Bøger af Tony Wagner

"Una obra maestra.... Líderes mundiales, directivos de empresas, docentes, políticos y padres, tomad nota"- Dr. Annmarie Neal, fundadora del Centro para la Innovación y antigua directora de talentos de Cisco Systems."Es un verdadero placer encontrar a un autor tan valiente como para cuestionar el sistema educativo norteamericano... Los innovadores, los independientes y todo tipo de personalidades creativas, encontrarán semejanzas con los perfiles de los individuos descritos en el libro; por no mencionar al propio Wagner... Si sólo la mitad de las recomendaciones que nos da Wagner sobre el futuro de la innovación, se tuviesen en cuenta en la educación, los estudiantes estarían mil veces mejor en el futuro de lo que lo están hoy". Harvard Education Review"Tony Wagner se enfrenta a una de las cuestiones más urgentes de hoy en día: ¿Cómo lograremos crear la siguiente generación de Innovadores? La lectura del libro Crear innovadores es imprescindible para cualquiera que le preocupe el futuro". Daniel H. Pink, autor del libro Drive y de Whole New Mind.

From a prominent educator, author, and founder of Harvards Change Leadership Group comes a provocative look at why innovation is todays most essential real-world skill and what young people need from parents, teachers, and employers to become the innovators of Americas future.In this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apples first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere. Wagner identifies a patterna childhood of creative play leads to deep-seated interests, which in adolescence and adulthood blossom into a deeper purpose for career and life goals. Play, passion, and purpose: These are the forces that drive young innovators. Wagner shows how we can apply this knowledge as educators and what parents can do to compensate for poor schooling. He takes readers into the most forward-thinking schools, colleges, and workplaces in the country, where teachers and employers are developing cultures of innovation based on collaboration, interdisciplinary problem-solving, and intrinsic motivation. The result is a timely, provocative, and inspiring manifesto that will change how we look at our schools and workplaces, and provide us with a road map for creating the change makers of tomorrow. Creating Innovators will feature its own innovative elements: more than sixty original videos that expand on key ideas in the book through interviews with young innovators, teachers, writers, CEOs, and entrepreneurs, including Thomas Friedman, Dean Kamen, and Annmarie Neal. Produced by filmmaker Robert A. Compton, the videos are accessible via links and QR codes placed throughout the eBook text or by visiting www.creatinginnovators.com.

Two leading experts sound an urgent call for the reimagining of American education so we can equip students for the realities of the twenty-first-century economy.

"In this persuasive book, Wagner delineates what skills are needed in a globalized era, why most American schools can't nurture them, and how today's schools could be transformed to cultivate tomorrow's skills."-Howard Gardner

Dramatically reframing the debate on education in America, Making the Grade shows why today's test-driven reforms will fail and points the way toward a system that benefits all students.

Tony Wagner examines the experiences of three representative but very different schools in Massachusetts as they attempted to implement significant program changes during the early 1990's.

The Change Leadership Group at the Harvard School of Education has, through its work with educators, developed a thoughtful approach to the transformation of schools in the face of increasing demands for accountability.