Brief Book Review: Learning {Re}imagined

By Graham Brown-Martin

In one quote:

‘Teachers should be model learners. Kids should come and learn to become good learners from their teachers who show them some of the best tricks in the trade of how to approach a problem if you’re puzzled by it, how to persist when you become frustrated’ - (from an interview with Mitch Resnik, Professor of learning research at MIT, p.189)

Learning {Re}imagined is a rallying cry for the education community, connecting the dots between disconnected, passionate organisations and individuals around the world united in the goal to reimagine education. It’s a globe-trotting journey that takes Graham Brown-Martin and photographer Newsha Tavakolian from the dazzling skyline of Qatar to the rural villages in Bihar, India investigating approaches to raising the standard of education. I get the sense that Brown-Martin enjoyed his trip, and I valued the variety of perspectives on display.

Learning {Re}imagined’s strokes are broad, and by comparison lack the same depth found in other pedagogical books. The reader is exposed to so many environments and personalities that it’s difficult to come away with any one lasting impression.

Surprisingly, this plays to the book’s strengths rather than its weaknesses. As you jump from one location to another, it becomes clear that education is not a problem with a solution. There isn’t any one approach that trumps the rest. Instead Learning {Re}imagined introduces you to the global community offering the next generation the tools, skills and mindset to thrive. Come and join them the book says, there is space for you here.

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