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The informed vision : essays on learning and human nature / David Hawkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawkins, David, 1913-2002.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education.
- Science--Study and teaching.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 242 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Essays on learning and human nature
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Pub., [2002]
- Summary:
- An education classic is back in print. 15 essays on how children learn. David Hawkins led a long and respected career as an educator and as a scholar of how we learn. A must read for educators, and all who are concerned with schools and the relationships between teachers and children.
- Contents:
- The informed vision : an essay on science education
- Mind and mechanism in education
- Childhood and the education of intellectuals
- I, thou, and it
- Messing about in science
- The bird in the window
- Two essays on mathematics teaching: Mathematics, practical and impractical. Nature, man, and mathematics
- Development as education
- On environmental education
- John Dewey revisited
- On living in trees
- On understanding the understanding of children
- Human nature and the scope of education.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0875861776
- 0875861784
- OCLC:
- 51812353
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