Creative Schools
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At a time when standardized testing businesses are raking in huge profits, when many schools are struggling, and students and educators everywhere are suffering under the strain, Ken Robinson argues for an end to our outmoded industrial educational system. He proposes instead 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, observations, and recommendations from professionals on the front line of transformative education, case histories, and groundbreaking research, Creative Schools aims to inspire teachers, parents, and policy makers alike to rethink the real nature and purpose of education.
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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.
2.5 stars...this book is full of good ideas and anecdotes about inspiring schools. But it's just that - vague calls to action and anecdotes. Maybe I am not the target audience? I am a teacher and I wonder if the target audience might be school administrators or politicians, with the intention of encouraging them to throw their support behind alternative schools and schools trying new things. As a teacher, most of the anecdotes in this book deal with very alternative schools, which is interesting, but I would have loved to hear more about how these ideas could be implemented within a more typical school. In both types of schools he described (the alternative schools and the few examples of typical public schools), he gave little to no information about HOW these changes were made. There was lots of info about how the ideas were developed, and then about how it worked out, but not a lot about what that transition looked like.
I feel bad giving this book such a low rating because I do think it's a very important subject and Ken Robinson is a significant voice in pushing for school reform but this...just felt repetitive and lacking depth.
