Click to read New Kinds of Smart: How the Science of Learnable Intelligence is Changing Education online and at no charge. Although the book is written for educators, it has much that is informative to conflict professionals, too. As I have often said, moving towards the resolution of a dispute must involve learning, by both mediator and parties.
Excerpt from the book:
The book works like this. It has eight core chapters, each of which follows a similar format:
A specific piece of research which illustrates the theme of the chapter.
Getting to grips with. An overview of scientific and educational research relevant to the chapter.
Starting out. Examples of what schools that are just beginning to work with the ideas in the chapter are doing.
Going deeper. More advanced examples of the ways in which schools are working with the ideas in the chapter.
Ideas into practice. Questions to prompt thinking, reflection,discussion, action and further reading.
At an appropriate moment in each chapter we have also included auseful tool to enable you immediately to see how you could move from thinking into action.
Read more about the book here at Amazon. Or quickly scan through New Kinds of Smart here, reading just the sidebars to see if the book is a fit with your interests.
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