Books by David Perkins and Complete Book Reviews

David Perkins, Author Free Press $24.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-02-925215-4
A curriculum based on vague notions of cultural literacy won't work for the same reasons that rote learning doesn't--because people accumulate knowledge through understanding, argues Harvard cognitive learning theoretician Perkins, who here plumbs...
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David Perkins, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-393-04795-0
The slogan of a prominent ad campaign notwithstanding, creative problem solving requires more than just the ability to ""think different."" Indeed, argues Perkins, codirector of the Project Zero think tank at Harvard's Graduate School of Education,...
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