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The Unschooled Mind

The Unschooled Mind

How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach
2nd Edition
Howard Gardner (Author)
March 2011
Trade Paperback · 352 Pages
$17.99 U.S. · $21.00 CAN · £10.99 U.K. · €12.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780465024384
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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.

About the Author

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 honorary degrees, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.