TY - BOOK AU - Little,Tom AU - Ellison,Katherine AU - Waldman,Ayelet TI - Loving learning: how progressive education can save America's schools SN - 9780393246162 (hardcover) AV - LB 1027.3 L778l 2015 U1 - 370.973 PY - 2015///] CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Company KW - Progressive education KW - United States KW - Education KW - Aims and objectives KW - Educación KW - Fines y objetivos KW - Estados Unidos KW - Active learning KW - Aprendizaje activo KW - Student-centered learning KW - Aprendizaje centrado en el estudiante KW - Educational change KW - Cambio educativo N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index; Foreword by Ayelet Waldman Introduction: Meet me at Park Day 1. "Remakers of mankind" 2. The rug: teaching to the "whole child" 3. The inner ear: learning that ignites children's senses 4. The magic circle: building character and community 5. The storyboard: the progressive heart of high technology 6. Tasting the soup: recipes to calm a "testing mania" 7. The laboratory: messiness and failure progressive education's vulnerability and strength 8. The petition: promoting social justice Conclusion: Back to the future Epilogue Appendix: Progressive Education Association: seven founding principles A list of schools using progressive education methods A (somewhat idiosyncratic) top-ten list of books, studies, and articles supporting the benefits of progressive education Park Day School's sixth-graders' poem to Tom Little N2 - The longtime head of Park Day School, Tom Little embarked on a tour of 43 progressive schools across the country. In this book, his life's work, he interweaves his teaching experience, the knowledge he gleaned from his trip, and the history of Progressive Education. As Little and Katherine Ellison reveal, these educators and schools invigorate learning and promote inquisitiveness by allowing the curriculum to grow organically out of children's questions - whether they lead to studying the senses, working on a farm, or re-creating a desert ecosystem in the classroom. We see curious students draw on information across disciplines to think in imaginative yet practical ways, like in a "Mini-Maker Faire" or designing and building a chair from scratch. Becoming good citizens was another of Little's goals. He believed in the need for students to learn how to become advocates for themselves, from setting rules on the playground to engaging in issues of social justice in the wider community. Using the philosophy of Progressive Education, schools can prepare students to shape a vibrant future in the arts and sciences for themselves and the nation ER -