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Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century
Tomorrow's Children A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century Author:Riane Tennenhaus Eisler, Riane Eisler From best-selling social thinker Riane Eisler, a new model for childhood education and a healthier, more humane world When Riane Eisler published her classic book The Chalice and the Blade in 1987 she introduced the idea of "partnership," a model for society that stresses environmental sustainability, nonviolence, multiculturalism, and gender-f... more »airness. Now, in Tomorrow's Children, Eisler applies the partnership model to modern education, providing parents and teachers with specific ways to apply her ideas to the teaching of school-age children. Eisler explains how for too long a dominator model, which emphasizes control, authoritarianism, violence, and gender discrimination, has characterized our educational system. Tomorrow's Children recommends sweeping changes in both the content and process of teaching and maintains that ideas of struggle, conquest, and destruction can successfully be supplanted by those of cooperation, mutual aid, and respect for creation. The result is a revolutionary and inspiring picture of how education-and by extension, society-might look in the twenty-first century. "Today's and tomorrow's children need an education for the twenty-first century that will help them to develop and maintain healthy bodies and psyches and build healthy families, businesses, governments, and communities.... Partnership education will help young people form visions of what can be and acquire the understandings and skills to make these visions come true. Tomorrow's Children is for all who want to explore new frontiers and become more active co-creators of our future." -Riane Eisler, from her Prologue "I hope the vision [Eisler] has put forward here can be realized. With her, I believe that human happiness, if not survival itself, depends on it." -Nel Noddings, Professor of Child Education, Stanford University« less