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Creating the Future School

By: Hedley Beare
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ISBN-13: 9780415238694
ISBN: 0415238692
Format: Paperback
Date Published: January 2001
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Creating the Future School predicts that changes in the career of teaching and the work of the professional educator will differ significantly from what has been the traditional teaching role in schools of the twentieth century. Principals, senior members of school staffs, teachers, governors and policy makers are addressed and in order to open up the reader's awareness to the profound shift in society and how society views its schools.

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Table of Contents:


List of figures
Acknowledgements
The myth of the unchanging schoolp. 1
The big picture: why schools are being compelled to change their waysp. 9
From an old world-view to a newp. 11
From a society of factories to a society of knowledge workersp. 23
New ways of knowing: implications for curriculump. 36
The networked universep. 54
From bureaucracy to enterprise networksp. 65
Looking at the practicalities: how will schooling change?p. 83
Schools which break the mouldp. 85
Choosing what future to havep. 99
Building a manifesto for the school as a providerp. 113
On reporting outcomesp. 128
Reworking the curriculum within a new mindsetp. 144
Teachers for the school of the futurep. 166
A new kind of schoolp. 186
Bibliographyp. 194
Indexp. 203
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ISBN: 0415238692
ISBN-13: 9780415238694
Number Of Pages: 224
Publisher: 10308795
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Dimensions (cm): 23.393 x 15.595  x 1.193
Weight (kg): 0.317
Audience: Professional

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