Table of Contents

Series foreword; Foreword Shedon H. White; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Building tasks into curriculum units; 3. Making goals happen; 4. Basic concepts for discussing cognitive change; 5. Assessment versus teaching; 6. Social mediation goes into cognitive change; 7. How the West has won; 8. Conclusions for a cognitive science of education; References; Author index; Subject index.

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A description of several years of painstaking classroom observations and caregully crafted experimental interventions.