The end of the rainbow : how educating for happiness (not money) would transform our schools / / Susan Engel
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| Autore: |
Engel Susan L. <1959->
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| Titolo: |
The end of the rainbow : how educating for happiness (not money) would transform our schools / / Susan Engel
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| 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 | |
| Classificazione: | EDU034000 |
| 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.: | 9910827965003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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