Ackoff, Russell Lincoln, 1919-2009.
Turning learning right side up : putting education back on track / Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg. - Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2008. - xix, 196 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Learning and teaching -- The classroom environment -- Subjects and disciplines -- The new world -- Antidemocratic schooling -- Factors that resist change -- The environment a developed society provides for individual realization -- The special demands the environment of a liberal democracy places on individual realization -- What individuals contribute to their own education -- The place of arts -- Why, and how, we should be envisioning an ideal educational environment -- The preschool years -- A new look at schools K-12 -- The college and university experience -- Education and the working life -- Taking "retire" out of retirement -- Excursus: funding ideal schools -- Appendix. Sudbury Valley School.
9780132887632 (pbk.) 0132887630 (pbk.)
Education--Aims and objectives.
Education--Philosophy.
370.11 / ACK 2008
Turning learning right side up : putting education back on track / Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg. - Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2008. - xix, 196 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Learning and teaching -- The classroom environment -- Subjects and disciplines -- The new world -- Antidemocratic schooling -- Factors that resist change -- The environment a developed society provides for individual realization -- The special demands the environment of a liberal democracy places on individual realization -- What individuals contribute to their own education -- The place of arts -- Why, and how, we should be envisioning an ideal educational environment -- The preschool years -- A new look at schools K-12 -- The college and university experience -- Education and the working life -- Taking "retire" out of retirement -- Excursus: funding ideal schools -- Appendix. Sudbury Valley School.
9780132887632 (pbk.) 0132887630 (pbk.)
Education--Aims and objectives.
Education--Philosophy.
370.11 / ACK 2008