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“Faith in the Future” (or “Prophets of a Future not our own”) | John Abbott March 15, 2002
…Learning, Learning, Learning | John Abbott December 16, 1998
A Briefing Paper for Parliamentarians on the Design Faults at the Heart of English Education | John Abbott June 18, 2009
A Journey Towards an Understanding of Learning: A Headteacher travels with Education 2000 to the 21st Century Learning Initiative | Janet Lawley February 19, 2008
A paper prepared by Tim Baddeley of Monkton Combe School following a day-long public meeting in Bath early in January. | Tim Baddeley January 16, 2005
A Proposal to Prime Minister Tony Blair | Education 2000 September 18, 1997
A Question of Democracy…or Why the Problem of Bringing up Young People will Never be Solved Simply by School-based Solutions. | John Abbott July 12, 2008
A Review of The Unfinished Revolution: learning, human behavior, community and political paradox | Paul Fisher July 11, 2005
A study in reciprocity: Minimizing the digital divide and the intergeneration gap: Children tutor seniors at computer and internet skills and get a lesson in history | Edna Aphek February 16, 2000
A ten point outline of the central issues raised by the 21st Century Learning Initiative in discussions with English political and educational leaders | John Abbott, Terry Ryan January 16, 2001
About the Initiative | 21st Century Learning Initiative February 12, 2000
Adolescence; a critical Evolutionary Adaptation | John Abbott February 15, 2008
An Executive Summary: The implications of recent developments in neuroscience for research on teaching and learning | Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Uta Frith February 16, 2000
An Illiterate’s Declaration to the Literacy Preacher | Shri Daval Chandra Soni February 19, 1998
An introductory explanation of the disconnect between the organisation of schools and what the neurobiological, cognitive and behavioural sciences are discovering about how humans learn | John Abbott March 10, 2010
An Organic View of Educational Change | Sandor Szabados, Terri Bawden September 16, 1995
Applying the Concept of Multiple Intelligence in the Teaching of GCSE History: An Action Research Project | John Welham June 19, 1999
Article written by Kevin Hawkins, Head of the Arusha campus of the Moshe International School, Tanzania | Kevin Hawkins May 5, 2005
Battery Hens or Free Range Chickens What Kind of Education for What Kind of World? | John Abbott November 16, 1999
Battling for the Soul of Education | John Abbott December 15, 2010
Ben England, Head of Music May 6, 2010
Can the Learning Species fit into schools? | John Abbott January 16, 2005
Capacity, Capital and Calories | Beryl Levinger June 10, 1996
Children tutoring Seniors at Internet Skills | Edna Aphek February 16, 2000
Children, Families, Social Capital and Education in go-go Capitalism: A Dispatch from America’s Richest County | Terry Ryan February 19, 1999
Chris Kington, Chris Kington Publishing, Optimus Education February 17, 2009
Clubhouse Democracy | Leonard Turton June 19, 2000
Cognitive Apprenticeship: Making Thinking Visible | Allan Collins, Ann Holum, John Seely Brown December 16, 1991
Consilience Among the Great Branches of Learning | Edward O. Wilson December 19, 1998
Constructing Knowledge, Reconstructing Schooling | John Abbott, Terry Ryan November 16, 1999
Curious Teenagers, Busy Parents and Market Forces: Changing the face of education in the 21st Century | John Abbott September 12, 2006
David Peake, Former banker (Chairman of Kleinwort Benson) February 17, 2008
Dr Jonathan Long, Principal, United World College of India February 17, 2008
Dr. Eric Anderson, Provost of Eton College February 17, 2009
Dr. Keith Robinson, Chief Executive of the Wiltshire County Council and Chairman of the Association of County Chief Executives February 17, 2008
Education | Paul Hillsdon July 16, 2006
Excerpt from Education and the Significance of Life | J. Krishnamurti February 9, 2012
Exploring Leadership for the Emotionally Intelligent School II | Peter Rubery February 19, 2002
Exploring the emotionally intelligent school: ICT and Drama as a possible model for raising the achievement of boys | Peter Rubery May 5, 2005
From Plato to the Internet | Thomas Mitchell September 16, 1998
Get More, Want More or how to think our way out of a bad end. | John Abbott January 12, 2011
Good Talk about Good Teaching: Improving Teaching through Conversation and Community | Parker Palmer May 5, 2005
Hayek and the Second-hand Dealers of Ideas | John Blundell January 16, 1998
How Should One Live? Rejecting the Perfectibility of Man | David Abbott May 12, 2008
I.T. Is this It? | John Abbott February 11, 2002
In Defense of Genius | Ernest Hall February 8, 1996
In Search of Community | Ernest Boyer March 26, 1993
Initiative Bibliography | 21st Century Learning Initiative February 20, 2008
Integrating ICT and Education in Israel for the Third Millennium | Aharon Aviram February 16, 2000
Interview between Ted Marchese and John Abbott | John Abbott, Ted Marchese August 3, 1996
It’s Really Very Simple … The Solution to England’s Education Problem | John Abbott September 25, 2009
Jeff Hopkins, Superintendent of Schools, District 64, Canada February 17, 2009
John Price February 17, 2008
Kamrat: The Story of a Virtual Multicultural Learning Community in Israel | Edna Aphek July 8, 2000
Kathleen Davies, Stay at Home Mother and Solo Businesswoman, Melbourne September 17, 2008
Keynote Address for IDATER ’98 – Creativity: From Philosophy to Practice | Anne Fritz August 16, 1998
Leaders, Learners and the Hero’s Journey | Stephanie Pace Marshall March 19, 1996
Learned Helplessness | Janet Lawley August 16, 2008
Learning for All: Policy Dialogue for Achieving Educational Quality | Ash Hartwell, Emily Vargas-Baron June 23, 1998
Learning How to use the Brain | Ronald Kotulak June 13, 1996
Learning to Go with the Grain of the Brain | John Abbott, Terry Ryan April 7, 1999
Learning: The Evolutionary Legacy? | Terry Ryan February 19, 2000
Lieutenant Peter Puget, the grain of the brain and modern society’s failure to understand adolescence | John Abbott February 19, 2008
Living Systems in Evolution | Elisabet Sahtouris December 19, 1999
Looks Like Entertainment: Thoughts on New Media and Big Ideas | David Abbott October 12, 2008
Lorenzo McLellan November 18, 2010
Lost in Translation | John Abbott March 12, 2006
Low Scores are no Disgrace: The Limits of Testing | Howard Gardner February 16, 1998
Making the Connections, and Closing the Gaps – Is it really that hard? | David Hood May 5, 2005
Master and Apprentice: Reuniting Thinking with Doing October 1, 2004
Maureen Nitek, Lead Manager for Behaviour for Learning and for Gifted and Talented Education, The Clarendon College February 17, 2008
Maximizing Learning: A Conversation with Renate Nummela Caine | Carolyn Poole, Renate Caine March 16, 1997
Neil Richards, Principal of Atlantic College February 17, 2008
Nigel Coren, Headteacher February 17, 2009
Notes on Adolescence | David Abbott July 12, 2008
Occasional Pieces: All Hands to the Sink | John Abbott October 12, 2008
Occasional Pieces: Education: A Question of Democracy | John Abbott October 12, 2008
Occasional Pieces: Teachers Good and Bad | John Abbott October 12, 2008
Occasional Pieces: Too Busy to Think | John Abbott October 12, 2008
Occasional Pieces: What Schools for What Future? | John Abbott October 12, 2008
On Brain and Mind and Class | Frank Wood May 5, 2005
Our Secondary Schools Don’t Work Anymore (Introduction) | David Hood December 16, 1998
Overschooled and Undereducated: Getting the Balance Right | John Abbott November 22, 2001
Overschooled But Undereducated: How the crisis in education is jeopardizing our adolescents | Heather MacTaggart, John Abbott November 1, 2009
Paper: The Pacific Vision Conference | David Hood July 28, 1999
Paul Cappon, President and CEO of the Canadian Council on Learning February 17, 2009
Paul Fisher, Teacher February 17, 2009
Pete Mountstephen, Headteacher February 17, 2009
Policy Paper | 21st Century Learning Initiative November 18, 1998
Prof Charles Handy, formerly of the London Business School, and author of many books including The Hungry Spirit, The Empty Raincoat and The Elephant and the Flea February 17, 2000
Quotes and Questions | Janet Lawley January 16, 2002
Recent Cognitive Science Developments Pose Major Educational Challenges | Robert Sylwester April 19, 1996
Relearning Learning: An Interview with John Abbott | John Abbott, Marc Wehrs March 21, 1999
Review : Doubts and Loves by Richard Holloway and Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choice by Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria. | Peter Abbott February 16, 2002
Review: A Tribe Apart | Ron Brandt December 16, 1998
Review: Before the Dawn – recovering the lost history of our ancestors by Nicholas Wade | Janet Lawley March 29, 2007
Review: Flow: The psychology of optimal experience by Mikhaily Csikszentmihalyi | Leigh MacTaggart Richter August 19, 2008
Review: How Hardwired is Human Behavior? | Terry Ryan October 19, 1998
Review: Master and Apprentice: Reuniting Thinking with Doing by John Abbott | Katie Jones April 24, 2004
Review: Schools for Thought by John Bruer | Education 2000 July 16, 1993
Review: The Educated Mind | James D. MacNeil May 5, 2005
Review: The Myth of Homework and The Case Against Homework | Janet Lawley April 4, 2007
Review: The Road to Whatever: Middle class culture & the crisis of adolescence by Elliott Currie | James MacFarlan May 24, 2005
Review: The Unschooled Mind by Howard Gardner | Ray Dalton December 16, 1998
Review: This is Biology | Terry Ryan February 19, 1997
Roxane Featherstone, Home Educator February 17, 2008
Ruining the Future Our Problem-plagued World as a Reflection of how Schooling Limits Reality-Based Learning | David Wolsk October 19, 2000
Rupert Higham, Educational Researcher February 17, 2008
Schooling to Learning: Phase Transition in Education | Barbara Tuchman February 8, 2001
Schools in the Future: What has to Change, and Why | 21st Century Learning Initiative May 18, 2010
Science and the Story that We Need | Neil Postman January 19, 1997
Scientific Ideas and Education in the 21st Century | Ash Hartwell April 16, 1996
Shakespeare and the nature of adolescence: A reconsideration of The Winter’s Tale in the light of recent developments in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. | Peter Birch February 16, 2008
Sir Gustav Nossal, Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne February 17, 2008
So What? A Young Person’s take on being Overschooled but Undereducated, by Leigh MacTaggart Richter | Leigh MacTaggart Richter August 8, 2008
Social Implications of Globalization: Can New Ways of Learning Humanize our Global Institutions? | Paul Cappon February 16, 2004
Some Principles of Educational Reconstruction | Roland Meighan February 16, 1999
Staff Prayers | Stella Wood January 19, 2001
Subsidiarity or, in other words, Doing it Yourself | John Abbott August 16, 2002
Suggested Reading List 1: The Biological Roots of Learning | 21st Century Learning Initiative February 12, 2000
Suggested Reading List 2: Evolving Ideas about Learning | 21st Century Learning Initiative February 12, 2000
Suggested Reading List 3: The New Economy’s Impact on Learning | 21st Century Learning Initiative February 12, 2000
Suggested Reading List 4: Making Connections: The use and misuse of information and communication technologies in young people’s learning | 21st Century Learning Initiative February 12, 2000
Suggested Reading List 5: Community as the Web of Learning | 21st Century Learning Initiative February 12, 2000
Suggested Reading List 6: Education for What | 21st Century Learning Initiative February 12, 2000
Teachers in Technology Initiative | Jane Carlson-Pickering November 19, 1999
Teaching for Understanding | David Perkins September 19, 1993
The “Helicopter Parents” Hovering over their Adult Children | Janet Lawley November 16, 2008
The 21st Century Learning Initiative Platform | Ron Brandt January 9, 1998
The Art of Living : A Review of Growth Fetish by Clive Hamilton | Peter Abbott May 5, 2005
The Basic Problems of Education in Poland and the Potential Role of NGO’s | Wiktor Kulerski April 16, 1998
The Case for a Mindshift?: A Review of Popular Economic Arguments | Terry Ryan February 19, 1998
The Chaodic Organization: Out of Control and Into Order | Dee Hock March 16, 1995
The Child is Father of the Man: How humans learn and why October 29, 1999
The Downshifting Dilemma: A Commentary and Proposal | Robert Sylwester August 19, 1998
The End of SATs for 13/14 Year Olds | Janet Lawley October 16, 2008
The History of Education 2000 and the Explanation for the Need for the 21st Century Learning Initiative | John Abbott May 5, 2005
The Inhumanity of Government Bureaucracies | Hans Sherrer October 19, 2000
The messiness of human learning | John Abbott March 16, 2001
The Only One in Step ~ Review : Class War: the State of British Education, by Chris Woodhead | John Abbott August 16, 2002
The Right Reverend Peter B. Price, The Bishop of Bath and Wells February 17, 2009
The Search for Expertise | John Abbott May 16, 1997
The Synthesis : Part Four | 21st Century Learning Initiative October 18, 1997
The Synthesis : Part One | 21st Century Learning Initiative October 18, 1997
The Synthesis : Part Three | 21st Century Learning Initiative October 18, 1997
The Synthesis : Part Two | 21st Century Learning Initiative October 18, 1997
The Unfinished Revolution : learning, human behavior, community and political paradox | John Abbott, Terry Ryan June 19, 2000
Thoughts from Jakarta on Education for What? | Terry Ryan November 25, 1998
To be intelligent | John Abbott March 30, 1997
Tom Griffin, Investor February 17, 2008
Tom Healy, Senior Statistician, Department of Education and Science, Dublin, Ireland February 17, 2008
Towards a New Canon in Education | Terry Ryan, Wiktor Kulerski June 16, 2001
Towards a School Beyond Boundaries | Nigel Coren July 24, 2008
Towards an Expanded Vision of Intelligence in India | Manish Jain May 5, 2005
Towards Creating a Learning Community (Draft) | Colin Kay May 5, 2005
Towards finding a new order in education : 99 theses | John Abbott July 20, 2009
Upside Down and Inside Out: A Challenge to Redesign Education Systems to Fit the Needs of a Learning Society | John Abbott, Terry Ryan January 1, 1998
Upside Down and Inside Out: Why good schools alone will never be good enough to meet the needs of the 21st Century | John Abbott January 18, 1998
What Can we do on Monday | Terry Ryan February 19, 2000
What Changes in Technology and the Economy May Mean for Education Systems | Terry Ryan April 19, 1998
What Should We Ask About Intelligence | Robert J. Sternberg May 19, 1996
What the 21st Century Learning Initiative is all about November 4, 2010
When Will We Ever Learn? Seeing Adolescence and Secondary Education in Perspective | John Abbott July 16, 2004
Who will take Education where? | John Abbott February 22, 2010
Why is school reform difficult and frequently problematic January 19, 2012
Will Globalization Make you Happy? | Robert Wright October 19, 2000
