Evolving Educational Pedagogy in Developing Nations

The developing countries of the world face many major social challenges, among these challenges is education. It seems that the tendency would be to merely transport current educational pedagogy to these developing nations. But the existing pedagogy primarily fosters the development of ruled-based thinking, which will not suffice given the demands of the current day. Thus a new model for education is in order; one that will address the need: for life- long learning, for learning- how-to- learn, for being able to apply knowledge to unfamiliar circumstances. Developing nations, as many nations of the world do, need new educational pedagogies to foster change to meet new challenges. However developing nations need more than this, they need build, not just rebuild the infrastructure. This creates a situation where bold ideas need to be spawned as old ideas, in many cases, do not exist. Thus in developing nations there is a unique opportunity to: a. build an infrastructure from the ground up, and, b. deploy a novel educational pedagogy without having to confront a well established, well entrenched, infrastructure. This paper offers a novel metamodel for education, which goes beyond the development of rule-based thinkers, to evolve model-based reasoning skills an a model for focusing the intent of education itself. Taken together these two aspects of our novel model for education will provide a new basis for education and for the development of deep reasoning skills within various curricular areas, which will provide the needed tools for those who will confront the coming global village and live in the global community.