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Awakening Young Minds: Perspectives on Education

Awakening Young Minds: Perspectives on Education

Paperback

Letters & EssaysGeneral Education

Publisher Price: $15.99

ISBN10: 1883536057
ISBN13: 9781883536053
Publisher: Malor Books
Published: Jan 1 2011
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.45 Depth: 8.48
Language: English

A perennial challenge for educators, writes Nessel, is one that Plato addressed in The Republic: how to avoid simply feeding students information and instead get them to use their innate capacities and think for themselves. The solution, Nessel says, is not to impose a specific curriculum or method of instruction on everyone, but to think creatively about the individual situations of students, in order to improve conditions for learning. In this book, she presents a range of perspectives on schools, teaching and learning from writers as diverse as Leo Tolstoy, Howard Gardner and Elaine Landau - all concerned with the development of inquiring minds and critical thinking abilities.

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