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How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition (2000)

by John D. Bransford, National Research Council (Education) (Author)

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When do infants begin to learn? How do experts learn and how is this different from nonexperts? What can teachers and schools do - with curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methods - to help children learn most effectively? This book offers exciting new research about the mind, the brain, and the processes of learning that provides answers to these and other question. New information from many branches of science as significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur during learning to the influence of culture of what people see and absorb. How People Learn examines these finding and their implication for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children - and adults - learn. Newly expanded to show how theories and insights can translate into actions and practice, How People Learn makes a real connection between classroom activities and learning behavior.… (more)
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This really is the bible for teachers. It says very bad things about the graduate program in education I attended (it was part of the New York City Teaching Fellowship's alternative teaching certification route) that it never exposed me to this book.
  Mark_Feltskog | Dec 23, 2023 |
I should really give this four stars, but the first two or three chapters of this book are written in unreadable, clumsy jargon, so I'm being punitive. However, once it gets into reports and explanations of actual research and how the insights of this research apply to real learners, the book becomes fascinating and I forgot about the heavy prose. Still, for a book that touts itself as "teacher friendly" I'm thinking a thoughtful editor could have made this a less painful read. So let's say I would actually give it five stars on content and 2 and a half on style. ( )
  kaitanya64 | Jan 3, 2017 |
Must read. ( )
  echen888 | Sep 19, 2007 |
The full book contents is available in web format from the NAP web site: http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ ( )
  cogdog | Jan 5, 2007 |
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When do infants begin to learn? How do experts learn and how is this different from nonexperts? What can teachers and schools do - with curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methods - to help children learn most effectively? This book offers exciting new research about the mind, the brain, and the processes of learning that provides answers to these and other question. New information from many branches of science as significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur during learning to the influence of culture of what people see and absorb. How People Learn examines these finding and their implication for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children - and adults - learn. Newly expanded to show how theories and insights can translate into actions and practice, How People Learn makes a real connection between classroom activities and learning behavior.

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