Turning learning right side up : putting education back on track

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Turning learning right side up : putting education back on track

Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg

Wharton School Pub., c2008

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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In the age of the Internet, we educate people much as we did during the Industrial Revolution. We educate them for a world that no longer exists, instilling values antithetical to those of a free, 21st century democracy. Worst of all, too many schools extinguish the very creativity and joy they ought to nourish. In Turning Learning Right Side Up, legendary systems scientist Dr. Russell Ackoff and "in-the-trenches" education innovator Daniel Greenberg offer a radically new path forward. In the year's most provocative conversation, they take on the very deepest questions about education: What should be its true purpose? Do classrooms make sense anymore? What should individuals contribute to their own education? Are yesterday's distinctions between subjects--and between the arts and sciences--still meaningful? What would the ideal lifelong education look like--at K-12, in universities, in the workplace, and beyond? Ackoff and Greenberg each have experience making radical change work--successfully. Here, they combine deep idealism with a relentless focus on the real world--and arrive at solutions that are profoundly sensible and powerfully compelling. Why today's educational system fails--and why superficial reforms won't help The questions politicians won't ask--and the answers they don't want to hear How do people learn--and why do they choose to learn? Creating schools that reflect what we know about learning In a 21st century democracy, what values must we nurture? ...and why aren't we nurturing them? How can tomorrow's "ideal schools" be operated and funded? A plan that cuts through political gridlock and can actually work Beyond schools: building a society of passionate lifelong learners Learning from childhood to college to workplace through retirement Reinventing Learning for the Next Century: How We Can, and Why We Must An extraordinary conversation about the very deepest questions... Today, what is education for? Where should it take place? How? When? What is the ideal school? The ideal lifelong learning experience? Who should be in charge of education? And who pays for it all? Over the past 150 years, virtually everything has changed...except education. Schools were designed as factories, to train factory workers. The factories are gone, but the schools haven't changed. It's time for us to return to first principles...or formulate new first principles...and reimagine education from the ground up. In Turning Learning Right Side Up, two of this generation's most provocative thinkers--and practical doers--have done just that. They draw on the latest scientific research, the most enduring human wisdom, and their unique lifelong personal experiences transforming institutions that resist change. And, along the way, they offer a powerful blueprint for a thriving society of passionate lifelong learners.

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About the Authors ix Preface: Why, and How, This Book Was Written xii Introduction: What Education Is About xiii Part 1: Where Today's Educational System Fails 1 Chapter 1: Learning and Teaching 3 Chapter 2: The Classroom Environment 23 Chapter 3: Subjects and Disciplines 39 Chapter 4: The New World 49 Chapter 5: Antidemocratic Schooling 65 Chapter 6: Factors That Resist Change 71 Part 2: Factors That Contribute to Education 77 Chapter 7: The Environment a Developed Society Provides for Individual Realization 79 Chapter 8: The Special Demands the Environment of a Liberal Democracy Places on Individual Realization 91 Chapter 9: What Individuals Contribute to Their Own Education 99 Chapter 10: The Place of Arts 107 Part 3: Envisioning Ideal Lifelong Education 119 Chapter 11: Why, and How, We Should Be Envisioning an Ideal Educational Environment 121 Chapter 12: The Preschool Years 125 Chapter 13: A New Look at Schools K-12 135 Chapter 14: The College and University Experience 139 Chapter 15: Education and the Working Life 147 Chapter 16: Taking "Retire" Out of Retirement 151 Part 4: Excursus: Funding Ideal Schools 153 Appendix: Sudbury Valley School 159 Postscript 173 Endnotes 175 Index 187

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