Future wise : educating our children for a changing world
Title:
Future wise : educating our children for a changing world
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Describes how teachers can construct curricula that prepare students for the future by understanding how learners will use knowledge later in life, how to teach critical thinking, and how to prioritize disciplines and content areas.
Year Published:
2014
Physical Description:
xii, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: learning for tomorrow -- Lifeworthy learning: where knowledge goes in learners' lives -- Learning agendas: the mixed blessings of achievement, information, and expertise -- Big understandings: learning that matters in learners' lives -- Big questions: learning beyond what's settled and known -- Lifeready learning: making what's worth learning ready for life -- The seven seas of knowledge: lifeworthy learning from the disciplines -- Ways of knowing: powerful patterns of thought from the disciplines and beyond -- Buckets of knowledge: organizing content across the years of education -- Big knowhow: twenty-first century skills and beyond -- Knowledge on the way to wisdom.
Electronic Access:
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ISBN:
9781118844083
Publisher:
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand, [2014]