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.
" ... 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…
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…
This book is the first in the exciting new field of social learning.
This book is the first in the exciting new field of social learning.