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Educating for the Unknown: How to Determine What's Worth Learning in School

David Perkins

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Description:The author contends that there's no one answer to the question of what's worth learning in schools. Instead the mission of the book is to explore better ways to think about the question. It offers a toolkit - key concepts, criteria, and ways of prioritizing-- that will help us all arrive at better answers to what's worth learning in our classes, our schools, our school systems, and our nations. Chapters include: 1 Learning for Tomorrow - Where Knowledge Goes in Learners' Lives2 Learning Agendas - The Mixed Blessings of Achievement, Information, and Expertise3 Big Understandings - Learning that Matters in Learners' Lives4 Big Questions - Learning Beyond what's Settled and Known5 Lifeready Learning - Making What's Worth Learning Ready for Life6 The Seven Seas of Knowledge - Lifeworthy Learning from the Disciplines7 Ways of Knowing - Powerful Patterns of Thought from the Disciplines and Beyond8 Buckets of Knowledge - Organizing Content across the Years of Education9 Big Knowhow - 21st Century Skills and Beyond10 Knowledge on the Way to Wisdom At the end of each chapter, the author presents 4 quests for reimagining education. (1) identifying lifeworthy learning in contrast with not-so-lifeworthy learning; (2) choosing what lifeworthy learning to teach from the many possibilities; (3) teaching for lifeworthy learning in ways that make the most of it; and (4) constructing a lifeworthy curriculum.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Educating for the Unknown: How to Determine What's Worth Learning in School. To get started finding Educating for the Unknown: How to Determine What's Worth Learning in School, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 288

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1118844076

Description: The author contends that there's no one answer to the question of what's worth learning in schools. Instead the mission of the book is to explore better ways to think about the question. It offers a toolkit - key concepts, criteria, and ways of prioritizing-- that will help us all arrive at better answers to what's worth learning in our classes, our schools, our school systems, and our nations. Chapters include: 1 Learning for Tomorrow - Where Knowledge Goes in Learners' Lives2 Learning Agendas - The Mixed Blessings of Achievement, Information, and Expertise3 Big Understandings - Learning that Matters in Learners' Lives4 Big Questions - Learning Beyond what's Settled and Known5 Lifeready Learning - Making What's Worth Learning Ready for Life6 The Seven Seas of Knowledge - Lifeworthy Learning from the Disciplines7 Ways of Knowing - Powerful Patterns of Thought from the Disciplines and Beyond8 Buckets of Knowledge - Organizing Content across the Years of Education9 Big Knowhow - 21st Century Skills and Beyond10 Knowledge on the Way to Wisdom At the end of each chapter, the author presents 4 quests for reimagining education. (1) identifying lifeworthy learning in contrast with not-so-lifeworthy learning; (2) choosing what lifeworthy learning to teach from the many possibilities; (3) teaching for lifeworthy learning in ways that make the most of it; and (4) constructing a lifeworthy curriculum.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Educating for the Unknown: How to Determine What's Worth Learning in School. To get started finding Educating for the Unknown: How to Determine What's Worth Learning in School, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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