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September 14, 2004
The mosaic Of Learning: Schools and Teachers for the Next Century
| Title | The mosaic Of Learning: Schools and Teachers for the Next Century | |
| Author | David Hargreaves | |
| Publisher | Demos, London | |
| Date | 1994 | |
| ISBN | 1 898309 45 0 | |
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| Succesive waves of reform have failed to improve school standards, leaving teachers demoralised‹and parents and pupils more confused than ever. David Hargreaves, Professor of Education at Cambridge University, sets out a long-overdue agenda for achievable change, a radical vision tempered by realism. With more specialised schools, including religious ones, a better use of interactive technologies, a redefinition of teachers' roles and greater openness to business and local communities, he shows how schools can again become sources of satisfaction for those who teach and learn. Only then, he argues, can we transcend the destructive conflict between ill-conceived blueprints imposed from above and defensive inertia from below. | ||
Posted by Books Editor at September 14, 2004 09:33 PM