ABSTRACT

It is not without significance that we use the same word-school-to describe the process our children undergo and the physical location in which it takes place; or we have, at any rate, done so until very recently. We have assumed that it is only by attending this special place, different from the real world, and staffed by experts, that our young people can be taught. It is teaching, and the schools in which it takes place, that forms the focus for this chapter; the extent to which learning has also changed through technology will be discussed more fully in chapter 4.