Learning for Life in the 21st Century: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education Paperback - 2002
by Gordon Wells (Editor); Guy Claxton (Editor)
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What should be the goals of education and by what means can those goals best be achieved?
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Education is about developing minds that are ready to thrive in the complex uncertainties of the postmodern world: minds that are curious, confident, critical and collaborative. But how is that to be achieved? What are the implications for schools and teachers of rethinking education in this way?
In Learning for Life in the 21st Century, a collection of distinguished international educators and researchers bend their minds to this problem - and come up with solutions and suggestions that are practical, challenging, and sometimes surprising.
The book starts from the premise that the most significant factors in shaping minds are the cultural setting in which learning takes place, the activities in which participants engage, and the discourse among them. Underlining the wide acceptance of this perspective, the contributors are drawn from a range of countries: Australia, Denmark, Finland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, the UK and the US . Each chapter explores the ideas and challenges that a sociocultural perspective raises for different aspects of schooling and lifelong education.
What emerges is a coherent and comprehensive picture of what education needs to become in the context of escalating relativism and diversity in the world. The contributions are written in a thoughtful, engaging style, free from unnecessary technological jargon, and the volume is structured clearly to correspond to the chronological organization of education.
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- Title Learning for Life in the 21st Century: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education
- Author Gordon Wells (Editor); Guy Claxton (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, London
- Date 2002-06-10
- ISBN 9780631223313 / 0631223312
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.78 x 6.72 x 0.95 in (24.84 x 17.07 x 2.41 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Learning, Education - Aims and objectives
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001003978
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.43
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