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The Handbook of Education and Human Development provides a review of advances in our understanding of human development and of their implications for education theory and practice
About The Author:Nancy Torrance is Research Associate in the Center for Applied Cognitive Science at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.Table Of Contents:Special Features:Reviews new understanding human development in the aftermath of whatis now being called the cognitive revolution, and the implicationsfor education theory and practice. The 32 essays center on the themesof new thoughts on how psychology relates to pedagogy, therelationship between education and culture in light of thepossibility that the first makes the second possible, and a newconception of what it means to know and to learn. They also look atbiological and cultural foundations of pedagogy.Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.