The Brain, Education, and the Competitive Edge

by Caine, Geoffrey; Caine, Renate Nummela

• ISBN13: 9780810840607
• ISBN10: 081084060X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education

Summary

This book explains how traditional teaching, testing and schooling developed. It describes a more powerful approach to education that engages student brains much more effectively. It shows how great schools and ordinary people from around the world use this guided experience approach. And it explains why public education resists change, no matter what research proves.

Author Biography

Geoffrey Caine is director of Caine Learning LLC and adjunct faculty member at University of Redlands Whitehead Center for Lifelong Learning in California.

Table of Contents

Preface	iv
Education in the Eye of the Storm	1	(20)
The Standard Model---Back to the Future?	21	(18)
The Natural Learning That the Standard Model Ignores	39	(18)
Experience-Based Learning Generates Dynamic Performance Knowledge	57	(16)
Real-World Examples of Powerful, Experience-Driven Learning	73	(18)
What Great Schooling Looks Like	91	(20)
How ``The System'' Limits Growth	111	(16)
The Competitive Edge	127	(14)
Bibliography	141	(8)
Index	149	(4)
About the Authors	153