- 272 pages
- English
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About this book
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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Topic
EducationSubtopic
Education GeneralINDEX
Ability-Counts-Most theory, 20, 39, 40, 41, 60, 186, 225, 227
explained, 34–37
Active use of knowledge, see Knowledge: active use, retention, understanding of
Adler, Mortimer, 6, 11, 53, 55, 217, 229
Amabile, Teresa, 65
Analogs: concrete, stripped, constructed, 91–92, 95 Aristotle, 227
Arts PROPEL project, 137
Asian teaching methods, 223–27
Assessment, 15
authentic, 174–76, 177–78
Assessment Alternatives in Mathematics (Hall), 174, 178
Astington, Janet, 32, 107
At-risk students, 14–15, 39, 114
Attention monitoring, 119, 127
Authentic assessment, 174–76, 177–78
Aware learners, 102
Barell, John, 136
Barth, Roland, 221–22, 223
Behaviorism, 43, 44, 58–60, 133
“The Bells” (Poe), 19–20, 230
Bennett, Peter, 191–92
Bereiter, Carl, 29
Biology, in victory gardens, 189–91
Bloom, Benjamin, 121, 187, 198
Bo Peep theory, 122–23, 125
Boyer, Ernest L., 32, 103
Bransford, John, 22, 127
Bridging, 126, 127, 129
A Brief History of Time (Hawking), 93
Broder, Lois, 121
Brown, Ann, 125, 139, 189, 190, 191, 207, 208
Brown, John Seely, 67
Brown, Rexford, 7, 30, 35
Bruner, Jerome, 10, 17, 62, 63, 76, 194
Campione, Joseph, 189, 190, 191, 207, 208
Causal reasoning, 109
Central Park East Secondary School, 168–69, 179
Change, 204–30
checklist for, 231–35
continuation of, 218–19
costs of, 208
implementation of, 213–17
initiation of, 211–12
necessities of scale in, 206–10
teachers’ role in, 206, 219–27, 235
Chazen, Dan, 84
Chi, Michele...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- 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