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| The 21st Century Learning Initiative's essential purpose is to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning that draw upon a range of insights into the human brain, the functioning of human societies, and learning as a community-wide activity. We believe this will release human potential in ways that nurture and form local democratic communities worldwide, and will help reclaim and sustain a world supportive of human endeavor.
The 21st Century Learning Initiative was established in 1995 by a group of English and American businessmen and organizations to make sense of research on learning and learning processes that were fragmented in many different disciplines, and embedded in many different universities, research institutions and businesses around the world. | It has now reached the stage where it is offering training programs to organizations and groups in the United Kingdom and Canada.
The Initiative believes that the more that is discovered about how the brain works and the various motives which drive human behaviour, the more we are convinced that education has to be about much more than intellectual development, and that learning and schooling are certainly not necessarily synonymous. What politicians and commentators in many lands describe as being "a crisis in schools" is, we believe, better understood as a crisis in society's commitment to young people. All this is aggravated by a materialistic agenda that degrades the spiritual needs of individuals and nations to the single minded drive towards economic profitability. more |
Latest News 16.11.08 Interview with Neil Richards of Atlantic College At a recent conference held at Atlantic College, David Abbott spoke to Neil Richards about Atlantic Colleges unique mission. Listen here. 21.10.08 Appreciation from Charles Handy and Sir Gustav Nossal Charles Handy and Sir Gustav Nossal have both written appreciation for John Abbott and Heather MacTaggart's new book Overschooled but Undereducated. Read these two appreciations, and more, here. Recent Articles
Occasional Pieces A series of short articles written for magazine and journal publication on a variety of topics. +read Looks Like Entertainment: Thoughts on New Media and Big Ideas There is still plenty of scope for serious discussion, and a place for a scholarly text or academic article, but the Initiative’s message needs a hook to hang on, and that hook may need to look like entertainment. +read The "Helicopter Parents", Hovering around their Adult Children How can young people be prepared for the increasing hands-on involvement of helicopter parents hovering over their adult children through their Higher education and beyond into the work-place? +read |
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