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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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