Can the Learning Species fit into schools?

If we humans are the planet’s pre-eminent learning species surely none but the most obdurate of young people should readily accept the benign conditions of the classroom?

Overschooled and Undereducated: Getting the Balance Right

Good evening. It is both an honour and a pleasure to be invited to give this lecture. I do so with some trepidation. I know I am easily carried away with my enthusiasm! Some years ago my wife and I were on a Sunday afternoon walk with our three sons. Our youngest, Tom, who was […]

Learning to Go with the Grain of the Brain

If young people are to be equipped effectively to meet the challenges of the 21st century it is surely prudent to seek out the very best understandings from current scientific research into the nature of how humans learn before considering further reform of the current system.

This article by John Abbott and Terence Ryan appeared in the Spring, 1999 issue of Education Canada.

The Initiative’s ‘New Synthesis of Effective Learning’

Based on diverse research in cognitive and neurological science available in the mid-90s

Learning Makes Sense

Our first publication, see enthusiastic review from the Sunday Telegraph

Teaching for Understanding

This article first appeared in the appeared in the Fall, 1993 issue of American Educator, the journal of The American Federation of Teachers. We reprint it here with permission of AFT and of Professor Perkins, co-director of Project Zero at the Harvard University.

American Education: An apprenticeship for the Mind

Central to the Initiative’s thinking is the concept of cognitive apprenticeship

Educating People for Change

Capturing the interest of the Head Masters’ Conference

The Hertfordshire Project

The official 6 page document, issued to everyone within the town, just as Education 2000’s first project was starting