Passionate Learner : How Teachers and Parents Can Help Children Reclaim the Joy of Discovery.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Of Passionate Learning, Food Fights, and Who Needs Soccer? -- The Promise of Passionate Learning -- The Promise -- The Chasm -- Reclaiming the Promise -- What Teachers Can Do to Reclaim the Promise -- Revisiting the Chasm -- What Parents Can Do to Reclaim the Promise -- What Schools and Systems Can Do to Reclaim the Promise -- The Practice of Passionate Learning -- Curriculum as Relationships -- Curriculum? Who -- Parents and Curriculum -- Words of Power -- A''Good Enough'' Literacy Program -- Lift Every Voice -- Passionate Teaching and Learning in an Era of Standardization -- A Passion for Excellence- and How We Undermine It -- Celebrating '' Inconsistent Excellence'' -- Education at the Millennium -- Passionate Teaching and Learning in an Era of Standardization -- Unsung Heroes -- Notes -- A Few Thoughts and Acknowledgments -- Index.
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Education -- Parent participation. Effective teaching. Motivation in education.