Learning Redefined

Learning Redefined

Learning Redefined was written by and Dennis R. Rader. The 280 page book was published by in 2010 with an ISBN 10 of 0578031760. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Learning Redefined mentions 1 serial killers including Dennis Rader. The author Dennis R. Rader has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

Much of our educational effort is Sisyphean. The work of both teachers and students is wasted in passive, bulimic learning in response to correct-answer schooling and standardized tests. The missing ingredient is initiative--not only within student learning but within teaching--for teacher initiative has been systematically suppressed by a top-down bureaucratic command and control system. Initiative needs to be brought into our schooling.Learning Redefined investigates how neuroscience impacts education, especially in ways that excite and inform the right side of the brain. It points out how the metaphors currently guiding educational practice are not aligned with our democratic principles. Otherwise, education will fail in its primary func...