- Paperback - Number of Pages: 208 pages
- Dimensions: 150 x 228 x 16mm - 771.1g
- Publication date: 28 Jun 2012
- Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
- Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Education
- Publication City/Country: Lanham, United States
The ability to understand complex causal relations in the world is becoming ever more important for students, workers, and leaders. For many years, Tina Grotzer, one of the nation's leading researchers on the development of scientific thinking, has focused her work on this cognitive capacity; she has done more than anyone to elucidate how such complex forms of thinking can be acquired. Her book on this topic will be of great interest to researchers, educators, parents, and others who want to see our children use their minds well. -- Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education As humanity struggles to control it's self-destructive impacts on the natural world, Professor Grotzer's seminal book, teaching us all how better to understand and perhaps predict the consequences of our actions, could not come at a more critically important time. -- Eric Chivian, Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School Caus...