How to Produce a High-Achieving Child

Autor/in	Kuhn, Deanna
Titel	How to Produce a High-Achieving Child
Quelle	In: Phi Delta Kappan, 88 (2007) 10, S.757-763 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-7217
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; High Achievement; Student Motivation; Education Work Relationship; Parent Influence; Curriculum Development; Relevance (Education); Inquiry; Persuasive Discourse; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulische Motivation; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Relevance; Relevanz; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation
Abstract	Frantic parents trying to ensure that their children can maintain an edge throughout their school careers have become a fixture of today's society. Perhaps one key to the puzzle of academic motivation is to make school make sense, not just to those who structure the school systems or rely on them to educate their children, but to the young people for whom they are designed. Using New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's recent educational initiatives as an example of what not to do, the author suggests two ways to increase the likelihood that students will have a meaningful school experience. One is to center the curriculum on educational activities whose purpose and value are readily apparent to those who partake in them. This means to a large extent focusing education on intellectual tools--inquiry and argument--whose purpose and value are easily recognized and whose broad utility and power are evident. Second is to make schooling more connected to the adult life it is intended to prepare students for. Parents can push and pull their children to bring home those A's, but in the end, it is the children who need to find sound reasons for wanting to do so. (Contains 17 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10