Raising Thinkers: Prepare Your Child For The Journey Of Life
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Raising Thinkers introduces tools and techniquesĀ to enhance critical and creative thinking,Ā decision making and emotional, social and fluidĀ intelligence in a growing thinker.
The skills in shortest supply for the future workplaceĀ are not technical, but behavioural ā creativity, problem-Ā solving and critical thinking. Raising ThinkersĀ begins with an exploration of this skills gap in developedĀ countries a national, corporate and educationalĀ perspective. In Asia there is growing unhappinessĀ with a school system that is too narrowly focused onĀ rote learning and teaching to test.
Raising Thinkers provides insight into the future thatĀ todayās children will inhabit as adults and what publicĀ school systems are currently serving up. It coversĀ the mechanics of high-level, critical and creativeĀ thinking, problem solving and decision making andĀ proposes a curiosity-based approach to problemsĀ that should be taught right from school-going years.
For current scholars and parents, change will comeĀ too late ā therefore Raising Thinkers is also a guideĀ aimed at helping parents and caregivers bridge theĀ skills gap in fun, useful and practical ways.
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Tremaine du Preez is a behavioural economist, author and executive coach. Before moving to London, she spent 12 years in Asia coaching and lecturing on leadership, decision science and critical thinking in MNCs and government agencies, and on MBA and undergraduate programmes. She is a doctoral researcher and faculty member of Duke University's Corporate Education Division.
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- Description
- About the Author
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Raising Thinkers introduces tools and techniquesĀ to enhance critical and creative thinking,Ā decision making and emotional, social and fluidĀ intelligence in a growing thinker.
The skills in shortest supply for the future workplaceĀ are not technical, but behavioural ā creativity, problem-Ā solving and critical thinking. Raising ThinkersĀ begins with an exploration of this skills gap in developedĀ countries a national, corporate and educationalĀ perspective. In Asia there is growing unhappinessĀ with a school system that is too narrowly focused onĀ rote learning and teaching to test.
Raising Thinkers provides insight into the future thatĀ todayās children will inhabit as adults and what publicĀ school systems are currently serving up. It coversĀ the mechanics of high-level, critical and creativeĀ thinking, problem solving and decision making andĀ proposes a curiosity-based approach to problemsĀ that should be taught right from school-going years.
For current scholars and parents, change will comeĀ too late ā therefore Raising Thinkers is also a guideĀ aimed at helping parents and caregivers bridge theĀ skills gap in fun, useful and practical ways.
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Tremaine du Preez is a behavioural economist, author and executive coach. Before moving to London, she spent 12 years in Asia coaching and lecturing on leadership, decision science and critical thinking in MNCs and government agencies, and on MBA and undergraduate programmes. She is a doctoral researcher and faculty member of Duke University's Corporate Education Division.
