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March 13, 2008
A Curriculum for Thinking
Marion Brady writes in "Cover the Material--Or Teach Students to Think?" that schools overwhelmingly teach factual material and recall, among the most primitive areas of learning. Textbooks and the conventional curricula fail in the important tasks of helping children and adults cope with complexities of modern life. Brady provides an inspiring list of how schools can use their immediate environments and issues for developing problem solving and critical, creative thinking skills, and in the process learn much of the conventional subject matter.
Brady is one of the most thoughtful and clear educators writing today. His article appeared in Educational Leadership (Feb., 2008, pp 54-67). The issue contains other thoughtful articles calling for schools to ramp up thinking skills--in my view, a terrific objective but unlikely to be achieved in today's environment.
Posted by Wayne Jennings at March 13, 2008 10:46 PM
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