Time for School: How Humans Learn
About this ebook
- Explores the past, present and future of schools and who learns, why we learn, where we learn, when we learn and how we learn.
- Explores current topics including inclusivity and equity in access to education, cyberbullying, SOGI curriculum, book bans, technology and AI in the classroom, alternative schools, nature schools and Indigenous land-based education.
- Young readers will discover what it was like to go school around the world at different times in human history, including in Ancient Rome, a one-room schoolhouse in 19th-century North America and in secret schools during World War Two.
- Includes facts and statistics about kids and school. Boston Latin is the oldest public school in the United States and it opened in 1635. The COVID-19 pandemic meant 370 million children were at risk of missing free school meals. Most kids in North America get to school by vehicle, but others bike, walk or take a boat, subway, snowmobile, or gondola.
- Leah Payne is public librarian, writer and editor. She has written two books in the Orca Footprints series: Less is More: Join the Low-Waste Movement and Get Outside: How Humans Connect with Nature.
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About the author
Leah Payne is a writer, editor, public librarian and mother. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from Simon Fraser University and a master’s degree in library and information studies (MLIS) from the University of British Columbia. Leah lives in British Columbia with her family. She loves reading and learning and would probably go to school forever if she could! Leah is also the author of Less Is More and Get Outside!, both published by Orca.
Paige Jung is a Chinese Canadian illustrator, muralist and artist from so-called “Vancouver”, Canada. Using digital, gouache and acrylic mediums, Paige is known for her proficient use of color and gestural shapes to create illustrations that tell stories of connection, wonder, community and what makes us human. Paige is grateful to be creating, living and gathering on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
