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Autore: | Engel Susan L. <1959-> |
Titolo: | The end of the rainbow : how educating for happiness (not money) would transform our schools / / Susan Engel |
Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : The New Press, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina: | 370.1 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The end of the rainbow |
ISBN: | 1-62097-016-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910464096103321 |
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