When the Light Goes on: The Life-Changing Wonder of Learning in an Age of Metrics, Screens, and Diminished Human Connection by Rose, Mike
When the Light Goes on: The Life-Changing Wonder of Learning in an Age of Metrics, Screens, and Diminished Human Connection by Rose, Mike

When the Light Goes on: The Life-Changing Wonder of Learning in an Age of Metrics, Screens, and Diminished Human Connection

The final work from one of the most beloved voices in American education explores stories and lessons...
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When the Light Goes on: The Life-Changing Wonder of Learning in an Age of Metrics, Screens, and Diminished Human Connection by Rose, Mike

When the Light Goes on: The Life-Changing Wonder of Learning in an Age of Metrics, Screens, and Diminished Human Connection

$42.93
When the Light Goes on: The Life-Changing Wonder of Learning in an Age of Metrics, Screens, and Diminished Human Connection by Rose, Mike

When the Light Goes on: The Life-Changing Wonder of Learning in an Age of Metrics, Screens, and Diminished Human Connection

$42.93
Author: Mike Rose
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The final work from one of the most beloved voices in American education explores stories and lessons of transformative experiences in education

For more than a generation, American education has been structured as though it was built of and for concepts, not people. This has transformed education into a vast assessment, scoring, and ranking enterprise; a sales platform for high-tech entrepreneurs; and a fiercely competitive arena of advantage and status that grinds the poor and propels the middle class into debt.

In When the Light Goes On, educator Mike Rose features the stories of people of all ages and backgrounds to illuminate how education has added meaning to their lives. The inspiring stories include:

  • A supermarket checker whose job wore away his soul takes a remedial math class that starts him on a path to architecture school
  • A young man badly injured in a motorcycle accident finds both rehabilitation and a career in a welding program
  • A transgender youth's odyssey to self-definition extends though courses in social sciences and campus advocacy groups
  • A Native American athlete finds graduate study as a way to use her celebrity to articulate the needs of her people

When the Light Goes On helps us dig through the discord and fragmentation of school politics and policy to reclaim the mind and heart of education. Through various students' stories and his own, Rose provides an urgent reminder of the core purpose of education: to learn about ourselves and the world around us, to spark new interests, and to experience with guidance both the fulfillment and the uncertainty of exploring our limits--all in the service of creating a meaningful life.

Author: Mike Rose
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 02/20/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780807093344

About the Author
Mike Rose was an education scholar and author of 11 books. He was a research professor at the University of California-Los Angeles' Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. A popular contributor to national media as well as commercial and academic literature, Rose has written approximately 125 opinion pieces, commentaries, and essays.
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