About Caleb Gattegno
One of history's greatest thinkers in education, Dr. Caleb Gattegno, would have turned 100 in 2011. His highly effective approaches to teaching mathematics, foreign languages, and reading radically altered the traditional role of the teacher from someone who attempts to transmit knowledge, to a masterful and even silent guide who allows and encourages students to be producers of their own knowledge and skill. These are the stories of those who have taken up the Gattegno challenge. They are stories of tough career choices, unusual working conditions, transformation, inspiration, and ultimately joy in working with and doing the work of a genius who has been compared to the paradigm-changing likes of Copernicus.
The Gattegno Effect is a collective memoir published as part of the worldwide celebrations commemorating the 100th anniversary since Dr. Gattegno’s birth. It contains the stories of people connected with Gattegno and his work over the past five decades. Submissions were received from 19 countries, 6 continents, and in 11 languages (accompanied by English translations). The book also serves as a valuable record of Dr. Gattegno’s monumental contributions to education; containing full-color images of rarely seen archival material and artifacts. There is also a complete bibliography.
Dr. Caleb Gatttegno understood that we are inherently gifted with remarkable powers of self-learning. Awareness and use of these powers is fundamental to the full expression of what it means to be human. To gain control of these powers, Gattegno saw the need to radically transform education. Educators everywhere took up his challenge and these are their inspiring stories of being at the forefront of nothing less than the re-invention of education itself.
Title: The Gattegno Effect - 100 Voices on One of History's Greatest Educators
Authors: More than 100
Published 2011
Color, 361 Pages, Softcover
ISBN 978-0-87825-344-9
Copyright © 2011
Educational Solutions Worldwide Inc.
In this first part of the three-part Science of Education series, Gattegno introduces the Subordination of Teaching to Learning and the science behind successful learning. He challenges traditional teaching methods, which rely on the memory of students, and proposes educating the awareness of students instead. He asks teachers to know "that they are persons with a will and that their students are persons with a will, and that in an individual, the will is the source of change."
"The first hints that there was a possibility of looking at education as a field of study that could ultimately become as legitimate a science as others have been, came forth soon after 1940. The central point was that awareness, which has permitted all the sciences to find their rightful places, could become aware of itself. In the years that followed, a number of research undertakings produced opportunities to gather evidence that gave the initial intuition a body of facts which established the foundations for that science and the openings for its technology.
The decisive shift that there was a basis for suggesting to the public that a science of education could be developed came with the clear awareness that only awareness is educable in Man. . . .
In this book, the work done with students of all ages . . . is only implicit. It is that work which provided the evidence needed to catch the subtle and invisible tasks of awareness and its workings, dynamics that became the source of the theoretical considerations presented here."
- Caleb Gattegno
Title: The Science of Education Part 1: Theoretical Considerations
Author: Caleb Gattegno
Second Edition (212 Pages)
ISBN 978-0-87825-192-6
Copyright © 1987–2012 Educational Solutions Worldwide Inc.
"Until now, it was left to chance to produce the number of mathematicians the world needed. Now we can work deliberately and diligently at increasing their numbers . . . Each individual will be able to decide whether becoming a professional mathematician suits him or her, or whether, after tasting this intellectual nourishment, they prefer other involvements to become more permanent. Such a choice was never mentioned in the past because the gift for doing math was considered rare and not easily brought about in those who did not display it spontaneously.
This volume attempts to show how at least the first steps can be taken in this enterprise."
- Caleb Gattegno
Title: The Science of Education Part 2B Awareness of Mathematization
Author: Caleb Gattegno
Second Edition (182 Pages)
ISBN 978-0-87825-208-4
Copyright © 1988–2010
Educational Solutions Worldwide Inc.
Dr. Gattegno's biography
Dr. Caleb Gattegno is one of the most significant contributors to the advancement of the field of education. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1911, and died in Paris, France in 1988. As an educator, he was widely known for his ability to achieve remarkable results with students of all ages and abilities. For many of those who studied with him, Gattegno was much more than an educator.