A Gift of Wonder: A True Story Showing School as It Should Be Contributor(s): Allsup, Kim (Author) |
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ISBN: 1584209542 ISBN-13: 9781584209546 Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
Binding Type: Paperback Published: September 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Education | Aims & Objectives - Biography & Autobiography | Educators |
Dewey: 371.102 |
LCCN: 2021275990 |
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.79 lbs) 240 pages |
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Publisher Description: Can you remember the world of movement, wonder, and intense sensation that you lived in when you were six years old? Does education mean filling a bucket or does it mean lighting a fire? In today's predominant educational environment, where high-stakes testing and anxiety reign, it's clear that the goal, though implicit, is to fill buckets. Kim Allsup would like us to start lighting fires--to stop treating children like empty buckets. She sees that the vital essence of education has been sucked out of most schools today; that we must strive, above all, to it bring it back; and that the situation is indeed urgent. Yet this book contains no arguments--it is not a change-of-policy proposal, nor is it a polemical treatise. Kim Allsup is a teacher and a teller of stories, and so this book, to look only at the surface, tells the story of the six years a teacher spent with her class. However, it does much more than that. Funny, poignant, moving, relatable, and finally, life-affirming, and hopeful, this memoir gently shows the way to an educational approach that is worthy of childhood--one rooted in wonder. Wonder is a challenging word. It has been overused and commercialized and its true definition is perhaps endangered, but it is nevertheless a uniquely human experience, and to stifle or remove it from the lives of our children is to court a barren and dismal future--yet wonder remains alive We may need only to be reminded of it. This story is a living reminder of the simple beauty of childhood wonder and our responsibility to the future never to give it up. ∞ ∞ ∞ CONTENTS: Foreword Working with Wonder Reflections |
Contributor Bio(s): Allsup, Kim: - Kim Allsup has a B.A. from Brown University and a M.Ed. and Waldorf Certification from Antioch New England Graduate School. She has been teaching at the Waldorf School of Cape Cod for more than twenty years. |
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