Turning learning right side up putting education back on track
In the age of the Internet, we educate people much as we did during the Industrial Revolution. We educate them for a world that no longer exists, instilling values antithetical to those of a free, 21st century democracy. Worst of all, too many schools extinguish the very creativity and joy they ough...
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| Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J.
Wharton School Pub.
2008
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Preface: Why and How This Book Was Written
- Introduction. What Education Is About
- pt. 1. Where Today's Educational System Fails
- 1. Learning and Teaching
- 2. The Classroom Environment
- 3. Subjects and Disciplines
- 4. The New World
- 5. Antidemocratic Schooling
- 6. Factors That Resist Change
- pt. 2. Factors That Contribute to Education
- 7. The Environment a Developed Society Provides for Individual Realization
- 8. The Special Demands the Environment of a Liberal Democracy Places on Individual Realization
- 9. What Individuals Contribute to Their Own Education
- 10. The Place of Arts
- pt. 3. Envisioning Ideal Lifelong Education
- 11. Why, and How, We Should Be Envisioning an Ideal Educational Environment
- 12. The Preschool Years
- 13. A New Look at Schools K-12
- 14. The College and University Experience
- 15. Education and the Working Life
- 16. Taking "Retire" Out of Retirement
- pt. 4. Excursus: Funding Ideal Schools
- Appendix. Sudbury Valley School
- Postscript
- Endnotes Index
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