Making Minds: What's Wrong with Education-and What Should We Do about It? Book

Introduction     1
Another change in our world view     1
The roadmap     1
Unlike other animals, humans create new tools     3
In the beginning: educational trial and error     6
In the beginning     6
Does education make you fat?     8
A child's intellectual potential     10
A child's economic potential     11
The economy benefits from children's education     12
The acceleration of knowledge     13
Can education change?     16
Is there any light at the end of the tunnel?     19
Education as segregation     22
Educational segregation reflects segregation in society     23
The measurement myth     25
The autism 'epidemic'     21
Is education an uncontrolled experiment?     29
The subject ghetto     31
Is school really like prison?     35
Is there any escape?     37
Globalizing learning     39
A biological reality check     39
Learning from our differences     41
Learning as neuroscience     46
Learning is social     48
Globalizing learning     50
Building for learning     52
Learning villages     55
Change the process     59
Education as prejudice     61
Enduring educational predudice     61
Why Shakespeare would feel at home in your child's classroom     62
Why teachers don't learn     64
Myths: why children can't write properly     65
Why textbook answers are wrong     66
Marks out of ten     69
Myths: why children are violent     71
Prejudice, media panics and panaceas     72
Learning from mistakes     74
Learning from mistakes     74
Effective starting points     76
Economic lessons     78
Making connections     80
Home is where the start is     83
Learning without prejudice     87
Education as politics     89
Politicians control the means of educational production     90
Why government policies don't work     92
Education systems are political     94
Is more better?     96
The battle for minds: measures     99
The battle for minds: the aims     102
Free learning     104
Learning is a right     104
The wind of change     106
Can government trust schools?     109
Changing the world view     112
New world view, new methods     115
Giving politicians a graceful exit     117
The future of learning with technology     120
Learning through technology     120
Technology and learning     121
Panacea or practicalities?     122
The global language     125
This is news to me     128
Degrees of freedom     130
New partnerships, new pathways     131
McEducate, cooperate or innovate?     134
Intelligent learning environments     136
Experiment and conjecture     139
In the end: learning as neuroscience     142
Learning as neuroscience     142
Does it all add up?     145
Finally, we began to appreciate that the important factor was time     150
Finding the keys to children's futures     157
Education can make children drug addicts: what should learning do?     160
Finding our way     162
The evolution of learning     165
Making minds     167
Notes      169
Acknowledgements     179
Index     181