"Doug Stowe's beautifully written book, "The Wisdom of our Hands," grounds us in the power of meaningful, useful, beautiful work and how it provides a path to unleash the potential that lies within each of us." https://mailchi.mp/048529ae046c/ifl-january-2022Julie (Wilson) Jungalwala, director of the organization offers praise for my book as follows:
"Somewhere along the way we seem to have forgotten that the brain and the hands are "intricately intertwined". In "Wisdom of Our Hands," Doug Stowe (re)introduces us to the life giving, shaping and affirming power of working with our hands. A beautifully written book, Doug shares his 45-year journey as a woodworker and weaves the research-based evidence of how handcrafts shape us as we shape them. As an educator, Doug has experienced first hand the atomization and abstraction of content - and the negative impact on student motivation and learning as a result. This book reminds us of the power of meaningful, useful, beautiful work and how it provides a path to unleash the potential that lies within each of us."Julie's own book is called "The Human Side of Changing Education." It is "... centered on the premise that when we ask schools to change, we are asking human beings to change and this requires special tools and a human-centered approach. We cannot change the heart of the system without enabling the hearts and minds of those who give their all every day to making schools work."
In the US, teachers are regarded by the system and by policy makers as being of far less than their potential value. They're expected to be "classroom managers" and "information delivery specialists" with too large class sizes allowing them no opportunity to take more meaningful roles in the growth of their students.
My wife Jean is planning a book signing to promote my new book and support our local library that will be held at the conservatory at the Crescent Hotel on April 3, 2022. We are on a 60 day countdown for the book's release.
Make, fix and create...
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