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Educating tomorrow : learning for the post-pandemic world / by Chris Brown and Ruth Luzmore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Chris, author.
- Luzmore, Ruth, author.
- Series:
- SocietyNow
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 187 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2021]
- Summary:
- The post-pandemic world provides all of us with the opportunity to think differently about what we want for society. In Educating Tomorrow, Chris Brown and Ruth Luzmore explore what a post-Covid 'blank slate' education system could look like.
- Contents:
- Cover
- EDUCATING TOMORROW
- SocietyNow
- EDUCATING TOMORROW: Learning for the Post-Pandemic World
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Praise for Educating Tomorrow: Learning for the Post-Pandemic World
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 1. Introduction - What Would You Do with a Blank Slate?
- Notes
- 2. What Will the Future Hold?
- The Future of Work
- Affording Universal Basic Income
- Transhumanism
- Self-aware Artificial Intelligence
- Data and Tax
- Vast Virtual Reality Worlds
- Unequal Distributions of Wealth
- 3. A Brief History of Education - From Ancient Greece to the Enlightenment
- Ancient Greece
- The Rise and Fall of the Roman Education System
- The Middle Ages
- The Renaissance
- Humanism
- The Enlightenment
- 4. Education in Britain
- The Nineteenth Century
- The Welfare State and an Ambition of Fairness
- Divided Views and the Age of Accountability
- 5. Rethinking the Goals of Education
- It's the Economy, Stupid
- Utopias
- Caring for the Environment
- Tackling Post-truth
- 6. From Universal Basic Income to Aristotle and Back
- Cockaigne
- Utopia
- Learning from Ancient Greece
- Aristotle and the Golden Mean
- Practical Reason
- And What About Our Blank Slate? The Need for Wise Decision-making
- 7. Emotions, Collaboration and Creativity
- Adhering to the Wise Decisions We Have Made
- Achieving Well-being
- Effective Collaboration and Tolerance
- Thinking Productively and Getting Creative!
- The Importance of Creativity
- 8. But What Would All of This Look Like?
- Where Will Education Take Place?
- When Should Education Begin and When Should It End?
- What about the Curriculum?
- Bringing It All Together
- REFERENCES
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-80043-660-2
- OCLC:
- 1245667194
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