The unschooled mind : how children think and how schools should teach /
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New York :
BasicBooks,
c1991.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the central puzzles of learning
- Conceptualizing the development of the mind
- Initial learnings : constraints and possibilities
- Knowing the world through symbols
- The worlds of the preschooler : the emergence of intuitive understandings
- The values and traditions of education
- The institution called school
- The difficulties posed by school : misconceptions in the sciences
- More difficulties posed by school : stereotypes in the social sciences and the humanities
- The search for solutions : dead ends and promising means
- Education for understanding during the early years
- Education for understanding during the adolescent years
- Toward national and global understandings.