Education is everybody's business : a wake-up call to advocates of educational change / Bernice D. Bleedorn.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Bleedorn, Berenice D. Bahr.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Creative thinking.
• Thought and thinking--Study and teaching.
• Educational change.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2005.

Summary:

• Evidence shows that disappointment in public education and its traditional management system has led to the creation of alternative education systems that are doing a better job of serving diverse student populations. The disenchantment of educators with the prescriptive, bureaucratic nature of much of the educational administrative system has grown since No Child Left Behind. Excellent teachers and administrators have left the profession because of the public education system, and there is increased sentiment to update formal education. We seem to be at a crossroads where public demand and action for educational change and updating is the only way reform can be accomplished.
• In Education Is Everybody's Business, Berenice D. Bleedorn reminds readers of the crucial value of creative, critical, systemic, and futuristic thinking in an integrative, interactive global system. Our social and political institutions depend upon the capacity of both leadership and followership for complex, fair-minded thinking. Both the public and educators need to be catalysts for change. They need to understand that programs and strategies for effective learning for a wide range of students are available: that the impetus for such institutional change depends upon their initiative: and that new directives require the powerful voice of the informed electorate in search of positive change. This book will be useful to those seeking information for more effective operations and those committed to serving the learning needs of students.

Contents:

• Education is everybody's business : valuing creativity
• Education
• understand it backwards, live it forwards
• The creativity factor in education
• Habits of thought
• E. Paul Torrance and his creative education legacy (self expression is the primary sacrament of the universe)
• Education for creative problem solving
• Creativity=capital
• Educating for leadership
• The evolution of a global intellect
• How green was my planet
• Balancing science, technology, and the humanities
• Education for democracy
• Appendix A. Mind map
• Appendix B. Beyonder survey and key
• Appendix C. Statements of students.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index.

ISBN:

1578862981

OCLC:

60419443