Best Schools How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice

Name: Best Schools How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice
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ISBN: 9781416604570

ISBN-10: 141660457X

ISBN-13: 9781416604570

Edition: 2006

Authors: Thomas Armstrong, David Elkind

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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…

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List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
Publication date: 11/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 182
Size: 6.38" wide x 8.98" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.594