If children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, as conventional wisdom holds, how would a child discover that the earth is round-never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Overturning both cogniti…
If children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, as conventional wisdom holds, how would a child discover that the earth is round-never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Overturning both cogniti…
If children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, as conventional wisdom holds, how would a child discover that the earth is round- never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Overturning both cognit…
Based upon a year of videotaped observations of one inner-city elementary school class, a sociologist analyzes the tacit rules that organize the social interaction of a classroom and provides a new understanding of its social fabric.
"Learning the City critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urbanism. It argues both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and for a resurgence of learning that represents a critical opportunity to develop a progressive internationa…
" ... Shows us how we use the brains of others to think for us and as storage space for knowledge about the world"--Jacket. Humans are, first and foremost, social creatures. And this shapes and explains most of our choices. The authors show us how we use the brains of others to…
