Gardner, Howard, 1943-

The unschooled mind : how children think and how schools should teach / Howard Gardner - New York : Basic Books, 2004 - xvi, 303 pages ; 24 cm

Tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by the author.

Introduction : the central puzzles of learning
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
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
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

An expert in the field of cognitive science explains the development of a child's ability to interpret the world and offers new teaching methods based on current research in early learning

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Education--Aims and objectives
Cognitive learning
Educación --Fines y objetivos
Aprendizaje cognitivo

LB 1062 / G227u 2004

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