Every Child Can: Riverside School's Design-Led Approach to Empower Children

HarperDesign

ISBN 10: 9356999945 / ISBN 13: 9789356999947

Published by Kiran Bir Sethi, Mohan Gudipati and Apoorva Bhandari, 2023

About this Item

Every Child CAN shares the story of Riverside School, a uniquely innovative school that places the focus of developing a child's agency and character at the heart of education. Through a rich collection of lived experiences and case studies, the book introduces readers to how Riverside has leveraged the design process to rework and reimagine every aspect of how a school should function, from pedagogy, teacher-training, time-tabling, to parent-school relationships, school and community engagements. The book reveals some ground-breaking ideas, tools, processes and practices based on the design process that went into building Riverside, a school that encourages confident, empowered and humane citizens with an I CAN mindset. The goal of the book is to offer this comprehensive framework and approach to teaching and learning to school leaders, teachers, policy makers and parents to consider, experiment and iterate upon.

Seller Inventory # 151988

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Every Child Can: Riverside School's Design-Led Approach to Empower Children
• Publisher: Kiran Bir Sethi, Mohan Gudipati and Apoorva Bhandari
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9356999945
• ISBN 13: 9789356999947
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

"

Every Child CAN shares the story of Riverside School, a uniquely innovative school that places the focus of developing a child's agency and character at the heart of education.

Through a rich collection of lived experiences and case studies, the book introduces readers to how Riverside has leveraged the design process to rework and reimagine every aspect of how a school should function, from pedagogy, teacher-training, time-tabling, to parent-school relationships, school and community engagements.

The book reveals some ground-breaking ideas, tools, processes and practices based on the design process that went into building Riverside, a school that encourages confident, empowered and humane citizens with an I CAN mindset.

The goal of the book is to offer this comprehensive framework and approach to teaching and learning to school leaders, teachers, policy makers and parents to consider, experiment and iterate upon.

"

About the Author

"

Kiran Bir Seth is a designer,educationist, education reformer and social entrepreneur.

She has a degree in visual communicationfrom the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and founded the award-winningRiverside School in Ahmedabad.

MohanGudipati is the founder andCEO of Prolearner, a design-led edtech startup.

Apoorva Bhandari is an assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown University where his work focuses on the flexibility of human cognition.

"