Overschooled but undereducated
Subtitle: is the crisis in education jeopardizing our adolescents?
By: John Abbott with Heather McTaggart.
Contributors: McTaggart, Heather.
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781855396234
Subjects: Education -- Social aspects -- 1; Education -- Aims and objectives -- Great Britain; Education -- Great Britain -- History; Teenagers -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Prue Leith; title: Introduction; title: A fable : the whole story in fewer than 2,500 words; title: The wonder of learning; title: Human nature : a brain for all times; title: Nurture and culture; title: Hands-on apprentices to hands-off pupils; title: Lest we fail to learn from our mistakes; title: Adolescents left out; title: What kind of education for what kind of world?; title: Knowing what we know, what's to be done?; title: Appendix A : The 21st century learning initiative; title: Appendix B : Synthesis; title: Appendix C : Prophets of a future not our own