Cover of The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach

The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach

by Howard Gardner · 1991

+ Want to read

Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner shows how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to current educational materials, practices, and institutions, and makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author.

Subject
educationeducationMore like thisLess of thispsychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of thissciencescienceMore like thisLess of thisself-helpself-helpMore like thisLess of thissocial sciencesocial scienceMore like thisLess of this
Themes
teachersteachersMore like thisLess of thisparentingparentingMore like thisLess of thisworkworkMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare pricesHardcover

Liked The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom Daniel T. Willingham · 2009 Shares education, teaching, nonfiction
  2. What to Look for in a Classroom: ...and Other Essays Alfie Kohn · 1998 Shares education, teaching, nonfiction
  3. The Unschooling Unmanual Nanda Van Gestel, Daniel Quinn, Rue Kream · 2008 Shares education, parenting, homeschooling
  4. Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing And What We Can Learn From Japanese And Chinese Educ Harold W. Stevenson · 1992 Shares education, teaching, nonfiction
See more recommendations →

“People who read The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School Grace Llewellyn · 2001
  2. Learning All The Time John Holt · 1989
  3. The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards" Alfie Kohn · 1999
  4. Free Range Learning How Homeschooling Changes Everything Laura Grace Weldon · 2010

“If you want more of the same (education about teachers), start with these.”

  1. The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools Alfie Kohn · 2000
  2. The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing Alfie Kohn · 2006
  3. How the Special Needs Brain Learns David A. Sousa · 2001
  4. Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica · 2015

“If it was the teaching that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Teaching as a Subversive Activity Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner · 1969
  2. The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work Linda Darling-Hammond · 1997
  3. The Quality School: Managing Students Without Coercion William Glasser · 1900
  4. Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know W. James Popham · 1994

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Teaching Minds: How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools Roger C. Schank · 2011
  2. Student Success in College: Creating Conditions That Matter George D. Kuh, John H. Schuh, Elizabeth J. Whitt, Jillian Kinzie · 2005
  3. Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective Dale H. Schunk · 1990
  4. An Introduction to Theories of Learning: Ninth Edition Matthew H. Olson · 1982

Report a problem