ED396965 SE058737
Title:
"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching
and Learning. 2nd Edition.
Author(s): Duckworth, Eleanor
Pages: 179
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0-8077-3513-2
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia
University, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027.
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIENOV1996
The essays
in this book start from the premise that curriculum, assessment,
teacher education programs, and all aspects of teaching must seek
out, acknowledge, and take advantage of all the pathways that people
might take to their understanding. The examples included illustrate
how people can come to equivalent understandings in such different
ways that they do not recognize other people's understandings. Part
of the work described in this book involves giving people an appreciation
of their own ways of understanding. Another part involves giving
people experience in figuring out and appreciating other people's
ways of coming to understand-ways that are different from their
own. Chapters include: (1) "The Having of Wonderful Ideas";
(2) "The Language and Thought of Piaget, and Some Comments
on Learning to Spell"; (3) "Either We're Too Early and
They Can't Learn It, or We're Too Late and They Know It Already:
The Dilemma of 'Applying Piaget'"; (4) "A Child's-eye
View of Knowing"; (5) "The Virtues of Not Knowing";
(6) "Learning with Breadth and Depth"; (7) "Understanding
Children's Understanding"; (8) "Structures, Continuity,
and Other People's Minds"; (9) "Making Sure That Everybody
Gets Home Safely"; (10) "Twenty-four, Forty-two, and I
Love You: Keeping It Complex"; and (11) "Teaching as Research".
Contains 105 references. (JRH)
Descriptors: *Cognitive Processes; Curriculum Development;
*Educational Strategies; Elementary Secondary Education; Teacher
Education; *Teaching Methods
