Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today
Education - Our Children - Their Futures
1st Edition
Published on 4. February 2010
176 pages
978-1-4411-4153-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 children grow up to resent their school years and blame them for their unfulfilled potential and achievement?
Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today explores these questions in the context of early schooling and primary education, presents powerful arguments for change and highlights strategies that offer a solution.
Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today explores these questions in the context of early schooling and primary education, presents powerful arguments for change and highlights strategies that offer a solution.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-4153-8 (9781441141538)
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Person
Richard Gerver was formerly Headteacher of the internationally respected Grange Primary School in Long Eaton, UK, where he put into action his passionate belief in child-centric learning that focuses on experience and context. He is an international speaker, and has been an adviser to the DCSF, the QCA and the Government on many areas of education policy, mostly in defining school change for the 21st century. A former National Teaching Award winner, Richard has been described as one of the most innovative and inspirational school leaders of our time.
Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation.
Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation.
Content
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Sir Ken Robinson
Preface - The Moral Imperative
Section One: The Challenge
Ch 1 - Education and the Changing World
The Imperative for Change
Ch 2 - Harnessing the Power of our Children
Do we realise their potential?
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 Schools For?
Ensuring that we focus on 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 children the best chance?
Ch10 - Making School Magical!
How to make school the next must have
Ch11 - Breaking Down the Walls
Educating with the community
Ch 12 - The Way Forward
Summarising section one and setting up section two
Section Two: The Way it Could Be
Ch 13 - Creating The Vision
The thinking behind the 'Grange way'
Ch 14 - Developing the Whole 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
Bibliography and References
Index
Foreword by Sir Ken Robinson
Preface - The Moral Imperative
Section One: The Challenge
Ch 1 - Education and the Changing World
The Imperative for Change
Ch 2 - Harnessing the Power of our Children
Do we realise their potential?
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 Schools For?
Ensuring that we focus on 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 children the best chance?
Ch10 - Making School Magical!
How to make school the next must have
Ch11 - Breaking Down the Walls
Educating with the community
Ch 12 - The Way Forward
Summarising section one and setting up section two
Section Two: The Way it Could Be
Ch 13 - Creating The Vision
The thinking behind the 'Grange way'
Ch 14 - Developing the Whole 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
Bibliography and References
Index
