Inspiring Purpose in High-Performance Schooling [Hardcover]

1. What are we doing schools for?? 2. Why we need to do schools differently: From high-performance schooling to purpose-driven schooling? 3. Meaning in school and life: Finding ones gifts? 4. Purpose in school and life: Using ones gifts for others? 5. Youth purpose portraits and sources of influence? 6. Big lessons from Singapore and Israel? 7. Inspiring pathways to purpose: What can educators do?

Is the world better off because your school is in it? Do you believe schooling has a higher purpose? In Inspiring Purpose in High-Performance Schooling, Mary Anne Heng questions modern-day schooling with its dominant focus on what is efficient and effective in good education and how this is measured.

In these times of ideological polarization in education, Dr. Mary Anne Heng provides us with a nuanced and persuasive approach to redefining our goals for childrens time spent in school.? Purpose-driven education, which offers a sustainable rationale for the acquisition of academic skills and knowledge, is central to engaging potential student motivation and creativity.? Concurrently, Heng argues that academic excellence remains essential, and that purpose-focused education cannot be about intellectual mediocrity.? As countries such as the U.S. struggle not only with youth disengagement, but also basic skills acquisition for a vast array of children, Hengs balanced, well-crafted policy approach takes on increasing urgency.??

Rena F. Subotnik, PhD, Academic Talent Development Program, University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Education, USA

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As countries worldwide seek to upgrade their education systems by emulating Singapore, Mary Anne Heng challenges the assumption that high-performing schools are necessarily better schools.?Hengs research looks behind the raw figló®