Personalizing Learning: Transforming Education For Every Child - Softcover

West-Burnham, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855391147 ISBN 13: 9781855391147

Publisher: Network Continuum Education, 2005

Synopsis

Most schools have improved significantly over the past ten years. The quality of teaching is better than it has ever been and yet there is a sense that schools are still not meeting the needs of all young people.
The answer to this challenge is personalizing learning; a switch from the school to the learner - from the needs of the system to the needs of the person. This book presents both a manifesto and a model for the personalization of learning. It combines emerging theories of learning with best professional practice to support schools in developing their own way of moving from improvement to transformation.

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Review

West-Burnham, Max Coates and a team of contributors have lifted the veil on personalised learning ...
... a powerful and necessary restatement of original principles
... useful for every school leader
... should be compulsory reading for all in education
... should be issued to everyone at the QCA as bedside reading.--Sanford Lakoff

Synopsis

"Personalizing Learning: Transforming education for Every Child" is essential reading for all those concerned with the future of education and schools. The authors offer a model of education that is learning and person centred, and in doing so challenge many of the prevailing orthodoxies about schools and schooling. The book builds on the emerging understanding of the personalization of the public services and combines educational theory and practice to offer a model that will stimulate debate at classroom, school and national level. This book offers a detailed and systematic approach to personalization in education and includes: a detailed critique of existing policies and strategies, extensive discussions of the nature of personalized learning, an alternative curriculum to support personalization, consideration of the roles of assessment and ICT, and practical case studies of learning-centred approaches in schools. "Personalizing learning" is both a moral and a practical imperative. This book is a powerful resource for those concerned with the creation of an education system based on equity, inclusion and effectiveness.

Edition details

• Publisher: Network Continuum Education
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1855391147
• ISBN 13: 9781855391147
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176