Overview
- Authors:
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Ernesto Schiefelbein
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Noel F. McGinn
- The book compares a variety of teaching methods for their fit with basic principles of learning, and for their implications for the recruitment, training, and allocation of teachers.
- The book proposes basic objectives for a school system, links these with the early and current histories of schooling, and reviews major theories on how school systems contribute to the transformation of society.
- The book reviews major theories on how the organization and financing of schools and education systems affect their efficiency and effectiveness.
- The book analyzes the processes by which different groups in society attempt to change school systems to better serve their interests.
- The book proposes four major strategies to initiate a radical improvement of school systems.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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- Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
Pages 1-24
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- Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
Pages 25-53
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- Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
Pages 55-82
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- Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
Pages 83-119
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- Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
Pages 121-159
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- Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
Pages 161-185
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- Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
Pages 187-214
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- Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
Pages 215-248
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- Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
Pages 249-280
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- Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
Pages 281-314
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- Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
Pages 315-332
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- Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
Pages 333-356
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- Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
Pages 357-378
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Back Matter
Pages 379-379
About this book
Learning to Educate: Proposals for the Reconstruction of Education in Developing Countries is a practical and strategic guide for education leaders and others who want to do more to improve the quality of curriculum, learning, teaching, and assessment. The book is also a philosophical guide that articulates and affirms the fundamental values and purposes of education in a rapidly changing world. It confronts us with the opportunity and the necessity to unravel bedrock assumptions and stimulate further discussion about the nature of teaching and learning.
What does it take to change mindsets? And how do we bring about “reconstruction” without losing our groundings and bearings? The authors, Ernesto Schiefelbein and Noel McGinn, use the full weight of their extensive knowledge in education research, teaching, policy, and action, to argue that, in order to reconstruct quality education, we must begin by improving its foundation. The result is a seasoned and superbly articulated examination of the principles and practices of teaching and learning, which focuses on the crucial need of all children to learn how to learn.
Innovative, cultured, and consistently captivating, this book is bold and, in the field of comparative and international education, unprecedented.
“… Current and cutting-edge knowledge on critically important dimensions of effective teaching and learning …” – N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Cornell University
“… A treasury of insights into the education challenge currently proposed by the UN global 2030 Agenda: universal quality learning …” – Kenneth King, University of Edinburgh
“… A helpful roadmap to the essential questions facing educators today …” – Fernando M. Reimers, Harvard University
