From Project-Based Learning to Artistic Thinking: Lessons Learned from Creating an Unhappy Meal by Werberger, Raleigh

From Project-Based Learning to Artistic Thinking: Lessons Learned from Creating an Unhappy Meal (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781475824599)

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From Project-Based Learning to Artistic Thinking: Lessons Learned from Creating an Unhappy Meal by Werberger, Raleigh

From Project-Based Learning to Artistic Thinking: Lessons Learned from Creating an Unhappy Meal

$90.00
From Project-Based Learning to Artistic Thinking: Lessons Learned from Creating an Unhappy Meal by Werberger, Raleigh

From Project-Based Learning to Artistic Thinking: Lessons Learned from Creating an Unhappy Meal

$90.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book follows the course of a year-long experiment in which the students were tasked with recreating a McDonald's Happy Meal by making all the components - from food to packaging - by hand from local ingredients. It was meant to test a hypothesis that a very well-designed project in the arts can teach high school students academic skills and habits of mind while increasing motivation, emotional intelligence, creativity and holistic thinking skills.

This book is an antidote to other books that purport to show teachers an exact formula to follow to get amazing results in the classroom. It will help to create a classroom that is more like play, with much more freedom and less scripting in order to engage students at a deeper level, and still get excellent results.

By teaching a project-based history class like an arts studio and having the students redesign an archetypal American product in a very natural, improvisational way Werberger was able to have an energizing effect on their academic learning. This book will serve as a guide for teachers to learn more about the adaptive, creative, and epistemologically fascinating concept of arts-based research.

Author: Raleigh Werberger
ISBN-10: 1475824599
ISBN-13: 9781475824599
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2015
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
By Raleigh Werberger
By Raleigh Werberger
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Raleigh Werberger has been teaching history for fifteen years, in the U.S. and internationally. He taught both Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate classes and over time began to question the entire premise of high school education. His interest in creating authentic experiences for students led him to experiment with PBL and design thinking challenges. He co-founded a project-based exploratory program at Mid-Pacific Institute in Hawai'i, and served as a Founding Board Member for the School for Examining Essential Questions of Sustainability in Honolulu in 2012-2013. He moved to New York after spending a year at an Arts Residency in Stuttgart, Germany with his wife, a photographer and filmmaker. He is now Dean of Faculty at Darrow School in the Berkshires in upstate New York.

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