美国社会学界最重要的奖项之一，赖特·米尔斯奖（C. Wright Mills Award）2011年度图书 《特权：圣保罗中学精英教育的幕后》是一部参与式观察研究的范本，作者通过考察一所美国精英高中的日常，研究精英意识和行为是如何一步步在社会互动中形成的。尤其是，在现代信息社会知识易得的情况下，这些年轻人在接纳美式勤奋观的同时，不再比拼知识的占有。他们淡化了对“高尚情趣”和“ 你认识谁”的重视程度，取而代之关心一个人认识世界的方式和在这个世界里扮演的角色。这条成为精英的道路很特别，奇妙地结合了当代文化习俗和古典价值观。像圣保罗和常春藤这样的院校看上去越来越不像一个排外的游艇俱乐部，而是越来越接近我们多样性社会的一个缩影——一个包含细致具体的社会规则的微观世界。

The dramatic findings of a ground-breaking study of 120 immensely talented individuals reveal astonishing new information on developing talent in young people. •The Nature of the Study and Why It Was Done •Learning to Be a Concert Pianist •One Concert Pianist •The Development of Accomplished Sculptors •The Development of Olympic Swimmers •One Olympic Swimmer •Learning to Be a World-Class Tennis Player •The Development of Exceptional Research Mathematicians •One Mathematician: “Hal Foster” •Becoming an Outstanding Research Neurologist •Phases of Learning •Home Influences on Talent Development •A Long-Term Commitment to Learning •Generalizations About Talent Development

What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism. Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything. • Deep Practice Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice. • Ignition We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development. • Master Coaching What are the secrets of the world’s most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these “talent whisperers” to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students. These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo’s to Michael Jordan’s. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished. Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.

This book focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorisation drills. Gatto's earlier book, "Dumbing Us Down", put that now-famous expression of the title into common use worldwide. This book promises to add another chilling metaphor to the brief against schooling. Here is a demonstration that the harm school inflicts is quite rational and deliberate, following high-level political theories constructed by Plato, Calvin, Spinoza, Fichte, Darwin, Wundt, and others, which contend the term 'education' is meaningless because humanity is strictly limited by necessities of biology, psychology, and theology. The real function of pedagogy is to render the common population manageable. Realising that goal demands that the young be conditioned to rely upon experts, remain divided from natural alliances, and accept disconnections from the experiences that create self-reliance and independence. Escaping this trap requires a different way of growing up, one Gatto calls 'open source learning'. In chapters such as 'A Letter to Kristina, my Granddaughter'; 'Fat Stanley'; and, 'Walkabout: London', this different reality is illustrated.

印度理工学院是世界上管理最严格和最有影响力的理工学院，它被视为“精英工厂”，其众多校友分布在全球各个行业的最高管理层。本书作者探访了大量著名的印度理工校友，为我们展示了印度理工毕业生各个精彩的侧面。 本书作者试图解释：这所在20世纪50年代才建立的学校，如何快速成为一个光芒耀眼的传奇品牌？是什么深深地影响了印度理工学院毕业生的情感和性格，并改变了他们的生活轨迹？他们如何成为所在领域的领导者？本书还探讨了印度理工学院为印度发展作出的贡献和人才流失的问题。 本书内容由作者对母校的回忆、校友的生动故事和客观深刻的分析串成，文笔轻松晓畅，故事真实而鲜为人知，具有很强的可读性。 印度理工学院被称为“最有效益的大学”，本书对我国大学如何用较小的成本构建世界一流大学具有较大的借鉴意义。

The teacher probes the Western problems of conformity and loss of personal values while offering a fresh approach to self-understanding and the meaning of personal freedom and mature love.

Best-selling author and distinguished professor, David Elkind provides parents with an understanding of and appreciation for the powerful role of "play" in healthy emotional and academic development In modern childhood, free, unstructured play time is being replaced more and more by academics, lessons, competitive sports, and passive, electronic entertainment. While parents may worry that their children will be at a disadvantage if they are not engaged in constant, explicit learning or using the latest "educational" games, David Elkind's The Power of Play reassures us that unscheduled imaginative play goes far in preparing children for academic and social success. Through expert analysis of the research and powerful situational examples, Elkind shows that, indeed, creative spontaneous activity best sets the stage for academic learning in the first place: Children learn mutual respect and cooperation through role-playing and the negotiation of rules, which in turn prepare them for successful classroom learning; in simply playing with rocks, for example, a child could discover properties of counting and shapes that are the underpinnings of math; even a toddler's babbling is a necessary precursor to the acquisition of language. An important contribution to the literature about how children learn, The Power of Play suggests ways to restore play's respected place in children's lives, at home, at school, and in the larger community. In defense of unstructured "down time," it encourages parents to trust their instincts and resist the promise of the wide and dubious array of educational products on the market geared to youngsters.

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers for years to come.For more information, visit www.pedagogyoftheoppressed.com.

在线阅读本书 "This really is a remarkable book. It does for human resources what Rachel Carsons Silent Spring did for the environment. It makes you wonder why we insist on sustaining an education system that is narrow, partial, entirely inappropriate for the 21st century and deeply destructive of human potential when human beings have so much latent creative ability to offer. A brilliant analysis." Wally Olins, Founder, Wolff-Olins "Competitive advantage does not come from the Internet. It comes from leveraging creativity . All corporate leaders should read this book." Professor Richard Scase, author, Britain in 2010 "I thoroughly recommend this excellent book. Developing our latent creative ability is vital for personal and professional success. Ken Robinson gives us the signposts we need to achieve this." Sir John Harvey Jones "If you would like to start to unlock the inherent creativity that exists in every human being (including you), then start (you have to) by reading this book!" Simon Woodroffe, Founder, Yo Sushi, and former Entrepreneur of the Year "Ken Robinsons is an original and creative mind. I can think of no better spokesperson on creativity. His views are as much directed to learning institutions as they are to industry. Out of Our Minds is a genuine challenge to complacency." Ruth Spellman, Chief Executive of Investors in People, UK "Sometimes a writer has an uncanny knack of sharply focusing something which up until then you had not seen in all its simplicity and brilliance. This book does that but at the next moment it makes connections never before imaginedEven the most obstinately prosaic and safe thinkers will be tempted out of their box by Ken Robinsons ideas, theories and speculations. Whats more, he writes as he speaks, in a way that, magnetically and compulsively, is simply irresistible" Professor Tim Brighouse, Director of Education, Birmingham 点击链接进入中文版： 让思维自由起来

This 2006 book was the first handbook where the world's foremost 'experts on expertise' reviewed our scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance and how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of their development, training, reasoning, knowledge, social support, and innate talent. Methods are described for the study of experts' knowledge and their performance of representative tasks from their domain of expertise. The development of expertise is also studied by retrospective interviews and the daily lives of experts are studied with diaries. In 15 major domains of expertise, the leading researchers summarize our knowledge on the structure and acquisition of expert skill and knowledge and discuss future prospects. General issues that cut across most domains are reviewed in chapters on various aspects of expertise such as general and practical intelligence, differences in brain activity, self-regulated learning, deliberate practice, aging, knowledge management, and creativity.

本书作者亦庄亦谐的描述，将你带进了一个哲学的思考境界。美国大学管理，高深莫测。本书犹如开启了美国大学管理的一扇窗户，使我们窥见了大学管理者的智慧和尴尬、管理政治的奥妙和玄机、不同群体在大学中的利益摩擦、大学的理念与日益商业化的市侩之间的冲突。 本书也是一位先行者留给后来者的人生指南，从求学读书拿学位的每一个细节，从维持生计打工遭冷眼观人间万象，从立志奋斗寻找工作到处理人际关系，你都可以找到生涯规划的案例。总体上说，这是一本难得的好书，使我们认识了比较真实的美国大学；而且，这不是一本纯粹的学术著作，语言风趣幽默，具有很强的可读性，具有广泛的读者面，尤其是对于准备去美国留学的青年学子，更是值得一读。 作者是美国哥伦比亚大学本科生院助理院长，在美国大学里既有教学经历，也有行政管理经验，本书是作者多年对美国大学运行机制的观察、研究及亲身体验的文字表述，对国人真正了解美国的高等教育体制、大学生及研究生培养、大学与政府及家长关系等有较好的参考价值。书中的一篇篇短文，折射出作者阅历的广泛、人情世故的练达、对真的孜孜追求、对善的渴望。 目录 题记 第一辑 “书”海拾零 从美国的“高考”说起 民主社会中的贵族 常青藤的光环 “仓储式”的公立大学 “自由教育” 教授就是大学 大学的用人之道 为大学排名 评估大学春秋 大学里的民主 学术自由的代价 师生之间 网上的莎士比亚 第二辑 就事论事 师道之难 言论自由与“政治上的正确性” 大学校长的言论(不)自由 淘气、传统、淘气的传统 记忆的编码 没有落地的靴子 从知道分子到知识分子 大学不可承受之重 管理时尚与大学的效率 华尔街上的大学 浮想联翩说歧视 第三辑 人在“书”中 体验象牙之塔 来美国学什么? 自费生、公费生 宗教休克 留学打工记事 给教授打分写评语 当一回“钦差大臣” 附录 美国大学的分类与美新杂志的排名 美国高校的认证 哥伦比亚大学的核心课程 平等权利法案与美国大学招生 主要参考文献 后记

怀特海，英国数学家、哲学家、教育家。他与罗素合著的《数学原理》标志着人类逻辑思维的空前进步，被称为永久的伟大学术著作之一；创立了庞大的形面上学体系，《过程与实在》、《观念的历险》等是其哲学代表作；他深刻的教育思想也得到了广泛承认。 本书是他有关教育的演讲论文集，比较全面地反映了他的教育观念。他主张教育应该充满生活与活力，反对学生灌输知识，面应引导他们自我发展；他强调古典文学艺术在学生智力发展和人格培养中的重要性，倡导使受教育者在科学和人文方面全面发展；他还重视审美在道德教育中的意义，认为受教育者“如果不能经常目睹伟大崇高，道路教育便无从谈起。”怀特海的教育思想对今天提倡的“素质教育”有很大的参考与指导价值。

A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be—but aren’t—providing. As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively, and how to find a sense of purpose. Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale’s admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to "practical" subjects like economics and computer science, students are losing the ability to think in innovative ways. Deresiewicz explains how college should be a time for self-discovery, when students can establish their own values and measures of success, so they can forge their own path. He addresses parents, students, educators, and anyone who's interested in the direction of American society, featuring quotes from real students and graduates he has corresponded with over the years, candidly exposing where the system is broken and clearly presenting solutions.