An important aim for vocational education and training in both the school and past-school sector is the development of thinking skills, which are necessary for the flexible and adaptable performance of work tasks. Problem-solving skills are among the key competences which make up the new vocational qualifications, and this book is designed to offer guidelines to teachers and lecturers involved in teaching those skills. Drawing on cognitive theories about learning and problem-solving, Rebecca Soden argues that thinking processes cannot be detached from the context in which they are being applied. Thinking skills, therefore, are most effectively developed along with vocational competences and not as the separate add-on courses which have been popular in schools and colleges. The book offers suggestions on how students can learn information in ways which will enhance its use in subsequent problem-solving, and looks at the problems many encounter in the transfer of learning. Sections of lesson plans show how the techniques work in practice, and there is also advice on how to assess problem-solving.
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modelling mental operations, specifying mental procedures, own occupational area, transposition problems, engineering module, innocent misrepresentation, calculating discounts, efficient thinking, thinking procedures, feedback dialogues, nurse tutor, trade purchases, teaching thinking skills, teaching problem solving, instructional session, mental blueprint, vocational area, ledger entries, mini case studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Englewood Cliffs, Educational Technology Publications, Further Education Unit, Employment Department, Nigel Blagg Associates, The Employment Dept, British Journal of Educational Psychology, Deans Youth Club, Lawrence Erlbaum, Research Series, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Learning Strategies, Valid Sunday, Add Inter-column, American Psychologist, Instructional Science, Instructional Theories, Martin Macdonald, Scottish School of Further Education, University of Strathclyde New!
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- Algorithmization in Learning and Instruction by Lev Nakhmanovich Landa on 5 pages
- LEARNING STRATEGIES PB (Routledge Education Books) by Nisbet on page 62, page 119, and page 144
- Educational Psychology by Glenn Myers Blair on page 32
- Educational Psychology by WILEY on page 144
- Problem Solving and Education: Issues in Teaching and Research by David T. Tuma on page 32
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