1st Edition
Promoting Cognitive Growth Over the Life Span
This book introduces special programs designed to enhance thinking and problem solving at the preschool, elementary, secondary, college, and graduate levels, as well as proven instructional methods to aid the elderly in retaining or regaining essential mental skills. The volume also considers difficult problems confronting psychology, including such disparate issues as the appropriate content of courses to develop thinking, resistance to the introduction of programs in schools and universities, and psychology's limitations on progress in these areas.
Biography
Schwebel, Milton; Fagley, Nancy S.; Maher, Charles A.
"Several distinguished psychologists turn their talents to a consideration of an issue in which we all have a vested interest: how best to cultivate critical and creative thinking through the life span. A pioneering effort..."
—Howard Gardner
Harvard University Graduate School of Education"...a scholarly, timely, thought-provoking examination of an important area by an international array of contributors."
—Donald Meichenbaum
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada