Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today: Education - Our Children - Their Futures
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...
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Education is the platform for our success or failure. Is our system still fit for purpose? This fascinating study examines this and other key questions in the primary education environment.
Preface: The moral imperativeSect. 1 The challenge 1Ch. 1 Education and the changing world 3The imperative for changeCh. 2 Harnessing the power of our children 11Do we realize their potential?Ch. 3 Making school matter 19Selling school to our childrenCh. 4 The positivity of failure 27How making mistakes makes a differenceCh. 5 Who do we create our schools for? 35Ensuring that we focus on our childrenCh. 6 What matters most? 43The knowledge vs skills debateCh. 7 The world beyond the gate 51Creating real contexts for learningCh. 8 The industrial model of schooling 59Why our system is out of dateCh. 9 Are they fit for the future? 67Do we really give our children the best chance?Ch. 10 Making school magical! 73How to make school the next must-haveCh. 11 Breaking down the walls 81Educating with the communityCh. 12 The way forward 87Summarizing Section 1 and setting up Section 2Sect. 2 The way it could be 93Ch. 13 Creating the vision 95The thinking behind the 'Grange way'Ch. 14 Developing the whole child 105Putting personal development at the heart of the processCh. 15 Beyond subjects 113Developing a thematic approachCh. 16 The Grangeton Project 127Creating three-dimensional learningCh. 17 A curriculum of all the talents 137Nurturing every individual and finding what makes them tickCh. 18 Into the unknown 143Moving forward from the bookAfterword Leading into the unknown 149Bibliography and references 153Useful websites 155Index 156
