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The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries By Zoe Weil
PUBLISHER: Lantern Publishing & Media
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The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries
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ISBN-10 : 1590565185
ISBN-13 : 978-1590565186
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“If we are putting hope for the future of our planet in our young people,
then they must have the tools and feel empowered to take on the world’s
greatest challenges. The World Becomes What We Teach offers such direction
for the very educators who are working with these young people today. I
applaud such efforts and hope to see many educators and young people alike
gain important insight from what Zoe Weil offers in this book.” —Jane
Goodall, DBE, Ph.D. Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of
Peace
“The World Becomes What We Teach may be the most important book, with both
the simplest and most powerful answers, to address the challenges we face in
our world effectively, meaningfully, and positively. If we heed Zoe Weil’s
call to educate a generation of solutionaries, we will witness the unfolding
of a truly just, compassionate, and healthy world. Read this book for the
sake of any children you love and the future of us all.”—Matt Goldman,
Co-founder Blue Man Group and Blue School
“In light of the need for life-long learning in a changing world, Zoe Weil’s
call to ‘adopt a more relevant and meaningful purpose for schooling; make
schools real-world and solutionary-focused; and prepare teachers to educate
their students to be solutionaries,’ is logical and essential. The evidence
is clear that this kind of teaching and learning is already happening. There
are a great many stories of children and young people contributing to a
healthy, humane, and sustainable future through school, and many examples of
what educators can do to make this happen. Zoe illustrates why schools need
to change and then shows us what the new narrative looks like. It is
compelling. This book will change you.”—Jaimie P. Cloud, President, The
Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education
“This book takes on conventional reformist thinking, unfetters the
educational imagination, and repositions the very notion of ‘relevance’ in
schooling to meet the critical issues of this era on Earth. Zoe opens a
doorway onto a new landscape for teaching, learning, the development of
curriculum, and the purpose of schooling itself. Then she hands us a map, a
GPS, and travel guide. This book, once well dog-eared and coffee-stained,
should grace the shelves of any educator or transformational leader truly
committed to children, the Earth, and a just, sustainable society.”—Khalif
Williams, Director, The Bay School
“Zoe Weil is an important player in the emerging worldwide movement to make
education more about applying our newly empowered young people’s passions
and capabilities to making their world a better place. I hope that this book
informs the thinking and practice of as many parents and educators as
possible, that a great many Solutionary Schools get created and thrive in
the world, and that my son grows up in a world full of solutionaries—and
becomes one!”—Marc Prensky, Founder and Executive Director, The Global
Future Education Foundation and Institute
“Imagine if Zoe Weil’s vision was the default setting for a system of
schools and communities creating learning environments rich with joy,
curiosity, complexity, and an undeniable belief that we are all capable—from
student to community—in making a positive, long-term impact on the world
around us. Better, imagine if you—the reader—realizes that this book is your
invitation to be both a solutionary in your own life and a co-conspirator in
creating a system of solutionary schools in communities far and wide. This
is Zoe Weil’s belief. And this is your invitation to co-design a remarkable
future for students, teachers, schools, and communities ahead.”—Christian
Long, founding partner, WONDER, by design: a learning and design expedition
“Zoe Weil asks the questions we need to thoughtfully answer not only for our
system of education but also for our future on this planet. I have worked in
education for over 25 years, from experiential outdoor education to
service-learning in classroom settings. Weil’s model and vision is more
oriented toward effective systems-thinking than any other approach to
education I have encountered. This book serves as a guide to action and will
help us make school meaningful, joyful, and solutionary.”—Barbara Fiore,
Education Consultant, Former Program Director, Hurricane Island Outward
Bound School
“Zoe Weil sees a world the rest of us are still struggling to make out—one
that is more equitable, restorative and compassionate, and one in which we
are all more empathetic and at peace. The World Becomes What We Teach is a
manifesto for the future of education, and a series of recipes for teaching
children that a humane world is not just possible—it’s inevitable, as long
as we help young people engage in work that provides a slice of the
solution, and a way of discovering their most authentic selves.”—Sam
Chaltain, Author of Faces of Learning and co-producer of A Year at Mission
Hill
“Zoe Weil offers a vision for education that is based on respect for
children’s curiosity, creativity, and capabilities. She shows how
educational practices can be based on genuine hope and shares a blueprint
for how to reform education with imagination, rigor, and love for the world.
This is a brilliant, necessary, uplifting book.”—Kathleen Roberts Skerrett,
Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of Richmond
“Zoe Weil’s The World Becomes What We Teach is the work of a visionary
educator that questions the assumptions of our country’s traditional,
competitive approach to education and offers one based on cooperation and
collaboration. Not only is it a powerful indictment of how our schools
inhibit creativity and critical thinking, her pedagogy empowers students to
imagine and create the world they want. I highly recommend this book to
educators, parents, and anyone who wants to make the world a better
place.”—Arnold Greenberg, Founder of Miquon Upper School, Deep Run School of
Homesteading and Community, and Liberty School—A Democratic Learning
Community
“If you want to learn how we can create an education system and a world that
is more humane, peaceful, equitable, and resilient, you must read this book.
It might just cause you to reevaluate your assumptions about living and
learning.”—Nikhil Goyal, author of Schools on Trial: How Freedom and
Creativity Can Fix our Educational Malpractice
“This is an important book from an important thinker in the field of
education. Zoe’s original ideas are based on decades of practical hands-on
work. She creates an optimistic vision of what can be if we are willing to
rethink educational models to meet the needs of our twenty-first-century
world.”—Doug Alexander, President, Actua Corporation
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Zoe Weil is the co-founder and president of the Institute for
Humane Education (IHE),
and is considered a pioneer in the comprehensive humane education movement.
She is the author of six books, including the Nautilus Silver Medal–winner
Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and
Meaningful Life (2009) and two books for young
readers, including Moonbeam Gold Medal-winner Claude and Medea
(2007). She has written numerous articles on humane education and humane
living, and given interviews to such outlets as Forbes.com and numerous
radio and television stations. In 2012, artist Robert Shetterly painted
Zoe’s portrait for his acclaimed Americans Who Tell the Truth series. Also
in 2012, Zoe was honored with the Women in Environmental Leadership award at
Unity College. In 2010, she was inducted into the Animal Rights Hall of
Fame. Zoe lives with her husband and several rescued animals in a home
adjoining the Institute for Humane Education in Surry, Maine.
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