Education for Thinking

Name: Education for Thinking
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ISBN: 9780674027459

ISBN-10: 0674027450

ISBN-13: 9780674027459

Edition: 2005

Authors: Deanna Kuhn

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What do we want schools to accomplish? The only defensible answer, Deanna Kuhn argues, is that they should teach students to use their minds well, in school and beyond. Bringing insights from research in developmental psychology to pedagogy, Kuhn maintains that inquiry and argument should be at the center of a "thinking curriculum"--a curriculum that makes sense to students as well as to teachers and develops the skills and values needed for lifelong learning. We have only a brief window of opportunity in children's lives to gain (or lose) their trust that the things we ask them to do in school are worth doing. Activities centered on inquiry and argument--such as identifying features that…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 218
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English




Introduction



Why Go to School?



What Are We Doing Here?



Inquiry



Learning to Learn



The Skills of Inquiry



Developing Inquiry Skills



Argument



Why Argue?



The Skills of Argument



Developing Argument Skills



Conclusions



Becoming Educated


References


Index