Learning all the time
Shows how children begin to learn and to explore their world without being taught.
| Main Author: | Holt, John Caldwell, 1923-1985. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Reading, Mass. :
Addison-Wesley,
[1989]
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| Physical Description: |
xvii, 169 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- John Holt / by George Dennison
- 1. Reading and writing
- Reading and trust
- Thirty hours
- Discovering letters
- Exploring words
- Reading readiness
- Inventing the wheel
- Words in context
- Sensible phonics
- How not to learn to read
- How not to learn to write: with big bird
- Spelling
- Handwriting
- Citizen in the world of books
- 2. At home with numbers
- Counting
- Addition and subtraction
- A homemade adding machine
- Abstractions
- Multiplication
- Those easy tables
- Multiplying large number
- On "infinity"
- Bootleg math
- Family economics
- Solving problems
- Riding, hunting, and arithmetic
- 3. Young children as research scientists
- Puzzles
- Creating knowledge
- Building understanding
- Making our own connections
- Lessons in the field
- Putting meaning into the world
- 4. Loving music
- Another chance
- Starting early
- On practice
- Suzuki
- They've got all the exits blocked
- Feelings in music
- 5. What parents can do
- Grown-up voices
- Uninvited teaching
- The power of example
- Teaching as a natural science
- Whose right hand?
- Correcting mistakes
- Praise junkies
- Unwanted help
- 6. The nature of learning
- Three misleading metaphors
- Learning is making sense of things
- Living is learning
- Every waking hour.