TY - BOOK AU - Gardner,Howard TI - The unschooled mind: how children think and how schools should teach SN - 9780465024384 (pbk.) : PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Basic Books KW - Cognitive learning KW - Education KW - Aims and objectives N1 - Reprint. Originally published: 1991; "Twentienth-anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-310) and index; Introduction: the central puzzles of learning -- I: The "natural" learner -- Conceptualizing the development of the mind -- Initial learnings: constraints and possibilities -- Knowing the world through symbols -- The worlds of the preschooler: the emergence of intuitive understandings -- II: Understanding educational institutions -- The values and traditions of education -- The institution called school -- The difficulties posed by school: misconceptions in the sciences -- More difficulties posed by school: stereotypes in the social sciences and the humanities -- III: Toward education for understanding -- The search for solutions: dead ends and promising means -- Education for understanding during the early years -- Education for understanding during the adolescent years -- Toward national and global understandings ER -