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Record Nr.

UNINA9911094284703321

Autore

Egan Kieran

Titolo

The future of education : reimagining our schools from the ground up / / Kieran Egan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-08848-3

9786612088483

0-300-14252-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

370.1

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy

Teaching

Learning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-184) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. From a Major Problem Toward a Solution -- Chapter 1 Past, Present, and Future Schools -- Chapter 2 Why Education Is So Difficult and Contentious -- Chapter 3 Accumulating Cognitive Tools -- Part II. A Fifty-Year Program of Educational Reform: 2010-2060 -- Chapter 4 2010-2020 -- Chapter 5 2020-2030 -- Chapter 6 2030-2040 -- Chapter 7 2040-2050 -- Chapter 8 2050-2060 -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This engaging book presents a frontal attack on current forms of schooling and a radical rethinking of the whole education process. Kieran Egan, a prize-winning scholar and innovative thinker, does not rail against teachers, administrators, or politicians