Children's minds
Donaldson shows that much of the intellectual framework on which we base our teaching is misleading. We both underestimate the astonishing rational powers of young children and ignore the major stumbling block that children face when starting school. Given a setting and a language that makes sense to them in human terms, very young children can perform tasks often thought to be beyond them. The preschool child learns everything in a human situation. Only in school are they asked to acquire skil…
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- Full title :Children's minds / Margaret Donaldson.
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Donaldson shows that much of the intellectual framework on which we base our teaching is misleading. We both underestimate the astonishing rational powers of young children and ignore the major stumbling block that children face when starting school. Given a setting and a language that makes sense to them in human terms, very young children can perform tasks often thought to be beyond them. The preschool child learns everything in a human situation. Only in school are they asked to acquire skills -- reading, writing, arithmetic -- isolated from a real-life context. This transition is difficult.The author suggests a range of strategies that parents and schools can adopt to help children. She argues that reading is even more important than we have thought it to be, since learning to read can actually speed children through the crucial transition. --From publisher description.
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- Publication Date:©1978
- Edition:First American edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Norton
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1978
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 166 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0393011852, 9780393011852, 0393951014, 9780393951011
- oclc:ocm04503927
- LC Classification:LB1115
- Dewey Decimal:370.15
Table of Contents
The school experience -- The ability to "decenter" -- Learning language -- Failing to reason or failing to understand? -- What is and what must be -- What is said and what is meant -- Disembedded thought and social values -- Why children find school learning difficult -- What the school can do -- The desire to learn -- The shape of minds to come -- Appendix: Piaget's theory of intellectual development.
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