The Unschooled Mind by Howard Gardner
How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach
The book argues that conventional schooling often emphasizes rote memorization and superficial learning rather than fostering deep conceptual understanding and higher-order thinking; children arrive with rich informal knowledge but struggle to transfer it to formal academic tasks. It recommends teaching methods that connect to students’ natural ways of thinking, use real-world and interdisciplinary contexts, promote reflection and problem-solving, and train teachers to cultivate understanding rather than mere factual recall.
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- 1991
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