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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Development of Initiative policy over the summer months
Development of Initiative policy over the summer months
An explanation of why, in the light of recent research on the nature of human learning, the present Western, essentially Anglo, system of schooling is both upside down in terms of its distribution of resources, and inside out in terms of its excessive dependence on school-as-place; on formal as opposed to informal learning, and on the teacher as instructor rather than as facilitator.
The alternatives, their implications and their costs
An exciting proposal to draw some of the most thoughtful 17-18 year-olds into some practical experience of teaching
An accessible exploration of the theoretical model
A theoretically correct, if politically almost impossible, set of directions
Development of Initiative policy over the summer months
A most substantial proposal for solving the educational dilemma of a major city
TES review of Overschooled but Undereducated, June 2010
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