Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 134
Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-61048-944-7 • Hardback • May 2014 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
978-1-61048-945-4 • Paperback • May 2014 • $30.00 • (£22.99)
978-1-61048-946-1 • eBook • May 2014 • $28.50 • (£21.99)
Lyn Lesch, a classroom teacher for twenty-four years, founded and directed The Children’s School, an alternative, democratically run school for children six to fourteen years of age in Evanston, Illinois from 1991 until 2003. The school received widespread attention in the Chicago media as a unique approach to education.
Introduction
Chapter 1: A New Paradigm
Chapter 2: Barriers to Success
Chapter 3: New Skills for a New Time
Chapter 4: Accountability and Initiative
Chapter 5: A Proper Structure
Chapter 6: Teacher and Student
Chapter 7: The World Outside of School
Chapter 8: The Inner Lives of Children in the Digital Age
Chapter 9: A Distracted Awareness and Creativity
Chapter 10: The Future of Schooling
Bibliography
Before we can ever hope to reimagine education for a changing world, we need to know what questions we should be asking. Lyn Lesch knows what those questions are, and Creative Learning for the Information Age is where he gathers together the answers for the rest of us. It’s a personal, eclectic, insightful examination of how adults can best support the holistic learning and growth of young people. If you care about the future of education, I urge you to read this book.
— Sam Chaltain, author of Our School: Searching for Community in the Era of Choice
An experienced school leader, Lyn Lesch has written a very thoughtful exploration of a much more creative approach to learning. The world needs more educators like him.
— Tony Wagner, Ed.D., Harvard University Innovation Lab and author of Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
In this era of extremely rapid change, education policy-making has been primarily reactionary. Lyn Lesch looks at the world as it is and is becoming and explores the potentially negative implications of unnecessarily restrictive predetermined curricula and core standards.
— Marion Brady, author of What’s Worth Teaching: Selecting, Organizing, and Integrating Knowledge