Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education - Hardcover

Perkins, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470384522 ISBN 13: 9780470384527

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2008

Synopsis

New in Paperback! Make learning more meaningful by teaching the "whole game"

David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and co-director of Harvard's Project Zero, introduces a practical and research-based framework for teaching. He describes how teaching any subject at any level can be made more effective if students are introduced to the "whole game," rather than isolated pieces of a discipline. Perkins explains how learning academic subjects should be approached like learning baseball or any game, and he demonstrates this with seven principles for making learning whole: from making the game worth playing (emphasizing the importance of motivation to sustained learning), to working on the hard parts (the importance of thoughtful practice), to learning how to learn (developing self-managed learners).

• Vividly explains how to organize learning in ways that allow people to do important things with what they know
• Offers guidelines for transforming education to prepare our youth for success in a rapidly changing world
• Filled with real-world, illustrative examples of the seven principles

At the end of each chapter, Perkins includes "Wonders of Learning," a summary of the key ideas.

About this title

About the Author

David Perkins, Ph.D., is a senior professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and senior co-director (with Howard Gardner) of Project Zero, an educational research group known particularly for its work on learning for understanding, thinking, and multiple intelligences. Perkins is a noted international speaker and author of several books, including Smart Schools and The Eureka Effect.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Making Learning Whole

"David Perkins is one of the great teachers of our time.In this insight-filled book, you can learn how he achieves hiseducational goals and how you can achieve yours as well."
Howard Gardner,Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education,Harvard Graduate School of Education, andauthor, Five Minds for the Future

"A must-read for those serious about transforming education toprepare our youth for success in a rapidly changing world."
Dr. Jayne H. Mohr,associate superintendent, Traverse City (Michigan) Area Public Schools

"David Perkins goes straight to the heart of the matter.His seven principles of teaching vividly explain how to organizelearning in ways that allow people to do important things withwhat they know which is, after all, the point. ?Every educator shouldread this book, and so should policymakers whose work influenceswhether and how we can finally make school learning whole."
Linda Darling-Hammond,Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education,Stanford University

From the Inside Flap

Making Learning Whole

"One summer I participated in Little League baseball . . . Baseball for me was a triumph of mediocrity. I wasn't especially good at it but I wasn't awful either . . . In the years since those days I've come to an odd conclusion about those early learning experiences: The results were only so-so but the process was pretty good . . . It was pretty good because from the beginning I built up a feel for the whole game. I knew what hitting the ball or missing the ball got you. I knew about scoring runs and keeping score. I knew what I had to do to do well, even though I only pulled it off part of the time. I saw how it fit together."
from the IntroductionIn Making Learning Whole, David Perkins a noted authority on teaching and learning and senior co-director of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education introduces a new, practical, and research-based framework for teaching. Using learning the game of baseball as a metaphor, Perkins illustrates how teaching any subject at any grade level can be made more effective if students are introduced to the "whole game," rather than isolated pieces of a discipline.

Filled with real-world examples, Making Learning Whole describes how learning can be organized for deep and lasting impact by using these seven principles:

• Play the Whole Game

• Make the Game Worth Playing

• Work on the Hard Parts

• Play Out of Town

• Uncover the Hidden Game

• Learn from the Team

• Learn the Game of Learning

At the end of each chapter, Perkins includes "Wonders of Learning," a summary of the key ideas and "I wonder . . ." questions, which can be answered in real contexts of teaching and learning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470384522
• ISBN 13: 9780470384527
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272