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The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach
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.
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
June 2nd 1993
by Basic Books
(first published 1991)
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I like his theory on bring back apprenticeships - beginning in late elementary school and middle school. I would love to see this implemented in a formal setting (as opposed to homeschooling and setting it up yourself). Not too keen on his favorable opinion of forgoing phonics for whole language, but we all make mistakes.
Howard Gardner's idea of teaching students to understand rather then just briefly explaining a subject I do like. Also how he feels we need to form our schools like a museum based study to get the students mentally and physically involved in their learning. I do not particularly care for his ideas of national standard curriculum even then leading to a world-wide one. I feel that schools know their students best and should be able to decide how they teach them. Reading it for an argumentation pie...more
More apprenticeship/exposure for kids to the real world at their earliest school-ages. Standardized testing compartmentalizes unique free beings...
Howard Gardener. As in: Multiple intelligences, who changed the way education is viewed. Can't wait to read this one.
This was a pretty dry read. The beginning was very slow, but there were a couple of take-aways later on.
This book was short and simple. I don't agree with everything he says but presents a lot of good observations and ideas to think about.
Nice overview of educational policy and a few new reform ideas!
Intressant bok.
I think there are more accessible summaries of cognitive development: Brain Rules for Baby, A Thousand Days of Wonder
It is what it is... and because the class I read it for I would only give one star, I fear that upon its completion I am sadly left only as a traditional learner of Gardner's great work and can only give it 3 stars.
I can't get into this one right now. I have found myself having to reread parts and I am still like "what?" Maybe once I put my "school" brain back in since it is currently in summertime mode.
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I've been reading this book and had to return it to the library - but it was really interesting - at some point I'm going to check it out again.
The main key in here led my research for my thesis - we need to teach for genuine understanding.
I don't think this book is about what I thought it was about...
Classic educational theory.
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Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. He has received honorary degrees from 26 colleges and univers...more
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