….by encouraging and facilitating collaborations among families, schools, and communities, we will find and create the best educational responses to a rapidly changing world.
Dona Matthews and Rosanne Menna, Solving Problems Together: The Importance of Parent/School/Community Collaboration at a Time of Educational and Social Change, Education Canada, Vol. 43 No. 1 (Winter 2003)

Why Is School Like It Is? : John Abbott on the History of Education

Mon, 01/28/2008 - 17:50 -- admin

John Abbott speaks about the influence of the industrial-age mindset on the development of schools.

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John Abbott is the President of the [[http://www.21learn.org/|21st Century Learning Initiative]], an initiative to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning in the United Kingdom.

The changelearning website project emerged from the collaboration of John Abbott and Heather MacTaggart, the Executive Director of [[http://classroomconnections.ca/|Classroom Connections]], a Canadian non-profit educational organization dedicated to optimizing student learning.
Website development has been facilitated by the [[http://www.ccl-cca.ca/ccl|Canadian Council on Learning]], a national, independent, and non-profit corporation that is committed to improving learning across the country and across all walks of life.

Visit our [[http://changelearning.ca/about-us| About Us]] page for more information about the changelearning initiative.

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