Product Description: Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world, formal schooling is frequently following rather than leading. The impression is given by central government that the education system serves as a 'thermostat' restoring society's settings in areas such as productivity, citizenship, health, sexual mores and behaviour...read more

Product Description: Book by Henshall, Aden D.

Product Description: This is hardly another field in education which is more important for a country's future than science education. Yet more and more students elect to concentrate on other fields to the exclusion of science for a variety of reasons: 1...read more

Provides a systematic overview and critique of contemporary approaches to educational change. This book addresses the key themes: What has been the impact of educational change? How has the impact differed in different circumstances? What are the new directions for research on policy and practice? How can we link research, policy and practice?

Product Description: The perfect complement to the full publication, An Overview of Sixteen Trends provides quick references and strategic guidelines to the points raised in Marx's complete report, Sixteen Trends. Complete with a special section on redefining leadership for the future ...read more

Product Description: Schools have a key role to play in preparing learners of every age for the future. In times of rapid change, more people are needed to be able to anticipate change and direct their learning, decision-making, and actions toward a sustainable future...read more

Pre-school children have fundamentally different attitudes towards the future and attendant notions of time and space. For this reason, early childhood professionals are optimally placed to lay important foundations for young children's long term development. Children's flexibility of thought, their positive and constructive outlook on life, their sense of the continuity of time, their creativity and imagination, and their sense of personal connection with time and the future, are all qualities that should be recognized and addressed in early childhood educational programmes as a means of counteracting the difficulty youths experience in knowing what to expect in their future lives and coming to understand their roles in shaping them.Reframing the Early Childhood Curriculum offers fresh insight into:* examining futurists' and early childhood theorists' thinking of the relevance of planning for children's long term needs in early childhood* identifying the skills, attitudes and outlooks required to assist young children attending early childhood programmes in their long term growth and development* exploring the means through which these skills, attitudes and outlooks can be achieved in curriculum frameworks through specific goals and learning experiences against the background of youth and young children's views of the future.

Product Description: Much of our planning to date in higher education has focused on questions of internal effectiveness and efficiency, but, given the period of rapid social change we have entered, it is imperative that we improve our abilities to assess changes in the external environment and examine their implications for higher education...read more