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Overschooled But Undereducated: How the crisis in education is jeopardizing our adolescents
This book synthesizes an array of research and shows how these insights can contribute to a better understanding of human learning, especially as this relates ... Read on
Comments OffTowards finding a new order in education : 99 theses
The 99 Theses was completed shortly before writing for Overschooled but Undereducated began. Each of the 99 Theses is written around a theme, the idea ... Read on
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We are very pleased to be publishing a PDF manuscript of the previously unpublished Master and Apprentice: Reuniting Thinking with Doing.
1 Comment »The Unfinished Revolution : learning, human behavior, community and political paradox
Following is the introduction to John Abbott and Terry Ryan’s book to be published in England by Network Educational Press (2000), and in the United States by ASCD (2001).
No Comments »The Child is Father of the Man: How humans learn and why
Published in 1999 by Network Educational Press. The followeview of John Abott’s The Child is the Father of the Man by Gerald Haigh of The ... Read on
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Overschooled but Undereducated, by John Abbott and Heather MacTaggart, was published in November, 2009 by Continuum Books.
With the publication of Overschooled but Undereducated the Initiative now has, in compact form, the most complete, persuasive and concise argument for the overhaul of current systems of education and a catalyst-in-print for the reassessment of outdated thinking that governs educational policy and attitudes towards learning and schooling in the West.