
The Eden Conspiracy
Educating for Accomplished Citizenship
Joe Harless(Author)
Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, Inc. (Publisher)
Published on 1. March 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-881317-18-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Eden Conspiracy is a unique book with at least four different audiences: policy makers and politicians seeking to dramatically improve the cost-effectiveness of education; educators who want to develop school programs that accelerate students’ progression from school to lifetime success; community stakeholders, including parents, business people, and civic leaders, who want their schools to better address the needs of their communities; and educational reformers who are ready for a sustainable approach that anchors educational programs in the ongoing needs of the communities they serve.
Author, Joe Harless, thought leader and master practitioner in the field of organizational performance improvement and learning, brings thirty years of pioneering experience to the challenge of improving our schools. His Accomplishment-Based Curriculum Development approach represents a paradigm shift from organizing curriculum by categories of subject matter to designing curriculum to enable students to achieve specific accomplishments needed for successful personal life and top-paying employment. He advocates a "conspiracy" among all the stakeholders in a community and the school system to define what their educational programs need to produce.
This new edition includes a summary of what has occurred since the first printing in 1998: a showcase program in Coweta County, Georgia, replicated in 36 other locations, exported to other nations, and enabling students to achieve nearly twice the average salary range for American workers upon graduation while drawing tens of millions of dollars of investment to communities where schools prepare their students for 21st century jobs and 21st century citizenship.
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Edition
Revised with New Introduction and Epilogue ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-881317-18-0 (9781881317180)
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Persons
For more than 30 years Joe Harless headed the Harless Performance Guild, a network of organizations and consultants who use his concepts and procedures to help business, industry, and the military improve the performance of their employees. He is generally recognized as one of the founders of the relatively new field of Human Performance Technology.
He is the author of the acclaimed Accomplishment-Based Curriculum Development System (ABCD), that has been installed in the educational departments of numerous organizations in the U.S. and Canada. The ABCD System is widely regarded as state-of-the-art in instructional development.
His most recent writing, the Peak Performance System, is a massive work that provides detailed guidelines for analysis, design, and development of a wide range of interventions to improve people-performance.
Harless received the Gilbert Distinguished Professional Achievement award from the International Society for Performance Improvement in 1996, and was elected to the Human Resources Development Hall of Fame in 1988.
Recently retired from active management of his company, Harless now devotes his time to reflection and research. The Eden Conspiracy is the first of a series of commentaries on societal problems and needs.