Rousing Minds to Life: Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Social Context
"...perhaps the most important publication on teaching and teacher education to come out in the past five years...it forces the field to conceive of teaching in a new way." --Richard Shavelson, Past President of the American Education Research Association"Lawrence Kohlberg wrote that American education has failed to take developmental psychology seriously. Tharp and Gallimore have taken it seriously and have demonstrated in this book not only that teaching must take account of the developmental status of the pupil but also that proper teaching, particularly the teaching of literacy, is necessary for the stimulation of the cognitive development of the pupil."   Choice"...perhaps the most important publication on teaching and teacher education to come out in the past five years...it forces the field to conceive of teaching in a new way."   Richard Shavelson, Past President of the American Education Research Association