How We Think: A Theory of Goal-Oriented Decision Making and its Educational Applications

How We Think: A Theory of Goal-Oriented Decision Making and its Educational Applications
ISBN-10
1136909788
ISBN-13
9781136909788
Series
How We Think
Category
Education
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2010-10-18
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Alan H. Schoenfeld

Description

Teachers try to help their students learn. But why do they make the particular teaching choices they do? What resources do they draw upon? What accounts for the success or failure of their efforts? In How We Think, esteemed scholar and mathematician, Alan H. Schoenfeld, proposes a groundbreaking theory and model for how we think and act in the classroom and beyond. Based on thirty years of research on problem solving and teaching, Schoenfeld provides compelling evidence for a concrete approach that describes how teachers, and individuals more generally, navigate their way through in-the-moment decision-making in well-practiced domains. Applying his theoretical model to detailed representations and analyses of teachers at work as well as of professionals outside education, Schoenfeld argues that understanding and recognizing the goal-oriented patterns of our day to day decisions can help identify what makes effective or ineffective behavior in the classroom and beyond.

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