The construction zone : working for cognitive change in school /

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Author / Creator:Newman, Denis
Imprint:Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Description:xv, 169 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Learning in doing : social, cognitive, and computational perspectives
Learning in doing
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/914099
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Other authors / contributors:Jenkins, Peggy Davison
Cole, Michael
ISBN:0521362660
Table of Contents:
  • Series foreword
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Building tasks into curriculum units
  • 3. Making goals happen
  • 4. Basic concepts for discussing cognitive change
  • 5. Assessment versus teaching
  • 6. Social mediation goes into cognitive change
  • 7. How the West has won
  • 8. Conclusions for a cognitive science of education
  • References
  • Author index
  • Subject index