Arthur Harkins Associate professor, Dept. of Educational Policy and Administration Adjunct professor, Department of Sociology Faculty director, graduate certificate in innovation studies 310J Wulling Hall harki001@umn.edu Phone: 612-743-7528 Fax: 612-624-3377 Mailing address: Dept. of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development 330 Wulling Hall University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455-0221

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 of 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 education graduate program. I work with Dr. John Moravec on the further development of the Leapfrog Initiatives, 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 initiative 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

• Defining relationships among information-, knowledge-, and innovation-based learning
• Development of knowledge and innovation based learning organization formats for higher education
• Development of cell- and network-supported learning formats for knowledge-based personal and organizational leadership
• Development of the "personal culture" and “personal capital” constructs in the formation of innovative microcultures within and across institutions and organizations
• Development of “virtual selves” construct for conducting self-evolution
• Continuing development of guided story-telling as a method for diagnosis, vision, leadership and culture design in complex organizations
• 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). Creative time synchronizations: Proximal and grounded pasts, presents, and futures. Theory of Science, XXI, pp. 143-158.

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.

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.

• 2005 presentation on the support of creativity, innovation, and Mode III knowledge, Pacific Circle Conference, Sydney, Australia.

• 2005 presentation on the production of eight strategically important categories of college graduates, Hong Kong Institute of Education.

• 2004 presentation on the future of knowledge modes I-VI, Pacific Circle Conference, Hong Kong Institute of Education.

• 2004 presentation on the production of Mode III knowledge in several futures of tertiary education, IEEE, Paris. With A. Vysoka and L. Mollberg.

• 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

Revised February 2009