Reshaping the Paradigms of Teaching and Learning: What Happens Today is Education's Future - Hardcover

Alan Wimberley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1475826567 ISBN 13: 9781475826562

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2016

Synopsis

Historically, we have been engaged with a model of education reform since the latter part of the last century. We now have a cycle that’s become a system with “pockets of promise” and isolated experiments. It appears that everyone is an education reformer and every district, charter and region has their own particular experiment, giving the appearance of widespread innovation. We’ve grown comfortable with this “interruption” that tolerates, or celebrates, the experiments as long as they don't seriously disrupt our entrenched classroom approach to teaching and learning. Reshaping the Paradigms of Teaching and Learning is a call to move beyond experimentation and transform the understanding of our entire system of education. The author defines the distinctions between the teaching system of the last century and the need for learning systems and how this is possible for today's learner. Understanding the difference, and understanding the need, is our first step toward a broad transformation. That understanding begins with the thought but demands the action. Disruption, and each learner, awaits that transformation.

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About the Author

Dr. Alan Wimberley serves as the Chief Education Architect for Responsive Education Solutions, one of the largest systems of nonprofit public charters nationally, as well as a professor and doctoral chair at two leading universities.. His primary work engages him with districts, charters and educators at-large to transform learning environments that blend teachers and technology in effective ways.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475826567
• ISBN 13: 9781475826562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160