It is now impossible to imagine what children s career choices will be by the time they are grown. The scale of change, largely driven by technology, is unprecedented in human history. It is the change itself, this re-ordering, this inventing the new world, that will occupy our children s future.
We are entering a time that will call for dedicated innovation across the board. This call will echo throughout all fields; in fact it has already started. The child s counterpart to innovation is creative thinking and creativity is the next literacy.
New World Kids is a comprehensive guide to creative thinking for parents, teachers and caregivers. It is the result of decades of applied research with children examining creativity, media, cognition, play and individuality.
New World Kids contains:
-208 easy-to-read full-color pages, beautifully illustrated and filled with pragmatic ways to understand, acknowledge and support your child s individual strengths
-a map of creativity based on more than half a century of theory-to-practice in education, the arts and cognitive research that deconstructs and makes accessible this very big subject
-a step-by-step guide for parents to mentor their children through the idea-to-form process using everyday occasions and materials
-more than 200 investigative activities for parents and children to do alone and together to help you uncover and exercise unique perspectives and talents
-real life examples that help you connect the dots from child s play to innovation, mastery and success in the grown-up worlds of business and technology, art and science.
Susan Marcus and Susie Monday are co-founders of The Learning About Learning Educational Foundation, a future-oriented R+D institution in Texas (1968-1985). They are long-time collaborators in translating the research of the Foundation into accessible media, designing programs, materials and exhibitions for teachers, parents, children and museums. Susan is also mother of two and has co-authored
Everychild s Everyday (Doubleday) and
When I Was Just Your Age (University of North Texas Press). She lives in Austin.
Susie has also worked as a journalist, children s museum designer and educational consultant. At present, she works primarily as a textile artist in her studio in the Texas Hill Country.
Responding to the imperatives of 21st century literacy, they have collaborated once again to create New World Kids.
