Learning to Think: Disiplinary Perspectives: Disciplinary Perspectives - Softcover

Donald, Janet Gail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118308123 ISBN 13: 9781118308127

Publisher: JB, 2002

Synopsis

In colleges and universities, there is increasing demand to help students learn how to conceptualize, analyze, and reason. Learning to Think presents a model of learning that takes into account the different ways learning occurs in different academic disciplines and explores the relationship between knowledge and thinking processes. Janet Donald--a leading researcher in the field of postsecondary teaching and learning--presents a framework for learning that goes beyond the acquisition of knowledge to encompass ways of constructing and utilizing it within and across disciplines. The author discusses how learning occurs in different academic disciplines and reveals how educators can improve the teaching and learning process in their classrooms and programs.

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Review:

"In an innovative, interdisciplinary investigation of a neglected topic, Janet Donald not only suggests that there are major differences among learning paradigms in leading disciplines, but that faculty will teach more successfully once we recognize that we are actually teaching students to think. She demonstrates convincingly how students make contact with the investigative tools that each discipline prizes and how essential that contact is to their education." —James Wilkinson, director, Derek Bok Center for Teaching, Harvard University

"Humanists, scientists, and educationalists think and learn in different ways. Based upon her extensive interviews in many disciplines and countries, Professor Donald teaches us how." —David G. Brown, vice president and dean, International Center for Computer Enhanced Learning, Wake Forest University

Review:

"If the higher education community heeds this book and begins to understand it′s implications, then progress will be made..." (The Journal of Higher Education, 7/1/2007, Vol. 75. No. 4)

"very scholarly and extensively well researched reference book will become a classic in it′s field." (Choice, November 2002)

About this edition

• Publisher: JB
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1118308123
• ISBN 13: 9781118308127
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 354