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      Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How School Remakes Mind and Society

      David R. Olson (University of Toronto)

      This book provides a theoretical account of the reason behind the failure of most educational reform.

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      Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How School Remakes Mind and Society

      David R. Olson (University of Toronto)

      For well over a century educational reformers have looked for a breakthrough in the sciences of psychology and pedagogy that would dramatically improve the effectiveness of schooling. This book shows…

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      Making Sense: What It Means to Understand

      David R. Olson (University of Toronto)

      Drawing together developmental and philosophical theories of mind, this book argues that understanding is little more than the ability to ascribe understanding to oneself, a development that depends critically on…

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      The Mind on Paper: Reading, Consciousness and Rationality

      David R. Olson (University of Toronto)

      This engaging book focuses on the cognitive uses of literacy for thinking and reasoning. Reading and writing provide consciousness of aspects of language that are implicit and unconscious in speech…

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      The Social Foundations of Language and Thought

      David R. Olson (University of Toronto)

      The essays in this volume have been inspired by the ideas and teachings of this leading American psychologist and were presented to him on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.

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