Growing Minds

Informationen zum Autor Herbert Kohl is the author of such seminal books as 36 Children and The Open Classroom. Growing Minds is his tenth book concerning the subject of education. Currently, he is working in the field of learning and computer technology. Klappentext Herbert Kohl, one of America's most influential and provocative educators, believes that the only way to persist and to grow as a teacher is to commit oneself to the development of the child rather than to the regimented training of the pupil. His book is a lively, personal testament of one teacher's efforts to cultivate the natural vitality of the learning process; it is also a wondefully concrete and practical guide full of stories of individual students and how they were helped to grow through learning. Zusammenfassung Herbert Kohl! one of America's most influential and provocative educators! believes that the only way to persist and to grow as a teacher is to commit oneself to the development of the child rather than to the regimented training of the pupil. His book is a lively! personal testament of one teacher's efforts to cultivate the natural vitality of the learning process; it is also a wondefully concrete and practical guide full of stories of individual students and how they were helped to grow through learning.

Product details

• Authors: Herbert R Kohl, Herbert R. Kohl, Kohl Herbert
• Assisted by: Featherstone Joseph (Foreword)
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.02.1989
• EAN: 9780061320897
• ISBN: 978-0-06-132089-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Psychology, Psychology: emotions, teacher training, Teaching skills and techniques, Higher education, tertiary education, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION: Leadership, EDUCATION: Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION: Administration / General, EDUCATION: EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATION: Learning Styles, EDUCATION: Teacher & Student Mentoring, EDUCATION: Schools / Levels / Higher, EDUCATION: Teaching / General