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Tables of Contents for The Disciplined Mind
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
5
15
A Personal Introduction: An Education For All Human Beings
15
12
From the Parochial to the Universal
15
1
An Uncluttered Perspective: The True, the Beautiful, and the Good
16
4
About this Book
20
2
Signposts
22
5
Educational Constants
27
14
An Educational Montage: The Transmission of Roles and Values
27
1
Formal Schooling: Mastering Notations and Disciplines in a Remote Setting
28
4
A Virtue-Filled Education in the Disciplines
32
3
Perennial Choices
35
6
Education in the Future
41
19
An Understandably Conservative Institution
41
1
The Forces That Will Remake Schools
42
16
An Educational Crossroad
58
2
Perspectives of Mind and Brain
60
26
Scienfic Knowledge and Value Judgments
60
1
In Olden Days: Inborn Traits and Well-Shaped Behaviors
61
5
The Cognitive Revolution
66
11
From the Study of the Mind to the Study of the Brain
77
3
Education and the Brain
80
4
The Considerable Distance Between Science and Practice
84
2
How Cultures Educate
86
29
The Best Prechools in the World
86
7
The Cultural Turn
93
6
Insights from Studies of Culture
99
2
The Cultural Perspective Applied to Education
101
1
Beyond Reggio: Other Effective Schools
102
1
Preschools
103
5
Primary Schools
108
1
Secondary Schools
108
4
A School Vision
112
3
Designing Education For Understanding
115
23
A Classroom Perspective
115
1
False Starts
116
1
Teaching for Understanding: A Formal Introduction
117
3
Difficulties of Understanding
120
1
Obstacles to Understanding
121
2
Disciplinary Expertise
123
3
Four Approaches to Understanding
126
7
Other Players
133
5
Disciplined Approaches
138
21
Three Puzzles
138
4
Vantage Points: From Puzzles to Concepts
142
1
The Disciplines...and Beyond
143
4
The Patterns of the Scientist... and the Mathematician
147
2
The Beauty of the Artist
149
3
The Accounts of the Historian
152
2
In the Shopping Mall of the Disciplines
154
5
Close Looks
159
27
Exploring Three Icebergs
159
1
Evolution
160
7
The Music of Mozart
167
9
The Holocaust
176
8
Aliments for Informed Citizens
184
2
``Multiple Intelligences'' Approaches to Understanding
186
28
Three Uses of Intelligences
186
2
Multiple Entry Points to Rich Topics
188
11
Powerful Analogies and Metaphors
199
3
Multiple Representations of the Core Ideas: Introducing the ``Model Language''
202
6
Remaining Issues
208
1
Orchestraing the Three Approaches
209
1
The Rest of the Curriculum: Possibilities and Limits
209
5
Getting There
214
27
A Tale of Two Scripts
214
1
A K---12 Pathway to Understanding
215
2
The Power and the Perils of Discplinary and Interdisciplinary Study
217
5
A National Standard or National Standards?
222
1
Multiple Pathways
223
3
Unum Out of Pluribus?
226
2
Leadership Challenges
228
2
Battle Scars and Occasional Medals
230
5
``Scaling Up'': Three Helpful Ingredients
235
2
The Roles of Business
237
2
Finding an Appropriate Niche
239
2
In Closing
241
11
One HundredYears of Education...and of World History
241
3
Once More, My Vision
244
2
A World Worth Striving For
246
3
Connecting
249
3
Afterword: A Tale of Two Barns
252
9
Appendix: ``The Trio of Colliding Agendas''
261
12
References
273
13
Index
286