Remembering Sir Ken Robinson – An ARC Tribute

Sir Ken Robinson was an admired thought leader and important friend of the ARC Education Project. The Atlantic Rim Collaboratory (ARC) is an international policy learning network that was established in 2016 to advance educational change based on eight guiding principles: equity, excellence, inclusion, wellbeing, democracy, sustainability, human rights, and professionally run systems. Headquartered at the University of Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) since 2019, ARC brings together senior public officials (i.e ministers and deputy ministers of education), professional association leaders (i.e. unions and inspectorates) and other key stakeholders from its seven education member systems (Iceland, Ireland, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Scotland, Uruguay and Wales), global partners (International Confederation of Principals) and international experts and scholars to discuss, debate and exchange knowledge about educational policy issues and to formulate responses suited to their contextsOne of the founding ideas behind ARC is to tear down the walls between countries and regions, as well as between educational researchers and politicians, in order to pursue the most fundamental ideas of what it means to be educated in today’s world for the mutual benefit of all ARC-systems and future generations of students worldwide.

Sir Ken Robinson gave one of the first ARC talks at the inaugural ARC Summit in 2016 in Iceland and was a frequent contributor. All of his ARC talks can be found here and ARC’s tribute “Remembering Sir Ken Robinson” can be found here. In this short session, representatives from three ARC systems (Iceland, Scotland, and Nova Scotia) as well as ARC President, Andy Hargreaves and ARC Director, Trista Hollweck share the impact Sir Ken Robinson made in their personal and professional lives.