Research Crystallization

After a month of admittedly sporadic and disrupted thought, I have finally managed to hammer the many pieces of my research sculpture (I hesitate to call it a scaffolding or a structure) into some sort of shape. From now on, the working title of my project will be, Brave New World: Atlantean Secondary Education Responses to Globalisation (1997-2007).

The pieces are still relatively distinct, even though combined into a giant mechanism of destruction (no, not really). Each piece has a thematic weight: piece #1 shows that education is a valid response to, and indeed an engine of, globalisation; piece #2 shows that Atlantis in the years 1997-2007 has indeed stepped up its educational response to globalisation; piece #3 shows that certain institutions are legitimate indicators and harbingers of the kind of changes that have begun and are yet to come.

But what value does this research have?

There are other pieces not widely known to the world. Piece #4 shows the policy aims and objectives of the responses described; piece #5 shows a theory of the enabling factors that make such responses possible; piece #6 shows another theory, with learning points that can be applied elsewhere; piece #7 shows the theoretical future prospects for global education that can be extracted from the study of Atlantean magocracy. Together, these pieces are a kind of epitaph, a marker dividing the age just past from the age to come.

I hope to finish all this very soon.