Classroom lessons: integrating cognitive theory and classroom practice

Abstract

Introduction: cognitive science and educational practice - an introduction, Kate McGilly. Part 1 Domain-specific applications: rightstart - providing the central conceptual prerequisites for first formal learning of arithmetic to students at risk for school failure, Sharon A. Griffin et al a cognitive approach to the teaching of physics, Earl Hunt and Jim Minstrell enhancing the acquisition of conceptual structures through hypermedia, Kathryn T. Spoehr. Part 2 Across-the-curriculum applications: intelligence in context - enhancing students' practical intelligence for school, Howard Gardner et al classroom applications of cognitive science - teaching poor readers how to learn, think, and problem solve, Irene W. Gaskins. Part 3 Classrooms as learning communities: from visual word problems to learning communities - changing conceptions of cognitive research, the cognition and technology group at Vanderbilt the CSILE project - trying to bring the classroom into world 3, Marlene Scardamalia et al guided discovery in a community of learners, Ann L. Brown and Joseph C. Campione. Conclusion - classroom problems, school culture, and cognitive research, John T. Bruer.