New World Kids: The Parents' Guide to Creative Thinking,New

ReviewOf all the human abilities including intelligence, I can think of none to equal creativity. It is as vastly important to science as it is to art. Yet, it's perhaps the most difficult to measure, teach, or nurture. Given its importance it's surprising how little work there is with a sound theoretical or philosophical foundation on how to assist parents and teachers in its basics. Otherwise, it would be taught like reading, spelling, and arithmetic in schools. Susie Monday and Susan Marcus have come across a sensory alphabet with the potential of teaching creativity to all the new generation of children. Their new book entitled New World Kids, The Parents Guide to Creative Thinking is worth its weight in gold and offers a new kind of hope for our children by increasing their creative potential. Israel Cuellar,Ph.D, Emeritus psychologist & professor, Julian Zamora Research Institute, Michigan State UniversityI loved, loved, loved this book! The cover is eye catching, and inside, it just gets better! The photographs, the activities, and the tips are amazing....It is one that I will definitely go back to time and time again....This is a fantastic book to have on hand.Monkey Mama's Review from 5vinesmonkeysWow, this book should be a mandatory read for anyone who works with children. Since reading it, I notice that I am seeing things in a whole new way and I can only imagine how children who learn this way will be as adults...I couldn't put it down.... Review from reesspaceProduct DescriptionIt 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 reordering, 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 easytoread fullcolor pages, beautifully illustrated and filled with pragmatic ways to understand, acknowledge and support your child s individual strengthsa map of creativity based on more than half a century of theorytopractice in education, the arts and cognitive research that deconstructs and makes accessible this very big subjecta stepbystep guide for parents to mentor their children through the ideatoform process using everyday occasions and materialsmore than 200 investigative activities for parents and children to do alone and together to help you uncover and exercise unique perspectives and talentsreal life examples that help you connect the dots from child s play to innovation, mastery and success in the grownup worlds of business and technology, art and science.About the AuthorSusan Marcus and Susie Monday are cofounders of The Learning About Learning Educational Foundation, a futureoriented R+D institution in Texas (19681985). They are longtime 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 coauthored 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.