1 Prologue -- 2 Introduction -- 3 Some thoughts about teaching and learning -- 4 The concept of educational disadvantage and some implications for the classroom teacher -- 5 Utilization of new knowledge and application of new ideas in education: A discussion of the vitalization of education as a profession and discipline -- 6 Education and the changing economic and industrial order: An international perspective -- 7 Research and the improvement of teaching -- 8 Recent conceptions of children's learning: Implications for classroom practice -- 9 Measuring and monitoring educational achievement -- 10 Engaging children's minds: innovative research and practice -- 11 A personal philosophy of education -- 12 The professional education of teachers -- 13 The timeless teacher: Contemporary research and ancient models -- 14 The value of principled eclecticism in education reform: 1965 and 2005 -- 15 Schooling today: Teaching competence, creativity and compassion -- 16 Mediated learning experience (MLE) strategies and children's cognitive plasticity -- 17 Epilogue.