Sarah Kuhn

Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction (eBook, PDF)

The Case for Thinking With Things

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000403428
• Artikelnr.: 61925591

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

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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

Rezensionen

"Well-crafted . . . the book's analysis supported by basic research and informed by personal experience of what can and should be achieved in higher education classrooms offers powerful arguments for teachers in any discipline, but especially those devoted to the enhancement of teaching and learning through creativity and innovation."
-Damian Ruth, Senior Lecturer at Massey University, New Zealand, for Innovations in Education and Teaching International