Former project coordinator, Center for Urban and
Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota
- Former co-director of the M.A./Ph.D. program in
future cultural and educational systems, University of
Minnesota
- Founding editor (1974) of Futurics, a
quarterly journal of futures research
Recent publications
Harkins, A. M., Kubik, G., and Moravec. J.
(2008, in press). Timesynch: Organizing virtual pasts, presents, and
futures into actionable designs. Theory of Science.
Harkins, A. M. Leapfrog principles and
practices: Core components of education 3.0 and 4.0.
Futures Research Quarterly, 24, 1, 2008
Harkins, A.M. (translated reprint of
above, in press). Anqing Teachers College, China.
Harkins, A., Moravec, J. and Kubik, G. (2006).
Facilitating 21st century education: Leapfrogging culture and time
through simulational learning. Global Leapfrog Education,
1(1)15-22.
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.
www.leapfroginstitute.org/journal
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. 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, 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.
Personal capital and virtual selves: Learning to manage the five
“divides.” On the Horizon (10, 3, 22-27) 2002 (with Brenda
Fiala)
Prospective education for an innovation economy. On The Horizon
(10, 1, 17-22) 2002 (with John Tomsyck and George Kubik)
Legacy-based thinking II: Resisting new tools and competencies. On
The Horizon (9, 5, 6-9) 2001 (with George Kubik)
The costs of legacy-based thinking: Retro-preparing for the industrial
age. On The Horizon (9, 4, 8-10) 2001 (with George Kubik)
School administrators’ responses to wireless handheld applications.
On The Horizon (9, 3, 6-9) 2001 (with George Kubik)
Assessing distributed competence software and performance base
learning. On The Horizon (9, 2, 9-11) 2001 (with George Kubik)
Closing the paradigm gap separating worker and student support. On
The Horizon (9, 1, 10-12) 2001 (with George Kubik)
The future of distributed competence: Constructing a post-education
paradigm. On The Horizon (8, 6, 11-14) 2000 (with George
Kubik) Books
Harkins, A., & Kubik, G. (2006).
StoryTech: A personalized guidebook to the 21st century.
www.educationfutures.com/storytech. ISBN 0-9787434-0-7
Harkins, A.M. and Redd, K. (Eds.).
(1984) Education: A time for decisions. Washington,
D.C.: World Future Society Press.
Harkins, A.M. and Otto, N.R., Change
& choice. (1983) Bloomington, MN: Control Data Press.
Harkins, A.M. and Maruyama, M. (Eds.).
(1978) Cultures of the future. The Hague: Mouton, and
Aldine, NY. Forward by Alvin Toffler.
Harkins, A.M. and Maruyama, M. (Eds.)
(1975) Cultures beyond the earth. New York: Random
House. Forward by Alvin Toffler.
Recent presentations
- Harkins, A. M. & Moravec, J. W. (2008, May 23-24).
Leapfrog education. Invited lecture presented at
Destination ImagiNation Global Finals 2008,
Knoxville, TN.
- Harkins, A. M. & Moravec, J. W. (2008, February 12).
Designing education for sustainable innovation:
Anticipating the Singularity. Invited keynote lecture
presented at Minnesota Association for Career and
Technical Administrators Winter Conference,
Minneapolis, MN.
- Harkins, A. M. & Moravec, J. W. (2008, January 15).
The LeapFrog principles. Testimony delivered to E-12
Education Committee Working Group on High School
Redesign, Minnesota State Legislature, St. Paul, MN.
- Harkins, A. M. & Moravec, J. W. (2007, November 23).
Youth futures: Leapfrogging from century 18 to century
21. Invited lecture presented at Northeast Normal
University, Changchun, China.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
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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 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
Selected presentation venues in recent years (Leapfrog
and related subjects)
- Hong Kong (2)
- Ukraine (4)
- Czech Republic (2)
- Mexico (5)
- Australia (1)
- China (3)
- Hungary (1)
- United Kingdom (3)
- Thailand (2)
- France (1)
- United States (over 50, including major
corporations, universities, federal and state agencies,
professional societies, research institutions, and
media)
Award
Teaching Excellence Award, College of Continuing Education, 2000
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