Learner-Centered Education: Successful Student Learning in a Nonlinear Environment

In this book, David Reilly challenges educators and policy makers to rethink the role of schools and the purpose of education in the complexity of today’s world. Against a historical backdrop of failed school reform initiatives, he calls for the transformation of schools into coordinated learning organizations motivated by collaboration, shared responsibility and commitment. Incorporating learner-centered philosophy and teaching, these schools would revolve around two interrelated elements: flexibility to accommodate the varying learning needs of a diverse student body and adaptability in response to students’ changing learning needs.