TY - BOOK
T1 - Redesigning Schooling – 2: What kind of teaching for what kind of learning?
AU - Lucas, Bill
AU - Claxton, Guy
PY - 2013/9/1
Y1 - 2013/9/1
N2 - Schools are in urgent need of redesigning. While some are giving their
students a genuinely fitting start to life in the 21st century, many are not.
We have not yet achieved the critical mass of thinking and practice that
will change the system as a whole.
The people who will be doing the requisite thinking, and exploring the
necessary and effective shifts in practice, are head teachers and their
staffs. Politicians are not in a good position to do this, because their
time horizon is based on the five-yearly election cycle. Genuine radical
change is certainly too slow and too complicated to be reduced to
sound bites and election winners. Even academic educationalists,
sadly, won’t do it either, because they do not have the requisite sense
of urgency. Their bent is mostly to be cautious, balanced, analytical,
argumentative and reactive, rather than committed, imaginative and
practical. With a few exceptions, they will not take the lead.
AB - Schools are in urgent need of redesigning. While some are giving their
students a genuinely fitting start to life in the 21st century, many are not.
We have not yet achieved the critical mass of thinking and practice that
will change the system as a whole.
The people who will be doing the requisite thinking, and exploring the
necessary and effective shifts in practice, are head teachers and their
staffs. Politicians are not in a good position to do this, because their
time horizon is based on the five-yearly election cycle. Genuine radical
change is certainly too slow and too complicated to be reduced to
sound bites and election winners. Even academic educationalists,
sadly, won’t do it either, because they do not have the requisite sense
of urgency. Their bent is mostly to be cautious, balanced, analytical,
argumentative and reactive, rather than committed, imaginative and
practical. With a few exceptions, they will not take the lead.
KW - education
KW - schooling
KW - learning outcomes
KW - leadership
M3 - Book
BT - Redesigning Schooling – 2: What kind of teaching for what kind of learning?
ER -