Making Minds

<p><em>Making Minds</em> is a controversial critique of our education systems. The author is a school leader ‘at the forefront of scientific and technological advancement in schools’ who as an American ‘felt comfortable taking on the British establishment’ (<em>The Times Educational Supplement</em>).</p><p><em>Making Minds</em> is written for general readers- especially parents- as well as educational professionals. The book examines the underlying limitations that have been accepted in education over the past two thousand years. The author challenges common assumptions about education through evidence-based political ethical and emotional arguments as well as examining case studies such as university admissions and the autism ‘epidemic’.</p><p><em>Making Minds</em> describes a more productive scientific approach to learning drawing on recent research findings particularly in the US and UK. The author illustrates how new research methods new technologies and very recent discoveries in neuroscience that will in the end allow us to make minds.</p>