Overschooled but undereducated :
Abbott, John
Overschooled but undereducated : how the crisis in education is jeopardizing our adolescents / John Abbott with Heather MacTaggart. - London ; New York : Continuum, 2010. - xxiv, 310 p. : 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: A fable: the whole story in fewer than 2,500 words -- Wonder of learning -- Human nature: a brain for all times -- Nurture and culture -- Hands-on apprentices to hands-off pupils -- Lest we fail to learn from our mistakes -- Adolescents left out -- What kind of education for what kind of world? -- Knowing what we know; what�s to be done? -- Appendix A: the 21st century learning initiative -- Appendix B: Synthesis -- Appendix C: Prophets of a future not our own
9781855396234
2009006370
Education--Social aspects--Great Britain
Education--Aims and objectives--Great Britain
Education--History--Great Britain
Teenagers--Social conditions--Great Britain
LC 191.8.G7 / .Ab34 2010
Overschooled but undereducated : how the crisis in education is jeopardizing our adolescents / John Abbott with Heather MacTaggart. - London ; New York : Continuum, 2010. - xxiv, 310 p. : 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: A fable: the whole story in fewer than 2,500 words -- Wonder of learning -- Human nature: a brain for all times -- Nurture and culture -- Hands-on apprentices to hands-off pupils -- Lest we fail to learn from our mistakes -- Adolescents left out -- What kind of education for what kind of world? -- Knowing what we know; what�s to be done? -- Appendix A: the 21st century learning initiative -- Appendix B: Synthesis -- Appendix C: Prophets of a future not our own
9781855396234
2009006370
Education--Social aspects--Great Britain
Education--Aims and objectives--Great Britain
Education--History--Great Britain
Teenagers--Social conditions--Great Britain
LC 191.8.G7 / .Ab34 2010