The 21st Century Learning Initiative
Promoting a Vision, Knowledge, Experience and a Network
What price 'Intelligence'?
Response to Tony Little's book 'An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education'
This short monograph was written by Neil Richards, a Trustee of the 21st Century Learning Initiative in response to the publication of Tony Little’s book, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education.
Battling for the Soul of Education
Moving beyond school reform to educational transformation:
The findings and recommendations of 3 decades of synthesis
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Inquisitiveness
Some Recent Developments in Cognitive Science
While all children need both a body of knowledge and some basic skills to enable them to be functionally literate, a rapidly changing society demands that young people be able to rise above such rote, factual levels to think critically, and creatively; to be flexible, and spontaneously to be able to solve ill structured, ambiguous problems in areas in which they have little first hand information.
Cognitive Apprenticeship: Making Thinking Visible
This article has exercised a great influence on the 21st Century Learning Initiative’s thinking. It originally appeared in the Winter, 1991 issue of American Educator, the journal of The American Federation of Teachers, and is reprinted here with permission.
American Education: An apprenticeship for the Mind
Central to the Initiative’s thinking is the concept of cognitive apprenticeship
An Artist’s Version of an Early Education 2000 Lecture
Apologies to whoever the artist was who simply presented me with his set of sketches made while I was talking and which he later combined with some of the slides. Education 2000, An Artist’s View
Educating People for Change
Capturing the interest of the Head Masters’ Conference
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