Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Learning for Tomorrow 1

1 Lifeworthy Learning: Where Knowledge Goes in Learners’ Lives 7

2 Learning Agendas: The Mixed Blessings of Achievement, Information, and Expertise 27

3 Big Understandings: Learning That Matters in Learners’ Lives 49

4 Big Questions: Learning beyond What’s Settled and Known 71

5 Lifeready Learning: Making What’s Worth Learning Ready for Life 97

6 The Seven Seas of Knowledge: Lifeworthy Learning from the Disciplines 123

7 Ways of Knowing: Powerful Patterns of Thought from the Disciplines and Beyond 143

8 Buckets of Knowledge: Organizing Content across the Years of Education 171

9 Big Know-How: Twenty-First-Century Skills and Beyond 197

10 Knowledge on the Way to Wisdom 223

Notes 251

Index 261