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.