The unschooled mind : how children think and how schools should teach / Howard Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Howard, 1943-

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive learning.

Education--Aims and objectives.

Education.

Physical Description:

xxx, 322 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

[Twentieth-anniversary edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, [2011]

Contents:

Introduction: the central puzzles of learning

I: The "natural" learner

Conceptualizing the development of the mind

Initial learnings: constraints and possibilities

Knowing the world through symbols

The worlds of the preschooler: the emergence of intuitive understandings

II: Understanding educational institutions

The values and traditions of education

The institution called school

The difficulties posed by school: misconceptions in the sciences

More difficulties posed by school: stereotypes in the social sciences and the humanities

III: Toward education for understanding

The search for solutions: dead ends and promising means

Education for understanding during the early years

Education for understanding during the adolescent years

Toward national and global understandings.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: 1995

"Twentienth-anniversary edition."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-310) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780465024384 :

0465024386 :

OCLC:

705522857

Publisher Number:

99942938885