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Why Don't Students Like School?
- A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
- Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Categories: Education & Learning, Education
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Summary
Kids are naturally curious, but when it comes to school it seems like their minds are turned off. Why is it that they can remember the smallest details from their favorite television programs, yet miss the most obvious questions on their history test? Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has focused his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning and has a deep understanding of the daily challenges faced by classroom teachers. This book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn - revealing the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.
In this breakthrough book, Willingham has distilled his knowledge of cognitive science into a set of nine principles that are easy to understand and have clear applications for the classroom. Some examples of his surprising findings are:
- "Learning styles" don't exist. The processes by which different children think and learn are more similar than different.
- Intelligence is malleable. Intelligence contributes to school performance and children do differ, but intelligence can be increased through sustained hard work.
You cannot develop "thinking skills" in the absence of facts. We encourage students to think critically, not just memorize facts. However, thinking skills depend on factual knowledge for their operation. Why Don't Students Like School is a basic primer for every teacher who wants to know how their brains and their students' brains work and how that knowledge can help them hone their teaching skills.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
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- W. Wilson
- 05-04-16
Great Book
Very interesting book with some great information. For me, what let it down was the narrating. I just found the guy's voice to be a bit too monotonous.
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- Anon
- 20-09-15
A great challenge to hyped up learning trends
A lot of learning theory books tell you these key principles, yet no book I've read so far has looked at it from this perspective. It is insightful, practical, drills down to core principles, and really makes you think deeper about the common learning trends which now people misuse so badly. Highly recommended to any teacher, parent, instructional designer, and learning specialist.
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- Tom D
- 28-11-18
dissappointing narration, very robotic
I would recommend buying the physical book over this audiobook. The narration made this a difficult listen for me. A very robotic voice, good annunciation but completely lacking any character, emotion or tone change. I'd be very surprised if the author approved this choice of narrators considering the content of the book. Many early parts of the book talked about why people switch off and become uninterested in a subject.. and this is exactly what happens when you listen to a robot reading out text. in addition, there are some visuals which I didn't have to hand when listen to this (think they're provided for free via a web page but was listening on a device without internet access).
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- J. A. Croucher
- 30-04-18
Not really suitable for listening
Content sounds interesting but can’t locate online resources which would be quite an important part of the experience.
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- Laura
- 12-11-20
Outstanding book; monotonous narration.
I bought the book on Kindle after giving up after three chapters of the audiobook. I had to check the narration wasn’t simply a computerised voice; it was tiresome to listen to and rather dangerous for driving. Such a confusing choice considering the content is focused on effective learning conditions....
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- Mr Ashley Bartlett
- 20-04-20
Should be mandatory for all teachers.
Fantastic, accessible books which should be mandatory teaching for all teachers. Read it then work smarter, not harder.
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- Kindle Customer
- 28-08-20
Informative
Useful scientific overview of pedagogical ideas which can inform successful teaching practice. Would recommend to any teacher!
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- Kindle Customer
- 16-08-20
useful, common sense stuff
good book. quite useful. enjoyed it it it it it it it it it it.
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- Sean
- 05-11-19
Good book
Very thought provoking. Makes you really think about you can improve your teaching. Recommended.
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- Deidre
- 23-11-11
a manual for working with student brains
I would buy for all my new teachers and parents who say "i just don't understand why he/she is like this". Lots of insight to how the brain works and why students do what they do. A good summary of the latest research and how to use it to help get better engagement in the classroom.
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- Lynn
- 03-11-11
Informative Stimulating
If you are a teacher seeking to engage students or a parent with a child in school, Why Don’t Students Like School? is a very helpful book. It is widely applicable to students in K-12 or in college. A cognitive scientist, Dan Willingham brings his discipline and its insights to this very needy area. He lays out the fact that before students can be taught to think critically, they must have mastered basic information. Essentially, Willingham posits that the more students commit details to long-term memory, the better able they will be prepared to use their short-term memory and frontal lobe to deal with more pressing problems. Along the way he debunks popular concepts such as the “learning styles” line of thinking (auditory, visual, kinesthetic…) which has little support in the empirical literature. This is not an education bashing book, but the work of an individual genuinely interested in how we best teach students and engage them in thoughtful activity on a day-to-day basis. You may not like the book, but Willingham is persuasive. The reading of Paul Costanzo is excellent.
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- J. G. Kurtzman
- 16-09-15
Love this book, I refer to it often.
What made the experience of listening to Why Don't Students Like School? the most enjoyable?
Chock full of information I can use in my teaching/tutoring.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Why Don't Students Like School??
Chapter 5 about the importance of practice.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, but it is one I love to return to for rereading.
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- tommie
- 07-06-18
Worst narration ever
This was painful to listen to. Not only is the narration dreadful, but much of the book relies on charts, drawings and illustrations, making it a poor candidate for an audio book, unless you can stop what you're doing and go look at the illustrations. Beyond that, the content is questionable and the title is misleading. I only made it 2 hours into the book (nearly 1/3 of the book) and there has been no discussion of why students don't like school. So far the things that have been discussed seem like the types of things taught in freshman level psych classes in college.
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- Jeffrey
- 28-05-12
Absolutel Awful:misleading title, pseudo-academic.
This is quite easily one of the most disappointing works in the social sciences or education that I have ever read or listened to. It has no redeemable qualities, the title is wholly inaccurate, the author under-qualified for some of the subjects he takes on, and the book bizarrely undershoots its audience. There is no reason to buy this book.
The implication of the title is that this book is written from the perspective of cognitive science. It is not. This book has nothing to do with cognitive science. It is a summary of basic pedagogy. I can only guess that somewhere along the editing process someone noticed the title wasn’t testing well but fared better with the expanded “cognitive science” tag. It’s not inaccurate, the editors must claim, because the title doesn’t say the book entertains the perspectives of cognitive science. It says it is the perspective of a cognitive scientist who happens to talk about basic pedagogy and not consider it from the perspective of cognitive science. This is misleading and dishonest.
I found some of the analysis so stunningly bad that I had to look up the author’s credentials and find out if he was a real Ph.D, or, as I suspected, maybe he ordered it in the mail or something. Turns out it is real. A quick click on a link takes me to his CV. At first glance, it looks impressive. There sure are a lot of titles here, but a few clicks reveal almost all of them are self-published blog style papers written for the AFT website rather than real research publications. The rest were published by American Educator, a publication that is pseudo-academic at best. Under submission guidelines you will-- I am not kidding-- find the phrase “We do not publish research papers”. They publish only essays, refuse all research, and claim to be peer reviewed. But it gets better. American Educator, it turns out, is operated by the same AFT website that published the authors blog papers. So in short, we have a “cognitive scientist” who seems incapable of publishing research in true peer reviewed journals, so instead he wrote a book. The author is a failed academic writing a sub-basic book in a field he is unqualified in with a completely misleading title.
And I can’t even figure out who this hack-job attempt at research is aimed at. The book contains no citations, not even in-text references. For example, we are bombarded with generalizations like “One research experiment found that....” You can’t complete the sentence with the names of the authors of the research, or the university, or the year, decade, or century? It’s not like that is any harder to write. That makes the book less academic than an introductory education 101 textbook. Now I suppose the author and editor would say they want to improve readability. But at the expense of all credibility and usefulness to the reader? The audience here is primarily educators, who all have at least a college degree, and anyone picking up a book with the words “cognitive science” in the title is prepared to hear a reference or two dropped. Authors in the social sciences like Steven Pinker, Daniel Kahneman, and Charles Mann all managed to make the best sellers list writing to intelligent people and providing reasonable documentation which made the books more compelling not less so.
In one particularly comical analysis the author takes on nature vs nurture and takes an anti-biology stance so naive that we are left to wonder if he even reviewed a high-school biology textbook before writing it. He “supports” the tabula rasa argument with straw man arguments of complete biological determinism so absurd no one could possibly believe them, and he even fails to understand that when evolutionary psychology uses the phrase “a gene for X” they mean the effect is probabilistic not literal causation. No one in the world believes you have a single physical gene for liking tomato soup, a gene for basketball skill, and a gene or enjoying purple more than blue. The author is in way over his head, is unread, unqualified, and has an insufficient understanding of probability theory to take on the subject. And this is one among many. They are all equally bad.
Do not buy this book. Do not give this book to anyone you care about. Do not bother reading this book if it is given to you for free. Please, do not support the scamming of the public by financially rewarding pseudo-academic dribble.
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- Fazal
- 16-01-12
Spectacular
I finished the book excited at the possibilities to dramatically improve education for students. As a parent, I also have valuable tools to guide my own kids.
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- MickeyMom
- 17-02-12
no duh!
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Unless you are completely out of touch with your students or this is your first day in the classroom there is nothing here for you.
In part of the book the author talks about using stories to keep kids attn. The story was so dull that he lost my attention! Don't waste your time or money.
Would you ever listen to anything by Daniel T. Willingham again?
doubtful
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- PeterAudiophile
- 24-01-20
The Best Book for teachers I've ever read
Nothing is more confusing these days as the field of teaching and how to motivate students to work. A lot of theories are thrown at teachers every now and then which serve to stir more the confusing sauce of ideas about teaching. For example, few years ago it was all about Differentiation... Later... Oh Multiple Intelligence is the way to go... and then Oh we forgot it's the 21st century skills... and on and on and on with things that haven't captured the whole essence of the real problem with schools and have just marginally affected teaching if any... This book has stunned me about how accurate it is and it is like a door which helped me open a thousand doors in teaching. Whether you teach students as a group, cooperative groups or independent learners it doesn't matter... you'll need the basic principles of teaching found in this book. I haven't had a WOW moment for a long time learning about teaching... This has changed things quite a lot !
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- Sarah L Jendzio
- 01-12-19
Informative , snappy listen!
Informative, snappy listen. There was enough humor to keep it from droning and I thought the points were picked well. There is a lot to think on here and I will be revistiting this as I go forward in my teaching!
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- Orlando
- 15-11-19
Crammed with useful insights
The book is easy to listen to and well linked up together. The cognitive science approach to learning new information has a lot of scope for further thought and this book is a very helpful accompaniment to starting out.