Education for the Twenty-First Century

Synopsis of Education for the Twenty-First Century

«Education for the Twenty-First Century» is the educational essay by Hedley Beare and Richard Slaughter, published by Routledge in paperback (192 pages, in English).

It criticizes simplistic educational reforms and the way young people imagine their future. Faced with schools anchored in a two-century framework, it proposes reviewing the basic assumptions of the school institution and integrating the learning of the future into the present, addressing industrialism, global consciousness and scientific materialism.

The work was originally published in 1993; this 1994 edition is part of Routledge's Educational Management series.

Aimed at educators, education students and readers interested in school system reform.