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To open minds : Chinese clues to the dilemma of contemporary education

Title

To open minds : Chinese clues to the dilemma of contemporary education / Howard Gardner.

Author

Gardner, Howard, 1943-

Publication

New York : Basic Books, [1989]
©1989

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Description

x, 326 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"In this unique attempt to address the dilemma in education, Gardner weaves the lessons garnered from three vantage points - his own traditional education as an American child, his years of resesarch on creativity at Harvard, and what he saw in modern Chinese classrooms - into a program for the opening of minds which draws on the best of both modes, traditional and progressive"--Jacket.

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Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Conflicting messages in the American atmosphere -- Imprinted on Cambridge -- Resisting professionalization -- Two "sort of" careers: project zero and the VA hospital -- An international and interdisciplinary turn -- First visit to China -- The first U.S.-China arts education conference -- The China project -- Three educational experiments, with an unscheduled trip to Taiwan -- At last-our Chinese mission accomplished -- A gadfly's view of some Chinese arts classes -- Fitting the key in the slot: five perspectives on China -- Reflections in a professional key -- Reflections in a personal key.

ISBN

0465086306
9780465086306

LCCN

89042523

OCLC

ocm19515781
19515781
SCSB-1728495

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library