Understanding and Teaching the Intuitive Mind
Subtitle: Student and Teacher Learning (Educational Psychology Series)
Contributors: Bruce Torff (Editor); Robert J. Sternberg (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: January 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780805831092
Subjects: Educational Psychology; Intuition; Learning (Psychology); Teaching; Education / Teaching; Education; Teaching Methods & Materials - General; Education / Educational Psychology; Concept learning; Cognitive Psychology
First sentence: This anecdote reveals the influence in classrooms of intuitive conceptions, which we define for the time being as preexisting knowledge or knowledge structures that predispose individuals to think and act in particular ways without much conscious reflection.