Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner

Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner

Tony Wagner's groundbreaking bestseller--"a road map for parents who want to sculpt their children into innovative thinkers" (USA TODAY) and a guide for "an employer looking to have a pipeline of creative talent" (Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO).

Harvard education expert Tony Wagner explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple's first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere. Play, passion, and purpose: These are the forces that drive young innovators.

Wagner takes readers into the most forward-thinking schools, colleges, and workplaces in the country, where teachers and employers are developing cultures of innovation based on collaboration, interdisciplinary problem-solving, and intrinsic motivation. The result is a timely, provocative, and inspiring manifesto that offers crucial insight into creating the change makers of tomorrow.

Tony Wagner is the Co-Director of the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Change Leadership Group and the Director of the Harvard Seminar on Public Engagement. He consults regularly to schools, districts, and foundations in the United States as a Senior Adviser to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's education projects. and on a global scale How Schools Change: Lessons from Three Communities is his book.

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ISBN 13	9781451611519
ISBN 10	145161151X
Title	Creating Innovators
Author	Tony Wagner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2015-02-10
Number of pages	304
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