Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools by Little, Tom

Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools

The longtime head of Park Day School, Tom Little embarked on a tour of 43 progressive schools...
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Author: Tom Little
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Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools by Little, Tom

Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools

€47,74

Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools

€47,74
Author: Tom Little
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The longtime head of Park Day School, Tom Little embarked on a tour of 43 progressive schools across the country. In this book, his life's work, he interweaves his teaching experience, the knowledge he gleaned from his trip, and the history of Progressive Education. As Little and Katherine Ellison reveal, these educators and schools invigorate learning and promote inquisitiveness by allowing the curriculum to grow organically out of children's questions--whether they lead to studying the senses, working on a farm, or re-creating a desert ecosystem in the classroom.

We see curious students draw on information across disciplines to think in imaginative yet practical ways, like in a Mini-Maker Faire or designing and building a chair from scratch. Becoming good citizens was another of Little's goals. He believed in the need for students to learn how to become advocates for themselves, from setting rules on the playground to engaging in issues of social justice in the wider community.

Using the philosophy of Progressive Education, schools can prepare students to shape a vibrant future in the arts and sciences for themselves and the nation.



Author: Tom Little, Katherine Ellison
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/02/2015
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.47h x 7.08w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780393246162


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 01/12/2015
Library Journal 02/01/2015 pg. 92
Booklist 03/01/2015 pg. 7

About the Author
Little, Tom: - Tom Little served as head of Oakland, California's Park Day School for twenty-seven years. A national leader in Progressive Education, he cofounded the Progressive Education Network. He died in 2014 from cancer shortly after writing this book.Ellison, Katherine: - Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former foreign correspondent and the author of seven books, including The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes You Smarter and Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention. She lives in northern California.

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