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Based on the premise that education has to be about much more than intellectual development, this book calls for the transformation of the education system.>
- Sales Rank: #79979 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
- Published on: 2010-01-19
- Released on: 2010-01-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.11" h x .92" w x 5.40" l, .90 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
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- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
'This remarkable work... is at the same time profoundly scholarly and eminently accessible. It is nothing less than a tour de force, and it is a privilege to recommend it unreservedly.'
Sir Gustav Nossal, former President of the Australian Academy of Science.
'This may well be the most important and significant book that young people and those involved with education will read.'
Maureen Nitek, The Clarendon College, Wiltshire.
'I read this book with great interest and almost entire agreement.'
Dr Eric Anderson, former Headmaster and Provost of Eton College.
'This penetrating exploration burrows through to the heart of the malaise which has stifled so much education in the 21st century... a provocative and bold manifesto for change.'
Dr Jonathan Long, Principal of the United World College of India.
'This brilliantly rich, historical and philosophical background makes this a landmark work.'
Dr Helen Drennen, Principal of Wesley College, Australia.
'For anyone... who cares about adolescents Overschooled but Undereducated should be compulsory reading. It will fill you with joy at the potential within young people when given the opportunity to do what is natural to them, to learn and to think for themselves.'
Janet Lawley, former Headteacher of Bury Girls' School.
"This is a fascinating and insightful book and clearly keys into a widespread concern about 'teaching to the test' and politicians interfering more than ever to prescribe what and how teachers teach"
Culture Wars
'Politicians really should take note. Poor beleaguered Ed Balls, in desperate need of a workable education policy, should really buy a copy of Abbott's book, co-authored with Heather MacTaggart. Overschooled but Undereducated, the title says it all. It's just the lesson Balls needs'
Prue Leith, The Spectator
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Philip Toogood, Personalised Education Now
"This splendidly readable treatise argues that for years in the Western world our education system has got adolescence spectacularly wrong. Far from being a problem time, it is a glorious opportunity. ... The book challenges people like me to recast my view on adolescents. To let them think and do."
Church Times
'A truly remarkable triumph. John Abbott has managed to set to words the seemingly inexplicable malaise which haunts the educational system today in Britain... an invaluable insight into a staggering range of interdisciplinary theory and research to explain precisely why schools aren't working as they should be, and could be... John Abbott leads us on an extraordinary journey through anthropology, pedagogy, evolutionary psychology, as far as recent breakthroughs in the field of neuroscience to show just why adolescents need so much more than good grades if they are to be able to develop the full gamut of mental competencies which generations upon generations of 'learning' has bequeathed to them... Most importantly perhaps, John Abbott does not simply leave us with our minds full and hands empty, but rather offers us the tools needed for such change to be made.' Lorenzo McLellan, Teach First Trainee, UK.
'This refreshing and stimulating book is a must-read for all teachers of adolescents as well as parents of teenagers and parents who have brought up teenagers... such a book should become compulsory reading for all my staff so that they will dare to question our assumptions and dare to make a difference'
(International Schools Journal)
'For anyone... who cares about adolescents Overschooled but Undereducated should be compulsory reading. It will fill you with joy at the potential within young people when given the opportunity to do what is natural to them, to learn and to think for themselves.'
Janet Lawley, former Headteacher of Bury Girls’ School.
“This is a fascinating and insightful book and clearly keys into a widespread concern about 'teaching to the test’ and politicians interfering more than ever to prescribe what and how teachers teach”
Culture Wars
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Philip Toogood, Personalised Education Now
'A truly remarkable triumph. John Abbott has managed to set to words the seemingly inexplicable malaise which haunts the educational system today in Britain… an invaluable insight into a staggering range of interdisciplinary theory and research to explain precisely why schools aren’t working as they should be, and could be… John Abbott leads us on an extraordinary journey through anthropology, pedagogy, evolutionary psychology, as far as recent breakthroughs in the field of neuroscience to show just why adolescents need so much more than good grades if they are to be able to develop the full gamut of mental competencies which generations upon generations of 'learning’ has bequeathed to them… Most importantly perhaps, John Abbott does not simply leave us with our minds full and hands empty, but rather offers us the tools needed for such change to be made.’ Lorenzo McLellan, Teach First Trainee, UK.
About the Author
John Abbott is president of the 21st Century Learning Initiative, a transnational association of educational researchers and practitioners based in the UK. Following a long career as a teacher and headteacher in England, John became director of Education 2000, spearheading nine community-wide education projects in the UK. He lectures around the world on new understandings about learning and is the author of several books including Learning Makes Sense (1994) and The Child is Father of the Man: How Humans Learn and Why (1999).
Heather McTaggart is the Executive Director of Classroom Connections in Canada.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Good diagnosis, less compelling solutions
By Sirin
John Abbott offers an insightful and scholarly view of the crisis in British education. With impressive historical knowledge, he traces how we got to our current system via the historical turning points of industrialisation, the decline of apprentices, and men such as Thomas Ascham and Dr Thomas Arnold, founder of the modern public school at Rugby in the 19th Century.
Abbott, a veteran teacher, knows that many students find school alienating and pointless. As a teacher myself, I relate to this. The current acacdemic bias of much education does not suit many children (after all, how many people end up doing doctoral research?). What is needed, according to Abbott is a broader underpinning for education that educates the whole child for a functional role in the 21st Century.
Great. But how could we achieve this? The final section which offers some pointers is the vaguest and weakest in the book. As the government is currently in the process of scrapping the latest ill fated round of vocational diplomas, we are badly in need of an educational pathway that values the vocational as well as the academic, and, more importantly, works.
We are still short of achieving that goal.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
All educators should read this
By Judith Raczko
I bought this book for my son-in-law who is very involved in the Philadelphia Free School, whose focus is on a new approach to educating children....anyone interested in enhancing the education process for our children will surely be interested in reading this.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Must Read for Educators
By Jiang Xueqin
In "Over-Schooled but Under-Educated" accomplished British educator John Abbott writes with passion and with eloquence the crisis in Western education. Rather than as a form of empowerment and liberation Western education -- especially in Britain -- is now primarily a means to perpetuate the rigid class system. Another major criticism that Abbott lobs at the Western education status quo is the ineffectualness of its curriculum. Before the cultural revolution, Abbott argues, children were considered an important part of the community, and in apprenticeships they mastered the necessary skills to contribute effectively to the growth of the community. Today, however, adolescents are considered a burden, and are put in schools to prevent them from causing trouble. And the way that the school is structured -- reading books, discussing theory, taking tests -- runs counter to how humans were meant to learn, and thus school performance is less a measure of intellectual curiosity and achievement, and really just a measure if students can keep still, shut up, and do their homework.
Abbott argues effectively that the solution must be in a radical re-imagining of education as a community effort, and seeing school as a continuation of the community. There are some great ideas in this book for school administrators, such as combining work with study so as to permit the students to best absorb, assimilate, and internalize the theory taught in school.
As an education theorist Abbott does suffer from being vague and abstract too many times. But it's clear that there is now a crisis in Western education, and this book is a clarion call to do something about it.
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