Overschooled but Undereducated
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Overschooled but Undereducated

How the Crisis in Education is Jeopardizing Our Adolescents

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  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Overschooled but Undereducated

How the Crisis in Education is Jeopardizing Our Adolescents

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Based on the premise that education has to be about much more than intellectual development, this book calls for the transformation of the education system.

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Publisher
Continuum
Year
2009
ISBN
9781441146526
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 A Fable: The Whole Story in Fewer Than 2,500 Words
  6. 2 The Wonder of Learning
  7. 3 Human Nature: A Brain for All Times
  8. 4 Nurture and Culture
  9. 5 Hands-on Apprentices to Hands-off Pupils
  10. 6 Lest We Fail to Learn from Our Mistakes
  11. 7 Adolescents Left Out
  12. 8 What Kind of Education for What Kind of World?
  13. 9 Knowing What We Know . . . What’s to be Done?
  14. Appendix A: The 21st Century Learning Initiative
  15. Appendix B: Synthesis
  16. Appendix C: Prophets of a Future Not Our Own
  17. Notes
  18. Index