The Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice

Armstrong, Thomas

ISBN 10: 141660457X / ISBN 13: 9781416604570

Verlag: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Developme, 2006

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 141660457X-4-30255251

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice
• Verlag: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Developme
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 141660457X
• ISBN-13: 9781416604570
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Fair
• Gewicht: 9 Unzen

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Inhaltsangabe

Educators, politicians, parents, and even students are consumed with speaking the language of academic achievement. Yet something is missing in the current focus on accountability, standardized testing, and adequate yearly progress. If schools continue to focus the conversation on rigor and accountability and ignore more human elements of education, many students may miss out on opportunities to discover the richness of individual exploration that schools can foster.

In The Best Schools, Armstrong urges educators to leave narrow definitions of learning behind and return to the great thinkers of the past 100 years―Montessori, Piaget, Freud, Steiner, Erikson, Dewey, Elkind, Gardner―and to the language of human development and the whole child.

The Best Schools highlights examples of educational programs that are honoring students' differences, using developmentally appropriate practices, and promoting a humane approach to education that includes the following elements:

• An emphasis on play for early childhood learning.
• Theme- and project-based learning for elementary school students.
• Active learning that recognizes the social, emotional, and cognitive needs of adolescents in middle schools.
• Mentoring, apprenticeships, and cooperative education for high school students.

Educators in ""the best schools"" recognize the differences in the physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual worlds of students of different ages. This book will help educators reflect on how to help each student reach his or her true potential, how to inspire each child and adolescent to discover an inner passion to learn, and how to honor the unique journey of each individual through life.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.