Teaching Kids to Love Learning, Not Just Endure It

, by Connolly, Michael

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ISBN: 9781607099581 | 1607099586
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Copyright: 6/9/2011

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. l
What Is Love?	p. 10
Autopsy: An Examination of How to Discourage Love of Learning	p. 13
Learning Is an Emotional Experience	p. 15
Love Demands Defying the Current Teaching Paradigm	p. 19
Creating a Supportive Learning Environment	p. 23
A Remedy for What Ails Education	p. 27
Another Love: A Teacher's Passion for Her Discipline	p. 30
Discipline: The Gift of Love	p. 33
Bringing "Awesome" Back into the Classroom	p. 39
Restoring Joy to Learning	p. 43
sWhen Learning Isn't Fun	p. 48
Education Should Nourish the Spirit	p. 52
When Education Fails to Nourish the Spirit	p. 57
What's So Right about Being Wrong?	p. 60
What's So Right about Being Wrong?-An Example	p. 64
Learning to Love Their Questions	p. 66
Teaching Students to Value Commitment	p. 70
Revising Our Reductionist View of Teaching and Learning	p. 74
We Don't Just Love You, We Need You	p. 78
Learning to Love Unlearning	p. 82
Discovering the Wonder of Science	p. 88
Are You a Wonder-Filled Teacher?	p. 92
Education for Living	p. 95
We Must Love Children in the Concrete, Not Just in the Abstrac	p. 100
Making Education Relevant: A Micro-Society Approach	p. 104
Why We Need the Arts in Education	p. 109
Celebrate What's Right with Teaching and Learning	p. 113
The Walkabout	p. 117
Never Lose Sight of the Higher Purpose of an Education	p. 121
I Wonder	p. 124
Afterword	p. 127
Selected Readings	p. 129
School Mission Statement	p. 131
References	p. 133
About the Author	p. 137
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