A perennial challenge for educators, writes Nessel, is one Plato addressed in The Republic: ‘how to avoid simply feeding students information and instead get them to use their innate capacities and think for themselves.’ The solution, she says, is not to impose a specific curriculum or method of instruction on all, but to think creatively about the individual situations of students to improve conditions for learning. In this volume she presents a range of perspectives on schools, teaching and learning from writers as diverse as Leo Tolstoy, Howard Gardner, Elaine Landau and others – all concerned with the development of inquiring minds and critical thinking abilities.
About the author
Denise D. Nessel, Ph.D., has worked as a teacher, a university professor, and a school-district supervisor of curriculum and instruction. She has co-authored four methods books for teachers and has designed and written a variety of print and electronic instructional materials for students. Dr. Nessel currently resides in California and is a senior consultant with the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education (NUA), an education consortium based at Teachers College, Columbia University, whose members are dedicated to improving the way students think and learn.
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