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

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Howard Gardner
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 233,Width 157
ISBN/Barcode 9780465024384
ClassificationsDewey:370.152
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Edition 2nd edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Basic Books
Imprint Basic Books
Publication Date 29 March 2011
Publication Country United States

Description

Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools by showing just how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to the prevailing modes of education. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author.

Author Biography

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. The author of more than twenty books and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and twenty-one honourary degrees, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.