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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
OUR PRICE: $18.95  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: September 2017
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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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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.

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CONTENTS:

Foreword

Working with Wonder
1. Wonder
2. Confidence
3. Curiosity
4. Attention
5. Listening
6. Resilience
7. Gratitude
8. Perspective
9. Respect
10. Nurturing
11. Work
12. Responsibility
13. Inquiry
14. Balance
15. Insight
16. Hope
17. Friendship
18. Freedom
19. Experience
20. Turning Point
21. Awakening
22. Healing
23. Compassion
24. Destiny
25. Main Lessons
26. Love

Reflections
27. School as It Should Be


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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