Understanding and teaching the intuitive mind : student and teacher learning / edited by Bruce Torff and Robert J. Sternberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Torff, Bruce.

Sternberg, Robert J.

Series:

Educational psychology series

The educational psychology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Concept learning.

Intuition.

Physical Description:

xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Summary:

Pulls together diverse theoretical & methodological approaches to the origin, structure, function, & development of intuitive conceptions; explores these in a diversity of academic disciplines; explicitly links theory & research to educ. implications. /P>

Contents:

Intuitive conceptions among learners and teachers / Bruce Torff & Robert J. Sternberg

Intuitive mathematics : theoretical and educational implications / Talia Ben-Zeev & Jon Star

Intuitive mind and knowledge about history / James V. Wertsch & Joseph L. Polman

Children's intuitive understandings of pictures / Norman H. Freeman & Michael J. Parsons

Intuitive mind and early childhood education : connections with chaos theory, script theory, and theory of mind / Doris Pronin Fromberg

Conceptual change in teachers' intuitive conceptions of learning, motivation, and instruction : the role of motivational and epistemological beliefs / Helen Patrick & Paul R. Pintrich

Teaching educational psychology to the implicit mind / Anita Woolfolk Hoy & P. Karen Murphy

Nine prospective teachers and their experiences in teacher education : the role of entering conceptions of teaching and learning / Linda M. Anderson

Folk psychology, folk pedagogy, and their relations to subject-matter knowledge / Sidney Strauss

Fourth folk pedagogy / David R. Olson & Steven Katz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805831096

OCLC:

43919637