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Education for thinking / Deanna Kuhn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005Description: 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674019067
  • 9780674019065
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 372.011 22
LOC classification:
  • LB1590.3 .K84 2005
Contents:
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.
Review: "Bringing insights from research in developmental psychology to pedagogy, Deanna 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 affect the success of a music club catalog or discussing difficult issues like capital punishment - allow students to appreciate their power and utility as they engage in them."--Jacket.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 372.011 KUH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A551187B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"Bringing insights from research in developmental psychology to pedagogy, Deanna 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 affect the success of a music club catalog or discussing difficult issues like capital punishment - allow students to appreciate their power and utility as they engage in them."--Jacket.

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