Thomas Armstrong Ph. D.

If Einstein Ran the Schools (eBook, PDF)

Revitalizing U.S. Education

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Many world-class thinkers and creators have been concerned about the state of education in the United States. Discover their thoughts on how children really learn and what teachers must do to optimally tap children's latent abilities. During the last three decades, education reformers have pushed standardized testing and policies like No Child Left Behind and Common Core to improve test scores and proficiency in basic skills. However, during this period that author Thomas Armstrong calls the "miseducation of America," a number of troubling trends have surfaced, including a decrease in creative thinking scores among children in kindergarten through third grade. Rather than focus on what's wrong with the education system that has produced these outcomes, Armstrong lays out what creative thinkers know about how children should be educated. In an extended thought experiment, he asks what would happen if we turned the reins of educational policy over, not to the politicians and educational bureaucrats, but to eminent thinkers and creators like Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Martin Luther King Jr., Rachel Carson, Doris Lessing, Jane Goodall, and other seminal culture-builders. What might they say about the best way to educate a child? If Einstein Ran the Schools suggests that the answers to this intriguing question should guide future efforts to reform our nation's schools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440869785
• Artikelnr.: 68257056

Autorenporträt

Thomas Armstrong, PhD, is executive director of the American Institute for Learning and Human Development and an award-winning author and speaker. He has been an educator for more than 45 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One The Purpose of Education: Introducing Incredible Kids to an
Amazing World Chapter Two Imagination: Unleashing Our Children's Ability to
Mentally Soar Chapter Three Love of Learning: Affirming the Most Important
Goal of Education Chapter Four Creativity: Teaching outside the Box
Chapter Five Playfulness: Restoring Childhood to Preschool and Kindergarten
Chapter Six Curiosity: Feeding Our Children's Hunger for Knowledge Chapter
Seven Wonder: Reawakening Our Children's Sense of Awe for the Mystery of
Life Chapter Eight Individuality: Resisting Standardization, Datafication,
and Depersonalization in Education Chapter Nine Neurodiversity: Emphasizing
the Strengths of Kids with Special Needs Chapter Ten Compassion: Educating
the Heart in the "Selfie" Generation Chapter Eleven Care for Nature:
Cultivating a Reverence for All Living Things Chapter Twelve Tolerance:
Nurturing a Deep Respect for Human Differences Chapter Thirteen Beauty:
Sensitizing Kids to an Aesthetic Appreciation of the World Chapter Fourteen
The Einstein Classroom: Education for Our Children's Future Appendix A
Weapons of Mass Instruction: Fifteen Reasons Standardized Tests Are
Worthless Appendix B Leonardo da Vinci's IEP Meeting: The Problem with
Special Education Appendix C A Resource Guide for Revitalizing U.S.
Education Notes Index