Binding: Paperback
Description: Making Minds is a controversial critique of our education systems. The author is a school leader at the forefront of scientific and technological advancement in schools who as an American felt comfortable taking on the British establishment (The Times Educational Supplement). Making Minds is written for general readers - especially parents - as well as educational professionals. The book examines the underlying limitations that have been accepted in education over the past two thousand years. The author challenges common assumptions about education through evidence - based political ethical and emotional arguments as well as examining case studies such as university admissions and the autism epidemic . Making Minds describes a more productive scientific approach to learning drawing on recent research findings particularly in the US and UK. The author illustrates how new research methods new technologies and very recent discoveries in neuroscience that will in the end allow us to make minds.
Title: Making Minds What's Wrong With Education - And What Should We Do About It?
Author(s): Kelley Paul (Monseaton Community High School Whitley Bay Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415414111
Pages: 196 Pages, 5 Tables, Black And White
Publication Date: 7/12/2007
Category: “Neurosciences”; Uyq “Artificial Intelligence” & Following)