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Educating the whole child for the whole world : the Ross School Model and education for the Global Era /

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we are living in a global era, yet schooling systems remain generally reactive and slow to adapt to shifting economic, technological, demographic, and cultural terrains. There is a growing urgency to create, evaluate, and expand new models of education that a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M., 1956-, Sattin-Bajaj, Carolyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2010.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword: Reflections of a Ross school graduate / Nick Appelbaum
  • Introduction: architectures of care: educating the whole child for the whole world / Marcelo M. Suárez- Orozco, Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj and Carola Suárez-Orozco
  • Education in an era of specialized knowledge / Vartan Gregorian
  • The case for global education / John Sexton
  • A tangled web: reflections on the roles of science, policy, and assessment in education / Howard Gardner
  • Mind, brain, and education / Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio
  • Research schools: connecting research and practice at the Ross School / Christina Hinton and Kurt W. Fischer
  • Toward a new educational philosophy / Hideaki Koizumi
  • Multimedia literacy: a critical component of twenty-first-century education / Elizabeth M. Daley with Holly Willis
  • Object lessons / Sherry Turkle
  • The trouble with math / Ralph Abraham
  • Choreographing the curriculum: the founder's influence as artist, visionary, and humanitarian / Debra McCall
  • Mathematics and culture / William Irwin Thompson
  • The butterflies of the soul / Antonio M. Battro
  • Educating the whole child for the whole world: the Ross model in Sweden / Sally Booth with Michele Claeys
  • Epilogue: we are waiting for you / Pedro Noguera
  • Conclusion / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj.