Children's thinking : promoting understanding in the primary school

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Foreword = ⅸ
• Preface = xiii
• Part One: Thinking and understanding in the context of the primary school curriculum = 1
• 1 Introduction: What's the Problem? = 3
• 2 What's Involved in Developing Children's Thinking? = 13
• 3 How Should Children's Learning Be Structured? = 22
• Part Two: Some answers: Rationalism and thinking = 29
• 4 The Rationalist View of Thinking = 31
• 5 Rationality and the Individual = 41
• 6 Rationality and Liberal Education = 57
• 7 Rationality and Education Reconsidered = 77
• Part Three: An existentialist perspective = 95
• 8 An Existentialist Backdrop to Thinking and Understanding = 97
• 9 Self-Expression in Learning = 108
• 10 Authentic-Rational Thinking = 118
• 11 Poetic Thinking = 128
• Part Four: The role of the teacher in developing children's thinking = 145
• 12 The Place of Structure in Developing Children's Thinking = 147
• 13 Assessing Children's Thinking and Understanding = 164
• 14 Teaching as Poetry = 177
• Appendix: Poetic Thinking and Personal Authenticity = 190
• Bibliography = 194
• Name Index = 199
• Subject Index = 201