Reinventing Education

This unusual book represents the result of a thought experiment in which 21 authors were asked how they would meet the educational needs of the next fifty years if they were entirely unconstrained by existing institutions, beliefs and assumptions. The contents are stimulating and creative, ranging across a number of issues according to the writers' special interests. Among the ideas advanced are individual mentoring rather than class teaching, the development of competencies rather than the acquisition of information, more personalised learning, and going beyond purely academic objectives. In fact some of these things are already happening, partly in reaction to the perceived shortcomings of existing systems.