Learning sciences is an interdisciplinary field that studies teaching and learning. The sciences of learning include cognitive science, educational psychology, computer science, anthropology, sociology, neuroscience, and other fields. The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences shows how educators can use the learning sciences to design more effective learning environments - including school classrooms and also informal settings such as science centers or after-school clubs, on-line distance learning, and computer-based tutoring software. The chapters in this handbook each describe exciting new classroom environments, based on the latest science about how children learn. CHLS is a true handbook in that readers can use it to design the schools of the future - schools that will prepare graduates to participate in a global society that is increasingly based on knowledge and innovation.
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"The introduction is an excellent, albeit fairly sophisticated, overview of the key features of the field of learning sciences [...] The book's chapters elaborate on many of the themes broached in the introduction. Throughout, there is also criticism of instructionism and behaviorism, their focus on narrow facts and disconnected knowledge, and their inherent limitations in the development of expertise and deep learning."
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Learning sciences is an interdisciplinary field that studies teaching and learning. This handbook shows how educators can use the learning sciences to design more effective learning environments - including school classrooms and informal settings such as science centers or after-school clubs, on-line distance learning, and computer-based tutoring software.
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Dr. Keith Sawyer, a professor of education, psychology, and business at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of the country's leading scientific experts on creativity and innovation. After receiving his computer science degree from MIT in 1982, Dr. Sawyer began his career with a two-year stint designing videogames for Atari. He then worked for 6 years as a management consultant in Boston and New York, advising large corporations on the strategic use of information technology. Dr. Sawyer entered doctoral study at the University of Chicago in 1990 and attained his PhD in psychology in 1994. He is best known for his studies of jazz and improvisational theater groups. His twelve books include GROUP GENIUS and EXPLAINING CREATIVITY, and he has published over 80 scientific articles.
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Excellent for Education Students,
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I'm a student at Teachers College Columbia University. I've found this book extremely helpful in understanding the many instructional strategies and learning theories that are possible.
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Great book!,
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This is an excellent book for anyone interested in "the learning sciences"! A must read, very educational and informative, and provides so much background information. Definitely a winner...
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