Professor Arthur M. Harkins
Arthur M. Harkins, Ph.D. is
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy and
Administration, Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, and
Faculty Director, Graduate Certificate in Innovation Studies at
the University of Minnesota.
Arthur is particularly interested in the relationship among three
things:
technology, education, and the workforce. He 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.
Arthur coauthored
StoryTech: a Personalized Guidebook to the 21st Century and
Education: A Time for Decisions : Sourcebook II,
coedited
Cultures Beyond Earth: The Role of Anthropology in Outer
Space, and authored
Attitudes and Characteristics of Selected Wisconsin Indians.
His papers include
The Futures of Career And Technical Education in a Continuous
Innovation
Society,
Leapfrogging Toward the ‘Singularity:’ Innovative
Knowledge Production on Market-Driven Campuses,
Strategies for Innovation in Tertiary Education:
Producing Mode III Knowledge & Personal Capital,
Controls, Paradigms, and Designs: Critical Elements in the
Understanding
of Cultural Dynamics,
The Future of Distributed Competence: Constructing a Post-Education
Paradigm, and
StoryTech: Exploring the Use of a Narrative Technique for Training
Career Counselor.
Arthur earned his B.A. in Sociology at the University of Kansas in 1959,
his M.A. in Sociology at the University of Massachusetts in 1963, and
his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Kansas in
1968. He was awarded the
Teaching Excellence Award from the College of Continuing Education in
2000.
Watch
Arthur Harkins on Leapfrog,
The MN Knowledge Model (Spanish),
Responses to the first UMN-FLACSO open seminar conference
questions, and
E-Competencies: New Futures for Human Capital Development.
Visit
Education Futures – “Leapfrog” University.