Education Forward: Moving Schools into the Future - Paperback

by Guy Claxton (Author), Mark Stevenson (Author), Valerie Hanson (Author)

Too often, we think of school as a fixed-rail path we all have to follow: teachers teach, students learn, exams are taken, futures set. That's how it's been since the introduction of compulsory schooling in the 19th century.

But parents, teachers and corporations around the world are now voicing their dissatisfaction with education systems that are no longer fit for purpose. Too many of our young people are not being adequately prepared for the unprecedented challenges they will face in a world that is changing as rapidly as ours is. We should be preparing them for the test of life, not a life of tests.

A group of distinctive voices - working in education and beyond - has produced a collection of essays that presents a call to action, a positive way forward, and a programme of change. Education Forward challenges us all to find another story for the future of schools.

Author Biography

David Price, Guy Claxton, Mark Stevenson (Author), Valerie Hannon, Mick Waters, Hywel Roberts, Debra Kidd, Ross Morrison McGill, Claudia Barwell, Liz Robinson, Madeleine Holt, John Rees, Henry Stewart, Jim Knight, Neil Roskilly, David Jackson