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Beyond Smarter : Mediated Learning and the Brain's Capacity for Change by Feuerstein, Reuven; Feuerstein, Refael S.; Falik, Louis H. is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Beyond Smarter : Mediated Learning and the Brain's Capacity for Change about?

Originally developed to help students overcome learning obstacles created by emotional trauma or neurobiological learning disabilities, Reuven Feuerstein's work is now used in major cities around the world to support improved thinking and learning by all students. This book is the most up-to-date summary of his thinking and includes accessible descriptions of his tools and methods for cognitive modifiablilty and mediated learning. With dramatic case studies throughout the text, Feuerstein and his co-authors define intelligence as a dynamic force that drives the human organism to change the structure of thinking in order to answer the needs it encounters. They describe in detail the specific skills of the three stages of thinking: Input or observation and data-gathering stage, Development or processing stage, and Output stage, including analysis, synthesis, and communication. They show how student thinking can stall in multiple ways at any of these stages and how intentional mediation can help students restructure their thinking and improve their ability to learn. Similar to cognitive mediated learning, the authors address mediation of the social and emotional skills that impact lea

Author

Feuerstein, Reuven; Feuerstein, Refael S.; Falik, Louis H.

Publisher

Teachers College Press. 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027. Tel: 800-575-6566; Fax: 802-864-7626; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.tcpress.com

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807772201

Subjects

Education, Psychology