Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds

Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds
ISBN-10
1439108404
ISBN-13
9781439108406
Category
Education
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2008-06-30
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
David Perkins

Description

Perkins reveals the common misguided strategies students use and offers teachers and parents advice on how they can help their children. Although there has been a great deal of impassioned debate over the sad state of American education today, surprisingly little attention has been paid to how children actually learn to think. But, as David Perkins demonstrates, we cannot solve our problems in this area simply by redistributing power or by asking children to regurgitate facts on a multiple choice exam. Rather we must ask what kinds of knowledge students typically acquire in school. In Smart Schools, Perkins draws on over twenty years of research to reveal the common misguided strategies students use in trying to understand a topic, and then shows teachers and parents what strategies they can use with children to increase real understanding.

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