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Current Issues
The Strategic and Resource Implications of a New Model of Learning( Adobe, 46pp)
Circumstantial evidence for a learning change based on current educational arrangements come from research and practice under 5 headings: 1. the biological nature of learning 2. the science of learning 3. culture and nature: how ideas shape our thinking 4. the implications of new technologies of information and communication, and 5. spontaneous, informal learning, the significance of the
home and the community.
Putting the public good back into public education
A series of papers on effective leadership in public education. Contributors include Professor Brian Caldwell, Professor McBeath, Dame Collarbone, Andy Hargreaves and Sir D. Hinkley.
Leadership and Innovation in the Transformation of Schools
Brian Caldwell. There is universal recognition that education is the key to the well being of society and of the individual in the decade ahead. It is indeed a
knowledge society and it spans the globe.
In search of school Spirit:
The cloud of unknowing in public education
This paper outlines the debate on spirituality in current education literature, discusses the relationship between spirituality and religion, and concludes with a discussion of spirituality in school practice.
The Development of Management Information Systems in Education
The information system designed to support the Schools of the Future reform is an example of how schools and school systems are adopting sophisticated, integrated management information systems.
Education: The Necessary Utopia
Education is not a miracle cure or a magic formula opening the door to a world in which all ideals will be attained, but one of the principal means available to foster a deeper and more harmonious form of human development and thereby reduce poverty, exclusion, ignorance, oppression and war.
Battery Hens or Free Range Chickens: What Kind
of Education for What Kind of World?
Is it that education, as previously understood to mean schools, is being sidelined? Has education ceased to be about learning? Is school 'dead'?
Systemic Reform: Review of the Literature
A definition of systemic reform is looked at, a discussion on contrasting conceptions of education reform, issues in implementing systemic reform that have been raised in the early 1990s, and state and federal initiatives in systemic reform.
Upside Down and Inside Out:
Why Good Schools Alone Will Never Be Good Enough to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century
If a nation or a state accepts that its economic and social well-being will increasingly be
determined by its citizens' ability to continuously learn and adapt to change then the issues addressed above need to be at the center of all discussions on education reform.
ICP Conference Papers, Helsinki 1999
Leadership into the next Millennium
Current Issues in Education
Online Journal articles on: Assessment, High stakes testing/standards, curriculum and instruction, methodology, technology, Bilingual/ESL education, special education, editorials, commentaries, reviews, educational psychology.
Rethinking Decentralization for Nurturing Learning Societies
A paradigm shift in the concept of decentralization and peoples' participation is necessary, if we are serious about nurturing learning societies for the 21st century
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