Sarah Kuhn

Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction

The Case for Thinking With Things

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction offers a transformative, student-centered approach to higher education pedagogy that integrates embodied cognition into classroom practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780367653538
• ISBN-10: 0367653532
• Artikelnr.: 61412447

Autorenporträt

Sarah Kuhn is Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA. Before beginning her thirty-year teaching career, she received a PhD in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Social Psychology from Harvard University. She is the author of numerous articles, including several on aspects of learning with things in interdisciplinary, studio-based, and community settings.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Unnatural Acts: The problem with what we do now
Interlude A: The Crocheted Hyperbolic Plane
Chapter 2. The Embodied Learner: Thinking with the whole self
Interlude B: Molecular Models
Chapter 3. Thinking With Things
Interlude C: Diagrams
Chapter 4. How Things Shape Our Thinking
Interlude D: Qualitative Research Software
Chapter 5. Abstraction Reconsidered
Interlude E. Designing the Future World
Chapter 6. Embodiment Revisited
Interlude F: The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Design
Chapter 7. A Vibrant Learning Ecosystem