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** Book Review: The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools
Should Teach - By Howard Gardner **
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The failings of schools have been discussed and analyzed from a dazzling
array of perspectives. In this study, the author, a professor at the
Harvard School of Education and a practitioner of cognitive science based
on a theory of multiple intelligences, adopts a credibly innovative
approach, contending that even when a school appears to succeed, "it
typically fails to achieve its most important missions." The root flaw, as
he views it, is a lack of "genuine understanding"--as opposed to
"acceptable mastery"--on the student's part.
Gardner sees access to better education in the alliance of three potential
teammates: the intuitive preschooler, the traditional older child working
through a curriculum, and an expert/teacher capable of extending skills
and understandings in new ways. One answer to why so many students losë
their enthusiasm for school is found hëre, as well as promising proposals
for school reform, like museum collaborations and apprenticeship projects.
Gardner's study offers a wealth of material for significant school
restructuring. (Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.)
The list price for this book is $19.00. To purchase it from Amazon.com for
$12.92, a 32% discount, go directly to
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0465088961/selfimprovemeonlA/
Should Teach - By Howard Gardner **
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The failings of schools have been discussed and analyzed from a dazzling
array of perspectives. In this study, the author, a professor at the
Harvard School of Education and a practitioner of cognitive science based
on a theory of multiple intelligences, adopts a credibly innovative
approach, contending that even when a school appears to succeed, "it
typically fails to achieve its most important missions." The root flaw, as
he views it, is a lack of "genuine understanding"--as opposed to
"acceptable mastery"--on the student's part.
Gardner sees access to better education in the alliance of three potential
teammates: the intuitive preschooler, the traditional older child working
through a curriculum, and an expert/teacher capable of extending skills
and understandings in new ways. One answer to why so many students losë
their enthusiasm for school is found hëre, as well as promising proposals
for school reform, like museum collaborations and apprenticeship projects.
Gardner's study offers a wealth of material for significant school
restructuring. (Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.)
The list price for this book is $19.00. To purchase it from Amazon.com for
$12.92, a 32% discount, go directly to
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0465088961/selfimprovemeonlA/