Challenging ingrained notions of teaching and learning is neither simple nor easy. In Rekindling the Love of Learning, author Arlene Rotter does just that.  

Education in this country needs a major overhaul, according to author Arlene Rotter. Students need to be engaged in the learning process. Challenging ingrained notions of learning and teaching, author Arlene Rotter co-founded an experiential learning academy, Chrysalis Experiential Academy, serving grades four through twelve, in Roswell, Georgia. Over the past seven years, she’s watched unmotivated students soar to great achievements. 

Rekindling the Love of Learning is Rotter’s nonfiction tribute to experiential learning. This coming of age book demonstrates how this type of learning can be utilized by home school students, public and private schools. 

The key is to change the way students are taught. 

“Rekindling the Love of Learning is a powerful work of praxis: merging theory and practice together for the betterment of children and young adults. In clear language and numerous illustrations, Rotter explains the link between experiential learning and the potential within all students. I recommend this work to everyone who is frustrated with the traditions that restrict critical thinking and progressive ideas and to those interested in making real change come to fruition.”  -- Deron Boyles, Ph.D., Georgia State University

About the Author

Arlene Rotter has taught students for thirty-eight years, everything from preschool to undergraduate college courses. She grew up in Los Angeles, the product of an experimental educational program in a public school where eleven students were taught experientially from kindergarten through high school. She currently resides in Roswell, Georgia with her husband of thirty-five years, Alan, and their children: their daughter and her husband, Mandy and Phinney, her children’s twins, Arliss and PJ, and her and Alan’s son Adam.

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