{"product_id":"creativity-wisdom-and-trusteeship-exploring-the-role-of-education-paperback","title":"Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship: Exploring the Role of Education - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnna Craft\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHoward Gardner\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGuy Claxton\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"In today′s ′teach-to-the-test′ climate, do we ever need a book about wisdom and creativity! Our focus as educators is enriched by this book.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Robert Di Giulio, Professor \u003cbr\u003eJohnson State College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship may each sound good enough in itself, but the contributors to this volume make a compelling case for how much they need one another.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--David Perkins, Professor \u003cbr\u003eHarvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow do creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship translate into \"excellent and ethical\" educational practices?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important new volume from Anna Craft, Howard Gardner, and Guy Claxton focuses on the need to educate for \"wise creativity\" so that students will learn to expand their perspectives and exercise their talents responsibly within their school community and in the real world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe editors′ theories, plus contributions from noted scholars Dean Keith Simonton, David Henry Feldman, Jonathan Rowson, Helen Haste, Patrick Dillon, Hans Henrik Knoop, Christopher Bannerman, Robert J. Sternberg, and Dave Trotman, develop a concept of teachers as \"trustees,\" or respected, nonpartisan role models who can exercise wise creativity in their classrooms and cultivate this quality in their students.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book explores a wide range of questions, such as: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat is the nature of creativity and wisdom and what does it mean to exercise a balance between the two?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat do creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship look like in society and in the school community?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow can schools educate for creativity tempered by wisdom?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat does it take to nurture trustee leadership in the classroom and schoolwide?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThought-provoking and incisive, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis essential reading for all members of the educational community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Craft\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Education at the University of Exeter, England, where she leads the CREATE research cluster. She is also Reader at The Open University, England, and Director of The Open Creativity Centre. She is founding Co-Editor \u003ci\u003eThinking Skills and Creativity\u003c\/i\u003e (Elsevier) and founding Co-Convenor of the \u003ci\u003eBritish Educational Research Association Special Interest Group, Creativity in Education\u003c\/i\u003e. She holds a Visiting appointment at Harvard University and has held visiting appointments at Hong Kong Institute of Education. Her most recent books include \u003ci\u003eCreative Learning 3-11 and how we document it\u003c\/i\u003e (Trentham Books, 2007), \u003ci\u003eCreativity in Schools: Tensions and Dilemmas \u003c\/i\u003e(Routledge, 2005), \u003ci\u003e Creativity and Early Years Education \u003c\/i\u003e(Continuum, 2002), \u003ci\u003eCreativity Across the Primary Curriculum \u003c\/i\u003e(RoutledgeFalmer, 2000).\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHer empirical work, informed by constructivist and socio-cultural views of learning, seeks to impact practice, policy and theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoward Gardner\u003c\/b\u003e is the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a leading thinker about education and human development; he has studied and written extensively about intelligence, creativity, leadership, and professional ethics. Gardner's most recent books include \u003ci\u003eGood Work, Changing Minds, The Development and Education of the Mind \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMultiple Intelligences: New Horizons\u003c\/i\u003e. His latest book \u003ci\u003eFive Minds for the Future\u003c\/i\u003e was published in April 2007. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuy Claxton\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Bristol Graduate School of Education, where he directs the research initiative on Culture, Learning, Identity and Organisations (CLIO). His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Wayward Mind: An Intimate History of the Unconscious\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eLearning for Life in the 21st Century: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education \u003c\/i\u003e(2002, co-edited with Gordon Wells), Wise Up: Learning to Live the Learning Life (1999) and the best-selling Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less (1997). His current work focuses on the development of infused approaches to the cultivation of positive lifelong learning dispositions in schools. The resulting ′Building Learning Power′ approach has influenced practice in schools throughout the UK, Australia and New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 10.06 x 7.15 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 13, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44612602855559,"sku":"9781412949408","price":66.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/gKuA_FIjJh9781412949408.webp?v=1779011413","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/creativity-wisdom-and-trusteeship-exploring-the-role-of-education-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}