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Terry Roberts

 
9781684423712: New Smart: How Nurturing Creativity Will Help Children Thrive

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Field Expert: As the Director of the National Paideia Center, Dr. Terry Roberts has a built in audience for his book. He is a recognizable entity in the educational community.

Educational and Child Psychology: This is a hot topic right now, with parents and educators always looking for new ways to engage children in both classroom settings and the home.

Forward by Howard Gardner: Howard Gardner is the developmental psychologist best-known for this theory of multiple intelligences presented in his groundbreaking book Frames of Mind. He is the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Terry Roberts is a former high school English teacher. He is practicing scholar of American Literature and Cultural Studies, with a strong penchant for the classics. He is fascinated by the social and intellectual power of dialogue to teach and to inspire. Terry is the lead author of several Paideia publications including The Power of Paideia Schools, The Paideia Classroom, and Teaching Thinking through Dialogue.

His debut novel, A Short Time to Stay Here, won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, and his second novel, That Bright Land, won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award as well as the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South. Both novels won the annual Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, given to the author of the best novel written by a North Carolinian. Born and raised near Weaverville, North Carolina, Roberts is the Director of the National Paideia Center and lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife, Lynn. He has three children: Jesse, Margaret, and Henry.

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