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Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you’ll get that. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Alfie Kohn points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of doing things to them.
The Growth of the Mind: And the Endangered Origins of Intelligence
A strong argument for the emotional origins of intellectual development, this important book synthesizes current theories of developmental psychology with new insights derived from genetics and brain physiology.
Howard Gardner - questioning the nature of intelligence and the purpose of education
Posted March 12th, 2008 by carrieannHoward Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The author of over twenty books translated into twenty-four languages, and several hundred articles, Gardner is best known in educational circles for his
theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments.
We Are a Small Group Species
Posted March 12th, 2008 by carrieannHuman beings are communal by nature and living together – in communities – is our most common and most natural state of life. John Abbott discusses the fact that communities must be created and sustained by the conscious intentions and actions of their members, and that we must attend to health and vitality of our communities in order to thrive – and to learn! – as a species.
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Audio file: Gordon Neufield on adolescence, peer-orientation and education
Posted March 12th, 2008 by carrieannDr. Gordon Neufeld discusses adolescence and the current context of education at the Canadian Education Association’s 2006 Symposium Getting it Right for Adolescent Learners.
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How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
When do infants begin to learn? How do experts learn and how is this different from non-experts? What can teachers and schools do to help children learn most effectively? This book offers exciting new research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to these and other questions.
The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries about the Teenage Brain Tell Us about Our Kids
For anyone who has ever puzzled over the mysterious and often infuriating behavior of a teenager comes a groundbreaking look at the teenage brain written by the medical science and health editor for The New York Times.
a critical evolutionary adaptation
Perhaps the craziness of adolescence is really an evolutionary adaptation that is critical to the advancement of the human species.
Get rid of that machine model of the brain. It’s-Robert Sylwester
Posted February 18th, 2008 by carrieannGet rid of that machine model of the brain. It’s wrong! The brain is a biological system, not a machine. Currently we’re putting children with biologically shaped brains into machine-oriented schools. The two just don’t mix. We bog the school down in a curriculum that is not biologically feasible.
The challenge is to better understand metacognitio-John Abbott
Posted February 18th, 2008 by carrieannThe challenge is to better understand metacognition – how we can make thinking visible and consciously direct our multiple learning strategies. This will give us the key to transform education. We really can learn how to learn, with a clarity that was not possible even five years ago.
