Overschooled but Undereducated

John Abbott is president of the 21st Century Learning Initiative, a transnational association of educational researchers and practitioners based in the UK. Following a long career as a teacher and headteacher in England, John became director of Education 2000, spearheading nine community-wide education projects in the UK. He lectures around the world on new understandings about learning and is the author of several books including Learning Makes Sense (1994) and The Child is Father of the Man: How Humans Learn and Why (1999).

This remarkable work... is at the same time profoundly scholarly and eminently accessible. It is nothing less than a tour de force, and it is a privilege to recommend it unreservedly.

• Foreword Prue Leith Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Fable: The Whole Story in Less Than 2,500 Words 2. The Wonder of Learning 3. Human Nature: A Brain for All Times 4. Nurture and Culture 5. Hands-on Apprentices to Hands-off Pupils 6. Lest We Fail to Learn From Our Mistakes 7. Adolescents Left Out 8. What Kind of Education for What Kind of World? 9. Knowing What We Know...What's to be Done?Appendix A: The 21st Century Learning InitiativeAppendix B: SynthesisAppendix C: Prophets of a Future Not Our OwnNotes Index