1st Edition
How to Teach Thinking A Practitioner’s Guide to Metacognition, Executive Function and Mediated Learning
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Theoretical Foundations
1 What Is Thinking?
2 Theoretical Foundations: East, West and Somewhere in Between
3 A Framework for Mediated Learning
Part II: Practical Applications
4 The Learner
5 The Task
6 The Mediator
7 Teaching for Transfer
8 Putting It All Together: Delivering Metacognitive Teaching and Mediated Learning
Appendix 1: Further Information and Resources
Index
Biography
Ruth M. Deutsch is a chartered educational psychologist. She consults to organisations and schools, also teaching on doctoral programmes for educational psychologists and on continuing professional development courses internationally. Ruth is the author of research articles and of the Cognitive Abilities Profile. She works with learners of all ages, specialising in cognitive assessment and development.
Jane Yeomans is an independent educational psychologist. She is an accredited practitioner for Feuerstein’s Learning Propensity Assessment Device, Instrumental Enrichment and for the Bright Start programme. Jane has taught and tutored on doctoral programmes for educational psychologists. She has authored many papers for peer-reviewed journals and is the co-author of three books about aspects of educational psychology.
