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ERIC Number: EJ461120
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
On Teaching for Understanding: A Conversation with Howard Gardner.
Brandt, Ron
Educational Leadership, v50 n7 p4-7 Apr 1993
The challenge of education is to preserve the imagination, questioning, and theoretical stance of a five year old, but gradually replace unfounded prejudices and mind-engravings with more accurate theories, ideas, conceptions, and stories. Correct test answers seldom signify genuine understanding. Gardner's book "The Unschooled Mind" (1991) suggests using children's museum programs and apprenticeships to make learning more authentic. (MLH)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Comprehension, Elementary Education, Knowledge Level, Learning Activities, Learning Processes, Misconceptions, Museums, Young Children
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Authentic Learning; Gardner (Harold); Situational Method; Teaching for Understanding