The Unschooled Mind
How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach
Gardner, Howard
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BOOK SUMMARY
"Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner shows how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to current educational materials, practices, and institutions, and makes"
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner shows how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to current educational materials, practices, and institutions, and makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author.
AUTHOR BIO
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0465088961
ISBN(13-digit): 9780465088966
Copyright: 1993
Dewey Decimal: 370.15/2
Library of Congress: 91070058
Book Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 336
Paper Weight (lb): 0.8
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