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Educating Tomorrow

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Educating Tomorrow

Learning for the Post-Pandemic World

By

Chris Brown

and

Ruth Luzmore

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India Malaysia – China

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First edition 2021

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ISBN: 978-1-80043-663-3 (Print)

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Epigraph

There is no occupation so sweet as scholarship; scholarship is the means of making known to us, while still in this world, the infinity of matter, the immense grandeur of nature, the heavens, the lands and the sea. Scholarship has taught us piety, moderation, greatness of heart; it snatches our souls from the darkness and shows them all things… scholarship furnishes us with the means of living well and happily; it teaches us how to live our lives without discontent and without vexation.

–Cicero (45 bc), Tusculanae Disputationes

Real change often takes place in deep crisis, and this moment holds the possibility that we won't return to the status quo when things return to ‘normal’. While [the COVID-19] crisis has deeply disruptive implications for education, it does not have predetermined implications. We have agency, and it is the nature of our collective and systemic responses to these disruptions that will determine how we are affected by them.

–Andreas Schleicher (2020), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Endrosements

Praise for Educating Tomorrow: Learning for the Post-Pandemic World

This engaging book cleverly uses the past and the present to point the way to an education fit for the future. Change is forever with us, but, today, it is writ large and the needs of tomorrow will be unlike those of today. Thought about what should happen in schools has a tendency to focus on the minutiae of today’s practices in order to make them better for tomorrow. Refreshingly, this book looks at the bigger picture and provides a basis for more relevant practice. I will be recommending it to my students and colleagues.

–Professor Douglas P. Newton, Durham University, UK

What can we learn from the past that can help us create a more promising future? A hugely enjoyable consideration of the many and variable influences on education combined with suggestions of where we might focus our energies next. An important debate for us all.

–Dame Alison Peacock, Chief Executive of Chartered College of Teaching, UK

The coronavirus has ripped off the veneer of equity and the pretence of solidarity that existed in many societies previously and exposed the fundamental unfairness and unsustainability of our modern world order. Whatever the future holds after COVID-19, we should try at all costs not just to go back to the way things were as our default option. With Educating Tomorrow, Chris Brown and Ruth Luzmore draw upon the broad sweep of educational philosophy and current developments such as artificial intelligence and transhumanism to chart a better way forward. Written with verve and panache, this will be a welcome addition to every thinking person's library.

–Dennis Shirley, Duganne Faculty Fellow and Professor, Boston College, USA