The Passionate Learner

This book is a guide to reclaiming students' passionate engagement in learning. The author starts with vivid portraits of young children as passionate learners, invoking the voices and hopes of parents and teachers. He shows us how a "chasm" develops between the initial promise of every child and the reality of life in school. Then, step by step, he shows how teachers--and parents as allies--can encourage and develop passionate learning in all kids.