How Children Learn (50th anniversary edition) Free Audiobook Download by John Holt
Matt Kugler is an award-winning voice actor and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been narrating audiobooks for over 20 years, including some by J.D. Salinger, Ray Bradbury, and Patricia Highsmith.
How children learn is one of the most controversial, puzzling and misunderstood questions in modern society. Increasingly we are finding that the schools cannot answer even such a simple question as 'What is learning?'. The problem lies partly with the institution, but mainly with the idea that all knowledge can be passed on from an older person to a younger one through a process called teaching.
This book is a must-read for parents, teachers, and anyone who cares about children. Holt argues that there is no such thing as learning, it is the child's construction of his or her own experience, and he contends that we all have an unlimited ability to do this sort of construction.
This is a fascinating and different book on how children learn. John Holt's philosophy is that if we want to teach our children, we must first understand how they learn. The human brain is the most complex and wonderful thing in the world, yet few of us know much about it. John Holt explains how it actually works when children are learning new things. The two main points I got from this were: - If you want your child to become a thinker, you have to let them think creatively - If you give your child one thing to do at a time and make sure that they finish it before moving on to other tasks, they will be better learners
Holt's theories on education were controversial, and many of them have been disproved. He believed that children should be allowed to learn at their own pace in a self-directed manner and without any formal teaching. He also argued that children don't need to be taught or tested on things they already know, and wrote about how to avoid the "drill and skill" methods of traditional schooling.
Published Date | 2017-08-01 |
Duration | 9 hours 26 minutes |
Author | John Holt |
Narrated | Matt Kugler |
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Abridged | No |
Is It Free? | 30-days Free |
Category | Health & Wellness |
Parent Category | Marriage & Family, Education, Psychology |