Smart Schools
From Training Memories to Educating Minds
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2008
272 pages
978-1-4391-0840-6 (ISBN)
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.
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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05/1995
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David Perkins, Ph.D., is co-director of Harvard Project Zero, one of the foremost research centers in the country on children's learning, and a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- SMART SCHOOLS
- THE ALARM BELLS
- TEACHING AND LEARNING Theory One and Beyond
- CONTENT Toward a Pedagogy of Understanding
- CURRICULUM Creating the Metacurriculum
- CLASSROOMS The Role of Distributed Intelligence
- MOTIVATION The Cognitive Economy of Schooling
- VICTORY GARDENS FOR REVITALIZED EDUCATION
- THE CHALLENGE OF WIDE-SCALE CHANGE
- APPENDIX A CHECKLIST FOR CHANGE
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
