Research Catalog

Title

Thinking and literacy : the mind at work / edited by Carolyn N. Hedley, Patricia Antonacci, Mitchell Rabinowitz.

Publication

Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Hedley, Carolyn N
• Antonacci, Patricia
• Rabinowitz, Mitchell

Description

xiii, 314 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Cognitive learning
• Literacy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• I. Theoretical Views of Cognitive Processing and Literacy. 1. Thinking and Literacy: The Mind at Work in the Classroom / Carolyn N. Hedley and W. Eugene Hedley. 2. The Problem of Consciousness / John R. Searle. 3. Creative Cognition: Demystifying Creativity / Steven M. Smith. 4. Creating Contexts for Community-Based Problem Solving: The Jasper Challenge Series / Brigid Barron, Nancy Vye, Linda Zech, Dan Schwartz, John Bransford, Susan Goldman, James Pellegrino, John Morris, Steve Garrison and Ronald Kantor. 5. Enhancing Thinking and Reasoning in the English Language Arts / Robert J. Marzano. 6. Television and the American Child / George Comstock -- II. Literacy Learning. 7. Rembrandt at the Sixteenth Chapel: Demystifying Language Acquisition / Naomi S. Baron. 8. SIVL: The Instructional Design Underlying a Foreign Language Vocabulary Tutor / Mitchell Rabinowitz and Regina Steinfeld. 9. Integration of the Abilities That Foster Emerging Literacy / Theresa M. Bologna.
• 10. Teachers Need to Know How Word Reading Processes Develop to Teach Reading Effectively to Beginners / Linnea C. Ehri -- III. Creating Contexts for Thinking and Literacy. 11. The Case for Multiculturalism in Transforming Education / Clement B. G. London. 12. Cognitive Apprenticeships: Putting Theory into Practice on a Large Scale / Sharon M. Carver. 13. Cooperative Learning in Reading and Language Arts / Edythe J. Holubec, David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson. 14. In Search of Thinking Environments / Regis Bernhardt and Patricia Antonacci -- IV. Strategies for Thinking and Learning. 15. Thinking Apprenticeships: Cognitive Learning Environments (TACLE) / Patricia Antonacci and James M. Colasacco. 16. A Case for Case-Based Instruction / Angelo V. Ciardiello. 17. Responding to Literary Texts / Richard T. Vacca and Evangeline V. Newton.

ISBN

• 0805815473 (alk. paper)
• 0805815481 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

94029571

OCLC

• 30892422
• ocm30892422

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries