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Kids Who Think Outside the Box: Helping Your Unique Child Thrive in a Cookie-Cutter World

reviewed by Leslie Owen Wilson � 2006

Title: Kids Who Think Outside the Box: Helping Your Unique Child Thrive in a Cookie-Cutter World
Author(s): Stephanie Lerner
Publisher: American Management Association, New York
ISBN: 0814472753, Pages: 254, Year: 2005
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Kids Who Think Outside the Box: Helping Your Unique Child Thrive in a Cookie-Cutter World is intended to be a resource for parents and teachers who are trying to understand a child, or children, who may be a bit different. Many parents and teachers believe that unusual children need extra understanding, even strong advocacy, in order to maintain their unique gifts and talents, as the climate of many schools is often more openly directed to valuing conforming behaviors than it is to exploring and maintaining individuality. Lerner’s focus becomes doubly important if we consider that this is a time when the political rhetoric that surrounds public education is increasingly focused on standardization and testing, and not on the quality or depth of schooling experiences. The book is laid out simply with a brief introduction, followed by three main parts. After the short introductory section, there is a very concise overview devoted... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 108 Number 5, 2006, p. 828-830
http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 12173, Date Accessed: 9/2/2010 10:23:38 PM

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Leslie Wilson University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point E-mail Author LESLIE OWEN WILSON is a professor in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, were she teaches graduate courses in: creativity; newer views of learning; curriculum; reflective teaching; and the models of teaching and learning; and an undergraduate course in educational psychology. Beyond her university expereinces, she has had multiple incarnations as a classroom teacher, reading teacher, and teacher and developer of programs for gifted, highly able, and creative learners in Maryland, Georgia, and Oklahoma. She writes on many topics that are reflective of her graduate teaching and maintains a large comprehensive website related to those interests -- one used by other teaching professionals around the world. Her latest publication, in 2005, concerned the importance of rights of passage educational experiences in Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education: Breaking New Ground edited by John P. Miller, et al for SUNY Press. UW-SP has recognized her outstanding contributions in the area of instruction with a University Teaching Excellence Award.

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