Awakening Young Minds: Perspectives on Education

by Denise D. Nessel

A perennial challenge for educators, writes Nessel, is one that Plato addressed in The Republic: "how to avoid simply feeding students information and instead get them to use their innate capacities and think for themselves." The solution, Nessel says, is not to impose a specific curriculum or method of instruction on everyone, but to think creatively about the individual situations of students, in order to improve conditions for learning. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883536057
• ISBN13: 9781883536053
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Malor Books
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"