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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827965003321

Autore

Engel Susan L. <1959->

Titolo

The end of the rainbow : how educating for happiness (not money) would transform our schools / / Susan Engel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : The New Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-62097-016-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Classificazione

EDU034000

Disciplina

370.1

Soggetti

Education - Aims and objectives - United States

Education - Economic aspects - United States

Education and state - United States

Education - Philosophy

Education - Psychological aspects

Educational change - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROLOGUE; ONE The Money Trail; TWO How Money Impoverishes Education; THREE Rich or Poor, It's Good to Have Money; FOUR How Happiness Enriches Schools; FIVE A Blueprint for Well-Being; SIX What We Should Measure; AFTERWORD; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Amid the hype of Race to the Top, online experiments such as Khan Academy, and bestselling books like The Sandbox Investment, we seem to have drawn a line that leads from nursery school along a purely economic route, with money as the final stop. But what price do we all pay for the increasingly singular focus on wage as the outcome of education? Susan Engel, a leading psychologist and educator, argues that this economic framework has had a profound impact not only on the way we think about education but also on what happens inside school buildings.The End of the Rainbow asks what would happen