Instrumental Enrichment

Instrumental Enrichment
Author: Reuven Feuerstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1985
Genre: Children with mental disabilities
ISBN: 9780067324608

Thinking about the Teaching of Thinking

Thinking about the Teaching of Thinking
Author: Dorothy R. Howie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000134776

Thinking about the Teaching of Thinking provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Feuerstein’s theory of Mediated Learning Experience and its related tools and programmes. It details up-to-date international and New Zealand research on the Feuerstein approach which reflects the current issues in the teaching of thinking. The book begins by defining what is meant by the teaching of thinking and provides an easy to understand explanation of the Feuerstein method and its value for children with learning challenges. It champions a ‘whole school’ approach to the teaching of thinking and details the practical tools and programmes developed by Feuerstein – such as Instrumental Enrichment and the Learning Propensity Assessment Device – to aid in its implementation. It also recognises the key importance of cultural factors in the teaching of thinking, bringing together the author’s considerable research experience using the Feuerstein method in the multicultural New Zealand context with her extensive knowledge of international Feuerstein research. This book provides a user-friendly and unique coverage of the Feuerstein method for researchers and postgraduate students researching and working in educational psychology. It will also be of great value for teachers and parents looking to understand and decide on implementation of the Feuerstein approach in their schools.

Can We Teach Intelligence?

Can We Teach Intelligence?
Author: Nigel Blagg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-04-24
Genre: Children with mental disabilities
ISBN: 9781138988057

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky

The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky
Author: Professor Harry Daniels
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2007-04-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0521831040

A comprehensive text providing a critical perspective on Vygotsky and his work.

Facilitating Cognitive Development

Facilitating Cognitive Development
Author: Milton Schwebel
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1986
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780866564151

The vital aspects of designing, implementing, and evaluating programs and services that will facilitate cognitive development in children and adolescents are the focus of this important book. Leading scholars, researchers, and practitioners from throughout the world address these issues, offering a sound conceptual and empirical knowledge base for special services providers in taking a leadership role in facilitation of cognitive development in schools.

Mediated Learning

Mediated Learning
Author: Mandia Mentis
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412950694

Features an expanded discussion of mediated learning and includes case studies, reflective activities for the reader, and in-depth coverage of metacognition, metalearning, metateaching, and metatasking.

Beyond Smarter

Beyond Smarter
Author: Reuven Feuerstein
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2015-04-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807772208

Originally developed to help students overcome learning obstacles created by emotional trauma or neurobiological learning disabilities, Reuven Feuersteins work is now used in major cities around the world to support improved thinking and learning by all students. This book is the most up-to-date summary of his thinking and includes accessible descriptions of his tools and methods for cognitive modifiablilty and mediated learning. With dramatic case studies throughout the text, Feuerstein and his co-authors define intelligence as a dynamic force that drives the human organism to change the structure of thinking in order to answer the needs it encounters. They describe in detail the specific skills of the three stages of thinking: input or observation and data-gathering stage; development or processing stage; and output stage, including analysis, synthesis, and communication. They show how student thinking can stall in multiple ways at any of these stages and how intentional mediation can help students restructure their thinking and improve their ability to learn. Similarly to cognitive mediated learning, the authors address mediation of social and emotional skills that impact learning.

Developing Thinking; Developing Learning

Developing Thinking; Developing Learning
Author: McGregor, Debra
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2007-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 033521780X

The author discusses how thinking programmes, learning activities and teachers' pedagogy in the classroom can fundamentally affect the nature of pupils' thinking, and considers the effects of the learning environment created by peers and teachers.

Teaching Students Thinking Skills and Strategies

Teaching Students Thinking Skills and Strategies
Author: Dorothy Howie
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-08-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0857005189

Developing the ability to think is a major part of education, which helps students become independent learners and participate fully in a learning environment. This book sets out the theory and outlines a model for implementing the teaching of thinking at whole-school, group and individual levels in inclusive settings. The model uses a three-tier approach to ensure that all learners are included: teaching thinking for all, which takes into account common needs; working with small groups, for those with exceptional needs such as learning difficulties or high ability; and addressing individualised learning needs, including those with a complex disability. The book covers key approaches to the teaching of thinking, giving examples of how each can best be used at each tier level. It also addresses the impact of different social contexts, cultures and environmental surroundings on learning. This book will be essential reading for all members of school communities, including education leaders and teachers. Educational psychologists, special educational needs co-ordinators, speech and language therapists, and those with particular interest in educating children who are vulnerable, from disadvantaged backgrounds, and from culturally different backgrounds, will find much of value in this book.