This is the book-length version of the much briefer manifesto (64 page PDF) released last year. It's available in Pressbooks format or 197 page PDF. It is composed of 30 essays from various authors organized around the three major themes: rethinking teaching and learning; responsibility, ethics and power; and imagination, humanity and the future. I have mixed feelings about both the messaging and the purplish prose, but I do like the structure. And we don't have to fret silently if we disagree; there's an interactive website where you can respond to each of the essays (and it's nice to see people actually interacting on it). My favourite comment so far, on the section called "Curiosity surpasses completion": "I interpret this as learning is in the process, not in the product. In which case I agree. Could be made plainer English." The same (?) anonymous poster reaction to another chapter: "This is a bit abstracty as it stands."
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