Time for School : How Humans Learn

Do you go to school?

If you are reading this book, chances are you do. Education allows us to learn about the world, develop new skills and fulfill our dreams for the future. But school can be dramatically different for children depending on things like where they live, how much money their families make and even what they look like.

Grab your tablet for a day at school in Ancient Rome. Take a class in a 19th-century one-room schoolhouse in the United States. Discover how nature schools and Indigenous land-based education work. Find out how technology and artificial intelligence (AI) is changing curriculums and how teachers, librarians and students are fighting book bans in schools. Time for School explores who learns, what we learn, where we learn, when we learn and how we learn in the past, present and into the future.

The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

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. She is the author of Less Is More and Get Outside! in the Orca Footprints series. Leah lives in British Columbia with her family.

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.