Shaping a New Educational Landscape Exploring possibilities for education in the 21st century

by Coates, Max

• ISBN13: 9780826432582
• ISBN10: 0826432581
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-03
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Wide-ranging perspectives on education futures - from education in society to evolving schools and changes in classrooms.

Author Biography

Max Coates is Senior Lecturer in Leadership at St. Mary's University College, UK, and was a secondary head for twelve years. He has also been Team Programme Manager for the London Centre for Leadership in Learning, working extensively in the areas of leadership, emotional intelligence, and mentoring and coaching, both in the UK and internationally.

Table of Contents

About the authors	p. viii
Preface	p. xiv
Foreword	p. xvi
The Future is Now	p. 1
Future tense	p. 3
Interleaf: How I see the future	p. 9
The shape of the future	p. 10
Global economics and the nature of work	p. 17
Value added: learning to make people thicker	p. 26
Changes in the school workforce	p. 34
Gateway: the ownership of education by communities	p. 44
The Evolving School	p. 49
From schooling to learning	p. 51
Achieving system-wide school transformation: the argument in brief	p. 61
Future leadership: challenges and implications	p. 70
Community renaissance	p. 77
The global context of local school leadership	p. 85
Independent education: custodian of the past or contributor to the future?	p. 95
The Changing Classroom	p. 105
Neuroscience, education and the decline of self-deception	p. 107
Rousseau revisited: formal and personal education	p. 114
The impact of modern communication technology on education	p. 121
Interleaf: How I see the future	p. 128
Deckchairs on the Titanic	p. 130
Afterword: Juba Diocesan Model Secondary School	p. 137
Bibliography	p. 138
Index	p. 144
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