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La obra en su totalidad expone una visión transformadora que observa de un modo complejo aspectos tan valiosos para el mundo educativo, de las organizaciones administrativas y de servicios así como de la empresa, como la creatividad, la comunicación y cultura en un mundo en constante cambio. Su contenido está cuajado de reflexiones y propuestas prácticas que podrán ser implementadas en pos de organizar y crear ambientes idóneos para la interacción; generando, a su vez, una cultura innovadora acorde con las exigencias de la sociedad del conocimiento, sin abandonar jamás el estímulo creativo. Este ejemplar resultará de gran utilidad para educadores, formadores, asesores, directivos, psicólogos, gerentes, gestores de proyectos, líderes sociales, etcétera.

El libro, cuya autoría se atribuye al doctor y profesor Felipe Chibás Ortiz, dedicado a su familia, amigos y a América; consta de 272 páginas y 4 capítulos. Al finalizar cada capítulo aparecen recomendaciones, preguntas y ejercicios; así como anexos al final del libro. El objetivo del autor es tratar, de forma sencilla y amena, herramientas actuales y conceptos, como las rutinas creativas, la gestión de la innovación, el emprendedorismo social y verde y la economía creativa, mostrando investigaciones recientes llevadas a cabo por el autor y su equipo. Abarca temas fundamentales de interés general, en organizaciones educativo-culturales, en la era digital.

Esta obra es del profesor y doctor Felipe Chibás Ortiz, dedicado a su familia, amigos, a Cuba y América; está compuesta por ocho capítulos, recomendaciones, imágenes y anexos distribuidos en 360 páginas. Es un libro ameno e interesante, y su propósito es explicar la nueva etapa de vida poshumana en que está entrando la humanidad, así como las consecuencias sociológicas, filosóficas, éticas y educativas que esto trae para la creatividad y la innovación en la actualidad para personas, equipos, organizaciones y proyectos, en los ámbitos educativo, cultural y organizacional. Además, se abordan conceptos, metodologías e ideas como creatividad, innovación, inteligencia artificial, realidad ampliada, tercera juventud, océano azul, cisne negro, matriz de Napoleón, ética, economía creativa, entre otros. Está destinado especialmente a las nuevas organizaciones y proyectos educativo-culturales que están siendo construidos en todo el mundo, incluyendo escuelas, universidades, institutos de enseñanza de nuevo tipo y organismos internacionales como la UNICEF y la UNESCO. Se muestran recientes investigaciones realizadas por el autor y su equipo, así como por otros autores.

Here are 51 easy-to-use, classroom-tested alternatives to the “stand and deliver” teaching techniques that cause so many students to tune out or drop out. Teachers report that these techniques motivate students to participate in learning, as they build confidence and are supported by compelling and safe ways to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of lessons. Refined through years of classroom experiences and supported by updated research, this 2nd edition delivers a dozen new techniques to engage K–12 students in active learning. The authors provide detailed descriptions of the Total Participation Techniques (TPTs) with step-by-step instructions--plus reproducible blackline masters for student response cards as well as posters to remind you to use the techniques. They also suggest how you can adapt and personalize the techniques to fit your context and content. Packed with examples from authentic classrooms, Total Participation Techniques is an essential toolkit for teachers who want to present lessons that are relevant, engaging, and cognitively challenging. Pérsida Himmele and William Himmele are professors who regularly work with preservice teachers and consult with educators in U.S. and international schools. They are also the authors of Total Literacy Techniques.

It is with the proper alignment of the stars that this book has manifested. The words waited patiently, and have now jumped excitedly onto these pages to form a tool that can serve in revolutionizing education. Education is the alchemical key to the evolution and enlightenment of humanity. This “Lessons for Living Program” is based on forty lessons that guide students through an exploration of the four domains of the self: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Each lesson provides expressive art activities to enhance the process and to generate meaningful content. This book consists of four sections, with each offering detailed, easy-to-read, and easy-to-follow instructions. Its contents offer children a foundational program of self-exploration, an important support for all other learning that will take place in preparation for adulthood. In addition, there is an extensive appendix with templates for “Healthy Eating Plate,” “Medicine Wheel,” and a “Certificate of Participation.” As well as, “Group Warm-up Ideas,” “The Emergence of a New Educational Paradigm in America,” and “Suggested Readings.” This curriculum, especially intended for school environments adopting holistic principles, can assist in our necessary advancement as we herald in a new golden age on Earth.

Students'imaginations are often considered as something that might be engaged after the hard work of learning has been done. Countering such beliefs, Egan and Judson show that the imagination—one of the great workhorses of learning—can be used to make all learning and all teaching more effective. Through techniques that any teacher can learn and easily apply in any classroom, they demonstrate how and why imagination can be used across the curriculum and grade levels to make teaching and learning more interesting, engaging, and pleasurable for all. Teachers who use these techniques will discover the emotions, images, stories, metaphors, sense of wonder, heroic narratives, and other cognitive tools that can bring life and energy to their classroom. This practical handbook will help teachers learn how to use these enlivening techniques in their daily practice to stimulate students'intellectual activity and growth.Book Features: A comprehensive description of imagination's role in thinking and learning. Field-tested teaching strategies for the K–12 classroom. Cross-curricular examples showing IE making a real difference for teachers and students. A “cognitive toolkit” to spur active learning and meaningful interaction.“What fun! Readers will get a host of practical ideas to make lessons come alive through the exercise of imagination, the use of metaphors, and the telling of stories. Read and enjoy.” —Nel Noddings, Lee Jacks Professor of Education Emerita, Stanford University

In The Freedom to Fail, veteran educator Andrew K. Miller explains the many benefits of intentionally designing opportunities for students to'fail forward'in the classroom. He provides a raft of strategies for ensuring that students experience small, constructive failures as a means to greater achievement, and offers practical suggestions for ensuring that constructive failure doesn't detrimentally affect students'summative assessments. He also describes how teachers, too, can benefit from failure. Establishing a culture that embraces the freedom to fail helps students to adopt a growth mindset, take risks in the service of greater learning, and develop realistic expectations of what it takes to succeed in the world at large. If we deliberately let our students fail in small ways today, we can help to ensure that they'll triumph in a big way tomorrow.

This engaging book offers an overview of the work of Professor Anna Craft, an international authority on creativity in education. Anna held concurrent chairs at the Open University and the University of Exeter, and for several years was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. She died of cancer in 2014, aged 52. In over a hundred publications Anna developed her concept of'possibility thinking', the ability that allows us to transform what is to what might be. And in exploring the notion of'everyday creativity'she devised classroom and policy strategies to foster the development of a problem-solving approach across the school curriculum from the earliest years of schooling – an ability she considered a fundamental requirement in today's complex and fast-changing societies. In this memorial volume Anna's close colleagues Kerry Chappell, Teresa Cremin and Bob Jeffrey have chosen ten of her key writings on five themes that illustrate the development of her innovative ideas: •The nature of creative teaching and learning •Possibility thinking •Creativity and education professionals •Creativity, wisdom and ethics •Creativity and education futures

The Project Approach in Early Years Provision is designed to help early years students, practitioners and managers understand and manage project work with young children. The project approach is designed to enable early educators to ensure young children are learning in the best possible way by providing motivating learning opportunities. Put the project approach into practice, using the included resources with adaptable and printable planning and observation forms. Link the approach to the requirements of all four British early years curricula. Develop children's personal and social skills by encouraging collaboration with others. Provide a meaningful context for children to practice their literacy and numeracy skills. Promote sustained shared thinking by facilitating projects that involve children in active investigation, discussion and debate. Give each child the freedom to learn according to their individual needs, interests, aptitudes, and abilities.

The nature of creativity has long been a contested field of beliefs and ideas. Theorists make claims based on a wide range of positions developed through educational practices. Various disciplines have particular views of creativity, artists claim knowledge of creative practice, philosophers provide substance to support ideas, while psychological attributes are posited to affirm the nature of creative learning. Creativity lends itself easily to individuals who make statements that reflect on the nature of both creating and the experiences that enable individuals to create. This edited collection of research and practice explores this range of perspectives in three parts through a variety of disciplines, global contexts, and practice in higher education.

In this new and practical contribution to the importance of imagination in learning, Kieran Egan and his colleagues demonstrate how individual contributions to a coherent large-scale project can produce enormous results of great educational value. Helping all participants to feel pride for more than just their own individual work, such Whole School Projects (WSPs) encourage appreciation for the abilities of others and enable everyone involved to recognize that all kinds of learning styles, intelligences, and ability levels play an important part in constructing the whole. Most important, WSPs invigorate student engagement and build community within a school.The authors describes a program for engaging a whole school in a particular project over a three-year period and outline the educational principles and benefits. Providing examples of schools successfully using WSPs, they examine the detailed practices needed to get such a project up and running in a typical school. While the Whole School Project is distinct from the regular curriculum, it can help achieve many of the year's curriculum objectives in mathematics, literacy, science and technology, social studies, art, and history. Finally, teachers can choose to incorporate their curriculum aims into the project study, even when those aims include meeting externally mandated achievement standards.“In this highly original book, iconic curriculum theorist and change agent Kieran Egan sets out a challenging but coherent alternative to the ways schools usually function. For just a few hours every week, all students undertake a Whole School Project together. Egan's inspiring yet practical strategy will enable you to engage your students, ignite your colleagues, and deepen learning throughout the school. It's a game changer for progressives and traditionalists alike.”—Andy Hargreaves, Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education, Lynch School of Education, Boston College“I have used Egan's imaginative tools extensively in the classroom and facilitated learners from kindergarten to grade 8 with their Learning in Depth projects, experiencing how engaged and deep the learning becomes. Whole School Projects will continue to expand these proven exemplary practices or, if this is all new to you, it will be a wonderful place to begin!” —Shannon Shields, vice principal/SBTC, Salt Spring Island Middle School“Kieran Egan is one of the thinkers on 21st-century learning who is not content to simply wave his hands in the air and invoke the magic of technology. He offers concrete proposals for student-centered learning that are workable in our current school environment.” —Mark Classen, principal, Harrison Hot Springs Elementary School

Rick and William Ayers renew their challenge to teachers to teach initiative, to teach imagination, to “teach the taboo” in the new edition of this bestseller. Drawing from a lifetime of deep commitment to students, teaching, and social justice, the authors update their powerful critique of schooling and present classroom stories of everyday teachers grappling with many of today's hotly debated issues. They invite educators to live a teaching life of questioning—to imagine classrooms where every established and received bit of wisdom, common sense, orthodoxy, and dogma is open for examination, interrogation, and rethinking. Teaching the Taboo, Second Edition is an insightful guide to effective pedagogy and essential reading for anyone looking to evolve as an educator.What's new for the second edition of Teaching the Taboo! A deeper exploration of issues of white privilege and racism and war and peace. A more thorough examination of the problems with math and science education, including possible solutions. An expanded exploration of the importance of creative writing for validating individual and community experiences. A more thorough discussion of Freire's work and comparison to the radical teaching projects of African American activists in the south during the Freedom Schools. An in-depth look at how students can be part of co-constructing historical narratives and analyses. An update on school struggles in Atlanta, Chicago, and Seattle.Praise for the first edition of Teaching the Taboo! “For those frustrated by the thrust of educational'reform'…this book provides what can be described as both a challenge and a set of alternatives.” —Education Review“Drawing from a lifetime of deep thinking about education and courageous commitment to precious students, Rick and William Ayers have given us a marvelous book. Their devastating critique of the pervasive market models in education and their powerful defense of democratic forms of imagination in schools are so badly needed in our present-day crisis!”—Cornel West, Princeton University“Teaching the Taboo is provocative, challenging, funny in places, wild but sensible enough to be useful, inspiring, and practical for educators who are working to negate the educational madness that is infecting the schools.”—Herb Kohl, author of 36 Children and Painting ChineseRick Ayers is a university instructor and founder of the Communication Arts and Sciences small school at Berkeley High School, and teaches at the University of San Francisco. William Ayers is a school reform activist and a Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago.