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

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Basic Books, 1995 - Psychology - 320 pages
Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner shows how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to current educational materials, practices, and institutions, and makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author.

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Contents

Conceptualizing the Development of the Mind
23
Constraints and Possibilities
42
Knowing the World Through Symbols
55
Copyright

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About the author (1995)

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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