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How School Crushes Creativity: And Why Self-Education Is Becoming the New Ethos
Contributor(s): Peters, Karma (Author)
ISBN: 1506091245     ISBN-13: 9781506091242
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE:   $56.99  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 2015
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- Education | Aims & Objectives
Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.65 lbs) 216 pages
 
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HAS TRADITIONAL EDUCATION BECOME AN UNHAPPY AND IRREPARABLY UNPRODUCTIVE PASSAGE FOR MOST CHILDREN? The answer is not clear-cut, but the question's social and economic overtones are. At a time when policymakers, social commentators and parents burst beyond the public-education system's boundaries to make topics of teacher accountability, school performance and federal subsidies a source of unending socioeconomic debate, traditional education is gradually denying students a key ingredient for existential fulfillment: creativity. The book explains why creativity and imagination are as momentous as math, reading and science, excavating new ground in the debate for a better school and supplying a theoretical foundation for the solving of some of the most vexing problems faced by modern-day educators, policymakers, social scientists and businesspeople.

The book contains a helpful Discussion Guide. Through thought-provoking questions, the book gives extensive advice on how to use the discussion guide, how to inform decisions related to the topics at hand, and how to best read it - alone, in reading groups, with your partner, or as part of learning activities, among others.

After reading this book, you will understand:

  • Why schools kill creativity;
  • Why experts think that creatively oriented curricula can help balance the current didactic gap;
  • The upsetting detriments that children - and society as a whole - bear as a result of this gap; and
  • The comprehensive yet feasible solutions that policymakers can implement to fix the creativity quandary and align academic objectives with the goals of businesses and society as a whole.

Who will benefit from this book?

  • Federal education officials, including policymakers and specialists at the Department of Education;
  • State and local policymakers;
  • Teachers;
  • Teacher unions;
  • Education support professionals
  • District and school leaders;
  • Students;
  • Families; and
  • Business and community leaders.