| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
|
| Title/Author: |
The unschooled mind :/ Howard Gardner. |
| Reminder of title: |
how children think and how schools should teach / |
| Author: |
Gardner, Howard, |
| Published: |
New York :Basic Books, : c2011., |
| Description: |
xxx, 322 p. ;24 cm. |
| Notes: |
Reprint. Originally published: 1995. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Cognitive learning. - |
| ISBN: |
9780465024384 (pbk.) : |