The Science of Learning: Principles of Educational Thinking Based on the Teaching Practice

ISBN-13: 9789811951053 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 222 str.

Hanjiang Wen

Opis

This book systematically summarizes the author's more than 30 years of experience in teaching reform and educational research. The book is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the comprehensiveness of thinking and the relationship between the coordinated development of thinking and the overall development of human beings. Part II and Part III mainly discuss the six basic principles of learning and thinking: the principle of the working memory of thinking, the principle of learning transfer, the principle of the basic process of learning, the principle of multi-level development of ability, the principle of sustainable development of learning, and the principle of subjectivity of learning.

This book features the rules and characteristics of student learning with a student-centered approach, which can help teachers and educational researchers to better understand students and provide theoretical guidance for students’ all-round development.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. The Comprehensiveness of Thinking

Chapter 2. The Comprehensiveness of Thinking and the All-round Development of HumanBeings

Chapter 4. Modern Educational Media——A Carrier of Coordinated Development of Thinking      

 Chapter 5. Thinking and Memory

Chapter 6. Thinking and Learning Transfer

Chapter 7. Learning and Human Development

Chapter 8. Sustainable Development of Thinking and Learning：Resolving Difficulties in Learning        

Chapter 9. Subjectivity of Learning

O autorze

Hanjiang Wen was born in 1924 and graduated from Zhejiang University in 1947. Professor Wen is a renowned educator in China. He has served as the principal of Beijing No. 35 High School, Beijing No. 4 High School, Beijing No. 8 High School, President and honorary Professor of Beijing Institute of Education. He has successively presided over a number of national and provincial educational research projects, edited the series of “Brain Science • Thinking • Education” with nearly 4 million words, and published more than 60 academic papers. His masterpiece The Science of Learning (volumes I and II) earned the prestigious Beijing Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Achievement Award in 2019. Over the past 30 years, based on the results of brain science research and his profound educational theories and rich practical experience in education, he has proceeded from the problems existing in basic education in China, continued to carry out research on the application of brain science in education with imaginal thinking as the breakthrough point, and formed a complete theoretical system of “the science of learning,” which has made significant contributions to the construction and improvement of the theory of learning and thinking and the promotion of the development of basic education in China.