Creating innovators : the making of young people who will change the world

• Main Authors: Wagner, Tony (Author), Compton, Robert A. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Scribner, 2012
• Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
• Subjects: inovace ve vzdělávání > Spojené státy americké; inovace > Spojené státy americké; výchova mládeže > Spojené státy americké; educational innovations > United States; innovations > United States; youth education > United States; příručky; handbooks, manuals, etc
• ISBN: 9781451611496; 978-1-4516-1152-6
• Physical Description: xviii, 270 s. : il. ; 24 cm

Table of Contents:

• A note on how to use this book
• Introduction
• A primer on innovation
• Portrait of the innovator as a young man
• STEM innovators
• Social innovators
• Innovating learning
• The future of innovation
• Conclusion: redefining authority
• Epilogue: letter to a young innovator
• Afterword / by Robert A. Compton
• Acknowledgements
• Endnotes
• Index