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Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and What It Means for Your Classroom Hardcover - 2009

by Daniel T. Willingham


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Easy-to-apply, scientifically-based approaches for engaging students in the classroom

Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning. His book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn. It reveals-the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.

  • Nine, easy-to-understand principles with clear applications for the classroom
  • Includes surprising findings, such as that intelligence is malleable, and that you cannot develop "thinking skills" without facts
  • How an understanding of the brain's workings can help teachers hone their teaching skills

"Mr. Willingham's answers apply just as well outside the classroom. Corporate trainers, marketers and, not least, parents -anyone who cares about how we learn-should find his book valuable reading."
--Wall Street Journal

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  • Title Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and What It Means for Your Classroom
  • Author Daniel T. Willingham
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 180
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780470279304 / 0470279303
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 16.26 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Effective teaching, Learning, Psychology of
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008043493
  • Dewey Decimal Code 370.152

About the author

Daniel T. Willingham is professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992. He writes the popular Ask the Cognitive Scientist column for American Educator magazine.
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