To Create the World That Ought to Be - Arnie Langberg

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Résumé :
To Create the World That Ought to Be explores enticing possibilities and proven solutions for transforming our society and ourselves, as viewed through the lens of the life and work of a celebrated visionary educator. The book gathers insight distilled from the author's 50-year career making change and empowering other changemakers through his work as a teacher, principal, and administrator of alternative public schools, and as a creative community organizer and provocative university professor in the US and around the world. This hero's journey story manages to find realistic, road-tested reasons for hope, even while conducting a clear-eyed and penetrating investigation of the most daunting challenges of our times. One of the most precious and timely lessons we learn from this great teacher is that if we want our children to be the best human beings they can be, we need to create learning environments designed to foster that humanity - and, in that noble endeavor, our greatest resource is our own compassionate humanity. Arnie's story will appeal to anyone interested to explore the dynamics of change - both in individuals and in society. Published by Earthville Press, a nonprofit publishing platform for world-changing ideas. earthville.org/books

Biographie:
After graduating from MIT in 1955, Arnie Langberg began his 50-year career in public education by teaching mathematics at the New York high school from which he had graduated. In 1957, Arnie collaborated with students and a colleague to create the Iota Society, which for ten years offered seminars, concerts and trips to cultural events in New York for students and their parents. In 1970, Arnie joined students in the creation of the Great Neck Village School, one of the first public alternative high schools in the USA. In 1975, Arnie became the first principal of Mountain Open High School in Colorado, which was praised as a model for the reform of secondary education. As Administrator of Alternative Education for Denver Public Schools, Arnie received a grant from the US Labor Department in 1988 to develop High School Redirection, an alternative school for at-risk inner-city students, most of whom the conventional school system had abandoned. Arnie discussed HSR in Empowering Students to Shape Their Own Learning, his chapter in Public Schools That Work, edited by Gregory Smith. He also contributed a chapter entitled Caring and Engagement to Restructuring Education, published in 1990 by the Colorado Department of Education. Arnie received the Colorado Governor's Award for Educational Excellence in 1991.

Sommaire:
To Create the World That Ought to Be explores enticing possibilities and proven solutions for transforming our society and ourselves, as viewed through the lens of the life and work of a celebrated visionary educator. The book gathers insight distilled from the author's 50-year career making change and empowering other changemakers through his work as a teacher, principal, and administrator of alternative public schools, and as a creative community organizer and provocative university professor in the US and around the world. This hero's journey story manages to find realistic, road-tested reasons for hope, even while conducting a clear-eyed and penetrating investigation of the most daunting challenges of our times. One of the most precious and timely lessons we learn from this great teacher is that if we want our children to be the best human beings they can be, we need to create learning environments designed to foster that humanity - and, in that noble endeavor, our greatest resource is our own compassionate humanity. Arnie's story will appeal to anyone interested to explore the dynamics of change - both in individuals and in society. Published by Earthville Press, a nonprofit publishing platform for world-changing ideas. earthville.org/books...