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Learning unleashed : reimagining and repurposing our schools / Evonne E. Rogers.
Van Pelt Library LB2822.82 .R638 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Evonne E., 1953- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School improvement programs--United States.
- School improvement programs.
- United States.
- Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Aims and objectives.
- Active learning--United States.
- Active learning.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 135 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
- Summary:
- Children enter the world curiously hard-wired for creativity and imagination. After a few short years of school, something drastically changes for them. Why? There is an unmistakable and deliberate attempt to control the learning of young people who find themselves sitting in our schools. The industrial model of schooling has taken its toll and victims without remorse. It programs curious young minds to become helpless, dependent, and compliant. After years of observing and participating in some of these questionable practices herself, Evonne decided it was time to tell the truth about schools. With a credible and strong voice, Evonne tackles the "sacred school rituals" that are rarely questioned and widely accepted as normal. She transparently leads the reader through firmly-held and often faulty assumptions about schooling practices. She offers common sense solutions that challenge us to re-imagine how we do school in this country. With strong conviction, passion, and a call to action, she encourages us to hear and listen to the voices of our children who are crying out for the freedom to learn. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 "Home" School 1
- 2 The Kindergarten Experiment 11
- 3 Eight Years of This? 21
- 4 Neighborhoods: A Lost Oasis 29
- 5 School Daze 33
- 6 Schools of Education 43
- 7 Leadership Lessons 53
- 8 Exposing the Truth 61
- 9 Voices from the Field 69
- 10 Out of the Box 77
- 11 Ten "Un"commandments (Part 1) 85
- 12 Ten "Un"commandments (Part 2) 97
- 13 The Recovery Process 113.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rogers, Evonne E., 1953- author. Learning unleashed
- ISBN:
- 9781475829198
- 1475829191
- 9781475829204
- 1475829205
- OCLC:
- 946160481
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