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The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach:
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The Unschooled Mind (1991) as mentioned in this paper argues that schools, even when publicly acknowledged as successful, are failing at their most critical task-teaching for real understanding and that early-developed ideas, stereotypes, and "scripts" (descriptions of recurrent events) continueto dominate the thinking of even advanced teachers.Abstract:
Howard Gardner is well known to teachereducators,particularlyforhisearlier book,Frames ofMind: The Theory ofMuir tipleInteUigences(1983). Morerecently, the ConferenceonArtistic Intelligences (1989) and the development of Arts PROPEL havefamiliarized musicteacher educators even more specifically with Gardner's work. In The Unschooled Mind (1991), Gardnercontinues topricktheconsciences ofeducators by gettingdown to the very heartofthematter. Schools, hesays, do not nowteachthewaychildrenlearn, andoften what children learn before or outside of school is more powerful than competing information presented in school and can interferewithschool-delivered knowledge. Gardnercontendsin hisintroductory material that schools, even when publicly acknowledged as successful, are failing at their most critical task-teaching for real understanding. As always, Gardner provides examples that areabundantandtothe point. He offers evidence that early-developed ideas, stereotypes, and "scripts" (descriptions of recurrent events) continueto dominate the thinking of even advancedread more
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How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school.
TL;DR: New developments in the science of learning as mentioned in this paper overview mind and brain how experts differ from novices how children learn learning and transfer the learning environment curriculum, instruction and commnity effective teaching.
A pedagogy of Multiliteracies Designing Social Futures
Bill Cope,Mary Kalantzis +1 more
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Sue Bredekamp,Carol Copple +1 more
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Joseph Krajcik,Namsoo Shin +1 more
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