How World Events Are Changing Education

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Education was established to create employees for 19th and 20th century manufacturing models. The 21st century requires a rethink. Change is happening fast, with jobs not guaranteed as robots are taking over routines. We must prepare students for uncertainty & higher-level employment - helping them think and communicate instead of retain and recall facts for passing exams. Some curricula is either irrelevant for today or gained at the press of a button. Listening and literate talk (narratives) for collaboratively solving real problems should be the focus, not facts forgotten after tests. The book explores this important debate.

Contributors are: Daryle Abrahams, Nigel Adams, Peter Chatterton, Stefano Cobello, Joanna Ebner, Pierre Frath, Irene Glendinning, Susan James, Riccarda Matteucci, Gloria McGregor, Elena Milli, Elizabeth Negus, Juan Eduardo Romero, Rosemary Sage and Emma Webster.

Rosemary Sage, Ph.D. (1992), University of Cambridge and Leicester, is a qualified Speech & Language Pathologist, Psychologist & Teacher (English, Maths, Sciences), working in national/international health, education & social services, leading many research projects on language, education and employment with awards for this work.

Riccarda Matteucci, Dott. at L’Aquila University, Italy (1973), Master in Science of Education at Queens College, NYC, USA (2001-2004), is an experienced senior school teacher and university lecturer in Italy, USA, UK and Africa. As an expert in communication and language-learning problems, she is presently involved in bullying issues in education, technology support in class and H. Gardner’s 9 intelligences theory. She was a Senior Research Fellow at Cambridge, where she was invited to compile the history of Italian language use in Britain.