Book reviews - Thinking Skills and Early Childhood Education; Thinking Together; Storywise: Thinking Through Stories.
Tatiana Wilson shows how to prepare children for an information-rich future using strategies from the Literacy Hour to hone their Internet skills.
Excluded, disruptive and imprisoned young people responded extremely well to a thinking skills course. Roy Van Den Brink-Budgen asks why?
The teaching of thinking and problem-solving skills in the classroom needs to be refined and extended. Belle Wallace suggests a coherent framework for its development.
Traditional IQ tests are more a reflection of school-related learning and general knowledge than complex forms of reasoning and thinking. Ken Richardson discusses their flawed nature as a guage of children’s intelligence.
Children with emotional and behavioural difficulties can be helped to think and feel in a different way through a ‘circle of friends’. Bob Burden and Gill Taylor report on some illuminating research.
Karin Murris and Joanna Haynes present a unique resource to enhance children’s thinking.
Images associated with the thinking process have changed with the times.
Anthony Wilson offers some insights into serious wordplay to encourage different kinds of thinking in children’s approach to writing poetry.
Richard Fox asks whether ‘Philosophy for Children’ programmes really create abstract, philosophical skills in young children. He has doubts.
