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The Re-Enchantment of Learning
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The Re-Enchantment of Learning
A Manual for Teacher Renewal and Classroom Transformation

208 pages | Corwin
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Formerly published by Zephyr Press This step-by-step guide to brain-based teaching presents innovative learning approaches that optimize learning, tap into students' creativity, boost teachers' instructional effectiveness, and raise student achievement. The authors provide user-friendly, field-tested learning strategies that include more than 120 process and reflection activities for use with individuals, small groups, or an entire class.
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgements
 
Introduction
 
Part I. Beginning the Journey
 
1. Beginning a Search for New Possibilites
 
Part II. Seeing With New Eyes
 
2. Terra Creare: The Landscape of Reenchantment
 
3. Reclaiming the Joy
 
4. Reenchantment as a Sense of Connection
 
5. Reenchantment as Wonder and Imagination
 
Part III. Approaching Our Work
 
6. Reenchantment asd Learning to Let Go: From Control to Relationship
 
7. The Reenchantment of Content: Expandning Our Cognitive Horizons
 
8. Reenchantment as a Source of Inner Knowing: From External Authority to Self-Efficacy
 
Part IV. Charting Our Path
 
9. Educating as if the World Mattered
 
Appendix
 
Bibliography

Sam Crowell

Sam Crowell is an associate professor of education at California State University–San Bernardino and a director at the Center for Research in Integrative Learning and Teaching. He has been an elementary teacher, a principal, and an administrator. More About Author

Renate Nummela Caine

Renate Nummela Caine is a principal of Caine Learning LLC and consultant to districts, schools, teachers, administrators, and communities to implement brain-based learning. She is the senior author, with Geoffrey Caine, of the groundbreaking Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain. She has worked with countless educators in the U.S. and around the globe. Recently, Renate and Geoffrey Caine worked with a low-income, underachieving K-5 elementary school in California to help teachers design more innovative teaching strategies using the brain/mind learning principles and district standards. Caine is professor emeritus of education at... More About Author

Geoffrey Caine

Geoffrey Caine, a director of Caine Learning LLC, is a learning consultant and process coach. Caine has been published extensively and is co-author of six books, including Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain. His work carries him throughout the United States and abroad. He works in the worlds of education, business, and government, where he capitalizes on his prior experiences as a professor of law, an education services manager of a national software company, a state manager of a national publishing company, and national director of the Mind/Brain Network of the American Society for Training and Development.    He has given... More About Author