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Overschooled but undereducated : how the crisis in education is jeopardizing our adolescents /
by Abbott, John; McTaggart, Heather.
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : Continuum, 2010Description: xxiv, 310 p. : 21 cm.ISBN: 9781855396234.Subject(s): Education -- Social aspects -- Great Britain | Education -- Aims and objectives -- Great Britain | Education -- Great Britain -- History | Teenagers -- Great Britain -- Social conditionsSummary: Contents: A fable: the whole story in fewer than 2,500 words -- Wonder of learning -- Human nature: a brain for all times -- Nurture and culture -- Hands-on apprentices to hands-off pupils -- Lest we fail to learn from our mistakes -- Adolescents left out -- What kind of education for what kind of world? -- Knowing what we know; what�s to be done? -- Appendix A: the 21st century learning initiative -- Appendix B: Synthesis -- Appendix C: Prophets of a future not our own
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: A fable: the whole story in fewer than 2,500 words -- Wonder of learning -- Human nature: a brain for all times -- Nurture and culture -- Hands-on apprentices to hands-off pupils -- Lest we fail to learn from our mistakes -- Adolescents left out -- What kind of education for what kind of world? -- Knowing what we know; what�s to be done? -- Appendix A: the 21st century learning initiative -- Appendix B: Synthesis -- Appendix C: Prophets of a future not our own
C12821
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