Empowering the Child: Nurturing the Hungry Mind

ISBN: 1885599005

Author: Hartjen, Raymond H.

Condition: Used

Empowering the Child, focuses on four elements that underlie all learning. Empowering children to become proficient in these elements provides them with life long skills of learning proficiency. The elements discussed are, long term attending skills (staying focused on a task), self-initiating skills, thinking skills, and creativity. The author reaches beyond traditional education citations to the works of Leakey, May, Fromm, Waldrop, and others to support his arguments. This book is in use in many universities and has been purchased 100 at a time by school districts acress the country.