Twenty-first century schools : : knowledge, networks and new economies / / Gerard Macdonald and David Hursh.
Contemporary school systems are not working well. Educational solutions abound, but the problems remain. This is because our school systems are not primarily concerned with education. Their driving forces are political and economic. Any systemic solution to schooling’s current difficulties will star...
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| Superior document: | Educational Futures ; 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2006] 2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Educational Futures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- What this book is about
- Parameters
- From church to factory
- What do politicians pay for?
- How schools teach
- What schools teach and what they don’t teach
- Schools as self-assessing systems
- Equity; opportunity
- Education as a contested terrain: the relationship between education, work and the state / David Hursh
- Chicago: the creation of a spatially, socially, educationally and economically dual city / David Hursh
- Developing schools and workplaces for the twenty-first century / David Hursh
- Changing landscapes
- Ways of seeing, ways of knowing
- How will we work?
- Creativity, innovation, enterprise
- Teachers
- Parents
- Business
- Politicians
- The disruptive technology that didn’t
- Schools for the twenty-first century
- Bibliography.