Education
faces a twin challenge:
To sustain the undoubted improvements
of recent years, and to switch the
focus from teaching to learning.
The key question, and the one that
this book seeks to address, is whether
the strategies and policies that have
enabled us to improve teaching and
raise standards will be sufficient
to help us develop further and promote
learning. It is more of the same,
or do we need a change of emphasis
if we are break through the inevitable
plateau of attainment and achievement?
This book argues that the future,
in terms of both pedagogy and policy,
demands an approach rooted in learning.
More specifically, it suggests that:
- everything we do much be based
explicitly upon learning
- teachers must be learners too
- we have a professional responsibility
to go on learning about learning,
because the better we understand
learning and the learning process
the better able we are to facilitate
it in others.
In short,
this book is about how to make learning
the main thing – for pupils
and teachers. |
