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Today, I received my copy of the brand new softcover edition of David Perkins’ terrific book, Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education<\/a><\/em>. I love this book and have given away countless copies, but the best thing about the new softcover edition is that I was asked by the publisher to provide a blurb for the back cover. My blurb now joins Howard Gardner and Linda Darling-Hammond – The Blurber Hall of Fame!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The final blurb was heavily edited to proper blurb length, but the following is what I originally wrote as an endorsement of Making Learning Whole.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

An instant classic! Making Learning Whole<\/em><\/a> will be used for decades by those interested in a framework for making classrooms better places for learning. The book performs a great service by reminding educators that each student comes first – complete with individual needs, talents, experience, curiosity and passion. The job of curriculum is to connect personal experience with powerful ideas, not deliver a bunch of facts in a mysterious incomprehensible sequence. Perkins takes such a common sense metaphor, playing the whole game, and uses it to transform the learning experience for each student.<\/p>\n

For educators seeking a practical way to create productive contexts for learning, Making Learning Whole<\/em><\/a>, is a superior approach to the top-down pedagogical tricks advanced by Understanding by Design<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You may purchase your own copy of Making Learning Whole<\/a> <\/em>by clicking any of the links or the book cover below.<\/p>\n

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