{"product_id":"transforming-history-a-new-curriculum-for-a-planetary-culture-paperback","title":"Transforming History: A New Curriculum for a Planetary Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Irwin Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducation is currently a foremost concern for many Americans. Education, however, is about more than teaching children skills for earning a living and how to function in life. It is really a means of transmitting both a culture and a heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e William Irwin Thompson, one of today's most innovative interdisciplinary thinkers, talks about how to transform a cultural legacy in the course of transmitting it. His visionary approach takes education far beyond the bland, watered-down curricula so many students face today in public and private schools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Thompson offers us a mind-rattling tour of our potential as human beings, from the Gilgamesh epic of 2000 B.C.E. to Disney, popular music, current politics and social crises, and beyond. He not only presents a far-reaching system of knowledge and teaching, but also suggests how we can stimulate the best and healthiest patterns of development in our children and teenagers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTransforming History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e will enlighten today's educators and anyone concerned with improving our legacy and our children's place in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONTENTS: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Foreword \u003cbr\u003e One: Cultural History and Complex Dynamical Systems \u003cbr\u003e Two: Transforming History \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Appendix: An Outline of the Curriculum \u003cbr\u003e Index\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 24, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50375383253229,"sku":"9781584200697","price":23.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/U6rAx8ZGwy9781584200697.webp?v=1785562686","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/transforming-history-a-new-curriculum-for-a-planetary-culture-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}