Educational Values and Cognitive Instruction: Implications for Reform

by Lorna Idol (Editor), Beau Fly Jones (Editor)

This volume is a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art research on thinking, cognitive instruction, social values, and reform. Cognitive instruction for at-risk students is discussed in great detail along with a thorough examination of the teaching of thinking skills from the viewpoint of educational values and school culture. The issues of thinking, learning, and cognitive instruction are linked to the educational reform movement from numerous perspectives. Specifically, the reader can better anticipate which aspects of research on thinking will conflict with existing paradigms and which aspects of schooling will be most resistant to change.

482 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1990

About the author

Lorna Idol-Maestas