Schoolwise: Teaching Academic Patterns of Mind
Barickman, Joan Estes
Schoolwise offers a new and needed kind of research by classroom teachers. It is a work of synthesis, dealing with the broad topic of thinking and learning from an interdisciplinary perspective. Joan Barickman uses sociology, psychology, medicine, cognitive sciences, literature, and popular culture to inform her observations, but she always begins with individuals. The book is about real teachers, real children, real schools, real pain, and re...