The 21st Century Learning Initiative
Promoting a Vision, Knowledge, Experience and a Network
What price 'Intelligence'?
Response to Tony Little's book 'An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education'
This short monograph was written by Neil Richards, a Trustee of the 21st Century Learning Initiative in response to the publication of Tony Little’s book, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education.
Battling for the Soul of Education
Moving beyond school reform to educational transformation:
The findings and recommendations of 3 decades of synthesis
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Folder 2: 1987 – 1993
Winning Friends and Influencing People
Education 2000 had become sufficiently well-known by 1987 for me to be invited to address the Annual Conference of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) which was televised live with a studio audience of 1,800. This represented a massive step from a standing start of only two years before.
Children need Communities; Communities need Children
Communities have done young people a grave disservice by separating the world of learning from the world of work
Education 2000’s Response to the National Curriculum (UK)
Without proper understanding of human learning it is impossible to devise a curriculum that capitalises on human ability
What the Biology of the Brain tells us about Learning
Life becomes a delicate but powerful dialogue between genetics and the environment
A Project to demonstrate significant improvements in pupil Performance by mobilising the full resources if the community to support learning
A Research and Development Proposal submitted to The Department for Education by Education 2000 February 1993 A Project to demonstrate significant improvements in pupil performance by mobilising the full resources of the community* to support learning. *Definition: Community – a place of well defined geographic boundaries within which there is a strong sense of internal […]
‘Whole System Change’
An explanation as to why traditional educational institutions can no longer match the pace of sociological and technological change
Cognitive Apprenticeship: Making Thinking Visible
This article has exercised a great influence on the 21st Century Learning Initiative’s thinking. It originally appeared in the Winter, 1991 issue of American Educator, the journal of The American Federation of Teachers, and is reprinted here with permission.
Making Connections: teaching and the human brain, by Renate and Geoffrey Caine
A highly influential book linking research to evolving practice
Al Shanker, President, American Federation of Teachers
The ultimate exponent of fundamental change in education based on emerging research
Submission to RTZ for financial support for Education 2000
To fund the Initiative applications had to be written to a variety of sponsors
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