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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. 0465004407 the Arts and Human Development : with a New Introduction by the Author 0465004458 Art, Mind, and Brain : a Cognitive Approach to Creativity 0465014542 Creating Minds : an Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi 0465025102 Frames of Mind : the Theory of Multiple Intelligences 0465046355 the Mind's New Science : a History of the Cognitive Revolution 0465082807 Leading Minds : an Anatomy of Leadership 046508629

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #74720 in Books
• Published on: 1993-05-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

A Must for Today's Educators
This is important reading for all teachers and administrators. Gardner provides powerful insights into why schools aren't producing students with the skills to solve problems in real-life settings. His ideas help us examine how schools today could effectively teach for understanding.

A Must for Today's Educators
This is important reading for all teachers and administrators. Gardner provides powerful insights into why schools aren't producing students with the skills to solve problems in real-life settings. His ideas help us examine how schools today could effectively teach for understanding.

Common Sense in an academic way
The only thing wrong with this book which is easy to read and makes some excellent points is that much of Gardiner's work is not really new. Many others have recognised, Holt, Goodman etc. that schools are not ideal in their present form as mass educators simply because we are all different. This only comes as a surprise to a group of unenlightened educational administrators too busy getting on to see what was really going on. The parable of the talents is over 2000 years old so Gardiner with his multiple intelligence theory simply makes the blindingly obvious obscure and esoteric. The positive is that at last some of the educational establishment are awakening but as usual have got hold of the wrong end of the stick. It is sadly not just the children have unschooled minds. A worthy book making worthy points that may eventually lead to real progress but not quickly I venture.