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Schools for Thought
Author | : John T. Bruer |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0262521962 |
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Schools for Thought provides a straightforward, general introduction to cognitive research and illustrates its importance for educational change. If we want to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for all children, we must start applying what we know about mental functioning--how children think, learn, and remember in our schools. We must apply cognitive science in the classroom. Schools for Thought provides a straightforward, general introduction to cognitive research and illustrates its importance for educational change. Using classroom examples, Bruer shows how applying cognitive research can dramatically improve students' transitions from lower-level rote skills to advanced proficiency in reading, writing, mathematics, and science. Cognitive research, he points out, is also beginning to suggest how we might better motivate students, design more effective tools for assessing them, and improve the training of teachers. He concludes with a chapter on how effective school reform demands that we expand our understanding of teaching and learning and that we think about education in new ways. Debates and discussions about the reform of American education suffer from a lack of appreciation of the complexity of learning and from a lack of understanding about the knowledge base that is available for the improvement of educational practice. Politicians, business leaders, and even many school superintendents, principals, and teachers think that educational problems can be solved by changing school management structures or by creating a market in educational services. Bruer argues that improvement depends instead on changing student-teacher interactions. It is these changes, guided by cognitive research, that will create more effective classroom environments. A Bradford Book
Schools of Thought
Author | : Joan Wallach Scott,Debra Keates |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2001-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 069108842X |
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This collection of essays stems from a 1997 conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. Essays focus on disciplinary and methodology changes, institutional history, and the link between poltical philosophy and world governance.
New Schools of Thought
Author | : Peter Staub,Vera Kaps |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2018-05 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 3038630306 |
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Schools of Thought
Author | : Joan Wallach Scott,Debra Keates |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780691228389 |
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Schools of Thought brings together a cast of prominent scholars to assess, with unprecedented breadth and vigor, the intellectual revolution over the past quarter century in the social sciences. This collection of twenty essays stems from a 1997 conference that celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. The authors, who represent a wide range of disciplines, are all associated with the School's emphasis on interpretive social science, which rejects models from the hard sciences and opts instead for a humanistic approach to social inquiry. Following a preface by Clifford Geertz, whose profound insights have helped shape the School from the outset, the essays are arranged in four sections. The first offers personal reflections on disciplinary changes; the second features essays advocating changes in focus or methodology; the third presents field overviews and institutional history; while the fourth addresses the link between political philosophy and world governance. Two recurring themes are the uses (and pitfalls) of interdisciplinary studies and the relation between scholarship and social change. This book will be rewarding for anyone interested in how changing trends in scholarship shape the understanding of our social worlds. The contributors include David Apter, Kaushik Basu, Judith Butler, Nicholas Dirks, Jean Elshtain, Peter Galison, Wolf Lepenies, Jane Mansbridge, Andrew Pickering, Mary Poovey, Istvan Rev, Renato Rosaldo, Michael Rustin, Joan W. Scott, William H. Sewell, Jr., Quentin Skinner, Charles Taylor, Anna Tsing, Michael Walzer, and Gavin Wright.
Creating Cultures of Thinking
Author | : Ron Ritchhart |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-02-23 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781118974629 |
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Discover why and how schools must become places where thinkingis valued, visible, and actively promoted As educators, parents, and citizens, we must settle for nothingless than environments that bring out the best in people, takelearning to the next level, allow for great discoveries, and propelboth the individual and the group forward into a lifetime oflearning. This is something all teachers want and all studentsdeserve. In Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We MustMaster to Truly Transform Our Schools, Ron Ritchhart, author ofMaking Thinking Visible, explains how creating a culture ofthinking is more important to learning than any particularcurriculum and he outlines how any school or teacher can accomplishthis by leveraging 8 cultural forces: expectations, language, time,modeling, opportunities, routines, interactions, andenvironment. With the techniques and rich classroom vignettes throughout thisbook, Ritchhart shows that creating a culture of thinking is notabout just adhering to a particular set of practices or a generalexpectation that people should be involved in thinking. A cultureof thinking produces the feelings, energy, and even joy that canpropel learning forward and motivate us to do what at times can behard and challenging mental work.
The Schools Our Children Deserve
Author | : Alfie Kohn |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0618083456 |
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Arguing against the tougher standards rhetoric that marks the current education debate, the author of No Contest and Punished by Rewards writes that such tactics squeeze the pleasure out of learning. Reprint.
Thinking about Schools
Author | : Eleanor Blair Hilty |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780429975301 |
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This book considers how American public education came to be the way it is today. It helps students to have a better sense of how the past informs the present and how questions regarding who is served best by the schools tell us about the goals and aspirations of present-day schools in America.
Mindstorms
Author | : Seymour A Papert |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781541675100 |
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In this revolutionary book, a renowned computer scientist explains the importance of teaching children the basics of computing and how it can prepare them to succeed in the ever-evolving tech world. Computers have completely changed the way we teach children. We have Mindstorms to thank for that. In this book, pioneering computer scientist Seymour Papert uses the invention of LOGO, the first child-friendly programming language, to make the case for the value of teaching children with computers. Papert argues that children are more than capable of mastering computers, and that teaching computational processes like de-bugging in the classroom can change the way we learn everything else. He also shows that schools saturated with technology can actually improve socialization and interaction among students and between students and teachers. Technology changes every day, but the basic ways that computers can help us learn remain. For thousands of teachers and parents who have sought creative ways to help children learn with computers, Mindstorms is their bible.