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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.
Produktinformation
Utgivningsdatum2019-10-11
Mått156 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt510 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781440869778
UtmärkelserWinner of 2020 IPPY Award, Silver, Education II (Commentary/Theory) Category 2019
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.
Chapter One The Purpose of Education: Introducing Incredible Kids to an Amazing WorldChapter Two Imagination: Unleashing Our Children's Ability to Mentally SoarChapter Three Love of Learning: Affirming the Most Important Goal of EducationChapter Four Creativity: Teaching outside the BoxChapter Five Playfulness: Restoring Childhood to Preschool and KindergartenChapter Six Curiosity: Feeding Our Children's Hunger for KnowledgeChapter Seven Wonder: Reawakening Our Children's Sense of Awe for the Mystery of LifeChapter Eight Individuality: Resisting Standardization, Datafication, and Depersonalization in EducationChapter Nine Neurodiversity: Emphasizing the Strengths of Kids with Special NeedsChapter Ten Compassion: Educating the Heart in the "Selfie" GenerationChapter Eleven Care for Nature: Cultivating a Reverence for All Living ThingsChapter Twelve Tolerance: Nurturing a Deep Respect for Human DifferencesChapter Thirteen Beauty: Sensitizing Kids to an Aesthetic Appreciation of the WorldChapter Fourteen The Einstein Classroom: Education for Our Children's FutureAppendix A Weapons of Mass Instruction: Fifteen Reasons Standardized Tests Are WorthlessAppendix B Leonardo da Vinci's IEP Meeting: The Problem with Special EducationAppendix C A Resource Guide for Revitalizing U.S. EducationNotesIndex
