演講公告
Title:
Planning
our own futures academically: Some thoughts on planning life’s journey in
uncertain times
Speaker:
John Lidstone,
Professor Geography
(Faculty of Education,
Date/Time: February 14th 2012, 2:00~4:00 p.m.
Place:
Room 405, the
Abstract:
Planning our educational needs to design our own preferred
futures is like driving a car at night! When we are on the road at night, we do
not (usually) put the headlights on for a moment or two and then turn them off
before accelerating into the darkness. We keep the lights on and constantly
re-evaluate our driving strategy as the lights reveal new opportunities and
threats to our journey. However, what threats should we look out for and how do
we become the people we need to be, given our own strengths and weaknesses and
our own personal histories? In this
presentation I will consider a few of the areas of which I believe that all of
us need to be aware regardless of our core academic disciplines and our
preferred directions in life. They include geography, history, politics,
psychology and sociology and hope that from them we may be able to construct a
personal SWOT analysis (of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) to
help us get through current times successfully.
Enquiry: TA Hui-yi Lin
(02-3366-5845); Convenor: Prof.
Lan-Hung
Nora Chiang