Schools and the Changing World [Paperback]

Suggestions are constantly being made, both in the popular media and academic literature, about the kinds of changes schools should make. The research in this text shows that schools are primarily inward-looking organizations, and would benefit from better ways of understanding the changes surrounding them and the pressures on them. This text offers theoretical discussion of the ideas around the topic and a set of suggestions for thinking about them.Collaborative research and the problem of fair portrayal; school systems and the changes they face; learning about the changing world; how school systems respond to social change;  the impact of a changing labour market; the impact of information technology; the impact of child technology; changing families; changing politics and the politics of change; struggling toward the future - some suggestions.