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Reimagining the Classroom
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Reimagining the Classroom

by Theodore Richards
December 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Jossey-Bass
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Chapter 2The Context for Education: The One‐Planet Classroom

To say that our crisis requires new kinds of educating does not merely mean that we need to teach new or better content. Surely, there are new skills and knowledge required for this new world that is emerging. But how, precisely, does one prepare for a world so radically different? Before we can even discuss the learning process, we must think about the space in which we are learning. For it is the space that offers the metaphor for the world.

Let us remember how the one‐room schoolhouse functions. While one‐room schoolhouses surely aren't perfect, they understand exactly the function they serve: a learning context—a little world—that is an expression of values.

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