Self Managed Learning and the New Educational Paradigm proposes
revolutionary change to the educational system. The overwhelming
research evidence is that the sum total of educational and training
input accounts typically for only 10-20% of what makes a person an
effective human being.
Balancing theory, evidence and practice, this ground-breaking book
demonstrates that current structures in education are ill-equipped to
support a learning-based approach. It establishes the case that
learning, as a core human activity, is too important to be left to
schools and other educational institutions. The book goes beyond just a
critique of current practice in showing how a New Educational Paradigm
can work. Self Managed Learning College (for 9-17 year olds) has no
classrooms, no lessons, no imposed timetable and no imposed curriculum.
This is a place where students can learn whatever they want, in any way
they want and whenever they want. And it works - as evidenced by the
lives of former students and from academic research. Dr Ian Cunningham,
its founder, draws also on his extensive work in using Self Managed
Learning in many of the world's largest organisations to show how this
new paradigm can be put into practice.
The book blends the unequivocal research evidence that we need a New
Educational Paradigm with a real live demonstration of what it could
look like. It should be essential reading for anyone wanting to see how
a new approach to education can be achieved.
