Loving learning
Subtitle: how progressive education can save America's schools
By: Tom Little, and Katherine Ellison ; foreword by Ayelet Waldman
Contributors: Ellison, Katherine, 1957- author; Waldman, Ayelet, author of foreword
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780393246162
Subjects: Progressive education; Aims and objectives; Active learning; Educational change; Education; Student-centered learning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Ayelet Waldman; title: Introduction: Meet Me at Park Day; title: 1. "Remakers of Mankind"; title: 2. The Rug: Teaching to the Whole Child"; title: 3. The Inner Ear: Learning That Ignites Children's Senses; title: 4. The Magic Circle: Building Character and Community; title: 5. The Storyboard: The Progressive Heart of High Technology; title: 6. Tasting the Soup: Recipes to Calm a "Testing Mania"; title: 7. The Laboratory: Messiness and Failure - Progressive Education's Vulnerability and Strength; title: 8. The Petition: Promoting Social Justice; title: Conclusion: Back to the Future; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix Progressive Education Association: Seven Founding Principles; title: A List of Schools Using Progressive Education Methods; title: A (Somewhat Idiosyncratic) Top-Ten List of Books, Studies, and Articles Supporting the Benefits of Progressive Education; title: Park Day School's Sixth-Graders' Poem to Tom Little.