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The Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice

by Thomas Armstrong
RM45.00 MYR
The Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice
The Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice

Insightful fusion of education and human development.

By delving into "The Best Schools," you'll find an enlightening perspective that merges educational practices with the nuances of human development. Armstrong adeptly offers a roadmap to transforming traditional teaching methods based on robust research, which might just reshape your views on how educational systems should evolve. If you're passionate about education or if you're a professional in the field seeking a transformative approach, this could be the next must-read on your list.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice

by Thomas Armstrong
RM45.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9781416604570
Authors: Thomas Armstrong
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Developme
Date of Publication: 2006-11-15
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Personal Development
Related Topics: Parenting, Personal Development
Goodreads rating: 3.97
(rated by 66 readers)

Description

Educators, politicians, parents, and even students are consumed with speaking the language of academic achievement. Yet something is missing in the current focus on accountability, standardized testing, and adequate yearly progress. If schools continue to focus the conversation on rigor and accountability and ignore more human elements of education, many students may miss out on opportunities to discover the richness of individual exploration that schools can foster. In The Best Schools, Armstrong urges educators to leave narrow definitions of learning behind and return to the great thinkers of the past 100 years—Montessori, Piaget, Freud, Steiner, Erikson, Dewey, Elkind, Gardner—and to the language of human development and the whole child. The Best Schools highlights examples of educational programs that are honoring students' differences, using developmentally appropriate practices, and promoting a humane approach to education that includes an emphasis on play for early childhood learning, theme- and project-based learning for elementary school students, active learning that recognizes the social, emotional, and cognitive needs of adolescents in middle schools, and mentoring, apprenticeships, and cooperative education for high school students. Educators in "the best schools" recognize the differences in the physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual worlds of students of different ages. This book will help educators reflect on how to help each student reach his or her true potential, how to inspire each child and adolescent to discover an inner passion to learn, and how
 

Insightful fusion of education and human development.

By delving into "The Best Schools," you'll find an enlightening perspective that merges educational practices with the nuances of human development. Armstrong adeptly offers a roadmap to transforming traditional teaching methods based on robust research, which might just reshape your views on how educational systems should evolve. If you're passionate about education or if you're a professional in the field seeking a transformative approach, this could be the next must-read on your list.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.