Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World

ISBN-13: 9781118844083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 288 str.

David Perkins

Opis

How to teach big understandings and the ideas that matter most Everyone has an opinion about education, and teachers face pressures from Common Core content standards, high-stakes testing, and countless other directions. But how do we know what today's learners will really need to know in the future? Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World is a toolkit for approaching that question with new insight. There is no one answer to the question of what's worth teaching, but with the tools in this book, you'll be one step closer to constructing a curriculum that prepares students for whatever situations they might face in the future. K-12 teachers and administrators play a crucial role in building a thriving society. David Perkins, founding member and co-director of Project Zero at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, argues that curriculum is one of the most important elements of making students ready for the world of tomorrow. In Future Wise, you'll learn concepts, curriculum criteria, and techniques for prioritizing content so you can guide students toward the big understandings that matter.

• Understand how learners use knowledge in life after graduation
• Learn strategies for teaching critical thinking and addressing big questions
• Identify top priorities when it comes to disciplines and content areas
• Gain curriculum design skills that make the most of learning across the years of education

Future Wise presents a brand new framework for thinking about education. Curriculum can be one of the hardest things for teachers and administrators to change, but David Perkins shows that only by reimagining what we teach can we lead students down the road to functional knowledge. Future Wise is the practical guidebook you need to embark on this important quest.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Learning for Tomorrow 1

1 Lifeworthy Learning: Where Knowledge Goes in Learners Lives 7

2 Learning Agendas: The Mixed Blessings of Achievement, Information, and Expertise 27

3 Big Understandings: Learning That Matters in Learners Lives 49

4 Big Questions: Learning beyond What s Settled and Known 71

5 Lifeready Learning: Making What s Worth Learning Ready for Life 97

6 The Seven Seas of Knowledge: Lifeworthy Learning from the Disciplines 123

7 Ways of Knowing: Powerful Patterns of Thought from the Disciplines and Beyond 143

8 Buckets of Knowledge: Organizing Content across the Years of Education 171

9 Big Know–How: Twenty–First–Century Skills and Beyond 197

10 Knowledge on the Way to Wisdom 223

Notes 251

Index 261

O autorze

David N. Perkins is the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Research Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Recently retired from the senior faculty, he is a founding member and senior co–director of Project Zero, a research and development institute at the graduate school. He has authored several books, including Making Learning Whole, Smart Schools, Outsmarting IQ, and The Eureka Effect.

Blurb

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR FUTURE WISE

Rarely does a book come along that can change the way we view the world. This is a must–read book, not just for educators, but for anyone who cares about education or, indeed, lifelong learning. David Perkins does not tell the reader what should be learned in schools he takes the reader on a journey to clarify his or her own goals and priorities for lifeworthy learning, a truly enlightening journey.
Charles M. Reigeluth, professor emeritus, School of Education, Indiana University

We are working so hard in this country on the details of school improvement that we don t always stop to consider the big picture if we are actually working on the right things. David Perkins has long helped us address the essential question of how do we know what students understand. In this important book he gives us a fresh vision of curriculum: how do we know what is worth teaching and learning?
Ron Berger, chief academic officer, Expeditionary Learning

In Future Wise, David Perkins, the author of Smart Schools and Outsmarting IQ, continues his tradition of insightful, visionary and original analyses of the present and the future for education. Educators, policymakers, researchers you cannot afford to miss this book.
Gavriel Salomon, professor emeritus, University of Haifa, Israel

I have worked with David Perkins for close to half a century and whenever I am in his company, I still learn from him. In this seminal book, David powerfully and gracefully shares with the world of educators his incomparably deep thinking about teaching and learning.
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

David Perkins, preeminent authority on learning and teaching, offers profound insights into the purpose and content of twenty–first century schooling. For educators in the Information Age, this is an essential, enthralling read; a book for global excogitation.
Rod Rock, superintendent, Clarkston Community Schools, Michigan