Redesigning the Education Workforce: A Design Thinking Approach Background Paper: Transforming the Education Workforce

The Education Workforce Initiative (EWI) was established in response to a recommendation from the Education Commission’s Learning Generation report to explore new ways of diversifying and strengthening the education workforce. The Transforming the Education Workforce report is one of EWI’s key contributions to catalyzing this thinking. It draws on recent evidence and provides thought leadership on how to rethink the education workforce. For the full report and other supporting documents, please visitEducationWorkforce.org. The Transforming the Education Workforce report was originally commissioned as a set of sequential background papers and thus each paper infuenced and references the others. The background papers are written by different authors and cover the rationale for rethinking the education workforce, the design of the education workforce, how it can be strengthened, and political economy and fnancial considerations. This background paper focuses on redesigning the education workforce using a design thinking approach to propose design options for the workforce needed now and in the future.

Publisher: The Education Commission