Description
Education is currently a foremost concern for many Americans. Education, however, is about more than teaching children skills for earning a living and how to function in life. It is really a means of transmitting both a culture and a heritage.
William Irwin Thompson, one of today's most innovative interdisciplinary thinkers, talks about how to transform a cultural legacy in the course of transmitting it. His visionary approach takes education far beyond the bland, watered-down curricula so many students face today in public and private schools.
Thompson offers us a mind-rattling tour of our potential as human beings, from the Gilgamesh epic of 2000 B.C.E. to Disney, popular music, current politics and social crises, and beyond. He not only presents a far-reaching system of knowledge and teaching, but also suggests how we can stimulate the best and healthiest patterns of development in our children and teenagers.
Transforming History will enlighten today's educators and anyone concerned with improving our legacy and our children's place in it.
CONTENTS:
Foreword
Part One Cultural History and Complex Dynamical Systems
Part Two Transforming History
Appendix An Outline of the Curriculum
Index
Author: William Irwin Thompson
Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
Published: 04/24/2009
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.37d
ISBN13: 9781584200697
ISBN10: 1584200693
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Curricula
- History | Study & Teaching
- Education | Teaching | Subjects | Social Science
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