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The new economy will require: - Highly trained workers - Autonomous learners - Well connected citizens secure in their own identity (ACDE 2001, 1) (p8) Good learners in the new educational environment will be: - Assisted and self-directed - Flexible - Collaborative - Good teachers - Good communicators - Of open sensibility - Intelligent in more than one way - Broadly knowledgeable Values and attributes of a lifelong learner QLD School Curriculum Council: - A knowledgeable person with deep understanding - A complex thinker - A creative person - An active investigator - An effective communicator - A participant in an interdependent world - A reflective and self-directed learner

Marsh (2001) points out that the national SOSE learning area lacked (p9): - Environmental issues - Values and actions - Some groups were not included - The cultures strand emphasised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups whereas a more generic sequence of outcomes might be preferable - Too strong an emphasis on Australia - The process strand failed to capture values and action outcomes pertaining to active citizenship, environmental ethics and career education