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The School as a Home for the Mind: Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue

The School as a Home for the Mind: Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue

by Arthur L . Costa (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

Compiled to celebrate Arthur L. Costa's distinguished career, The School As a Home for the Mind, Second Edition assembles under one cover the author's best thinking about the teaching of thinking. Costa explains why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons, how such instruction can take place, and what thinking and the teaching of thinking looks like and sounds like. He also discusses the curricular changes that accompany the introduction of teaching for, of, and about thinking. This expanded edition includes Costa's recent articles incorporating the latest theory, research, and practice about the teaching of thinking.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Edition: Second Edition
 Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 05 Dec 2007
ISBN 10: 1412950740
ISBN 13: 9781412950749

Media Reviews
Art Costa has done more than anyone I can think of to advance the practical cause of more thoughtful education. -- David Perkins, Professor of Education
To read the myriad ideas in this robust collection, the reader is soon privy to a noble and notable vision of schooling in which mindfulness permeates the metaphorical walls of the school and all of its structural components: the curriculum, the instruction, and the reflective practices of those immersed in the vision. -- From the Foreword by Robin Fogarty
What is the next best thing to having the opportunity to be in one of Art Costa's presentations? It is clearly the opportunity to read and reread his work. He has a knack for making the theoretical understandable and the practical 'practice-able.' -- Bena Kallick, Educational Consultant
Presents fascinating and vital information that lays a strong foundation for the teaching of thinking, something that is badly needed today. It will have a broad appear in both the education and business worlds. I'm amazed at how much I've learned from reading it! -- Charles F. Adamchik Jr., Corporate Curriculum Director
Author Bio
Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D., is an Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento. He is Co-Founder of the Institute for Habits of Mind and Co-founder of the Center for Cognitive Coaching. He served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, and an assistant superintendent for instruction in the Office of the Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools and as the director of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has made presentations and conducted workshops in all 50 states as well as on six of the seven continents Active in many professional organizations, Art served as president of the California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and was the National President of Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, from 1988 to 1989. He was the recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Urban Alliance in 2010.