1st Edition

Education for the Twenty-First Century

By Hedley Beare, Richard Slaughter Copyright 1993
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1993, Education for the Twenty-First Century grew out of a common and deep-seated concern about the way young people think of their own future, and about some of the relatively simplistic education reforms advocated, often by people with scant comprehension of modern educational practices. Schools as institutions, schooling patterns, the curriculum and teachers themselves... Read more

List of figures Foreword by Barry O. Jones Acknowledgements Introduction: how this book came to be 1. The dimensions of change 2. Industrialism and its consequences 3. Global consciousness: the one-world view 4. Beyond scientific materialism: accepting other categories of knowing 5. What will become of schools? 6. The shift from past to future 7. What can I do? Some bridging strategies Conclusion: the promise of the twenty-first century References Index

Biography

Hedley Beare & Richard Slaughter