Education to Open-Mindedness
Zoe's Story
According to Gerald Hüther, "this book by Claus Koch is the most unusual book in the entire field of upbringing and education in recent decades": It doesn't give any tips on how to raise children but uses the form of a novel to describe how a child grows into the world and develops curiosity and understanding what it still doesn't know – how education for open-mindedness succeeds. In the conversation with the first-person narrator, the girl Zoe describes episodes from her childhood and adolescence. She shares her thoughts, feelings and dreams with him and tells him about her experiences with closeness and strangeness, trust and fear, courage and helplessness – and about her love for Ben, who is so very different from her. Zoe's story follows stages that are important in terms of developmental psychology. In the appendix, the author gives his readers the opportunity to read insights from modern infant research, developmental psychology and attachment theory in Zoe's childhood and adolescent experiences. This makes it clear what a human being needs to grow up feeling secure, free and open-minded.
- An extraordinary novel about parenting
- What children feel when they grow up
- A splendid plea for autonomy, tolerance and open-mindedness
