Learning to Think: From Teaching Skills to Developing MindsLearning to Think focuses on strategies and ideas to help learners develop their capacity to think. By looking at the wide range of 'thinking skills' programmes and initiatives, it concludes that although teaching thinking, as a set of skills in its own right is attractive, it also has serious drawbacks. The conclusions drawn in this publication are that teachers should move away from teaching thinking out of context to developing minds within and across the curriculum as a whole school approach. The titles in this series are written for all those who help young people to learn in classrooms and schools. Each tackles an important but complex topic, and provides a short accessible insight into an aspect of how we learn and the lessons for those who help others to learn. |
