Martin Robinson

Trivium 21c (eBook, ePUB)

Preparing young people for the future with lessons from the past

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From Ancient Greece to the present day, Trivium 21c explores whether a contemporary trivium (Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric) can unite progressive and traditionalist institutions, teachers, politicians and parents in the common pursuit of providing a great education for our children in the 21st century. Education policy and practice is a battleground. Traditionalists argue for the teaching of a privileged type of hard knowledge and deride soft skills. Progressives deride learning about great works of the past preferring '21c skills' (21st century skills) such as creativity and critical thinking. Whilst looking for a school for his daughter, the author became frustrated by schools' inability to value knowledge, as well as creativity, foster discipline alongside free-thinking, and value citizenship alongside independent learning. Drawing from his work as a creative teacher, Robinson finds inspiration in the Arts and the need to nurture learners with the ability to deal with the uncertainties of our age. Named one of Book Authority's best education books of all time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Independent Thinking Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781781350850
• Artikelnr.: 39043583

Autorenporträt

Martin Robinson is CEO and Principal of ForMission College in the UK, and author of numerous books, including "Metavista: Bible, Church and Mission in an Age of Imagination" and "Practices for the Refounding of God's People: The Missional Challenge of the West", which he co-authored with Alan Roxborough.