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Creating innovators : the making of young people who will change the world / Tony Wagner.

By: Wagner, Tony [author.]Contributor(s): Compton, Robert AMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Scribner, c2012Description: xviii, 288 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781451611519 [paperback]Subject(s): Education, Secondary -- Aims and objectives -- United States | Educational change -- United States | Technological innovations -- United States

Contents:

A note on how to use this book -- Introduction -- A primer on innovation -- Portrait of the innovator as a young man -- STEM innovators -- Social innovators -- Innovating learning -- The future of innovation -- Conclusion: redefining authority -- Epilogue: letter to a young innovator -- Afterword / by Robert A. Compton -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- Index.

Summary: "Harvard education expert Tony Wagner 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 Apple's 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. Play, passion, and purpose: These are the forces that drive young innovators. Wagner 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 offers crucial insight into creating the change makers of tomorrow" -- Provided by the publisher

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Harvard education expert Tony Wagner 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 Apple's 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. Play, passion, and purpose: These are the forces that drive young innovators. Wagner 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 offers crucial insight into creating the change makers of tomorrow" -- Provided by the publisher