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Creating tomorrow's schools today : education - our children - their futures /

"Education is the platform for our success or failure, but is our system still fit for purpose? Will our children be equipped to face the challenges the future holds: the rapidly changing employment patterns and the global environmental, economic and social crises ahead of us? Or will our child...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gerver, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sec. 1. The challenge
  • Ch. 1. Education and the changing world. The imperative for change
  • Ch. 2. Harnessing the power of our children. Do we realize their potencial?
  • Ch. 3. Making school matter. Selling school to our children
  • Ch. 4. The positivity of failure. How making mistakes makes a difference
  • Ch. 5. Who do we create our school for?. Ensuring that we focus our children
  • Ch. 6. What matters most?. The knowledge vs skills debate
  • Ch. 7. the world beyond the gate. Creating real contexts for learning
  • Ch. 8. The industrial model of schooling. Why our system is out of date
  • Ch. 9. Are they fit for the future?. Do we really give our chikdren the best chance?
  • Ch. 10. Making school magical!. How to make school the next must-have
  • Ch. 11. Breaking down the walls. Educating with the community
  • Ch. 12. The way forward. Summarizing section 1 and setting up section 2
  • Sec. 2. The way it could be
  • Ch. 13. Creating the vision. The thinking behind the 'Grange way'
  • Ch. 14. Developing the wole child. Putting personal development at the heart of the process
  • Ch. 15. Beyond subjects. Developing a thematic approach
  • Ch. 16. The grangeton project. Creating three-dimensional learning
  • Ch. 17. A curriculum of all the talents. Nurturing every individual and finding what makes them tick
  • Ch. 18. Into the unknown. Moving forward from the book
  • Afterword. Leading into the Unknown.