Dr Tony Wagner
Wagner explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of pupils to help them become innovators. He argues that adults need to nurture creativity and spark imaginations, while helping children to learn from their failures and persevere. He aims to provide a manifesto that will change how societies view schools and workplaces, and provide a road map to creating the next generation of innovators.
Wagner takes readers into the most forward-thinking schools, colleges, and workplaces in the USA, where teachers and employers are developing cultures of innovation based on collaboration, interdisciplinary problem-solving, and intrinsic motivation.
He celebrates play, passion, and purpose as the forces that drive young innovators, giving pupils space to envisage new possibilities, imagine and pretend the world is different and learn to be innovative through creative play.
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