If Einstein Ran the Schools : Revitalizing U.S. Education / Thomas Armstrong Ph.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Thomas, Ph.D., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Praeger, 2019.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400668258

9798216100782

9781440869785

1440869782

OCLC:

1119747973