21st Century Learning Initiative
Within the last month the 21st Century Learning Initiative has issued a Briefing Paper for Parliamentarians on the design faults at the heart of English education. Initially this has gone to all Members of Parliament and is now being progressively distributed to headteachers, governors, professional associations, political think tanks and community leaders.
Click here to read the Briefing Paper as a Pdf.
What is the 21st Learning Initiative?
The 21st Century Learning Initiative’s essential purpose is to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning that draw upon a range of insights into the human brain, the functioning of human societies, and learning as a community-wide activity. We believe this will release human potential in ways that nurture and form local democratic communities worldwide, and will help reclaim and sustain a world supportive of human endeavor.
The 21st Century Learning Initiative was established in 1995 by a group of English and American businessmen and organizations to make sense of research on learning and learning processes that were fragmented in many different disciplines, and embedded in many different universities, research institutions and businesses around the world.
It has now reached the stage where it is offering training programs to organizations and groups in the United Kingdom and Canada. The Initiative believes that the more that is discovered about how the brain works and the various motives which drive human behaviour, the more we are convinced that education has to be about much more than intellectual development, and that learning and schooling are certainly not necessarily synonymous. What politicians and commentators in many lands describe as being “a crisis in schools” is, we believe, better understood as a crisis in society’s commitment to young people. All this is aggravated by a materialistic agenda that degrades the spiritual needs of individuals and nations to the single minded drive towards economic profitability.
Click here to visit the 21st Century Learning Initiative’s website.
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