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The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach |  | Author: Howard E. Gardner
Publisher: Basic Books
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ISBN: 0465088961
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.152
EAN: 9780465088966
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Publication Date: May 1993
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Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner shows how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to current educational materials, practices, and institutions, and makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author.
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 child psychology February 9, 2009
Rachel Manz (Pittsburgh PA)
This book has a lot of information. It is really helpful for my educational psychology class, and also can be related to the 2 1/2 year old I take care of. I do however think it is quite wordy, and some topics I breeze/skim over because they are too difficult to grasp.
 Unremarkable September 28, 2007
Ryan Johnson
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a new teacher (recently graduated from college) who was looking for a helpful, inspiring, and fresh-faced book about education. This book failed to deliver. I found the author's style hard to read and digest. There was little discussion about practical applications or approaches present in the text. Instead, the author dwelled on abstract theory without offering much in the way of advice/help/direction. The theories presented had already been exposed to me during my collegiate career. In summary, if you are a somewhat recent graduate you will probably find little use for this book. If you are a layperson, you may find it difficult to read. If you are a veteran teacher, you may find the text helpful in refreshing your fluency in educational theory.
 Every educator must read March 21, 2007
J. J. Delgado
Howard Gardner's theory has opened a new frontier for education and all life aspects. In this book he brakes paradigms of standardize schooling for the young. This is a must read book for teachers on the primary grades in order to understand how children think and to reevaluate our system of education and the way we teach.
Another Message from a Failed Reformer February 24, 2006
E. J. Ludwig (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
11 out of 46 found this review helpful
Professor Gardner himself is an example of a learned person who has mastery, but lacks understanding. People, including bright persons, do apply their knowledge to reality. They are not all stuck in a time warp where the false values of their childhood control their "understanding." Lawyers practice law. Physicists do physics. Historians write history. Where is the gap between mastery and understanding that he opines? May it not be that there are levels of understanding? Is there really an opposition between knowing and understanding? Perhaps for Prof. Gardner, but not, I think, for the rest of us. Those who can think out of the box, so to speak, in their respective fields, the ones who can be creative are a limited number. They help and enlighten us all. Can a teacher show a child that he or she really doesn't understand what he claims to "know"? Of course. Children are malleable. Even adults can be persuaded to revise their thinking by a sufficiently persuasive speaker even if what that speaker proposes is false. We've seen it time and time again. He's riding that old hobby horse that rote learning is destroying society. It's not. It's reformers like Prof. Gardner that are driving sincere educators to despair as they drive more and more dictators of our schools to believe that the education we are giving and have been giving is inadequate through and through, based on too many false premises, and that we are all up a creek intellectually. It's the height of elitism, and hides a deeper lack of understanding.
Howard Gardner is a brilliant man!! June 26, 2001
JMack (Chicago)
74 out of 79 found this review helpful
I read this book a few years ago as part of a course in my Master's degree program. I had some familiarity with Gardner's work, mainly the seven intelligences. However, until an educator has read this book, the educator can not apply the seven intelligences in the class room or teach effectively.My dad once told me that I never learn anything until I break something. I was 16 and had just wrecked my first car. I never crashed again. This is the concept behind Gardner's book. We learn from our experiences. We learn by applying knowledge in real life situation. Knowledge is not necessarily power, but it is part of the equation. After teaching concepts in my class with follow-up assignments which were real life activities/experiences, I saw test results improve and student interest increase dramatically. Students only want to learn what is useful to them so teachers must show subject matter to be relavent to the student's lives. Gardner explains how a students mind can grow through these means. This is a great read even if you are a parent who want to explore how your child learns. Highly recommended!
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