Education Unbound: How to Create Educational Opportunity in Abundance - Couverture souple

Webster, Ken

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0955983118 ISBN 13 : 9780955983115

Editeur : Terrapreta Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

What are schools for? Who benefits from the current education system? Could children get better education by reducing the school-leaving age?

Compulsory curricula, exams and published league tables damage children's learning, disabling their critical thinking skills, and they demoralise teachers too.

This book explores how we got to here, the challenges society faces, and how a new approach to education can rise to those challenges.

Education Unbound - How to Create Educational Opportunity in Abundance homes in on why our schools and universities fail so many learners. It offers a coherent yet visionary way forward that will bring the joy back to teaching, strengthen democracy and above all, be fun. Written by educationalist James Pitt and economist Ken Webster, and with a foreword by Sir Anthony Seldon, it is aimed at concerned parents, frustrated teachers, home educators, and policy makers of all political persuasions. Inspired by radical thinkers such as Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Illich and Paulo Freire the authors place learners of all ages at the heart of education, and argue for a radical localisation of educational provision. The book provides a handle for seeing where things have gone wrong and how to build a hopeful future.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Most of Ken's working life has been in education, either formally as a secondary school teacher, a lecturer in higher education or as an educational consultant developing educational resources and programmes internationally. He was significant in the development of contemporary ideas around the circular economy and was Head of Innovation for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2010-2018). Ken is currently a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University and a member of the Club of Rome's 21st Century Transformational Economics Commission. He is author of a number of books including Circular Economy: A Wealth of Flows (2017), The Wonderful Circles of Oz (A Circular Economy Story) with Alex Duff (2021) and Sense and Sustainability (2009) with Craig Johnson. Ken holds that education and critical thinking are central to all constructive change.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Terrapreta Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0955983118
• ISBN 13: 9780955983115
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 182
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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