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We live in an era when the unprecedented speed of change means: The only certainty is uncertainty; you can't predict what skills will be useful in ten years time; in most professions knowledge is doubling every two or three years; and no job is forever--so being employable means being flexible and retraining regularly.

Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century contains a simple but proven plan that delivers the one key skill that every working person, every parent and student must master, and every teacher should teach: it's learning how to learn. The theory of eight multiple intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist) developed by Howard Gardner at Harvard University provides a foundation for the six-step MASTER-Mind system to facilitate learning (an acronym for Mind, Acquire, Search, Trigger, Exhibit, and Review), and is enhanced by the latest findings on the value of emotion and memory on the process of learning.

Combined with motivational stories of success applying these principles, and putting forth a clear vision of how the United States can dramatically improve the education system to remain competitive in the next century, Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century is a dynamic tool for self-improvement by individuals as diverse as schoolchildren and corporate executives.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72364 in Books
• Published on: 1998-02-09
• Released on: 1998-02-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

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We live in an era when the unprecedented speed of change means: The only certainty is uncertainty; you can't predict what skills will be useful in ten years time; in most professions knowledge is doubling every two or three years; and no job is forever--so being employable means being flexible and retraining regularly.

Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century contains a simple but proven plan that delivers the one key skill that every working person, every parent and student must master, and every teacher should teach: it's learning how to learn. The theory of eight multiple intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist) developed by Howard Gardner at Harvard University provides a foundation for the six-step MASTER-Mind system to facilitate learning (an acronym for Mind, Acquire, Search, Trigger, Exhibit, and Review), and is enhanced by the latest findings on the value of emotion and memory on the process of learning.

Combined with motivational stories of success applying these principles, and putting forth a clear vision of how the United States can dramatically improve the education system to remain competitive in the next century, Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century is a dynamic tool for self-improvement by individuals as diverse as schoolchildren and corporate executives.

Customer Reviews

Boooooooo! Hisssssss!
I'm beginning to detect a pattern in these so-called "accelerated-learning" books. For one thing, their authors seem to be using them to greater or lesser degrees as platforms from which to hawk their seminars and mail-order courses. For another, they all have a gimmick. For instance, Tony Buzan's is "Mind Mapping," Paul Scheele's is "PhotoReading," Wim Wenger's is "Image Streaming"...and Rose's/Nicholl's is Acronyms. Sometimes these gimmicks work--as in the case of Buzan's--and sometimes they're pure snake oil (PhotoReading).

I wouldn't go so far as to call this book snake oil...but I also wouldn't go so far as to call it useful, either. There is very little fresh, useful information here. I have found better information in other books (try Buzan's--his books also smack of hucksterism, but they *do* contain some useful information and techniques). Aside from the "learning maps" technique (that is, Mind Mapping), there is very little here that will seem like more than very basic common sense to even the most mediocre of intellects. In other words, if you're absolutely helpless when it comes to learning, this book might help. If you're hoping, however, that this book will help you more readily absorb material in your graduate Victorian Poetry seminar, forget it.

This book is heavy on background information--research, sanitized for lay people. The instruction the give in analytical thinking is laughable. My impression is that the target audience is for the most part corporations...and I have to ask, "Do they really think business executives and secretaries are so stupid?" Here's their "learning strategy" for problem-solving:

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Then they go on to expand on these hard-to-grasp concepts. Much of the book consists of this type of pablum.

The front cover declares that this book will help you "Master a foreign language with ease." Guess what their instruction consists of...An ENTIRE CHAPTER devoted to peddling their language course. That's it! Unbelievable! They devote several more pages at the end of the book to peddle their program, too.

This is a TERRIBLE book. Anyone who says otherwise is probably working for the publisher! You've been warned.

Master the core skills of the Knowledge Worker
Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century

The next millennium will surely bring a revolution in the ways people learn. Learn faster, remember more, think creatively, and do deeper and more through analysis will be the demands placed upon every knowledge worker of the future. Anyone who wants to excel in the 21st century must master these core skills. Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century reviews the latest research in psychology, business, and education to bring forward some basic principles for improved learning. The techniques incorporate the work of Dr. Howard Gardner of Harvard University on multiple intelegences, of Arthur Costa and others on learning styles, and of Nobel Prize winners Roger Sperry and Robert Ornstein on left and right brain specialization.

Colin Rose has synthesized the work of scores of key educational researchers and created a model of learning that allows individuals to understand how they learn best and to use new techniques that accentuate and compliment individual learning styles. The six-step M-A-S-T-E-R program explains how the learner's state-of-mind, input methods, exploration techniques, memory creation, demonstration models, and review techniques improve learning. From early childhood learning to lifelong learning, this book covers it all. The authors offer a simple and practical plan for children, parents, knowledge workers, and teachers to "learn how to learn and how to think logically and creatively."

In the later chapters of the book the authors challenge many of our conventional educational practices. They explore the application of "Total Quality Management" techniques to our contemporary school environments. They propose a plan for high-tech learning utilizing and expanding the concept of networks. And, they identify a new relationship that will exist between employees and their employer's in the next millennium, the idea that every employee will need to perform like and independent contractor in a learning organization.

Hooray!
I found Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century to be an enlightening, well-researched, comprehensive and even entertaining book.

It is an excellent introduction to the entire accelerated learning system of learning which the authors seem to have applied from cradle to grave! Although the subject matter ranges from early learning to corporate training, from the value of music to language-learning, there is plenty of "meat" for would-be learners of any age or interest.

It is not a book for intellectual snobs but for people seriously interested in improving their personal ability to learn anything faster and easier.