Forest Resources Education in Canada [The Forestry Chronicle Vol 79 Iss 4]

"In a new focus on forest education, forest practitioners and forest workers will redefine their roles and modify their educational training to reflect changing needs. Challenging working environments compatible with a new generation of high-tech forest practitioners need to be established by employers. Information technology will revolutionize the delivery of forest resources education and the procedures and motivation for life-long learning. The educational environment will transform increasingly from didactic to interactive problem-based learning and professors will emerge as creative facilitators of knowledge, and have a profound influence on the development of forest education. The forestry schools will need creative partnerships at home and abroad to support their mandates in education, research, and public service. Inventive, visionary leadership by the forestry schools will be essential so that the schools become leading players in national and global affairs. Aboriginal communities are facing new challenges and assuming growing responsibilities in managing their forest lands and enterprises. Exceptional measures are needed to educate forest practitioners and forest workers of Aboriginal ancestry via partnerships with forest industry, governments, academic institutions, and forestry resources associations."