The unschooled mind
Subtitle: how children think and how schools should teach
By: Howard Gardner
Edition: Twentieth-anniversary edition.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780465024384
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Cognitive learning; Education; Aims and objectives
Description: "Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner shows how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to current educational materials, practices, and institutions, and makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author."
Notes: "With a new introduction by the author"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the central puzzles of learning; title: I: The "natural" learner; title: Conceptualizing the development of the mind; title: Initial learnings: constraints and possibilities; title: Knowing the world through symbols; title: The worlds of the preschooler: the emergence of intuitive understandings; title: II: Understanding educational institutions; title: The values and traditions of education; title: The institution called school; title: The difficulties posed by school: misconceptions in the sciences; title: More difficulties posed by school: stereotypes in the social sciences and the humanities; title: III: Toward education for understanding; title: The search for solutions: dead ends and promising means; title: Education for understanding during the early years; title: Education for understanding during the adolescent years; title: Toward national and global understandings.