Thinking and Literacy

by Hedley, Carolyn N.; Antonacci, Patricia; Rabinowitz, Mitchell

• ISBN13: 9780805815481
• ISBN10: 0805815481
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume explores higher level, critical, and creative thinking, as well as reflective decision making and problem solving -- what teachers should emphasize when teaching literacy across the curriculum. Focusing on how to encourage learners to become independent thinking, learning, and communicating participants in home, school, and community environments, this book is concerned with integrated learning in a curriculum of inclusion. It emphasizes how to provide a curriculum for students where they are socially interactive, personally reflective, and academically informed. Contributors are authorities on such topics as cognition and learning, classroom climates, knowledge bases of the curriculum, the use of technology, strategic reading and learning, imagery and analogy as a source of creative thinking, the nature of motivation, the affective domain in learning, cognitive apprenticeships, conceptual development across the disciplines, thinking through the use of literature, the impact of the media on thinking, the nature of the new classroom, developing the ability to read words, the bilingual, multicultural learner, crosscultural literacy, and reaching the special learner. The applications of higher level thought to classroom contexts and materials are provided, so that experienced teacher educators, and psychologists are able to implement some of the abstractions that are frequently dealt with in texts on cognition. Theoretical constructs are grounded in educational experience, giving the volume a practical dimension. Finally, appropriate concerns regarding the new media, hypertext, bilingualism, and multiculturalism as they reflect variation in cognitive experience within the contexts of learning are presented.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Theoretical Views of Cognitive Processing and Literacy	p. 1
Thinking and Literacy: The Mind at Work in the Classroom	p. 3
The Problem of Consciousness	p. 21
Creative Cognition: Demystifying Creativity	p. 31
Creating Contexts for Community-Based Problem Solving: the Jasper Challenge Series	p. 47
References	p. 70
Enhancing Thinking and Reasoning in the English Language Arts	p. 73
Acknowledgment	p. 98
References	p. 99
Television and the American Child	p. 101
References	p. 121
Literacy Learning	p. 125
Rembrandt at the Sixteenth Chapel: Demystifying Language Acquisition	p. 127
Sivl: The Instructional Design Underlying A Foreign Language Vocabula ry Tutor	p. 141
Integration of the Abilities That Foster Emerging Literacy	p. 153
Teachers Need to Know How Word Reading Processes Develop to Teach Reading Effectively to Beginners	p. 167
Creating Contexts for Thinking and Literacy	p. 189
the Case for Multiculturalism in Transforming Education	p. 191
References	p. 202
Cognitive Apprenticeships: Putting Theory into Practice on a Large Scale	p. 203
Appendix: Data from Two Cases	p. 216
Appendix: Data from Two Cases	p. 228
Cooperative Learning in Reading and Language Arts	p. 229
in Search of Thinking Environments	p. 241
Strategies for Thinking and Learning	p. 257
Thinking Apprenticeships: Cognitive Learning Environments (tacle)	p. 259
References	p. 274
A Case for Case-Based Instruction	p. 275
Responding to Literary Texts	p. 283
References	p. 301
Author Index	p. 303
Subject Index	p. 311
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