Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

by Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica

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Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization's history. Now, the internationally recognized leader on creativity and human potential focuses on one of the most critical issues of our time, how to transform the nation's troubled educational system. At a time when standardized testing businesses are raking in huge profits, when many schools are struggling, and students and educators show more everywhere are suffering under the strain, Robinson points the way forward. He argues for an end to our outmoded industrial educational system and proposes a highly personalized, organic approach that draws on today's unprecedented technological and professional resources to engage all students, develop their love of learning, and enable them to face the real challenges of the twenty-first century. Filled with anecdotes, case histories, and groundbreaking research, Creative Schools will inspire teachers, parents, and policy makers alike to rethink the real nature and purpose of education. show less

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Ken Robinson is determined to help education, and I think Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education is his best effort yet. Robinson seeks out schools and teachers and methodologies that produce fabulous results and shares these schools and teachers and methodologies with us. You can't help but be motivated to join Robinson's revolution after reading this book, I think.
This was very underwhelming. And frustrating.
I was better served by watching TED lectures.

It's like he tries to make conversation and keeps forgetting the audience is there.

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Ken Robinson's Creative Schools offers a splendid and convincing vision for what training must move toward becoming. His intense suggestion to take action refers to superb cases where the instruction without bounds is occurring today. Try not to miss this imperative book!"— TONY WAGNER, writer of Creating Innovators and The Global Achievement Gap and Expert In Residence at Harvard University's Innovation Lab https://globalresearchessays.com/argumentative-essay
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"Argues for an end to the outmoded industrial educational system and proposes a highly personalized, organic approach that draws on technological and professional resources to engage all students, develop their love of learning, and enable them to face the challenges of the twenty-first century."

Contents: Introduction: One minute to midnight --
Back to basics --
Changing metaphors --
Changing schools --
Natural born learners --
The art of teaching --
What's worth knowing? --
Testing, testing --
Principles for principals --
Bring it all back home --
Changing the climate.
Robinson desarrolla en Escuelas creativas las ideas de su famosa charla TED «Cómo la escuela mata la creatividad» y ofrece soluciones innovadoras y revolucionarias para uno de los problemas más relevantes de nuestra sociedad: cómo transformar un sistema educativo que no funciona

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