This second edition features: a wider range of examples illustrating the planning principles in practice two completely new chapters: one deals with planning for diverse learner groups and the other moves the reader on from the pre-action ...

PRAISE FOR MAKING LEARNING WHOLE "David Perkins is one of the great teachers of our time. In this insight-filled book, you can learn how he achieves his educational goals and how you can achieve yours as well.

Read the book for fun. Read it to find out what psychologists are up to. --New York Times Book Review Reviews of this book: The Mind's Best Work [is] a guided tour of the new psychology of creative thinking.

In Smart Schools, Perkins draws on over twenty years of research to reveal the common misguided strategies students use in trying to understand a topic, and then shows teachers and parents what strategies they can use with children to ...

This book will be of interest to people who have a personal or professional stake in increasing their intellectual skills, to those who look toward better education and a more thoughtful society, and not least to those who follow today's ...

Drawing on the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology, offers a theory that integrates knowledge of how intellectual breakthroughs occur.

Cecily O'Neill considers process drama's sources and its connections with more familiar kinds of improvisation: the texts it generates, the kinds of roles available, its relation to its audience and dramatic time, and the leader's function ...

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"When I want a group to work effectively, I turn immediately to my colleague of thirty-five years, David Perkins. This book is a distillation of his knowledge and wisdom.