How Children Learn

The inspirational stories of young learners in this book discredit assumptions behind recent educational reforms, including high stakes testing and No Child Left Behind policies.

Fayden, Terese

Introduction; Chapter 1 Background; Chapter 2 A Short History of the People; Chapter 3 The Social Construction of Knowledge; Chapter 4 The Children's Pre-History of Writing; Chapter 5 The Emergence of Writing; Chapter 6 Curriculum: Two Kinds of Literacy; Chapter 7 Multiculturalism Enacted: An Equity Pedagogy;