1st Edition

Teaching Thinking Issues and Approaches

By Jean Piaget, David N. Perkins Copyright 1990
    290 Pages
    by Routledge

    290 Pages
    by Routledge

    Originally published in 1990, this title attempts to provide for the educational practitioner an overview of a field that responded in the 1980s to a major educational agenda. This innovative ‘agenda’ called for teaching students in ways that dramatically improved the quality of their thinking. Its context is a variety of changes in education that brought the explicit teaching of thinking to the consciousness of more and more teachers and administrators.

    Foreword.  Preface.  1. Promise and Possibilities  2. Thinking and Its Improvement  3. Kinds of Thinking  4. Infusing Teaching Thinking into Regular Subject-area Instruction  5. Choosing and Using Separate Instructional Programs Designed to Teach Thinking  6. Constructing a Program for Teaching Thinking in Classroom or School: Choices about Thinking Goals  7. How Teachers Relate to Teaching Thinking: Lesson Design and Instructional Strategies  8. Support Systems for Teachers and Schools to Teach Thinking Effectively  9. Approaches to Evaluation  10. Types of Tests.

    Biography

    Robert J. Swartz, D.N. Perkins