Education, Information and Transformation: Essays on Learning and Thinking

by Jeffrey Kane

Designed to spark educators to reflect on the nature of human thinking and the academic goals of education, this collection of essays -- by scholars from widely disparate orientations and disciplines -- explores and explains the human cognitive capacities that transcend computation and substantially affect our judgment and action. Asks the critical questions -- Is there more to thinking than information processing?, What more is there?, and What difference...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0135205948
• ISBN13: 9780135205945
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.6" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Plain English

The book does address education from a variety of viewpoints, cultures, and ideologies. The essays on learning and thinking, could have been presented in a more simplified plain-English manner. Keep your dictionary handy.

Transformation

I think the book was great. It provided you with the primary essentials needed to better understand thinking and learning. It is a great source for first time teachers, educators, etc... The information can be taken from the book to apply to everyday life and learning. You can actually see a transformation with each page.