Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Schooling and Education -- The Process of Learning -- How Can We Know If Anyone Is Learning (the Curriculum)? -- Models of the Process of Teaching -- How to Get and Keep Effective Teachers -- The Educational Tasks of Every Society -- The History of National School Systems -- Instruction—and the Transformation of Society -- Models of the School as Organization -- Issues in How to Finance a School System -- The Builders and Shapers of School Systems -- The Process of Shaping a School System -- Strategies for Improvement of Instruction and Education -- About the Authors.

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Learning to Educate: Proposals for the Reconstruction of Education in Developing Countries is a practical and strategic guide for education leaders and others who want to do more to improve the quality of curriculum, learning, teaching, and assessment. The book is also a philosophical guide that articulates and affirms the fundamental values and purposes of education in a rapidly changing world. It confronts us with the opportunity and the necessity to unravel bedrock assumptions and stimulate further discussion about the nature of teaching and learning. What does it take to change mindsets? And how do we bring about “reconstruction” without losing our groundings and bearings? The authors, Ernesto Schiefelbein and Noel McGinn, use the full weight of their extensive knowledge in education research, teaching, policy, and action, to argue that, in order to reconstruct quality education, we must begin by improving its foundation. The result is a seasoned and superbly articulated examination of the principles and practices of teaching and learning, which focuses on the crucial need of all children to learn how to learn. Innovative, cultured, and consistently captivating, this book is bold and, in the field of comparative and international education, unprecedented.