The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach

The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach
ISBN-10
0465024386
ISBN-13
9780465024384
Category
Education
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2011-03-29
Publisher
Basic Books (AZ)
Author
Howard Gardner

Description

"I like to invoke the image of figure and ground. In any scene, certain elements stand out as figures, as dominant foci, against a less prominent background, which (ideally) supports the central figure. At present, test scores and rankings have become figures, so dominant that they virtually occlude everything else. In my preferred portrait of education, a well-schooled mind becomes the central figure--a mind that truly understands disciplinary ways of thinking and one that also encourages respectful and ethical behavior. All the rest--including the instruments of accountability should be in the backgroud, providing support for that central, powerful image. Why the current ideal of school focuses so much on a certain view of knowledge, transmitted in a certain way, and documented in a certain way, is a question for historians and policy makers: That it has taken this turn is a source of regret to those of us who harbor a different view of knowledge and education." -- From the introduction by the author (p. xxviii).

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