Description

This popular trade book, originally released in hardcover in the Spring of 1999, has been newly expanded to show how the theories and insights from the original book can translate into actions and practice, now making a real connection between classroom activities and learning behavior. This paperback edition includes far-reaching suggestions for research that could increase the impact that classroom teaching has on actual learning.

Like the original hardcover edition, this book offers exciting new research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions. When do infants begin to learn? How do experts learn and how is this different from non-experts? What can teachers and schools do-with curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methods--to help children learn most effectively? New evidence from many branches of science has significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur during learning to the influence of culture on what people see and absorb.

How People Learn examines these findings and their implications for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children learn. The book uses exemplary teaching to illustrate how approaches based on what we now know result in in-depth learning. This new knowledge calls into question concepts and practices firmly entrenched in our current education system.

Topics include:

• How learning actually changes the physical structure of the brain.
• How existing knowledge affects what people notice and how they learn.
• What the thought processes of experts tell us about how to teach.
• The amazing learning potential of infants.
• The relationship of classroom learning and everyday settings of community and workplace.
• Learning needs and opportunities for teachers.
• A realistic look at the role of technology in education.

Reviews

"The contributors to the book have done a marvelous job of summarizing a dizzying array of research from widely disparate disciplines. ...How People Learn is a wonderful book..."
-- Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, December 2001

"...exciting new research about the mind and the brain..."
-- Curriculum Administrator

"The findings [in this book] are significant and should be discussed at the highest levels in educational practice."
-- Network, April 2001

"How People Learn is an important book, which may, in time, become a classic. One of the committee's accomplishments is that it has created a highly readable synthesis across different fields of study. The authors have transcended the coded vocabulary that so often characterizes insular communities of scholars. ... each chapter is a well-written, engaging, and thoughtful summary of research... We commend How People Learn to everyone who is engaged in the work of education, broadly construed."
-- Education, Communication and Information, Spring 2001

"...this book provides all educators with an excellent framework for understanding conceptual changes in the science of learning..."
-- Teaching and Learning in Medicine, Summer 2001

Authoring Organizations

• Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (CBASSE)
• Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE)
• More Titles from CBASSE
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