Training Programme
A Training Program for Those Seeking to Develop Agendas that Actively Support the Learning Needs of All Children
The Initiative’s extensive, international lecture programme presents a vision of new learning environments rooted in the latest research and best practice from around the world. ... Read on
Comments OffIntroduction to the Initiative’s Training Programme
Everyone taking this course will have already carefully considered the arguments set out in The Unfinished Revolution. They will broadly accept that new understanding about human learning should enable us to discuss how to create models of learning that “go with the grain of the brain”.
Comments OffComponent 1 : Community as the Web of Learning
The Initiative focuses on the issue of community at the very beginning of this program for several reasons. One is pre-eminent…children in the Western World spend no more than 20 percent of their waking hours in a classroom between the ages of five and 18-years.
Comments OffComponent 2 : The Biological Roots of Learning
This section of the training program will provide evidence from a convergence of findings in the evolutionary and brain sciences to show that many of our current arrangements for learning are based on limited or even faulty assumptions about how the brain naturally functions, and how young people become responsible adults.
Comments OffComponent 3 : Evolving Ideas about Learning
It is becoming clear to a growing number of policy makers, business people, educators and the general public in North America, Europe and elsewhere that successful education in the 21st century requires helping all children move well beyond just the traditional goals of literacy and numeracy.
Comments OffComponent 4 : The New Economy’s Impact on Learning
Introduction The last decades of the 20th century saw countries around the world make the dramatic transition from closed, state-dominated, economies towards open, free-market, economies. ... Read on
Comments OffComponent 5 : Making Connections: The use and misuse of information communication technologies in young people’s learning
It is now obvious to those working in the fastest growing segments of the increasingly global economy that work at the beginning of the 21st century is radically different.
Comments OffComponent 6 : The Unfinished Revolution: Ignorance, Interests, Ideology and What we can do about it
If the Discontinuities Presented in the Program are so Clear then why are things so slow to Change?
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