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Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide by Yana Weinstein, Oliver Caviglioli, Megan Sumeracki
3.0
A nice summary of insights from cognitive psychology to use in education, no matter the side of education you’re on: teacher, student or parent. Not just a collection of tips from the consensus of educational science, the book offers background information and proof of the different concepts. Furthermore, the writers offer explanations about why intuitive learning strategies tend not to work too well and why the scientific conclusions often aren’t put into practice by educators and learners.
The clear and beautifully simple illustrations offer visual ankerpoints and summaries to the text, although not every graphic has enough informational value relative to its size.
The book suffers from the problem most works on educational science have: educational practice is such a complicated subject to research that for every conclusion in this book a teacher (like me) can go: “well, yes, but, sometimes, depending on the specific educational context, actually, no.” It’s very difficult to make any statement about education that holds up under every circumstance in educational practice.
Having said that, this book offers very many interesting insights and, importantly, substantiates them from current research data. It could be a very valuable research for teachers and students.
The clear and beautifully simple illustrations offer visual ankerpoints and summaries to the text, although not every graphic has enough informational value relative to its size.
The book suffers from the problem most works on educational science have: educational practice is such a complicated subject to research that for every conclusion in this book a teacher (like me) can go: “well, yes, but, sometimes, depending on the specific educational context, actually, no.” It’s very difficult to make any statement about education that holds up under every circumstance in educational practice.
Having said that, this book offers very many interesting insights and, importantly, substantiates them from current research data. It could be a very valuable research for teachers and students.