The Passionate Learner
Subtitle: How Teachers and Parents Can Help Children Reclaim the Joy of Discovery
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: October 13, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780807031445
Subjects: Study & learning skills; Teaching Methods & Materials - General; Effective teaching; Education; Education / Teaching; Parent Participation; Educational Psychology; Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General; Motivation in education
Description: This book is a guide to reclaiming students' passionate engagement in learning. The author starts with vivid portraits of young children as passionate learners, invoking the voices and hopes of parents and teachers. He shows us how a "chasm" develops between the initial promise of every child and the reality of life in school. Then, step by step, he shows how teachers--and parents as allies--can encourage and develop passionate learning in all kids.