Contributor
Olson, David R., 1935-
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
Descriptionxii, 804 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
Note:INTRODUCTION: Rethinking the role of psychology in education / David R. Olson, Nancy Torrance -- SECTION I. SETTING THE STAGE: HOW THEORIES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT RELATE TO EDUCATION: PART A. PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CHILD-CENTERED PEDAGOGY: Folk psychology and folk pedagogy / David R. Olson, Jerome S. Bruner -- The age of innocence reconsidered: preserving the best of the progressive traditions in psychology and education / Howard Gardner, Bruce Torff, Thomas Hatch -- A rereading of Dewey's Art as Experience: pointers toward a theory of learning / Maxine Greene -- Changing views of knowledge and their impact on educational research and practice / Robbie Case -- Rethinking the historical role of psychology in educational reform / Barbara Beatty -- PART B. PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: Rethinking the concept of learning disabilities: the demise of aptitude/achievement discrepancy / Keith E. Stanovich, Paula J. Stanovich -- Rethinking readiness for learning / Rita Watson -- Language and literacy development: discontinuities and differences / Lowry Hemphill, Catherine Snow -- Accommodating diversity in early literacy learning / Marie M. Clay -- Writing and learning to write / Gunther Kress -- Rethinking the role of emotions in education / Keith Oatley, Seema Nundy.
Note:SECTION II. BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF PEDAGOGY: PART A. THE VERY POSSIBILITY OF EDUCATION: Pedagogy and imitation in monkeys: yes, no, or maybe? / Elisabetta Visalberghi, Dorothy M. Fragaszy -- Why animals lack pedagogy and some cultures have more of it than others / David Premack, Ann James Premack -- Humanly possible: education and the scope of the mind / Margaret Donaldson -- Acceptable ignorance, negotiable disagreement: alternative views of learning / Jacqueline J. Goodnow -- PART B. CULTURAL CONTEXT OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION: Cultural learning and learning culture / Ann C. Kruger, Michael Tomasello -- Models of teaching and learning: participation in a community of learners / Barbara Rogoff, Eugene Matusov, Cynthia White -- The individual-society antinomy revisited: productive tensions in theories of human development, communication, and education / James V. Wertsch, William R. Penuel -- Some educational implications of genre-based mental models: the interpretive cognition of text understanding / Carol Fleisher Feldman, David A. Kalmar -- Habits of mind for a learning society: educating for human development / Daniel Keating.
Note:SECTION III. SCHOOLING MINDS: PART A. THE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF SCHOOLING: Rethinking learning / Carl Bereiter, Marlene Scardamalia -- The development of understanding / Kieran Egan -- The learner's experience of learning / Ference Marton, Shirley Booth -- Understanding and empowering the child as a learner / Ingrid Pramling -- The language of mind: its role in teaching and learning / Janet Wilde Astington, Janette Pelletier -- PART B. COPING WITH CONTENT: Schooling and the acquisition of theoretical knowledge / Frank C. Keil, Chana S. Silberstein -- From folk biology to scientific biology / Scott Atran -- Cognitive and cultural factors in the acquisition of intuitive biology / Giyoo Hatano, Kayoko Inagaki -- What do "just plain folk" know about physics? / Andrea A. Disessa -- Agreeing to disagree: developing sociable mathematical discourse / Magdalene Lampert, Peggy Rittenhouse, Carol Crumbaugh -- Conceptualizing the growth of historical understanding / Peter Seixas.
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