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Turning learning right side up : putting education back on track / Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg.

By: Ackoff, Russell Lincoln, 1919-2009.
Contributor(s): Greenberg, Daniel A. (Daniel Asher), 1934-.
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2008Description: xix, 196 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780132887632 (pbk.); 0132887630 (pbk.).Subject(s): Education -- Aims and objectives | Education -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 370.11
Contents:
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.
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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.