Published: October 2024
Keywords:
K.A.H Mirza, Elspeth McAdam, Peter Lang, The Cradle of Dreams, Appreciative Inquiry in Schools, Systemics, Constructionist Approach, School, Ecosystem, Teachers, Children, Parents, Families, Culture, Learning, Transformation, Health, Mental Health, Social Care Professionals, Neurosciences.
K.A.H Mirza
Dr. K. A. H Mirza MBBS, DPM, FRCPsych, FRCP(C), FRCPCH(Edin), Consultant Psychiatrist and Hon. Senior Lecturer, HPFT NHS Trust and University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Founder and Director, ADHD Academy Across Lifespan 10-12 Harley Street, London W1G 9PF, UK.
Email: drmirza@adhdacademy.co.uk
http://www.adhdacademy.co.uk/
Abstract
Dr. K.A.H Mirza begins the presentation of the book The Cradle of Dreams: Nurturing Precious Futures in the School Place: The Appreciative Inquiry in Schools by Kah Mirza, Elspeth McAdam, and Peter Lang with the Prologue.
He breaks down the key principles that guided and informed this book and summarizes it through the questions:
- What is this book?
- How did we create a new way of being?
- Who should read this book?
- What are the results of this approach? Beyond the evidence base: Witnessing transformation in children and youth.
- What's new in this book?
- The rapidly developing knowledge from the world of Neuroscience.
- How to cope with technological developments.
- A critical discourse on the role of the school as a transformative ecosystem.
- Our responsibility towards our children.
Dr. K.A.H Mirza concludes the Prologue with the piece "Our Hope," looking forward to the readers' wish to continue reading the rest of this book, which Metalogos will be proud to upload in a series in its subsequent Issues.
