Making Minds: What's Wrong with Education - and What Should We Do about It?

by Kelley; Paul

• ISBN13: 9780415414111
• ISBN10: 0415414113
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-08-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Making Minds is a groundbreaking work that offers parents, educationalists and policy makers an insight into the scientific research that reveals how we can make minds. Understanding the physical process of learning, like the decoding of DMA, will change how we see ourselves.

Author Biography

Paul Kelly is head teacher at Monkseaton High School, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Another change in our world view	p. 1
The roadmap	p. 1
Unlike other animals, humans create new tools	p. 3
In the beginning: educational trial and error	p. 6
In the beginning	p. 6
Does education make you fat?	p. 8
A child's intellectual potential	p. 10
A child's economic potential	p. 11
The economy benefits from children's education	p. 12
The acceleration of knowledge	p. 13
Can education change?	p. 16
Is there any light at the end of the tunnel?	p. 19
Education as segregation	p. 22
Educational segregation reflects segregation in society	p. 23
The measurement myth	p. 25
The autism 'epidemic'	p. 27
Is education an uncontrolled experiment?	p. 29
The subject ghetto	p. 31
Is school really like prison?	p. 35
Is there any escape?	p. 37
Globalizing learning	p. 39
A biological reality check	p. 39
Learning from our differences	p. 41
Learning as neuroscience	p. 46
Learning is social	p. 48
Globalizing learning	p. 50
Building for learning	p. 52
Learning villages	p. 55
Change the process	p. 59
Education as prejudice	p. 61
Enduring educational predudice	p. 61
Why Shakespeare would feel at home in your child's classroom	p. 62
Why teachers don't learn	p. 64
Myths: why children can't write properly	p. 65
Why textbook answers are wrong	p. 66
Marks out of ten	p. 69
Myths: why children are violent	p. 71
Prejudice, media panics and panaceas	p. 72
Learning from mistakes	p. 74
Learning from mistakes	p. 74
Effective starting points	p. 76
Economic lessons	p. 78
Making connections	p. 80
Home is where the start is	p. 83
Learning without prejudice	p. 87
Education as politics	p. 89
Politicians control the means of educational production	p. 90
Why government policies don't work	p. 92
Education systems are political	p. 94
Is more better?	p. 96
The battle for minds: measures	p. 99
The battle for minds: the aims	p. 102
Free learning	p. 104
Learning is a right	p. 104
The wind of change	p. 106
Can government trust schools?	p. 109
Changing the world view	p. 112
New world view, new methods	p. 115
Giving politicians a graceful exit	p. 117
The future of learning with technology	p. 120
Learning through technology	p. 120
Technology and learning	p. 121
Panacea or practicalities?	p. 122
The global language	p. 125
This is news to me	p. 128
Degrees of freedom	p. 130
New partnerships, new pathways	p. 131
McEducate, cooperate or innovate?	p. 134
Intelligent learning environments	p. 136
Experiment and conjecture	p. 139
In the end: learning as neuroscience	p. 142
Learning as neuroscience	p. 142
Does it all add up?	p. 145
Finally, we began to appreciate that the important factor was time	p. 150
Finding the keys to children's futures	p. 157
Education can make children drug addicts: what should learning do?	p. 160
Finding our way	p. 162
The evolution of learning	p. 165
Making minds	p. 167
Notes	p. 169
Acknowledgements	p. 179
Index	p. 181
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